Williams FW 14 revealed!
Posted by Huw,
One of the most successful cars in Formula 1 history, driven by one of the sport's most exciting drivers, has also been revealed this evening.
10353 Williams Racing FW14B & Nigel Mansell recreates the car Mansell drove in his championship-winning year of 1992.
It is great to see that LEGO has finally seen fit to produce wider slick tyres suitable for the rear wheels, something that was unfortunately absent from the similarly sized 10330 McLaren MP4/4 & Ayrton Senna that was released this year.
The 799-piece set, which includes a minifigure of the man himself, will be released on March 1st next year, priced at £69.99 / £79.99 / €79.99.
Also revealed at LEGO.com just now is another Technic recreation of one of the cars on today's grid: 42207 Ferrari SF-24 F1. It will also be launched on 1st March. Unfortunately, it does not appear to have wider back tyres, so its overall appearance suffers as a result.
View pictures of both after the break.
10353 Williams Racing FW14B & Nigel Mansell
Fun fact: Nigel Mansell is one of only four drivers who have won Formula 1 and Indy car championships. The others are Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi, and Jacques Villeneuve. Mansell is the only one to do so in consecutive years, 1992 and 1993.
42207 Ferrari SF-24 F1
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As a Technic fan, it's very annoying to see other collector-oriented themes' (SC, Icons) F1 cars getting printed tires AND wider tires at the back, but not in Technic... utterly saddening.
Printed tires!
Ah Shell is back to compete with Octan
I love the Ferrari
I'm not really into Technic, so I'll leave the Ferrari to those who are.
The Williams looks pretty decent, though like the McLaren the nose looks a little rough. I'm super happy to see printed and correctly sized tyres though! I'll need to track down a set to upgrade my MP4/4.
Kinda shafted the Technics builders on the tires and printing didn't they?
If they release Andretti's Lotus 78 or Lotus 79 I'll lose my mind. Just sayin'.
They literally just revealed like a hundred of these. We don't need another just for a fancy minifig stand.
Williams looks great, classic livery too.
Might pick up the McLaren now that you could get some wider rear tyres for it
Another Ferrari!
Most people would sigh, but i'm a fan of the brand.
Any chance he'll plug his World Championship with it too...? https://youtu.be/s3b86K3pSus
Okay Lego, these and the other sets are enough for F1 in 2025...
I might have to get a set of those tyres for the McLaren MP4/4, as that's pretty much the only thing wrong with it. I might get the set too - it actually looks pretty decent.
1984 McLaren MP4/2 next, please!
I guess the Williams is an improvement on the MP4/4 in that it has wider rear tyres than the front ones.
But also typical of LEGO to not do that with the Technic set...
It's unclear what colour of axle bush they're using for the wheels, in some photos it's grey, in others in blue. Blue would make no sense, the Williams didn't use blue wheel nuts.
I think LEGO should think of doing special parts for the nosecones of these older F1 cars, the flat tiles give this and the McLaren a "duck-like" look which simply does not look good.
Also LEGO should learn to stop using curved panels just in front of the halo for the Technic F1 cars, there is no "bump" in there IRL at all, if anything it flattens out there from the nosecone.
At least here have been mild improvements compared to their previous efforts.
Really like the Williams. Although the nose looks a bit odd in the first picture it looks fine to me in the direct, side-on view, so hopefully just down to picture angle.
Not really got the space for the larger Technic (and got to leave room for 10 Speed Champs!).
I'd like to see a few 50s/60s winners too!
Great looking cars, both of them. The Ferrari f1 racers/technic nostalgia is strong.
The price however is a joke. Can’t recall of any other recent technic model being this insanely overpriced aside from maybe the undesirable RC cars
All 10 of the “Speed Champion” F1 cars have been posted to a Lego under new and are available for preorder shipping March 1
https://www.lego.com/en-ie/categories/vehicles/formula-1-toys
I'm going to have to get Senna's McLaren now this has been announced. Totally my era for F1!
