Set Review ➟ LEGO® 60493 F1® Display Truck with Audi F1® Race Car
This flatbed car carrier and a race car accompanied by three minifigures is a nice play set for the younger crowd. With an age rating of 7+ assembly is quite basic and it is nearly a quarter of the way into the build before any step requires more than two different parts…and out of 152 steps, not counting minifigure assembly, only 15 steps require more than two different parts. The set has no stickers, and in some ways feels to me like a set that is a throwback to the late 80s.
There is one assembly step that is a little difficult. On the race car we are given a short, very straight tube that needs to be bent into the curved bar that goes around the driver on the race car. That tube is stiff and resists bending easily. I was actually afraid it might either kink or snap, but I rubbed the center part to warm it a little and eventually it gave in.
Aside from the wheels, the only other moving part other than the bar is the spoiler.
The cockpit is pretty tight and has no steering wheel. The driver needs to be slipped in under the gauges to set onto the studs.
Moving on to the truck, the cab does have a steering wheel and can accommodate two minifigures, which is nice. The back of the cab features a storage area with tall doors. The driver’s side storage contains a jack and a fire extinguisher. The passenger side storage has a hook, where I guess you can hang the race car driver’s helmet, and gauges like in the race car.
Unfortunately the cab is tighter than the car’s cockpit. The door-side arm of a minifigure must be raised above the door or else the door cannot fully close. The arm also must be sufficiently raised as to not bump into the lower part of the windshield. If two figures are desired to be in the cab, then the inner arms of the two figures need to be placed lower on one and higher on the other so they do not bump. The curved portion of the rear doors is wide so figures, although the cab construction hints at them being able to lean back, must be set sitting erect as the shoulders hit the curve of the doors, as do the hair pieces…and the dark tan hair piece is wide and protruding, so that figure must be even more forward leaning.
The top of the cab is held by two studs for easy removal and cab doors open and close. While I suspect these features were designed for being able to insert figures into the cab, the cab space is so restricted that I ended up having to remove the windshield to get figures seated. And seating them requires quite a bit of fussing with accommodating studs being under the minifigures’ butts and not under their ankles.
Other front of truck features are horns on the roof, an opening hood showing a rather small engine, adjustable mirrors, and side steps to get into the cab.
The flatbed lifts and extends off the back of the truck so the race car can be driven on and off. The mechanism is a simple lever which, due to its design, does give the bed a fairly extreme angle at some points of travel so the car cannot be driven onto the bed and then the bed retracted to the truck with the expectation that the car will remain in place by itself.
There are some triangular slopes which act as blocks to keep the race car in position on the bed. While the bed can be positioned with the car on it as shown below, there is not enough friction for the bed to maintain this position, gravity will win, and the bed will slowly settle into the fully down position.
I found the wheels to be a interesting and curious. All the wheels in the model are the same width and diameter, but the car’s wheels are dual molded with a hard plastic wheel bonded to a rubber tire and the truck’s wheels are the more typical separate hard plastic wheel with separate rubber tires that need to be fit over the wheel. The tire patterns are nearly identical with the truck wheels having three circumferential grooves that the car wheels lack. The diameters of the centers of the wheels differ with the car tires centers effectively being anti-studs while one side of the truck tires are studs. This means the hubcaps of the car cannot be attached to the truck and the truck hubcaps cannot be attached to the car. Also the car wheels can be attached either side out while the truck tires can be attached on only one side; the “inside” being accepting of a pin and the “outside” being accepting of a bar.
Car tires, left. Truck tires, right.
The set has three minifigures: a race car driver and two crew members. The driver’s torso and helmet prints appear to be new.
The Randolph T. Fielding Absolutely Administrivia Section
Several printed parts appear in the set.
New for 2026 part 6563343 is also present.
Summary
A great set for the younger crowd. The build is quick and easy with just enough SNOT and a touch of Technic to keep it interesting. You get to play right away because the build is not prolonged, and there are enough and varied play elements to last for a while. The only small caveat is the cramped truck cab.
Disclaimer
Thanks to LEGO for kindly providing the set for review.
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