Lando Norris drives LEGO McLaren P1 at Silverstone
F1 star pilots the first full-size and fully drivable LEGO car around iconic British race trackIt’s the McLaren P1 hypercar like you’ve never seen it before: fully electric and made of more than 340,000 LEGO pieces.
Better yet, it’s fully functional and as you’ll see below, has officially completed a lap of Silverstone race circuit with McLaren F1 driver Lando Norris at the helm.
And not a piece fell off, even if the wing mirrors “flapped a little bit” according to Norris.
Spoiler alert: it’s really slow.
That’s because there’s no carbon-fibre or delicious 674kW hybrid powertrain in this version of the McLaren P1, which is instead made up of 342,817 LEGO Technic pieces, that alone weigh in at just 318kg.
The entire LEGO P1 tips the scales at 1220kg, a little under a real McLaren P1’s 1490kg kerb weight.
Of course, it needs a powertrain and a few more parts to conquer a 5.891km lap of Silverstone and that’s where 8344 hours of development between 23 design, engineering, and LEGO specialists came in.
Featuring fully functional steering and an electric motor made up of LEGO Technic Function batteries and an electric car battery allows it to “travel further than any other LEGO model before it”.
“The car was an icon of its time. I hope that through this collaboration with the LEGO Group, we are able to inspire the next generation of designers and engineers to push the boundaries of automotive innovation,” said McLaren Automotive test and development director, Ben Gulliver.
“Having worked on the original P1 programme for McLaren, it’s amazing to see so many of the elements from the original McLaren P1 brought to life so realistically by the LEGO Technic team for the full-scale model,” he added.
Although it’s the first life-size, fully operational 'big-build' the LEGO Group has ever made (the wicked LEGO McLaren F1 car on show in at the 2022 Australian GP was a static display only) a much smaller 1:8 scale McLaren P1 is available from the LEGO Technic range, for those wanting something a little easier.
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