Formula 1 drivers hit the path in these LEGO cars

If you are ever He attended a Formula 1 The event, you will know: cars High. The revival of the F1 power generation unit can reach up to 140 decibels. This is like standing next to fireworks as it explodes. Imagine now that there are twenty of them, which is twenty fireworks that start at one time as cars wander in 200 miles per hour. Surgings shock through the air and bone fell in your chest. It is a complete sensory experience for the body. More importantly, it is strongly ruled.

It is exactly that visceral experience that LEGO wanted to benefit from when, last year, Partnership with Formula 1 To create ten full sets of teams and drivers for the speed heroes. This year, he takes this step forward, making it a great fact and size. Today in the Grand Prix in Miami, twenty drivers – including celebrity drivers in Maccaren, Mercedes, Red Ball, and Ferrari – have to the crowd while driving the large -like buildings of their F1 cars in the driver’s convoy.

Photo: Stephen T; Gety pictures

The project was as it seemed to be great. For eight months, a team of 26 LEGO engineers took about 22,000 hours to build a brick -based fleet. It took this total cooperation for each Formula 1 team. The LEGO Marcel Stastney designer indicated that each F1 team filed full with approvals for believing reproduction. “We had a great cooperation,” said Stastney, who was, along with engineering, a coup, given that the Formula 1 teams are closely guarding the car designs.

Before they first appeared on the track, cars were displayed in the Lego garage on the western campus of the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida. I had the opportunity to enter the McLaren, which was manufactured from the same standard brick that your children can buy at home, made from the famous LEGO Tight endurance. It is a good feeling, well like bricks, which is logical since the car weighs more than 3000 pounds. You can rely on it or slap it with your hand without worry, although I am sure someone has stopped me if I tried to kick it. There are some surprisingly secure features. It may not have a real V6 engine (in fact, every car can go only 12 miles per hour), and the DRS reduce system may not work as well, but these are real F1 Pirelli tires located at the LEGO center.