If you've ever Participate in Formula One Events and you will know: Cars are Loud. The power unit of the F1 car can heat up to 140 decibels. It's like standing next to a fireworks and exploding. Now imagine there are twenty, twenty fireworks falling off at the same time as the car roars at 200 mph. The shock wave tear in the air and shakes the bones in your chest. This is a full-body sensory experience. Most importantly, it ruled hard.
Lego is exactly that inner experience, and it wants to use last year to work with Formula One to create ten complete teams and drivers for its speed championship line. This year, this is a step-by-step process to make them a great full-size reality. Today, at the Miami Grand Prix, twenty drivers – including McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari – introduced themselves to the crowd as they drove the lifelike large-scale construction of the F1 car that was parading by the driver.
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The project to get here sounds big. In eight months, a team of 26 Lego engineers took about 22,000 hours to build a brick-based fleet. This enables the overall collaboration of each Formula 1 team. Lego designer Marcel Stastny noted that each F1 team provided full IP and approved faithful replication. “We have a great collaboration,” Stasney said, a coup for the Formula team besides engineering.
Prior to the track’s debut, the cars were on display in the LEGO garage west of Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida. I had the opportunity to get into McLaren, which is made from standard LEGO blocks that your kids can buy at home, and the brick is made from LEGO’s famous tolerance. It feels…well, as strong as brick, and given that the car weighs 3,000 pounds, that makes sense. You can either rely on it without worrying or slap it with your hands, although I'm sure if someone tries to kick it will stop me. There are some surprisingly faithful traits. It may not have a real V6 engine (actually, only 12 mph per car) and the lowering system (DRS) may not work, but these are real F1 Pirelli tires set up in a Lego hub.
