Do you get pleasure from constructing LEGOs along with your family and friends? The Danish toy firm just lately constructed one you’ll be able to drive – a full-scale McLaren P1!
It’s a supercar made virtually completely of the long-lasting plastic blocks, save for the wheels and metal body.
McLaren F1 driver Lando Norris took it for a spin on the Silverstone Circuit for a full lap.
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Motoring information web site Autocar says it could possibly run at 40 mph. It is a main enchancment over 2018’s LEGO Bugatti Chiron reproduction, which solely topped over 12 mph.
How did LEGO construct a supercar?
The official LEGO web site created its McLaren P1 reproduction utilizing Technic components, as a substitute of its commonplace bricks.
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Technic is the toy firm’s particular line for constructing small-scale automobile replicas with machine components like motors.
The Danish toymaker used over 342,817 LEGO Technic items and molded 11 new varieties for this undertaking.
23 McLaren Automotive and LEGO specialists took 8,344 hours to develop and construct the automobile.
Finally, they completed establishing the 1,220 kg. McLaren P1 reproduction with its solely non-LEGO parts – the metal body, tires and wheels.
These components enabled the full-scale mannequin to help a human driver.
This supercar is an EV operating on 768 LEGO electrical motors.
The builders divided it into eight motor packs that mimic the unique P1’s V8 engine.
McLaren F1 driver Lando Norris ran it for a whole lap on the high velocity of 40mph.
In distinction, McLaren says the unique P1’s high velocity is 217mph. Nonetheless, the reproduction set the next data:
- The primary full-scale LEGO automobile that may drive round corners
- First full-scale reproduction that may end a race observe lap
- The primary reproduction pushed by an official Method One racer
LEGO hasn’t opened the full-scale McLaren P1 mannequin on the time of writing.
Luckily, you could buy the 1:8 scale reproduction for $449.99 on the official web site.