LEGO® Speed Champions · Mercedes-AMG · Dual vehicle · 2022

Mercedes-AMG F1 W12 E Performance & Mercedes-AMG Project One

Q: Is LEGO® set 76909 still available?

No — retired from the active catalogue in late 2024. Secondary market only via eBay, BrickLink, or specialist dealers.

Q: Why are there two cars in one LEGO® box?

Because they share an engine family — the AMG One's V6 turbo-hybrid is derived from Mercedes' F1 power unit.

Q: Who drove the Mercedes-AMG F1 W12 in real life?

Lewis Hamilton (#44) and Valtteri Bottas (#77). 9 wins, 8th straight constructors' title, lost drivers' on the final lap of Abu Dhabi.

Q: Can anyone still buy a real Mercedes-AMG One?

No new — all 275 sold before deliveries began Jan 2023. Only secondary market, at a substantial premium.

Q: Is there a Valtteri Bottas minifigure?

No — both minifigures are Hamilton. Bottas decals only, no Bottas minifig.

Q: How big are the two cars when built?

F1 W12: ~18 × 5 × 4 cm. AMG One: ~14 × 6 × 4 cm. Side by side they fit on a standard shelf.

Q: Is this a 6-stud or 8-stud LEGO® Speed Champions set?

8-stud — the current wider scale, introduced in 2020.

Two silver arrows, one engine family — the 2021 F1 car that took Hamilton to his 100th Grand Prix win, packaged with its road-going hypercar sibling.

Set #76909 2022 564 pieces 8-stud Retired

Most LEGO® Speed Champions boxes contain one car. 76909 contains two — and the reason they share a page, and a box, is that they share an engine. The Mercedes-AMG Project One — the 1,049 hp road hypercar — is powered by a 1.6L V6 turbo-hybrid lifted directly from Mercedes' Formula 1 programme. The F1 W12 runs a later-generation version of that same power-unit family. Both engines are built in the same building: Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrains in Brixworth, Northamptonshire. So LEGO® hasn't packaged two random Mercedes together. They've packaged a championship-winning F1 car and the road car that runs its engine. That's the story this page tells.

LEGO® Speed Champions set 76909 Mercedes-AMG F1 W12 E Performance & Mercedes-AMG Project One, both cars in teal and silver on a white background. — Source: Rebrickable

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Two cars from the same factory, two years apart, joined by a shared 1.6L V6 turbo-hybrid heart. One raced. One drives. Here's what each is, where it came from, and why the pairing matters.

THE CAR THAT LOST THE TITLE ON THE FINAL LAP

Mercedes-AMG F1 W12 E Performance

Hamilton and Bottas's 2021 F1 car — nine wins, an eighth straight constructors' title, and the closest drivers' fight in a generation.

Designed under James Allison at the Mercedes factory in Brackley, the W12 was built on the bones of the utterly dominant W11. It was meant to be a rolling victory lap. It wasn't. The 2021 season turned into the closest F1 championship fight in a generation — Lewis Hamilton vs. Max Verstappen, swapping the lead through twenty-two races, colliding at Silverstone, colliding again at Monza, and finally running it down to a single green-flag lap in Abu Dhabi. Hamilton led. The safety car intervened. Verstappen passed him on the last lap to take the drivers' title.

The W12 still won nine Grands Prix, took Mercedes its 8th consecutive constructors' title, and delivered Hamilton's 100th career F1 win at Sochi. It was a championship car. It just wasn't quite a champion.

Engine: Mercedes-AMG M12 E Performance · 1.6L V6 turbo-hybrid
Power: Estimated >1,000 hp combined
Drivers: Lewis Hamilton (#44) · Valtteri Bottas (#77)
Season: 2021 — 9 wins, constructors' champion, lost drivers'

THE F1 ENGINE, WRAPPED IN NUMBER PLATES

Mercedes-AMG One (Project One)

1,049 hp road-legal hypercar running an unmodified F1 power unit. 275 built, all sold, US$2.72M each.

