Consideration to Element
F1 superfan and Lego ambassador Nicole, who goes by the title GirlBricksALot, concurs. “Right down to the spoons for the facet view mirrors, the tiles which might be used for the digital camera mount on high, even the cheese slope piece on the entrance wing—they’re an identical,” 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 produced from Lego Technic parts (that’s Lego’s engineering line with rods, gears, and axles). Final 12 months, McLaren driver Lando Norris took a Lego Technic P1 all the way in which across the course at Silverstone. However constructing ten genuine, driveable automobiles in eight months has been a feat on a distinct scale.
Every considered one of these is, after all, a masterful advertising and marketing operation, with Lego eager to vow this degree of consideration to element has filtered right down to the variations that you could construct at dwelling for $30—bringing racing followers nearer to the automobiles they may 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’d comply with 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.”
