IN MARCH, YOU CAN BUY A LEGO TECHNIC ORACLE RED BULL RACING RB20 CAR.
The Red Bull Racing RB20 is a name that you may have seen in the news recently. This is thanks to Oracle Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen clinching his fourth Formula One driver’s championship while piloting the RB20 car. The car was designed and constructed by the Red Bull Racing techs at the Milton Keynes home base, and it features a Honda RBPTH002 power unit. It’s a compact turbocharged V6 with electronic assistance, and even though it has a small capacity of just 1.6 litres, it's rated at 805 kW and can rev to 15,000 rpm. While RB19 had a drivers and constructors championship to its name, RB20 only managed to place 3rd in the constructors. It still did great though, at the hands of Verstappen and teammate Sergio Pérez, the RB20 finished the season with 9 GP wins, 4 sprint race wins, 8 poles and 18 podiums. To Red Bull Racing fans, the RB20 is still the best thing out there, and that means any and all models available get bought up quite quickly. There are quite a few companies that make officially licensed scale models of the car, but we reckon this one will be among the most popular, racking up many, many sales worldwide. In another cool collaboration, the LEGO Group and Oracle Red Bull Racing recently unveiled the new brick-built race LEGO Technic Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Car. This means fans and fanatics alike will be able to assemble one of the most successful contemporary cars of racing, but not just yet. The actual kits will only be launched for public consumption on 1st March 2025. It would have made a little more sense to launch it before Christmas, but a certain writer has a birthday on the 2nd of March. Just saying.
The LEGO Technic version of the Bull Racing measures in at 15 cm high, 64 cm long and 25 cm wide and is made up of 1,639 pieces. It’s a highly detailed kit, as is the norm for LEGO Technic kits, and is also reflected in the price, these proper things ain’t cheap. The new kit features intricate aerodynamic details, such as an opening DRS, Pirelli-printed slick tyres and a V6 engine with a spinning MGU-H, letting builders pretend they’re actual technicians with the team before placing the set on display. I actually know an engineer who works for the team, just a little FYI there. The set features key details like moving front & back suspension and a shiftable 2-speed gearbox that offers a cool insight into the inner workings of these top cars. With such a high piece count, it makes sense that the kit is aimed at builders 18 years and older, but there are definitely kids out there who will be able to put one of these together without adult help. Not me, I’ll even need to watch a YouTube tutorial to make sure all the pieces end up where they’re meant to. It’s still a far cry from the biggest LEGO F1 car. In 2019, Ferrari set a record for a LEGO F1 build when it used 350,000 bricks to build a car, but that was beaten in 2021 by the Saudi Automobile & Motorcycle Federation (SAMF) when it attempted a build to help promote the inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix of that year. The Guinness World Record was awarded when the brick count was verified to be over 500,000. The finished car measured at 5,710 m long, 2,048 m wide and 1.072 m high. Costing much less but still a decent chunk of change, the LEGO Technic Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Car will retail for $299.99, which is around R5,500.
Take a look at the YouTube video that shows pro-LEGO builder Lukas RS Design build the 1,639-piece LEGO Technik RB20, and he makes it look easy. It's really not: Red Bull Racing F1 RB20 1:8 Scale LEGO TECHNIC MOC | Lukas RS Design
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