This Incredible New Lego Set Features Some Iconic Ferrari Race Cars

Called 'Ultimate Ferrari Garage', the latest entry in Lego's 'Speed Champions' series features three eras of Ferrari race cars, including one of Gilles Villeneuve's F1 cars

Dan Thorn

02 Feb 2018

This Incredible New Lego Set Features Some Iconic Ferrari Race Cars

The Speed Champions series of Lego kits is fantastic for fans of cars and motor racing alike, with current entries in the series featuring everything from modern hypercars to F1 cars and even classic Le Mans racers.

Lego has just announced a new batch of sets for 2018, the stand-out of which has to be the Ultimate Ferrari Garage, which comes with a classic 250 GTO, the modern 488 GTE and - best of all - the 312T4 as raced by a certain Gilles Villeneuve during the 1979 F1 season.

The set pieces are great, too - check out those tiny Ferrari posters!

Though he never won a championship there’s an argument for Gilles being possibly the greatest racing driver of all time, and almost certainly the most spectacular. For that reason it was his more consistent teammate Jody Scheckter who won the title in 1979 while Gilles etched himself onto everyone’s memories by doing things like driving flat-out with a puncture, being 11 seconds faster per lap than anyone in the wet and - of course - his wheel-banging scrap with René Arnoux in the closing stages of the French Grand Prix.

The other new sets are worthy of mention, too. There’s the World Rally Championship winning M-Sport Ford Fiesta, the Ford Mustang Fastback, a Ferrari 488 GT3, a Porsche 919 LMP1 car, and a pretty cool set featuring the current Porsche 911 RSR race car alongside a classic 930 Turbo.

They’re set to be released on 1 March so it’s probably a good idea to use the time until then to start clearing some shelf space, because obviously you’re going to buy the lot of ‘em.

Comments

“there’s an argument for Gilles being possibly the greatest driver of all time”

Of course he’s one of the best pilots of all time, he’s a Quebec boy, and no other pilot was more trusted by Enzo Ferrari himself than Gilles: a semi-automatic transmission which was being developed for the Scuderia at the time was only used almost a decade after it was finished, because Gilles didn’t quite like it.

Plus, his brother (that we call in Quebec “Mononc’”, which means “Uncle” in a familiar way) Jacques, which is still alive, is possibly one of the best racing snowmobile pilots of all time, and Gilles’ son, Jacques, won the 1997 season, which was coincidentally only his second season. Oh, and he also won the Indy 500 in 1995, which would make him the only other living pilot with Montoya to have two thirds of the triple crown.