@Luthercpa said:
"All 10 of the “Speed Champion” F1 cars have been posted to a Lego under new and are available for preorder shipping March 1"
Great... a special bulk deal for ordering all 10 at once might be nice... a 25% reduction would do the trick!
Love the Williams. Now need a Murray Walker fig as well though.
@sjr60 said:
" @Luthercpa said:
"All 10 of the “Speed Champion” F1 cars have been posted to a Lego under new and are available for preorder shipping March 1"
Great... a special bulk deal for ordering all 10 at once might be nice... a 25% reduction would do the trick! "
In the US at least I can preorder for the Black Friday VIP double points this weekend.
Can't help but wonder what they will do next...Schumacher in a Jordan? Prost in a Ferrari? Stewart in a Tyrrell? Villeneuve in a Ferrari? Fangio?
Maybe Prost in a McLaren - with the extra pieces to attach it to the side of Sennas! Sorry, failed to resist...
Lego do have very strange official release schedules! Loads of March releases already announced, yet the widely leaked (and absolutely gorgeous looking) January Modular still remains in limbo.
@sjr60 said:
"I'd like to see a few 50s/60s winners too!"
Exactly what I was thinking! Id love to see something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One/media/File:Alfa-Romeo-159-(1951).jpg done in Lego.
Nice - my favourite F1 car of all time! I remember spending months saving up for the Tamiya 1:12 scale that came out in 1993.
Looks like they're even trying out the coloured wheel nuts to an extent (blue on one side, red on the other).
Oh thank God! I was worried there wouldn't be a Ferrari this year. Whew!
Now, let's have some dressage pony sets.
@Paperballpark said:
"1984 McLaren MP4/2 next, please!"
better 6 wheels Tyrrel!
Hopefully those wider tyres will be available via PaB or by some other means, for people who have 10330.
Looks fantastic - but on the Mansell car, did I just count 32, yes thirty-two, stickers. And the Ferrari has more!
AAAAARRRGGGGHHHH!
As for wider rear tires, LEGO should update 10330 to from now on include these as standard going forward.
Oh how I loved the FW14 and Mansell, great news !
My era of following F1 (no interest at all these days) so that will be a very rare day one purchase.
And will also definitely source the printed and wider tires for the (currently unbuilt) McLaren MP4/4.
Only disappointment in the thread so far is there's just been one hysterical post about the stickers and nothing about the price so far.
@ShinyBidoof said:
"My era of following F1 (no interest at all these days) so that will be a very rare day one purchase."
Mine too. I lost interest when Murray Walker retired.
I saw Mansell race this car at the 1991 Portuguese Grand Prix, when he was black flagged for mechanics working on his car outside their pir area, and 1992 at Silverstone, which he won.
@Huw said:
" @ShinyBidoof said:
"My era of following F1 (no interest at all these days) so that will be a very rare day one purchase."
Mine too. I lost interest when Murray Walker retired.
I saw Mansell race this car at the 1991 Portuguese Grand Prix, when he was black flagged for mechanics working on his car outside their pir area, and 1992 at Silverstone, which he won.
"
You can't actually have seen Mansell driving this car in Portugal 91, because the B-spec was not introduced before the first GP of 1992. :-)
The 80's and early 90's are still the best years of F1. This Williams will be a day 1 purchase. Furthermore I bought Senna's 88 McLaren last week just hours after the Williams was announced.
I'm very curious if there will be more old cars in the near future. It would be nice to see more champions. The first 2 cars are from teams who are still active nowadays. I wonder if Lego also has the rights for producing cars of teams which are no longer on the grid anymore. It would be great to see Piquet's 83 Brahbam or Clark's 65 Lotus-Climax.
Gonna need to PaB a set of those Williams wheels to fix the MP4/4!
great set, bet there be aftermarket stickers to make it more in tune to era, just like MP4/4
@damien said:
" @Huw said:
" @ShinyBidoof said:
"My era of following F1 (no interest at all these days) so that will be a very rare day one purchase."
Mine too. I lost interest when Murray Walker retired.
