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LEGO® Speed Champions · McLaren · 2026

McLaren W1

The third car in McLaren's Ultimate lineage — F1, P1, W1 — captured in 294 LEGO® pieces.

Set #77257 2026 294 pieces 8-stud Current

When McLaren picks a name for an Ultimate-series hypercar, it does not mess about. The 1992 F1 was named for Formula 1; the 2013 P1 was named for the pole position. The 2024 W1 is named for World Champion — and was unveiled in October 2024, fifty years to the month after Emerson Fittipaldi clinched McLaren's first F1 World Drivers' Championship in 1974. 1,258 hp from a brand-new MHP-8 V8 hybrid, an Active Long Tail rear wing that extends a foot rearwards under load, dry weight of 1,399 kg, top speed of 350 km/h, 399 units, all sold. Set 77257 puts that car in 294 LEGO® pieces at the US$27.99 price point.

LEGO® Speed Champions set 77257 McLaren W1 — official product image
Official LEGO® Group product image for set 77257 McLaren W1. Source: Rebrickable.

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The W1's signatures — the Active Long Tail rear wing, the F1-style centre exhaust, the anhedral front wings either side of the bonnet — are what the LEGO® designers had to land at 8-stud scale.

McLaren W1 hypercar in light grey, three-quarter view, at the 2026 Toronto International Auto Show
Photo: Mustang Joe (Joe deSousa) · CC0 1.0 (public domain) · via Wikimedia Commons

THE ROAD CAR

McLaren W1

399 built. All sold. The third McLaren Ultimate.

The W1 was unveiled on 6 October 2024, eleven years after the P1, thirty-two years after the F1. McLaren framed the car explicitly as a 50th-anniversary statement — Emerson Fittipaldi won McLaren's first F1 World Drivers' title in 1974 — and the W in the name stands for World Champion.

Mechanically the W1 is a clean-sheet design. The MHP-8 is a brand-new 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 producing 916 hp on its own — the most powerful engine McLaren has ever built — and is paired with a 342 hp electric motor. Combined system output is 1,258 hp (1,275 PS), with 988 lb-ft (1,340 N⋅m) of torque. An eight-speed dual-clutch transmission with electric reverse drives the rear wheels. Dry weight is 1,399 kg, giving 911 PS per tonne.

Aerodynamically the W1 borrows from McLaren's F1 team. The Active Long Tail rear wing extends rearwards by 300 mm under load and tilts to act as a DRS-style flap; combined with the front wings flanking the bonnet, the car generates over 1,000 kg of downforce at full attack. The chassis is a new Aerocell carbon-fibre monocoque designed by Tobias Sühlmann's team at Woking.

Production is capped at 399 units. Pricing starts at US$2.1 million. Every car was sold before public launch, with deposits placed on technical specifications alone. Manufacturing started in 2025 at McLaren's Woking factory.

Engine
4.0L twin-turbo V8 (MHP-8) + electric motor (PHEV, RWD)
Power
1,258 hp (1,275 PS / 938 kW) combined
Top speed
350 km/h (217 mph)
Years built
2025–, 399 units

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Display ideas

  • Pair it with 76918 McLaren Solus GT & F1 LM — the W1 is the third Ultimate car in McLaren's lineage; 76918 covers the second (F1 LM, 1995) and the most extreme track car (Solus GT, 2022). Three eras of McLaren road extremity in one shelf.
  • Group with 77251 McLaren MCL38 Race Car — the W1's Active Long Tail rear wing derives from F1 aero, and the MCL38 was McLaren's 2024 F1 challenger. The connection is the technology, displayed across the road–race line.
  • Photograph the W1 with the rear wing extended — the F1-derived Active Long Tail is the most distinctive build feature, and the press shots McLaren itself uses are with the wing deployed.

People

Three names from Woking and one fifty-year-old reason the car is called what it is.

Tobias Sühlmann

MCLAREN CHIEF DESIGN OFFICER

Sühlmann led the W1's exterior and overall design language. His brief, restated in interviews around the October 2024 reveal, was to make a car that read as the third entry in the F1–P1 lineage rather than a refresh of the P1. The anhedral front wings — the rising ridges either side of the bonnet — and the centre-exit exhaust are the visual signatures that ended up doing the lineage work.

