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 aspect view mirrors, the tiles which can be used for the digital camera mount on prime, even the cheese slope piece on the entrance wing—they’re similar,” she says. “Each a part of the automotive is satisfying.”
This is not Lego’s first Massive Construct on this area. In 2018, its designers introduced that very same dedication to authenticity with the drivable 1:1 Lego Bugatti made out of Lego Technic components (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 automobiles in eight months has been a feat on a special scale.
Every one among these is, after all, a masterful advertising operation, with Lego eager to vow this degree of consideration to element has filtered right down to the versions that you can build at home 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 might observe F1 with articles or YouTube snippets,” she mentioned. “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.”