LEGO City 60443 F1 Pit Stop & Pit Crew with Ferrari Car review

LEGO City 60443 F1 Pit Stop & Pit Crew with Ferrari Car packs in the action and play – and all for a bargain price.

LEGO City’s foray into Formula 1 not only comes a couple of months earlier than Speed Champions’ and Icons’, but also with the important distinction of being the only theme (currently at least) to offer world building in the sport outside of the cars themselves.

Case in point is 60443 F1 Pit Stop & Pit Crew with Ferrari Car that of course still offers an F1 car (and the most popular one at that), but also gives a taste of action and dynamics from the races themselves, aside from the cars – in this case a pit stop.

Release: January 1, 2025 Price: £24.99 / $29.99 / €29.99 Pieces: 322 Minifigures: 5 LEGO: Order now

‘We are checking’

You begin 60443 F1 Pit Stop & Pit Crew with Ferrari Car with building the Ferrari F1 car and its driver. The build is identical to that in 60442 F1 Driver with McLaren Race Car, meaning that the same surprises over how many authentic details have been worked into the general design are there to be enjoyed once again, this time in that beautiful all-red Ferrari livery.

Ordinarily, keeping the builds identical between sets would be criticised, but for these LEGO City F1 sets you can see the logic to offering the consistency in structure and difference in colour and prints. The cross-set compatibility of the sets is strengthened through this approach, whilst for younger builders the appreciation of what may make the cars different in design won’t be understood quite yet.

The Ferrari driver may be generic in face print, but the overalls carry design themes from the 2024 team driver overalls, while the red helmet with printed Ferrari logo is gorgeous and probably the best-designed helmet from the entire range of LEGO F1 drivers.

‘Box box… stay out stay out stay out!’

The irony of the LEGO F1 pit stop set being Ferrari-themed won’t be lost on long-suffering fans of the Italian team, what with their notable incidents of recent years. But one of the smarter aspects to the LEGO City F1 sets is that these track and crew-related builds are not team-branded.

On the one hand of course it would have been very cool to have a team of Ferrari mechanics, or Red Bull or Mercedes pit crew, but in choosing to brand the pit stop in 60443 F1 Pit Stop & Pit Crew with Ferrari Car to Formula 1, rather than to a team, offers a greater sense of modularity and cross-play between each of the sets.

That being said, the choice of orange jackets for the F1-branded pit crew is perhaps not the best as they almost begin to look like trackside marshals where perhaps a darker, generic overalls design could have been more interchangeable between the various teams. The choice of helmet too doesn’t feel like the closest match we could have had – the same helmet design as with the drivers would have been fine, and even better with the F1 logo printed on them. We know, we are nitpicking here…

‘Plan… C’

Two-thirds of 60443 F1 Pit Stop & Pit Crew with Ferrari Car is dedicated to the pit stop, so it’s no small side build – which allows for not only the right size of space to be taken up here, but also a lot of detail to be worked into the setting. Stickers provide F1 branding, directional arrow for the driver, a timer to capture how long the pit stop takes, and some screens with various live analytics from the race. Meanwhile, the structure of the pit lane includes the overhang with cables that come down to power the wheel-guns on the far side, as well as improvised storage for the spare wheels (in lieu of a wheel trolley).

As a build it looks great, fits the car effortlessly and is absolutely authentic to what we see at every race. It is also very playable thanks to a smooth double motion built into the central body of the structure that can swing front and back plates in place – as you drive the car up for the pit stop you can swing these in and hold it in place, before doing the pit stop and then releasing the car back into the race.

This is a fun and unexpected addition to the set that gives the pit stop experience a lot more hands-on play without coming at the expense of a very aesthetically pleasing all-round design. And with a Ferrari F1 car included there’s a lot of bang for your buck here for only £24.99 / $29.99 / €29.99.

Our honest opinion: The strength of LEGO City F1 is best felt in world-building sets such as this one, which offers an authentic taste of Formula 1 action alongside arguably the most desirable car of the lot.

This set was provided for review by the LEGO Group.

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