LEGO Technic 42207 Ferrari SF-24 stands as a future classic for LEGO Formula 1 fans, detailing an iconic car in true Technic fashion.
If you didn’t know, 2025 is the year of Ferrari in Formula 1, thanks to Lewis Hamilton’s blockbuster move announced 12 months prior from Mercedes. The most successful driver in F1 history is linking up with the most successful team in F1 history, making the 2025 F1 season a world tour of Ferrari red. What better time to release such a thorough, detailed tribute to the sport’s most iconic team in the form of 42207 Ferrari SF-24?
42207 Ferrari SF-24
Release: March 1, 2025
Retiring: December 31, 2027
Price: £199.99 / $229.99 / €229.99
Pieces: 1,361
Minifigures: 0
That was a rhetorical question – there is no better time as we prime for quite possibly one of the most competitive seasons in modern F1 history with one of the most iconic team-ups leading the way.
And, as is the case with 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 (which you can read about in a separate review), 42207 Ferrari SF-24 builds upon the work established by 2024’s 42171 Mercedes-AMG F1 W14 E Performance and 2022’s 42141 McLaren Formula 1 Race Car by matching intricate inner features and functionality with a beautiful, accurate and fully-detailed livery covering the car from front to rear wing.
We’ve had plenty of LEGO Ferrari sets over the years, but none will come in as detailed and true-to-form as 42207 Ferrari SF-24, thanks in part to the most modern and advanced techniques and parts available to the LEGO Technic team, but also an increased budget to play with (we suspect in part to cover the various licences needed to plaster the model in the team’s various sponsors).
As a build, 42207 Ferrari SF-24 is split across 10 numbered bags and is as particular and involved as you would expect, ensuring not one of the 1,361 pieces is wasted. As is the case with counterpart 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20, building the Ferrari is thorough, a little punishing on the fingertips and demands full attention to ensure every detail comes together as intended (you don’t want to mess up the gearing that controls the steering else you’ll misalign the steering wheel later on).
But for that higher level of building that this set asks for, it delivers a higher level experience – the quality and accuracy of what you put together is plain to see, as is the vibrancy of that livery and the many, many stickers to tie everything together.
The bodywork very much feels alive as you shape it across that busy interior, with angles and curves unique to the Ferrari wonderfully captured across a model that surprisingly – and we can’t work out how – uses almost 300 fewer pieces than the Technic Red Bull. As with the Red Bull, the Ferrari comes with working suspension, steering, moving pistons in the engine, a moveable DRS rear wing, and measures the same size as the previous two instalments in this 1:8 scale collection of Technic F1 sets, the Mercedes and the McLaren.
LEGO Technic 42207 Ferrari SF-24 comparison
£199.99 / $229.99 / €229.99 is no small amount to ask for a LEGO set in 2025, however good it can deliver in value, so if presented with a choice between two such-priced sets based around the same subject matter, how do you decide which to go for?
Most importantly, 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 and 42207 Ferrari SF-24 may come in at the same size, and be based around similar vehicles, but each is their own creation. They are designed differently where possible, both in parts usage and design, whilst the way in which you build up each car is very much unique to each one.
This translates into Technic experiences that are true to each car’s respective design, and so where the Red Bull and Ferrari differ in the real world, so too do they differ as Technic sets. The make-up of the front wings, bodywork, chassis and rear wing are all obvious details that the design team have really picked up on with each set, as well as other more intrinsic details that feel like rewards to Ferrari and Red Bull fans who know these cars inside out. Importantly too, both are fun to build in their own way, with the differences in design also making for completely different build experiences, including the order in which you build each model.
Heading into the 2025 season it’s a wonderful and fascinating choice to make – Red Bull or Ferrari, Max or Lewis? We’re not being very helpful in the decision, sorry. At least, here are some photos of the two next to each other.
Our honest opinion: LEGO and Ferrari have a long history together and this is perhaps the best example of their partnership so far. An iconic team translated into a detailed, 1:8 scale model Technic set couldn’t look any better than this.
This set was provided for review by the LEGO Group.
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