 I purchased this Lego set from the Barcelona store during my last visit to the Catalan capital last May. This year, Lego decided to launch Speed Champions versions of all the F1 cars, probably a marketing campaign that personally brought me back to F1. Looking at and analyzing all the various Lego models, I discovered that I was no longer familiar with the liveries of modern F1 cars, and thanks to these models, I started following the F1 championship via the official website and YouTube. As I always do, I buy a Lego set in every city I visit, and this year in Barcelona, in addition to an architecture set, I also decided to buy a Speed Champions of this type. After seeing them on display, I decided on the Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 simply because it had the color combination I liked the most. The choice of this set therefore has no particular history but is simply the result of curiosity and aesthetics. Besides this, it had been almost eight months since I had assembled a Speed Champions and above all I was curious to see the dimensions of the car especially in comparison with the Technic version of the Mercedes-AMG F1 W14 that I assembled at the end of last year. This car took me about an hour and twenty minutes to assemble, a long time for me, but justified by the sheer number of stickers, many of which were truly tiny. Construction began by placing the pieces on a long, narrow platform, a bit different from the standard, wider platform found on the various Speed Champions models. I basically assembled the entire rear end of the car onto the platform, and then used additional brick blocks to form the front end, forming the nose. The separate assembly sections involved assembling and then installing both the spoiler and nose, very relaxing and not at all demanding steps. Even though the car had about three liveries already printed, there were still a fair number of stickers, which I applied well. However, at a certain point, I had the feeling that the entire assembly process revolved around them. While beautiful and essential to the car's look, these stickers should be kept to a minimum, perhaps using only three and printing the rest of the livery on bricks. I initially thought this set would be in line with the others, but I have to say that it has a completely different assembly process than the normal Speed Champions cars, even compared to the other two F1 cars I've built previously: the McLaren MP4/4 & Ayrton Senna and the small Technic version of the Mercedes-AMG F1 W14. The final dimensions are slightly longer than a Speed Champions, and I have to say that the proportions are perfect and I really like them. I bought this set out of curiosity, but at this point I'll buy another one just to see if the assembly process is still the same, thus creating a new standard.           A.M.
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