Review: LEGO 77243 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Race Car (Speed Champions)

February 21, 2025 | 3

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Depending on which F1 team you support, the Red Bull Racing livery can mean different things, but the energy drink’s dominance over the past few years has been a historical legacy to witness.

Although the RB20 was a less successful challenger, it still carried star driver Max Verstappen to victory in the drivers’ championship, and accordingly cemented as an icon in its own right.

77243 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Race Car seeks to immortalise that icon in brick form forever as part of the 2025 F1 Speed Champions lineup, and it certainly looks promising, with a striking design that looks particularly accurate on the box art. But can it stand up to closer scrutiny, or will it fall apart under pressure? Let’s take a closer look!

77243 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Race Car will be available from 1 March 2025 onwards, and can be pre-ordered on LEGO.com, Amazon.com, or as part of the massive LEGO Ultimate Formula 1 Collector’s Pack.

This is a guest review by automotive correspondent and F1 superfan Vaderfan, who will be bringing you a whole heap of LEGO and Technic Formula 1 reviews in the next few days!

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77243 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Race Car Set Details

Unboxing

This set immediately stands out from the rest of the Speed Champions wave, due to its all-black box art denoting it as an 18+ set! That’s actually a funny quirk due to the Red Bull brand’s status as an energy drink, which means it cannot be marketed towards children. It’s not a big deal, but it’s definitely a funny workaround by labeling this set 18+ despite having a super similar design to the rest of the range and not indicative of a more complex build that only adults can take on.

Oddly enough, there’s no mention of the set name anywhere on the box, just the set number and appropriate logos. It still looks good though; I think the black design looks sleeker.

Inside are six numbered bags, a loose chassis piece, an instruction manual, and a sticker sheet – very standard for this wave.

The instructions have this pair of pages dedicated to comparing the LEGO model and the real model. This set chooses to focus on the top speeds of each car, although I’m not quite sure how they calculated the top speed of the LEGO version?

The sticker sheet is very extensive, and there are a number of small stickers that were particularly fiddly to apply. Unfortunately, that is to be expected from this Speed Champions lineup, given the detailed liveries that each F1 car has.

Here are some noteworthy parts I identified, including a new Technic piece with a wheel cover for the front wheels, the new printed 1×6 curved slope for the front wings, brand new Pirelli soft tyres with varying thicknesses (for front vs rear tyres), a 2×2 tile that has one rounded half and one squared half, and the new 2×6 curved slope for the rear wing.

Build Process

Bags 1 and 2 start out building the core of the car, and already some of the key colours (dark blue, red, and yellow) are present.

Bags 3 and 4 expand this, adding most of the detail at the back and finishing up the cockpit section too.

Finally, bags 5-6 complete the model. Although the shaping of the sidepods and underfloor was slightly simpler than some other sets in the F1 Speed Champions wave, the build process was still extremely engaging and packed with some clever build techniques. The changes in sidepod/underfloor design also make for very different build processes from car to car – a welcome change from the City F1 line where every car was the exact same build minus some colour swaps!

Minifigures

Just one minifigure is included, a driver sporting the Red Bull Racing overalls. It looks good, with accurate blue striping down the sides and the Red Bull logo, although any other sponsor details are missing which is disappointing.

The new dual-moulded helmet looks great though, with a trans-red visor (that unfortunately cannot open) and a nice printed Red Bull logo up top.

A blonde hairpiece and a spanner are included as accessories in case your driver wants to do some repairs around the garage!

This minifigure is one of only two in the Speed Champions lineup that have a different torso print from their City counterparts – the City variant is completely devoid of any references to the Red Bull logo due to the age restrictions on energy drinks! Accordingly, this version is much more accurate despite still being slightly underdetailed.

Reference Image

Completed Model

Within the F1 community, the Red Bull team has drawn some flack over sticking to a largely similar livery year after year, but that has had the effect of creating an iconic, memorable design that is associated with their dominance in the modern ground-effect car era.

The LEGO designers have done an absolutely fantastic job translating the livery to LEGO form, using a beautiful combination of dark blue, yellow, and black (plus some important red highlights) that perfectly capture the essence of the Red Bull livery.

The model looks good from the front too, thanks to some nice colour blocking and good shaping of the sidepods that curve inwards. The all-important stripe of sponsors running down the nose is present, using some stickers and prints.

The side view looks good too – with incredibly tidy shaping, and the red striping along multiple stickers along the rear bodywork is another highlight.