I saw Mansell race this car at the 1991 Portuguese Grand Prix, when he was black flagged for mechanics working on his car outside their pir area, and 1992 at Silverstone, which he won.
"
You can't actually have seen Mansell driving this car in Portugal 91, because the B-spec was not introduced before the first GP of 1992. :-)
The 80's and early 90's are still the best years of F1. This Williams will be a day 1 purchase. Furthermore I bought Senna's 88 McLaren last week just hours after the Williams was announced.
I'm very curious if there will be more old cars in the near future. It would be nice to see more champions. The first 2 cars are from teams who are still active nowadays. I wonder if Lego also has the rights for producing cars of teams which are no longer on the grid anymore. It would be great to see Piquet's 83 Brahbam or Clark's 65 Lotus-Climax. "
Perhaps a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrrell_P34. That would be something different!
I know I mention this every time something F1 crops up but I still prefer the MOC sets from Rebrickable that RoscoPC creates there - he has already done the Williams in 2013, the McLaren MP4/4, the Lotus 79 with ground effects (and even the 6 wheeled Tyrell with working 4 wheel steering and suspension!) - I appreciate they are expensive to source parts for but if you love this era of F1 as I do too, check out what is possible - the gallery on his page is awesome...
That Nigel minifig looks great! Reminds me of that grand tour episode...
Very excited for this - along with the MP4/4 this was my Dad's favourite F1 car, so it'll be nice to have them both on display to remind me of him!
@damien said:
"I'm very curious if there will be more old cars in the near future. It would be nice to see more champions. The first 2 cars are from teams who are still active nowadays. I wonder if Lego also has the rights for producing cars of teams which are no longer on the grid anymore. It would be great to see Piquet's 83 Brahbam or Clark's 65 Lotus-Climax. "
I think from this era they could do Mansell's 1989 or 1990 Ferrari. The only other really memorable car from then would be the Lotus 99T, which could work using Flame Yellowish Orange (with LOTUS rather than CAMEL branding!).
And if we're going to go full on "il leone" then Mansell's CART Indycar title winning Newman/Haas car which be perfect.
@StyleCounselor said:
"Oh thank God! I was worried there wouldn't be a Ferrari this year. Whew!
Now, let's have some dressage pony sets."
Sorry, Belville and Scala aren't likely to come back.
Holy tires.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"Oh thank God! I was worried there wouldn't be a Ferrari this year. Whew!
Now, let's have some dressage pony sets."
Sorry, Belville and Scala aren't likely to come back."
https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Friends?query=Horse
@Ridgeheart said:
"How very car."
This is the comment I came to this page to find.
Mirage looks weird with the added orange, but I'll get used to it.
@StyleCounselor said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"Oh thank God! I was worried there wouldn't be a Ferrari this year. Whew!
Now, let's have some dressage pony sets."
Sorry, Belville and Scala aren't likely to come back."
https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Friends?query=Horse"
How did I not think of that? Probably because, while I've been collecting the line since it came out, I don't have any Friends sets with horses.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"Oh thank God! I was worried there wouldn't be a Ferrari this year. Whew!
Now, let's have some dressage pony sets."
Sorry, Belville and Scala aren't likely to come back."
https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Friends?query=Horse"
How did I not think of that? Probably because, while I've been collecting the line since it came out, I don't have any Friends sets with horses."
That's why we're here for each other. To collectively think of what we would otherwise miss.
So, I don't think I have any of the old Friends horses with straight legs. The front hoof raised version always made me a little uneasy. Now, I know why:
"When a horse has one front-leg lifted, it can can be a mild threat."
Will they offer two of those wide tires to everyone who got the MP 4/4? Now also some properly printed parts and it stops being a mostly decent but severely flawed set. Senna deserved better in the first place.
Not that interested in the FW 14, but I do want that minifig! As for the car, not bad, at least if they get the prints right this time. That said, did they ever run with those big W's on the side? Totally cannot remember that.
Even more...
@WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"They literally just revealed like a hundred of these. We don't need another just for a fancy minifig stand."
Oh please. There are hundreds of sets released every year. Something for everyone. Just move on.