João Dias

EXTERIOR DESIGN

Dias and Patrick Carton shared exterior duties for the McLaren W1 under the Woking design team. The car's most photographed angle — the rear three-quarter, with the Active Long Tail extended — is largely their work, and Top Gear's coverage of the October 2024 reveal singled out the wing's twin-state geometry as a McLaren design signature. McLaren has framed both retracted and extended states as the canonical product angle.

Alex Alexiev

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

Alexiev oversaw the McLaren W1's cabin, which uses a fixed driver seat moulded into the carbon monocoque and an adjustable pedal box — a layout borrowed directly from the 1992 McLaren F1. The infotainment screen the LEGO® set models with a 1×2 printed tile is the central element of that cabin, and McLaren's official W1 page treats the cockpit-as-driver-cell layout as a clear F1 callback.

Emerson Fittipaldi

WHY IT'S CALLED THE W1

On 6 October 1974, Emerson Fittipaldi finished fourth at the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen and clinched McLaren's first Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship. McLaren chose 6 October 2024 — fifty years to the day — to reveal the W1. The W stands for World Champion. Fittipaldi's 1974 title is the reason the car is called what it is.

The build

Scale and era

77257 is an 8-stud Speed Champions set — the format the line moved to in 2020 — and at 294 pieces sits in the price-point band of the 2026 launch wave. It shares its US$27.99 price tag with 77254 (Ferrari SF90 XX Stradale) and 77240 (Bugatti Centodieci), the three single-vehicle hypercar releases at the wave's entry tier.

All three are aimed at age 9+ rather than the 18+ rating used on the larger McLaren sets like 76918 (Solus GT and F1 LM). The 18+ band is reserved for sets above ~£35 / 500 pieces in this category.

Build highlights

The Active Long Tail rear wing is reproduced as an adjustable element — it can be set in retracted or extended position, exactly the way the real wing operates. That is the most interesting build detail in the set and the reason 77257 has more articulation than 77254 in the same wave.

Other named features: a printed cockpit infotainment screen, side and bonnet air intakes, and the rear-engine exposure typical of the 8-stud Speed Champions hypercar formula. The driver minifigure ships with a wig and a wrench.

What the 294 pieces buys you

294 pieces is at the lighter end of the wave — fewer than the 339 of the SF90 XX Stradale (77254) released the same day — but the parts budget is mostly spent on the rear wing mechanism. The W1 is a display-first model with one moving part that matters.

About the driver figure

One driver minifigure in McLaren team colours, with a printed helmet, a separate wig piece for display without the helmet, and a wrench accessory. No likeness — Speed Champions sets at the 9+ price tier do not carry licensed-driver minifigs.

FAQ

Is LEGO® set 77257 still available?
Yes. 77257 launched on 1 January 2026 alongside 77254 (Ferrari SF90 XX Stradale) and 77240 (Bugatti Centodieci) and is current as of April 2026 on LEGO.com.
How big is the LEGO® McLaren W1 when built?
Roughly 4 cm high, 15 cm long, 7 cm wide — at the smaller end of the 2026 8-stud sets, but with an articulating rear wing.
How many pieces does LEGO® set 77257 have?
294 pieces and one driver minifigure.
What does the name McLaren W1 mean?
The W stands for World Champion. The car was unveiled on 6 October 2024 — fifty years to the day after Emerson Fittipaldi clinched McLaren's first F1 World Drivers' Championship at the 1974 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. See Wikipedia: McLaren W1.
Is this a 6-stud or 8-stud LEGO® Speed Champions set?
8-stud. The McLaren W1 (77257) is from the current LEGO® Speed Champions scale, which the line shifted to in 2020 from the original 6-stud format. See the Brickset listing for 77257.
What other LEGO® McLaren Speed Champions sets are there?
As of April 2026: 76918 (Solus GT & F1 LM), 77251 (MCL38 F1 Race Car) and 77257 (W1). The W1 is the latest.

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Sources

  1. LEGO® Group
  2. Merlin's Bricks
  3. Brickset
  4. McLaren Automotive
  5. Wikipedia
  6. Topgear
  7. Wikimedia Commons