PUMPED UP BRICKS

How Lego developed 10 car-sized F1 builds... to be raced around the Miami GP circuit by the world's best drivers

- Spencer Hart

A head of this year's Miami Grand Prix, Formula 1 drivers swapped the usual parade truck for something far more blocky and brilliant: fully drivable, life-sized Lego F1 cars. Each team had its own custom-built model in team colours and livery. All 20 drivers took to the 5.4km track in these rolling tributes to brick-based engineering.

Lego says they could go a lot faster without the limiter. Ahead of this year's Miami Grand Prix, Formula 1 drivers swapped the usual parade truck for something far more blocky and brilliant: fully drivable, life-sized Lego F1 cars. Each team had its own custom-built model in team colours and livery. All 20 drivers took to the 5.4km track in these rolling tributes to brick-based engineering.

The Lego x F1 parade was the result of nearly a year of work by a team of 26 designers, engineers and master builders based at Lego's Kladno factory in Czechia – the place where the firm constructs all its large-scale models for parks, stores... and now the F1 grid.