I’m 38 and my son is 6. It is so much fun to share my Lego passion with him and my wife!! I’m a motor head and get it from my father so I’m partial to the Speed Champion sets. I just wish they had more “everyday” cars like Honda, Mazda, Nissan. I think it would be more appealing to older generation. I highly recommend anything Lego. BUT, it has to be at a reasonable and fair price. I don’t think I’ve paid full price for a single Lego set since I started collecting them in my late teens. This was the best price I found online after looking for an hour or 2. I also got two different Lego Ferrari sets on sale as well on Walmart.com. Both of those sets were on sale and were priced better than anywhere else.
1 thing I do want to note is that my son LOVES playing with them. Driving them around the living room with the other speed champion cars. He is ruff with them and little by little pieces fall off haha. If you want to get your son or daughter Lego cars that are a bit more resilient look at Technics. They have a yellow Rubicon Wrangler that turns and has suspension. The doors open and hood. He loves that one. After having such a great week last week we rewarded him with the McLaren race suv that is black and Orange. He has a pull back feature that any kid would love but like I said those are a bit more resilient to ruff play and it was 20$ online they make a green mustang and Lamborghini as well but those are around 40$-50$.
I definitely recommend this set for collectors and kids. If you collect, Keep the Box and build instructions in good shape. I don’t put the decals on any of mine either because one day when I resell the sets that is a big plus in what you can get for them. Happy Building!

And remember to scan the code on the instruction, follow the link and register all the sets you acquire for Lego.com reward points. They add up, trust me.

This set was number 13 of our builds from Lego Speed brand. So far we just enjoyed building those cars. And we did enjoy this one as well hence the high rating in this review.
Problem is that when we built the Project one car (not the formula) we found out that one piece is missing. It is just a small brick acting as one of the panels and so far I decided to exclude it in the less obvious place above the tailight. Piece that is missing is 4211414.
So far I never had a missing piece and I built quite a big ammount of legos so as for now it is not such a massive deal, I am a bit dissapointed.
Other than that nothing wrong with this set so far. Going to start formula soon so I can get ready for new Lambo GT vision coming out Saturday :)

Sadly this set left me disappointed and frustrated.

Firstly I am only able to review this set based on the build of the F1 W12. I have been unable to progress very far with the Project One as all four of the Cross Axle/connector pins are missing from bag 3. As this is step 4 of the build it has prevented me from progressing much further. It's not an piece you normally get spares of, and whilst not visible when the car is complete I don't have enough in any colour to make do.

Secondly, I dislike writing bad reviews, particularly for a product I have previously gifted to others. I very much want to believe that my bad experience isn't going to happen to anyone else.

However whilst the missing pieces have likely resulted in my overall score being low, and my subsequent decision to not recommend to others, I would have still not rated this beyond average.

I do not normally buy the Speed Champions range for myself, but have purchased several sets for family members. I am therefore unable to say if this is a typical build experience for Speed Champions or not. I purchased this set for myself as I am a big follower of Formula 1 and it seemed like a nice collectable.

Starting with the good stuff. The car has fab playability. Moves well and looks good when complete. I was really impressed with the halo. Much more sturdy than I anticipated and clever design.

However the missing pieces do cast this in a bad light, but are not the main reason for my frustration and disappointment.

The biggest issue I have with this set is the large number of stickers. There are a minimum of 29 on the F1 and 28 on the Project One. And many of them are small and fiddly to place. The good news is that most of the stickers don't stand out too much as stickers, unlike ones on Discovery or Apollo 11. I also thought it was sensible to have stickers for driver number and identifier so builders can chose between Bottas (no.77 and yellow) or Hamilton (no.44 and black).

But I did not enjoy all the others. It is disruptive to the build to be constantly going between the Lego and the stickers, and some like the rear chassis look very noticeable. I also think the instructions could be tweaked to ensure that all the stickers are placed before the tile is added to the car. It was really hard to do it on another step of the build.

Furthermore, some of the tiles have had images printed on them. Personally I would have preferred to pay more and avoid the craft section of the build.

There are also a lot of small pieces in this set (not a surprise). However in the early build I found these often pinged off, especially the steering wheel. There is no spare of the wheel so I would consider adding this nearer the end (around the same type the Halo is added) to avoid losing it.

I am sure I would have scored it higher if I had been able to complete the set. However I would not have rated the value for money or build experience higher than average due to the over load of stickers.

Love F1 so building a selection of the available race cars and other vehicles. Loved the look of the kit but found two issues with the build. Firstly multiple small parts very fiddly to fit and instructions were not clear as to where some should go or which ones to use.
Second and more annoying were the multiple stickers which again were frustrating with regards to placement and number included.
Final result was pleasing but frustration with the build was noticeable and detracted from the overall experience