Review: LEGO 77246 Visa Cash App VCARB 01 (Speed Champions)
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While the Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 Team has been dominating the sport in recent years, their junior team has had less success, undergoing various name changes from AlphaTauri to Visa Cash App RB to (most recently) Racing Bulls.
Their 2024 car featured a striking blue, white, and red livery that calls back to earlier days when they were known as “Toro Rosso”, with a unique design that initially appeared challenging to translate to LEGO form with 77246 Visa Cash App VCARB 01.
However, the designers have done a great job tackling this challenge, deviating from the basic 2025 F1 Speed Champions car design to replicate the unique angled design of the car’s sidepods. Let’s take a deeper dive into the model!
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77246 Visa Cash App VCARB 01 Set Details
77246 Visa Cash App VCARB 01 Set Details
77246
Visa Cash App VCARB 01
1 (VCARB F1 Driver)
248
US$26.99 / AU$39.99 / €26.99 / £22.99 / CAD$34.99
1 March 2025
Unboxing
Just like its Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 cousin, this set stands out from the rest of the line with an all-black 18+ box design, likely due to Red Bull’s status as an energy drink that presents marketing complications for under-18 consumers.
The back of the box shows off alternate views of the model, as well as a comparison shot to the real car.
Inside, you’ll find six numbered bags, an instruction manual, a sticker sheet, and a loose chassis piece. Fitting in with the rest of the 18+ lineup, the instruction manual has a sleeker, simpler cover design.
Inside the manual, there’s a comparison between the LEGO version and the real car, along with a comparison of their clutch power and horsepower – which I thought was a pretty ingenious touch.
The sticker sheet is pretty extensive, and there are several small stickers which were trickier to apply.
In terms of interesting parts, there are a few in this set – a pair of new curved slopes for the front and rear wings, new Pirelli soft tires, a Technic axle connector for the front suspension, a 2×2 tile with one half rounded, the new dual-moulded helmet, and a 1×4 angled slope piece.
There’s also this green Technic pin I discovered – I’m not really sure what its original use is? In the model, it just kind of sits facing downwards.
Build Process
Bags 1 and 2 are opened at the same time, and they build the center of the model. The VCARB driver minifigure is included in these bags.
Bags 3 and 4 add more detail around the body, including the crucial front wing design.
Bags 5 and 6 finish off the model, adding the sidepods, rear bodywork, and wheels.
Minifigures
The sole minifigure in the set wears the white and blue VCARB racing suit, although it lacks many sponsor logos that would have given it some much-needed detail. The new dual-moulded helmet is lovely though, with a printed silver RB logo and a trans-red visor to match the car’s livery.
The back is even plainer than the front, with just a couple of blue stripes running down the torso.
The driver comes with a dark orange hairpiece and a spanner for when she is walking around the garage/paddock.
Reference Image
Completed Model
Here’s the completed model, which definitely stands out with its colourful livery.
The design of this is pretty different from most of the other F1 cars in this Speed Champions lineup, thanks to a totally different sidepod design. A lot of the white sections of the livery rely on stickers (especially on the front wing and sidepods), although there is a fair share of brick-built detail too.
The side view captures the unique angle of the sidepod, with an accurate “VISA” sticker. Further red and white striping extends to the back, with a printed silver bull above it.
The top view highlights this concept change pretty well too – the main body is reduced to a narrow 4-stud wide section down the middle, with the sidepods attached sideways at an angle.
This was done to capture the upward-sloping shape of the sidepods along with the red and white striping, both of which have been done well despite the tricky angles. The transition between the red and white stickers on the sidepod to the rear bodywork is particularly commendable.
The sidepods look pretty good from the front too – the angle is nicely captured.
The cockpit is slightly more spacious than usual, although the amenities are unchanged – an opening halo (in red this time!), a printed steering wheel, and a pair of wing mirrors.
The front wing of the model is well done – the shaping of the new printed curved slope is excellent, and the colour blocking is fantastic too with the white striping. The new Technic wheel cover pieces complete the look of this section.
Despite the challenging design of the VCARB’s livery, the designers have done a commendable job translating it to brick form – with the white angled stripe just along the nose, and the red and white lines that run to the back across multiple angles.
The rear bodywork has the aforementioned printed slopes with the silver RB logo on it, and behind is the rear wing with an angled connector piece used for the DRS activator.
This section benefits from the new 2×6 curved slope, which creates an accurate profile on the whole. Additional stickers are used for further sponsor detail, along with a printed 1×1 tile at the back for the flashing rear lights.
The underside looks pretty similar to other F1 sets – you can see the green Technic pin I mentioned that just faces downwards for some reason.
Comparisons
Here’s how the Speed Champions VCARB stacks up against its brother from the City line. This set benefits from being an 18+ set, which means it can feature all the appropriate Red Bull branding that its City cousin could not – the difference is certainly night and day.
Speaking of Red Bull, of course the car looks excellent next to its sister team. Despite shared features like the bull on the rear airbox, the designs of the cars are actually very different!
You can also recreate Alex Albon’s thrilling overtake in Canada with this car, the Alpine, and the Williams; while all three share similar blue hues, the design and mixing of the colours is done exceptionally to ensure each of them have a distinct colour palette that does not significantly overlap.
Final Thoughts
To be honest, I did not have very high expectations for the VCARB, mostly because of how tricky the livery design was and how different the LEGO model looked from the rest of the lineup. However, 77246 Visa Cash App VCARB 01 has impressed!
The build process was excellent as always, and the change in the sidepod design provided some much needed variation. The minifigure is alright – under-detailed as always – and the price is fairly reasonable.
Final Score
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