Speed Champions

Visa Cash App RB VCARB 01 F1 Race Car

A pocket sized F1 car that nails the livery and gives you a driver to go with it.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 77246 · 2025

Pieces248

Minifigs1

Year2025

Set number77246

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The verdict

I sat this one next to its Speed Champions siblings and the navy, white, and red paneling on this VCARB build reads cleaner than I expected from stickers and printed parts at this scale.

It is a quick, satisfying build, the kind you finish in one sitting with a cup of tea going cold beside you, and the nose cone and sidepod shaping actually look like a modern F1 car instead of a generic wedge. My honest caveat is that if you already own a shelf of these annual team cars, this one does not reinvent the format, it is the same excellent recipe with a new paint job. For anyone building out the full F1 grid or a Racing Bulls fan, it earns its spot without hesitation.

Best for: F1 fans and Speed Champions collectors building out the current grid

The full review

What it is

I have built enough of these little Speed Champions race cars now to know the formula cold, and this VCARB 01 still managed to surprise me a bit. The proportions are right, the nose taper and the sidepod undercuts actually look like the real 2024 season car, and once the stickers are on straight it photographs beautifully next to a shelf of other F1 liveries. At 248 pieces it is an easy one sitting build, nothing that will challenge an experienced builder, but there is real charm in watching a car this small come together panel by panel.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the stickers. This set leans on decals for most of the livery detail rather than printed elements, and at this scale a slightly crooked sticker is very visible. If you are precise about that kind of thing, budget extra time and a steady hand. The other honest caveat is repetition, if you already have a couple of these annual team cars on your shelf, the building experience itself will feel very familiar, the reward here is really about the specific livery and driver rather than a new mechanical trick.

Who it's for

This is an easy recommendation for anyone following Formula 1 or specifically the Racing Bulls team, and for collectors working through the full Speed Champions grid each year. It is a lovely quick build and a nice gift size. If you are looking for a bigger engineering challenge or you are indifferent to F1 team liveries, your money goes further elsewhere in the Speed Champions lineup or up into Technic territory.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building this one is a fast, tactile experience rather than a puzzle, you are shaping the nose cone, halo, and rear wing assembly in clusters and then wrapping the body panels around a simple chassis. The satisfying part is how quickly the car silhouette appears, within the first few steps you already have the wheelbase and cockpit reading correctly, which keeps the momentum going right to the last panel.

The standout here is less about a single new mold and more about how the curved bodywork pieces, borrowed from the shared Speed Champions parts system, get reused to fake compound curves that plastic really should not be able to do at this scale. The wheels and low profile tires are the same excellent rubber tires the theme has used for years, and the driver minifigure comes with race suit printing that adds a nice human touch. Sticker sheet aside, the part count feels fair for the price point and there is enough left over after the build to be useful in a MOC bin.

Fun facts

01VCARB stands for Visa Cash App RB, the reworked identity for the Red Bull junior team formerly known as AlphaTauri and, before that, Toro Rosso.
02This set was part of LEGO's 2025 Speed Champions Formula 1 wave, which released sibling cars for Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Aston Martin alongside this one, all built to the same compact scale.
03Speed Champions cars are intentionally scaled to be compatible in width with LEGO City style roadways and other Speed Champions sets, which is why the wheelbase looks a touch stubby compared to a real F1 car's proportions.
04The theme has used a driver minifigure inclusion as a recurring feature in its modern F1 wave, giving collectors a small printed figure to pose alongside the car rather than leaving the cockpit empty.