Double racer sets.

Pretty sure they’re going to get a DQ for being too large, unless someone’s letting their first-grader take it for a spin.

ah yes, my boy Juan Pablo Montoya

I dont remember him being so small compared to the car though...

also. is this the first appearance of BMW in a Lego set?

Oof, that's a bad STAMP right there at the front.

@TransNeonOrangeSpaceman said:
"Oof, that's a bad STAMP right there at the front."

Yes.
My brother found one of these in his cupboard years ago along with other old Racers sets, which he gave to me.
The stickers on this one in particular are all in awful condition.
Actually, the set in general is.

The others got cleaned up a bit, but this one I have wrapped in bubble wrap hidden away to "look at another day"

That day may never come....

8 wide before it was a thing in speed champions. And a good example for when 8-wide is a terrible scale (trucks yay, F1 nay...).

Hey I have question for the Brickset team- why buildfigs from mario COUNT AS MINIFIGS while for example minecraft ones don't?

Huwbots really on a racing phase right now

Race car go vroom.

@Ephseb said:
"one of only 3 sets I own whose stickers absolutely disintegrated about a decade later"

Yep - pretty much all the stickers from that era are pure garbage.

@alLEGOry_HJB2810 said:
"That's a really good looking set for 1975, and pretty accurate for a set without SNOT"

Scale works in its favor. They’ve built lifesize vehicles out of nothing but 2x4 bricks and real wheels/tires (and I’m assuming those are on an OEM frame). Pixel size relative to the overall build gets better the larger you build.

60464 F1 Williams Racing & Haas F1 Race Cars is the 2025 "budget" version.

As much detail that Speed champions have, they are huge cars , and €27 per car

60474 F1 Grid with VCARB & Sauber Race Cars or 60443 F1 Pit Stop & Pit Crew with Ferrari Car make fun toys at similar price to 1 SC car.

The older style bricks reflect the older style F1 cars really well, although the tires seem a bit over-sized and front wing too small.

@Aramor bedankt ik was vergeten dat die er ook nog was

Last appearance of the yellow helmet in a regular set before the Hulk truck set that will be released this year. This 22 year gap is bizarre for such a common piece in one of the most basic colors. I even remember a City set where they color-coded three vehicles in red, blue and yellow and while the figures for the first two vehicles used red and blue helmets, the third one had a pearl dark grey helmet I think lmao.

@Brickalili said:
"The last three RSotDs have been like watching some weird evolution; from humble beginnings as Medieval cart to clunky early concept to sleek racer"

"What? Crossbow Cart is evolving!"

@lordofdragonss said:
"Hey I have question for the Brickset team- why buildfigs from mario COUNT AS MINIFIGS while for example minecraft ones don't? "

You sure about that?
https://brickset.com/article/118759/random-minifig-of-the-day-min187

I remember seeing this one in a folder from a toy shop from 2002. It still reminds me of the 2004 Ferrari set of roughly the same scale. This one always feels odd to me because after it, almost every licensed car was a ferrari until Speed Champions showed up.

I had no idea Lego had ever explicitly marketed a scale model with the scale called out.

And I had no idea that Formula 1 drivers are all midgets. This driver is only 3' 9" tall!

I'm a bit surprised nobody has mentioned this was the only set ever to have been -officially- released with a blue colored -System scale- steering wheel:

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3829c02&idColor=1T=P&C=1

Before and after, this type of steering wheel has always been black!
(I know red ones exist, but there doesn't seem to be any regular/ official release for it.)