Here’s how it looks on the underside; this view provides a good view of how the different F1 car models actually have pretty different build processes despite a relatively similar external view. I like how some of the internal pieces use matching colours, like yellow and red in this case.

The rear 3/4 view is also accurate, highlighting the printed Red Bull logos behind the airbox, as well as the smooth curvature of the sidepods.

Additional Red Bull logos are present on the nose, along with a printed 1×1 slope with the HRC (Honda Racing Corporation) logo. Additional stickers are used for sponsors like Hard Rock and Mobil, although the 1×1 tiles with Mobil’s flying horse logos on the sides of the front wing are actually printed – one unique print per side!

The sidepods on this car utilise a simpler design than other sets like the Ferrari SF-24 or the McLaren MCL38, but I think that is actually to its benefit, as it creates an effortlessly clean design thanks to the shaping of the curved slopes that complement one another.

The shaping of the sidepods links up with the rest of the bodywork well, and the aforementioned red stripes look good even if they are stickered. 1×1 plates with claws form the jagged Venturi tunnel openings further down, although these are present on most cars in the lineup.

The cockpit is also fairly standard, using a bendable rubber hose for the halo. While some other sets have a 2×2 round tile with hole in the middle for the halo to slot into, this set (and the VCARB01) just let it sit behind the 2×2 rounded tile, which works fine too. Further behind, some round yellow pieces form the striking airbox, with a 1×2 ingot above representing the T-cam.

The halo hinges up for better access to the driver’s seat, which has a printed steering wheel and a pair of spoons to represent wing mirrors.

The bodywork behind looks good too, with some studs-not-on-top building to represent the two bulging tubing sections behind the airbox on the real car. It’s a slightly more simplistic design (by Speed Champions standards), but it achieves the required effect without overcomplicating it.

The rear wing looks good too, thanks to some more stickers and the excellent new 2×6 curved slope. The DRS activator is represented by a black bull horn piece – likely a cheeky intentional choice by the designers!

Most of the F1 sets in this Speed Champions wave hide a clever build technique for the rear wheels, which involves a minifigure neck bracket and some upside-down building to keep the underfloor design cohesive and accommodate the thicker rear wheels.

Comparisons

Here’s how the RB20 stacks up against its City counterpart from 60445. The Speed Champions version is so much better it’s ridiculous, although that is bolstered by the complete absence of any reference to Red Bull on the City version that leaves it looking more like a generic show car.

Of course, the RB20 looks fabulous next to its compatriots in the Speed Champions line – especially next to the SF-24 and MCL38 to commemorate first, second, and third place in the World Constructors’ and Drivers’ Championships.

Final Thoughts

On the whole, the RB20 has been successfully translated to LEGO form, marking another excellent entry in the 2025 Speed Champions lineup. The dark blue colour, while slightly brighter than the actual livery, pairs really well with the yellows and reds to deliver a cohesive Red Bull-themed design, and the included minifigure is done pretty well too (although an actual Max Verstappen licensed figure would have been far superior).

Speed Champions prices have slowly crept up over the years, and while US$26.99 isn’t a steal, I think it represents decent value for what is included here. Given Verstappen and Red Bull’s popularity, paired with the quality of this model, I anticipate this set will also be a best-seller upon release.

Also, given Red Bull Racing’s track record with F1 liveries, this set may end up being a pretty good representation of the 2025 challenger… ha ha.

Final Score

5

Build

While some aspects (around the sidepods) are slightly simpler than other sets in the F1 lineup, sometimes simpler means a better, more cohesive design, and the designers have knocked it out of the park with the RB20.

3

Minifigures

The minifigure looks good and has accurate details, but the lack of sponsors still makes it look too plain.

3

Real Value

Reasonably priced but not a steal at all.

5

Innovation

The sidepod designs may not be as complicated as on other models, but there’s still plenty of innovative techniques to explore here.

5

Keepability

Max Verstappen is a legend making his mark on the sport, and the ground-effect Red Bull cars are a huge part of his legacy. This set does a brilliant job capturing the iconic design in brick form, and will likely be a LEGO F1 hallmark for years to come.

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Thanks for reading! 77243 77243 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Race Car will be available from 1 March 2025 onwards, and can be pre-ordered on LEGO.com, Amazon.com, or as part of the massive LEGO Ultimate Formula 1 Collector’s Pack.

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