F1 fans have had this coming weekend circled on their calendars for a while, but if you’re wondering, it’s the start of the F1 2026 season, with the expected first Grand Prix taking place in Australia. If you’re a regular fan, you’ve probably already politely declined any plans that take place over today’s practice sessions, tomorrow’s qualifying sessions, and race day on Sunday.
With P1 and P2 already concluded, you might be looking for something to fill your time before P3 starts tomorrow, and in all the gaps between qualifying sessions. How about constructing some Lego? Appropriately themed, of course.
Whether you’re a regular F1 fan or just a Lego fan, the Lego City F1 Truck with RB20 & AMR24 F1 Cars would do nicely in your display, or even as part of your growing collection — assuming you’ve got R2,000 left over in your monthly Lego budget. Lego sent us this kit ahead of this year’s season. So we went about building it.
That’s a lot of legos
There are a few ways to go about building a Lego kit. We like to start by opening the box and emptying all the packages into one big bowl. No, not really, but we probably just made the Lego nerds mad. Jokes aside, keep the individual packages unopened until they’re called for.
Your set will come with a tome of instructions that you’ll want to get acquainted with. Either that, or you can download the Lego Builder app (Android/iOS) to use on your smartphone or tablet. It’s handy for keeping track of your progress, so you know what step to start on if you step away, and you can even start a build party to get your friends in on the action. There is also a third option for those brave enough — go into the first package blind and see how far you get.
If you’re looking for a complete set at the end, the tome (or the app) will hold your hand through the process, telling you when to reach for the next numbered package and where to put the included stickers. As shown in the picture up top, this set includes a long-wheelbase F1 team truck, the two titular RB20 & AMR24 F1 cars, and five minifigures, each with their own roles to play in this setup.
Starting construction
The building process of this one was fairly straightforward. You’ll start off with the cars and their minifigure mechanics, then move on to the truck that they get carted around in. If you’ve ever constructed Lego before, you’ll know the drill. If you haven’t, start on page 1 and go from there.
Throughout our build, we only ran into two issues, well… one issue and a surprise. The first issue was that, as we approached the end of our build, it turned out we were a few pieces short. In this particular instance, there’s no way of definitively knowing if the three or four missing pieces never found their way into our box in the first place, because we didn’t count to make sure we had all 1,086 pieces before we began, or if they were lost to the carpet realm along the way.
Luckily, Lego makes the process of replacing missing pieces relatively easy. If you’re ever in that predicament, start here.
In our case, the missing pieces were only decorative and didn’t (entirely) hinder our progress, or mean we couldn’t finish the build. Well, technically, it’s not finished until every piece is in place, but we’d be willing to bet you can’t tell anything is missing from our photos, right?
The other thing worth mentioning is that, to our surprise, it only took us around four hours of focused building to finish this set in one sitting, while the box says it could take eight or more years! We were pretty impressed with ourselves. Your results may vary, however.
Lego City F1 Truck + Cars verdict
The Lego City F1 Truck with RB20 & AMR24 F1 Cars set was a pretty good way to spend four hours, apart from spending 80% of that time trying to find missing bricks. The instructions, whether from the tome or the app, should be mostly clear if your picture literacy is at or higher than child-level.
If you’re looking for other sets to add to your Lego F1 display, this set or this set seem like they were made to go with this one. They’ll add a pit stop and pit crew, and the F1 garages of Mercedes and Alpine to your collection for an extra R600 and R1,500, respectively. With the R2,000 asking price of this one, that could become a pricey display piece. And if you still have money left over in your Lego budget and want something a little more challenging, you could splash out on this beauty.