Unveiled in concept form at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, the AMG One promised something nobody had ever actually done: a road-legal car running an unmodified F1 power unit. It then took five years and serious engineering humility to deliver on that promise. The engine — a modified Mercedes PU106B, the same family Hamilton used to win his 2014 and 2015 titles — didn't want to idle. It didn't want to run on pump fuel. It needed a rebuild every 50,000 km. Mercedes-AMG made it work anyway.

The resulting car produces 1,049 hp from its V6 plus four electric motors (two on the front axle, plus the F1-style MGU-K and MGU-H). It does 0–62 in 2.9 seconds and tops out at 219 mph. Only 275 were built, at US$2.72 million apiece. Every one sold before the first one was delivered, in January 2023. Nico Rosberg got the first.

Engine: F1-derived 1.6L V6 turbo-hybrid + 4 e-motors
Power: 1,049 hp combined
Production: 275 units · US$2.72M · all sold
0–60 / Top: 2.9 sec · 219 mph

You've built it. Now display it.

A dual-vehicle Speed Champions set is twice the display challenge. Brix Plus dual-vehicle stands hold both cars in an angled side-by-side arrangement, so the W12 and the AMG One face the same way — the way they'd sit on the grid and in the paddock at a manufacturer showcase.

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People

Here's where the dual-vehicle format pays off: several of the same people appear on both sides. The drivers who raced the W12 went on to buy the road car that shares its engine.

Lewis Hamilton

W12 DRIVER 2021 · OWNS TWO AMG ONES

Seven-time F1 world champion, widely regarded as the most statistically successful driver in the sport's history. Drove the W12 all of 2021 — the year he took his 100th F1 win at Sochi and came within one green-flag lap of an eighth drivers' title at Abu Dhabi. He's since ordered two Mercedes-AMG Ones. A racing driver who owns the road-car version of his day job, twice.

Valtteri Bottas

W12 DRIVER 2021 · AMG ONE CUSTOMER

Finnish, ten F1 wins to his name, Hamilton's teammate for five seasons including 2021. After Mercedes he moved to Alfa Romeo and then Kick Sauber, grew a famously large moustache, and cultivated a public persona (gravel cycling, calendar shoots) that made him one of F1's most approachable stars. Also on the AMG One customer list — though you won't find a Bottas minifigure in set 76909, only alternative stickers for his #77.

Nico Rosberg

2016 F1 CHAMPION · FIRST AMG ONE DELIVERY

Hamilton's former teammate and fiercest rival. Won the 2016 championship in the most famous "and then he retired five days later" story in recent F1 memory. Took delivery of the very first customer Mercedes-AMG One on 16 January 2023, wearing the same colour scheme he used to race in. He now runs a successful podcast, YouTube channel, and venture-capital fund focused on sustainable mobility.

George Russell

MERCEDES F1 DRIVER · AMG ONE CUSTOMER

Joined Mercedes F1 full-time in 2022, taking over Bottas' seat as Hamilton's teammate. A junior-category destroyer (F2 champion 2018), Russell was Mercedes' reserve during the W12 era and inherited the team the year after 76909 was released. He added an AMG One to his collection — which his teammate Alex Albon called "a beast." A direct successor to the W12 era, in metal and in carbon fibre.

David Coulthard

13× F1 WINNER · AMG ONE CUSTOMER

Scottish, famously tall for a Formula 1 driver, raced for Williams and McLaren through the 1990s and 2000s, took 13 Grand Prix victories. Never raced for Mercedes, but ordered an AMG One anyway — a reminder that this car's appeal crosses team allegiances. Now a TV broadcaster whose voice has introduced two generations of fans to F1.

Mark Wahlberg

ACTOR · AMG ONE CUSTOMER

American actor and producer; career includes The Departed, Ted, and the Transformers films. His car collection is notoriously deep — a Bugatti Chiron, a Ferrari F8 Tributo, a Pagani Huayra — and the AMG One slots into it as the F1-powered halo. Proof that this particular hypercar reaches beyond the motorsport world.

