Review: LEGO 77245 Aston Martin Aramco F1 AMR24 (Speed Champions) - Jay's Brick Blog (2025)

Despite a strong start to the 2023 season, the Aston Martin Aramco F1 team has seen their performance somewhat regress during the 2024 season, but will that impact the appeal of the Speed Champions 77245 Aston Martin Aramco F1 AMR24?

Nevertheless, the signings of stars like 2-time world champion Fernando Alonso and star engineer Adrian Newey mean the British racing team has lots of potential in the coming years, which also means an increasing group of loyal fans.

The AMR24 maintains a standard British racing green livery that has previously been represented in this Speed Champions scale, which should provide an interesting comparison. Let’s take a closer look!

77245 Aston Martin Aramco F1 AMR24 will be available from 1 March 2025 onwards, and can be pre-ordered on LEGO.com,Amazon.com, or as part of the massiveLEGO Ultimate Formula 1 Collector’s Pack.

This is a guest review by automotive correspondent and F1 superfan Vaderfan, who will be bringing you a whole heap of LEGO and Technic Formula 1 reviews in the next few days!

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Special thanks to the LEGO Group for sending this set over for review.

77245 Aston Martin Aramco F1 AMR24 Set Details

Unboxing

The box is the standard size for all the 2025 Speed Champions F1 sets, showing the AMR24 speeding along a racetrack.

The back of the box also has the standard layout, showing some alternate angles and a comparison to the real car.

Inside the box – an instruction manual, sticker sheet, loose chassis piece, and six numbered plastic bags.

The obligatory comparison image in the instruction manual contrasts the length of the real car with that of the LEGO version.

There are a quite a number of stickers included, many of which are small so will require some expertise and precision to apply nicely!

Just like some other sets in the Speed Champions F1 range, there are a number of noteworthy pieces included: an axle connector piece that includes the front wheel covers, different sized front and rear tyres (with printed rubber), new curved slopes for the front and rear wings, the new dual-moulded minifigure helmet, and the return of the black Darksaber blade piece, which was also included in the 77244 Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team W15 E Performance.

Build Process

Bags 1 and 2 include the driver minifigure, and construct the central section of the model.

Bags 3 and 4 continue expanding on this section, including adding the all-important sidepods.

Finally, bags 5 and 6 finish off the model.

As with all the sets in the Speed Champions F1 lineup, this set was full of ingenious build techniques, including this interesting design to mount that rear wheels that has become a standard inclusion on the other Speed Champions F1 sets too!

Minifigures

The included minifigure sports a new dual-moulded helmet that looks fantastic, with the printed Aston Martin logo on top.

However, the torso and legs are very lacking in detail, with absolutely minimal printed detail. I would have really liked to see either the sponsors’ logos printed, or at least some stitching design for additional visual interest.

The driver also comes with a hairpiece and a spanner. It’s a female driver, which is quite notable!

Reference Image

Completed Model

The completed model looks good on the whole, with a sleek swooping design achieved with a multitude of curved slopes and clever build techniques. However, there are a couple of design choices that may divide opinion, when it comes to accuracy.

Most obvious is the choice of green colour to represent the metallic green shade of the real car. This is the same colour used on last year’s AMR23 LEGO model – which divided fan opinion then – but was apparently selected by Aston Martin themselves.

It’s definitely not a very close match, especially as the real car looks even darker when out on track, but unfortunately LEGO just does not really have a specific colour that matches the AMR24’s racing green well – short of creating a new metallic green shade that would be unrealistic to expect. Maybe dark green would’ve been closer to the look of the car out on track – but I suspect that would’ve been equally controversial.

Another design choice was the decision to make the green on the sidepods reliant entirely on stickers. This looks fine from the side view, but makes the car predominantly black from the front which is not particularly accurate (the green on the sidepods of the real car do extend slightly to the top).

This is especially apparent from the top view, where all the green is constrained to a 4-stud-wide strip right down the middle that has the unintentional effect of making the central section look quite blocky. I think making the last layer of curved slopes on each end of the sidepod would have achieved better colour blocking.

The sidepods themselves look fine from most angles, though, with the use of some nice angled/curved slopes to create a sweeping shape.

The yellow line that sweeps through the entire lower half of the car – represented with a mix of stickered and brick-built detail – is also pleasant to see.

A look at the underside reveals some of the interesting techniques used, particularly to achieve the flat yet angled design of the underfloor.

The front wing section benefits from some of the new parts introduced, including the printed curved slope for the nose and the new stickered wheel cover pieces that look excellent. Each of the wheels is also capped with a printed 2×2 radar dish piece with some accurate yellow markings.

The cockpit is a pretty standard design, although it’s quite a tight fit! The all-green design of the minifigure also blends in quite well with the green sections of the livery.

The halo – represented by a bent rubber hose element – lifts up for easier access to the interior, which has a printed steering wheel and two wing mirrors (which cleverly reuse spoon elements).

The shaping at the back also looks good, with some angled corner slopes and a 1×2 black ingot piece used for the T-cam. Spot the use of the Darksaber blade!

The rear wing also benefits from the new 2×6 curved slope piece, and looks much better as a result. The DRS activator is replicated with a angled connector piece that I think actually looks sleeker than the mech finger piece used on other Speed Champions F1 cars.

Comparisons

Of course, given that the real-life livery barely changed before the AMR23 and AMR24, I was excited to compare their respective LEGO models and see the difference a year could make.

While both models look similar from a distance, the small upgrades like larger rear wheels and slightly larger size make the new model look that extra little bit nicer overall. The design of the rear wing is also a massive upgrade, looking far sleeker and much more accurately shaped.

Here’s how both models look from the front – you can see the difference in the sidepod designs; I think the older layout looks nicer with a bit more green visible from the top.

The front nose also benefits hugely from the introduction of the new curved slope, which makes the shaping closer to the real car.

This set looks almost completely different from the City version of the AMR24 from 60445 – it’s hard to believe they’re based on the same car! However, different target audiences certainly justify the different designs, and older fans will definitely appreciate the high level of detail on this Speed Champions variant.

Of course, the AMR24 looks good “on track” with the other 2025 Speed Champions F1 sets, including its fellow Mercedes-powered teams!

Final Thoughts

On the whole, I am mostly satisfied with the model, despite a couple of issues with the translation of the livery into brick form. The green colour may be controversial, but I think it’s the best representation within the LEGO colour palette especially since LEGO tends to err on the brighter side when it comes to selecting hues.

This set probably won’t be the first pick for many (unless you’re a devoted Alonso fan), but it definitely looks fantastic within the lineup, and certainly represents an upgrade over last year’s Speed Champions model of the AMR23.

Thanks for reading! 77245 Aston Martin Aramco F1 AMR24 will be available from 1 March 2025 onwards, and can be pre-ordered on LEGO.com,Amazon.com, or as part of the massiveLEGO Ultimate Formula 1 Collector’s Pack.

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