Formula 1 Drivers Just Hit the Track in These Full-Sized Lego Cars Leave a comment

Consideration to Element

F1 superfan and Lego ambassador Nicole, who goes by the title GirlBricksALot, concurs. “All the way down to the spoons for the facet view mirrors, the tiles which can be used for the digicam mount on prime, even the cheese slope piece on the entrance wing—they’re equivalent,” she says. “Each a part of the automotive is satisfying.”

This is not Lego’s first Massive Construct on this house. In 2018, its designers introduced that very same dedication to authenticity with the drivable 1:1 Lego Bugatti constructed from Lego Technic parts (that’s Lego’s engineering line with rods, gears, and axles). Final yr, McLaren driver Lando Norris took a Lego Technic P1 all the way in which across the course at Silverstone. However constructing ten genuine, driveable vehicles in eight months has been a feat on a distinct scale.

Every one among these is, in fact, a masterful advertising operation, with Lego eager to vow this degree of consideration to element has filtered all the way down to the versions that you can build at home for $30—bringing racing followers nearer to the vehicles they could by no means see in actual life. A bit like Drive to Survive, it feels that Lego Velocity Champions is serving as an entryway right into a sport that has been opaque and inaccessible to so many for many of its historical past—one thing Nicole says she skilled as a younger fan.

“[As a kid], I might observe F1 with articles or YouTube snippets,” she stated. “You couldn’t even watch it. It’s impossibly onerous to get into the game as a driver, and it was impossibly costly to go to.”