COBI BWT Alpine F1 Team Car Set 1684

COBI's BWT Alpine A524 is a 1:26 model of the team's 2024 Formula 1 car, built from 276 blocks under an official licence, and supplied with a driver figure in full Alpine race suit.

The wheels turn on rubber tires, the driver fits into the cockpit, and the Alpine and sponsor liveries are printed onto the blocks rather than applied as stickers. At 21.5 cm the finished car is about the length of a sheet of A4 paper.

The real A524

The A524 began the 2024 season as the slowest car on the grid. Alpine arrived at testing overweight and short of engine power, failed to score in the opening races, and spent the first half of the year at the back. What happened in November is the reason the car is remembered at all: in a chaotic wet race at Interlagos, Esteban Ocon finished second and Pierre Gasly third — a double podium that no one had predicted in March, and enough on its own to lift Alpine to sixth in the constructors' championship.

Alpine is Renault's works team, renamed from Renault in 2021 after the sports-car marque the group revived. The A524 is among the last cars to run a Renault-built engine; the team moves to customer power units from 2026.

In the COBI range

At 1:26 the model belongs to COBI's licensed Formula 1 range and stands correctly beside the other cars in that series. It is a larger scale than COBI's 1:35 road cars, so an F1 car will look oversized next to them.

Specifications

Pieces: 276 · Figures: 1 · Scale: 1:26
Model dimensions: 21.5 × 8 × 5 cm (8.5 × 3.1 × 2.0 in)