The build

Two cars, two very different LEGO® problems

The W12 and the AMG One look nothing alike. The F1 car is long, narrow, and architectural — the shape is negotiated between aerodynamic rules. The Project One is a low, wide, road-legal blob of carbon fibre. The LEGO® Speed Champions team had to solve both silhouettes in the current 8-stud scale, using around 280 pieces per car, and make them look like they belong next to each other on a shelf.

They mostly pull it off. The W12 gets the right proportions — long wheelbase, tall airbox, low side pods — and the signature Mercedes Petronas teal is rendered with a mix of printed tiles and (inevitably) stickers. The AMG One is the harder build: the curved carbon shell doesn't translate neatly to studs, and the set leans on SNOT (studs not on top) techniques to get the surfaces. Both cars open at the cockpit to seat a minifigure.

What makes the F1 W12 special in brick

It's one of only a handful of modern Mercedes F1 cars in Speed Champions form, and it captures a very specific moment — the 2021 season is already the stuff of documentary series. Owning the brick version of that car is owning a small silver monument to the most contested championship of the hybrid era.

What makes the AMG One special in brick

Road hypercars rarely make Speed Champions. The AMG One is one of only a few road hypercars the line has ever covered (alongside the Bugatti Chiron and the McLaren Senna). At its original RRP of $29.99 for the pair, the AMG One alone is arguably the best value road hypercar the LEGO® line has produced.

Minifigures: Hamilton gets one, Bottas doesn't quite

Set 76909 ships with two minifigures, both built around the Lewis Hamilton likeness — a detailed Mercedes-AMG Petronas race suit torso, printed teal and black leg pieces, a matching helmet, and a mop of dark hair for non-helmet display. Alternative hair pieces and a team hat are included.

The set also provides sticker sheets for Valtteri Bottas' #77 car — swap the decals and you can display either driver's car. What's not included is a dedicated Bottas minifigure. If you want to display both cars with their real-world drivers, you'll need to source a Bottas figure (or print-custom) separately. It's a reasonable letdown for completists and the most common criticism in reviews of the set.

FAQ

Is LEGO® set 76909 still available?

No. 76909 was released in 2022 and the LEGO® Group retired it from the Speed Champions active catalogue in late 2024. Secondary market only — expect to pay above original RRP, especially for sealed-box examples. Try eBay, BrickLink, or a specialist collector dealer.

Why are there two cars in one LEGO® box?

The LEGO® Speed Champions line occasionally packages two cars together when there's a story linking them. 76909's story is the V6 hybrid engine: the Project One road car runs a version of the same F1 power unit that sits behind the driver in the W12. It's a shared-DNA pairing, not just two cars from the same brand.

Who drove the Mercedes-AMG F1 W12 in real life?

Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas. The W12 won 9 races in the 2021 season, Mercedes' 8th consecutive constructors' championship, and delivered Hamilton's 100th career F1 win at the Russian Grand Prix. Hamilton lost the drivers' title to Max Verstappen at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in one of the most controversial race finishes in F1 history.

Can anyone still buy a real Mercedes-AMG One?

Only on the secondary market. All 275 production cars were allocated before delivery started in January 2023 at US$2.72 million each. Confirmed owners include Lewis Hamilton (two cars), Valtteri Bottas, Nico Rosberg, George Russell, David Coulthard, and Mark Wahlberg. Used examples have changed hands for a substantial premium over the original list price.

Is there a Valtteri Bottas minifigure?

No. Both minifigures in the set use the Lewis Hamilton likeness (same torso, same leg print). Alternative stickers are included for Bottas' #77 car, so you can display either driver's car, but no dedicated Bottas minifigure is provided. It's a common criticism in reviews.

How big are the two cars when built?

The F1 W12 measures approximately 18 × 5 × 4 cm (long and low, as F1 cars are). The AMG One is roughly 14 × 6 × 4 cm — shorter and wider. Both sit comfortably on a standard display shelf, side by side.

Is this a 6-stud or 8-stud LEGO® Speed Champions set?

8-stud — the current, wider LEGO® Speed Champions scale introduced in 2020. Both cars share the same 8-stud width, which makes them look properly paired on a shelf.