First LEGO Speed Champions F1 car rumour tells us everything we need to know about 2025
The first LEGO Speed Champions Formula 1 car rumoured for 2025 tells us pretty much everything we need to know about next year’s initial line-up.
Ten different LEGO Speed Champions sets are said to be arriving on shelves in March 2025, all with very similar piece counts and supposedly all recreating individual Formula 1 cars (as part of the LEGO Group’s recently-announced multi-year collaboration with the motorsport). According to Instagram user fateful_lego, one of those will be 77247 Kick Sauber C44, coming in at $26.99 for 259 pieces.
If that’s true, it tells us quite a lot about this upcoming wave of LEGO Speed Champions F1 sets. First, we really can expect to see all 10 teams from the current season represented on the LEGO starting grid, because if the team currently ranked last – on zero points – is getting a LEGO set, you know the rest must be too. And that means we really are looking at 10 very similar LEGO Speed Champions sets all hitting shelves at once. (So much for innovating, then.)
Second, this starting grid will actually be a tiny bit out of date by the time it races on to shelves. The C44 is the car driven by Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu for the 2024 season, with bright green livery and sponsors including Kick and Stake – but the team will presumably have a new car for the 2025 season, which gets underway in March 2025, only weeks after 77247 Kick Sauber C44 is said to debut in stores.
That’s not necessarily surprising because recent LEGO Formula 1 cars have generally used the previous season’s design and livery. It’s a consequence of the timeline required to design and develop LEGO sets: the real-life 2025 vehicles probably wouldn’t have been ready in time to inspire their LEGO counterparts. But it does mean we can get a pretty good sense of the LEGO Speed Champions 2025 range just by looking at the current starting grid.
This also reinforces the notion that we’re going to get rapid repeats of the McLaren and Aston Martin F1 cars that have arrived on shelves in 2024 (in 76919 2023 McLaren Formula 1 Car and 76925 Aston Martin Safety Car & AMR23 respectively). But there are at least visual upgrades the LEGO Group could implement to justify revisiting those teams so soon, such as swapping green for teal for the Aston Martin.
That would also help make 77247 Kick Sauber C44 stand out better on the grid, as the green used for the AMR23 would probably be the best fit for its own livery. We’ll hopefully find out more about the LEGO Speed Champions 2025 sets in the near future, but given these cars are said to be six months away, best buckle up for a slightly longer wait. For now, take all info beyond the LEGO Group’s confirmed collab with F1 lightly…
Rumoured LEGO Speed Champions 2025 sets
| LEGO set | Price | Pieces | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 77242 TBC | $26.99 | 275 | March 2025 |
| 77243 TBC | $26.99 | 251 | March 2025 |
| 77244 TBC | $26.99 | 267 | March 2025 |
| 77245 TBC | $26.99 | 269 | March 2025 |
| 77246 TBC | $26.99 | 248 | March 2025 |
| 77247 Kick Sauber C44 | $26.99 | 259 | March 2025 |
| 77248 TBC | $26.99 | 258 | March 2025 |
| 77249 TBC | $26.99 | 263 | March 2025 |
| 77250 TBC | $26.99 | 242 | March 2025 |
| 77251 TBC | $26.99 | 269 | March 2025 |
| 77237 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX | TBC | TBC | Summer 2025 |
| 77238 TBC | TBC | TBC | Summer 2025 |
| 77239 TBC | TBC | TBC | Summer 2025 |
| 77240 TBC | TBC | TBC | Summer 2025 |
| 77241 TBC | TBC | TBC | Summer 2025 |
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While Lego is at it, can the company also give us rear wheels that are closer to reality and not just the same exact wheel at every corner? How difficult is it to make a rear wheel that is a bit wider and larger such as they are in reality? it isn’t like these would only work in one set either.