MIAMI, Florida — Each time you make a visit to a Formulation 1 race, you see one thing new.
This yr’s installment of the Miami Grand Prix is not any totally different.
For the drivers’ parade this yr, as an alternative of using on the again of flatbed vans, the 20 drivers labored their manner across the Miami Worldwide Autodrome in totally drivable and team-branded LEGO “large construct vehicles” that changed the flatbed parade vans you normally see earlier than a race.
In keeping with a press launch offered by F1:
Every automobile has been created by a talented workforce of 26 designers, engineers and LEGO builders, over 22,000 hours, within the LEGO Group’s Kladno manufacturing unit, positioned within the Czech Republic. At a close to 1:1 in scale with Formulation 1 vehicles, every large construct is manufactured from almost 400,000 LEGO bricks, weighing 1,000kg and able to reaching speeds of 20 km/h, all whereas capturing the intricate and distinctive particulars of a Formulation 1 automobile, together with all the things from sponsor logos to genuine Pirelli tires.
As outlined within the launch, the “large construct vehicles” are primarily based on the LEGO F1 Velocity Champions sequence, unveiled final yr.
The unimaginable vehicles made for some much more unimaginable moments throughout the parade:
Once more, come to a race and you’ll probably see one thing you’ve by no means seen earlier than.
