42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Car

[JunkstyleGio]

I wish that TLG ddid not have so many rules for designers.

Too bad for great designers like Milan Reindl.

 

(And like i said before on the other F1 cars: "Same size front- and rear wheels? Come on...)

So I will this one let me pass by.

 

[freakwave]

1 hour ago, JunkstyleGio said:

(And like i said before on the other F1 cars: "Same size front- and rear wheels? Come on...)

 

That'S the thing they could have really really addressed...

However, I guess this one needs to be mine

[bruh]

I like it, especially the parts in a new color. 
But…
I prefer vehicles that are more common. Sure, I like the cool F1 cars, but the ones that we see pretty often (or at least occasionally in real life), eg Land Rover, car transporter, ford raptor, even the ford gt. I like them because they are relatable, and I can compare them to the real thing. Yes, this does point out their flaws, but we are literally doing that anyway. I also like more functions, and this sports only suspension and a 2 speed gearbox. (Compare to Land Rover or car transporter, each with 4+ functions.

 

[Bensch55]

I really can't wrap my head around the decision to make special parts (again) for the wishbones but also cut the cost by supplying four tires with the same width - the Merc, RB and Ferrari all look like they skipped leg day.

But credit where credit is due, they really made an effort to catch all the small details of each car. If you look closely, the RB has pull rod suspension in the front and push rods in the back, like the real thing, the Ferrari vice-versa.

[HTM]

I’m not convinced by this one at all. 
 

F1 cars are hard to capture with Technic panels but this looks like a rip off set you see advertised on Amazon. Overall bodywork just doesn’t flow.
 

I don’t understand why the HOG steering has to be fed up through the air box ruining the t-cam proportions. Ferrari 8386 had it right placing the steering within the cockpit. 

can see daylight through the floor of the car with the engine cover removed. As with previous crop of cars, no attempt made to model radiators or exhaust system as on older models. Just a hollow shell. I’m not even massively convinced that the new wishbones model the appearance of F1 style suspension better than the current parts/mechanisms.

Just my impressions anyway.

 

 

[damian_kane_iv]

I feel like the most important features in these new F1 sets are going to be the aero details and the suspension. 

Seems like adding a whole gearbox might complicate things so its forgivable that they leave it out

[Erik Leppen]

It looks like this has the cam piece in dark blue, 12 times. (at the rear, besides the large 45-degree macaroni pieces).

 

For the rest, whatever. At least it looks better than a black car. But I consider this Racers, not Technic. I'm kinda baffled by how TLC decides to put huge focus on F1 and then NOT use distinct front and rear tyres. But whatever.

[R0Sch]

Just discovered these close-ups on the lego website.

[Zerobricks]

Good find! I think this is officially the model with the lowest placed shock absorbers

Also notice, that the ?KERS? is only engaged in one of the gears.

[NV Lego technic]

What is a KERS? 

[AVCampos]

Kinetic Energy Recovery System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system

[Timorzelorzworz]

Finally after some decades new engine blocks without studs

[AVCampos]

What's wrong with studded engine cylinders? They're most often mounted at angles, therefore the studs don't interfere with the 1x1x1 studless grid.

[2GodBDGlory]

2 hours ago, Timorzelorzworz said:

Finally after some decades new engine blocks without studs

It does look a bit nicer without studs, but I am disappointed that they didn't optimize the design much further while they had the chance. It's still got the bulky profile on the bottom that allows it to be placed on top of a plate, but that's a seriously irrelevant connection.

[gyenesvi]

1 hour ago, 2GodBDGlory said:

It does look a bit nicer without studs, but I am disappointed that they didn't optimize the design much further while they had the chance. It's still got the bulky profile on the bottom that allows it to be placed on top of a plate, but that's a seriously irrelevant connection.

Indeed, I hate those irrelevant edges at the bottom because those can easily get in the way depending on the exact mounting angle for example in a front engine car where there's chassis railing or suspension parts under he engine on the sides.

3 hours ago, AVCampos said:

What's wrong with studded engine cylinders? They're most often mounted at angles, therefore the studs don't interfere with the 1x1x1 studless grid.

But sometimes they can just interfere with the hood for example (say, in an inline setup). It's better if there's nothing protruding unnecessarily.

[2GodBDGlory]

It is a little sad to lose the option of putting grille tiles or something on top of the engine, or just something that looks like a valve cover, but there'll be plenty of the old style floating around for the foreseeable future, so it shouldn't be an issue to get a hold of them for those niche situations

[allanp]

I'm just glad we still keep the proper engines. It would suck if they all went to the cam style engine. No idea why the new Ducati went that route.

[2GodBDGlory]

8 hours ago, allanp said:

I'm just glad we still keep the proper engines. It would suck if they all went to the cam style engine. No idea why the new Ducati went that route.

I'm pretty sure the Ducati did that because of the larger scale the engine was built to. Usually there's the three-stud spacing between the engine block pinholes and the driveshaft, but they wanted to make the engine look bigger on the Ducati, so they did a five-stud spacing. The issue then is that the normal 3L connecting rod part wouldn't be long enough, and I'm not sure there was any way to build one out of existing pieces. Obviously a new 5L connecting rod part would have been the better solution, but I can understand why they went the way they did.

23 hours ago, 2GodBDGlory said:

It does look a bit nicer without studs, but I am disappointed that they didn't optimize the design much further while they had the chance. It's still got the bulky profile on the bottom that allows it to be placed on top of a plate, but that's a seriously irrelevant connection.

Though I suppose one other advantage to this design is that there's no longer any simulated cooling fins. Now we can finally build model water-cooled engines, I guess!

[allanp]

18 minutes ago, 2GodBDGlory said:

I'm pretty sure the Ducati did that because of the larger scale the engine was built to. Usually there's the three-stud spacing between the engine block pinholes and the driveshaft, but they wanted to make the engine look bigger on the Ducati, so they did a five-stud spacing. The issue then is that the normal 3L connecting rod part wouldn't be long enough, and I'm not sure there was any way to build one out of existing pieces. Obviously a new 5L connecting rod part would have been the better solution, but I can understand why they went the way they did.

Though I suppose one other advantage to this design is that there's no longer any simulated cooling fins. Now we can finally build model water-cooled engines, I guess!

To make the engine bigger for these 1:5 scale bikes it would be really nice to get more of the engine. We only ever get the bottom half, so it would be great to see the cam belt/chain and some representation of the cam shafts. I'd prefer that over making it less realistic.