APXGP Team Race Car from F1 The Movie

APXGP — short for Apex Grand Prix — is the fictional team at the centre of Apple Original Films' F1®, the 2025 sports drama directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer with Lewis Hamilton attached as a producer and technical consultant. Brad Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, a former F1® driver returning after a 30-year absence to anchor the struggling APXGP outfit; Damson Idris plays his younger team-mate Joshua Pearce. The film was shot at real Grand Prix weekends through the 2023 and 2024 seasons, with APXGP cars on track between sessions.

The car carrying the APXGP livery on screen was not an F1® car. To meet FIA safety rules without disrupting the championship, Mercedes-AMG's High Performance Powertrains and Carlin Motorsport prepared a modified F2 chassis with bodywork designed to read as a current-spec F1® entry to a cinema audience. Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes team supplied engineering input, including downforce calibration so the cars handled credibly at GP venues. Some sequences also used a GP3-engined car so the film crew could ride alongside at a controllable speed while preserving the visual impression of an F1® lap.

LEGO® 77252 is the licensed Speed Champions interpretation of that screen car — APXGP livery, fictional sponsor decals, the same chassis-cell footprint as the real-team F1® sets in the 2025/26 waves. The 268-piece count puts it within a piece of the AMR24 (269) and on the same shelf-display scale as the rest of the contemporary F1® grid.