MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- It sounds like a 10-year-old's wildest dream: Take nearly 400,000 Lego bricks and build a life-size Formula 1 car capable of completing a lap of the Miami Grand Prix circuit.

The bespoke big builds – one for each of F1’s 10 teams – are close to 1:1 scale with their F1 counterparts. They were constructed out of 400,000 Lego bricks each and powered by an 8kW electric engine, ...

F1 teams are notoriously very secretive about their car designs, but when it came to the Lego recreations ... were constructed around a steel frame that weighs another 500 kg.

400,000 bricks. 22,000 hours. 26 LEGO specialists. Two drivers. Meet LEGO’s latest project — crafting 10 fully-functional, life-size Formula 1 cars that the field will drive during the parade ...

Lego F1 Activation during the F1 Grand Prix of Miami ... In this case, they are built around a metal frame and held together with glue. The team also used electric motors and real Pirelli tires ...

Underneath the Lego frame is a proper automotive base, with a steel frame, 8Kw electric motor, Perrelli P Zero F1 slick tyres and hydraulic brakes. Inside the driver’s cab is a functioning Lego ...

That’s right – nearly 400,000 each. Simple math for the F1 cars built for the 10 teams amounts to nearly 4 million Lego pieces used for the collaboration. And the biggest highlight ...

which is a frame-by-frame reshoot of the highlights reels that F1 posts on YouTube after every race. Each film uses a bespoke Lego track layout that Lang has had to design and build himself to ...

electric-powered Lego replicas of their race cars. A mainstay before every Grand Prix, the Drivers’ Parade is usually done on the back of a slow-moving flatbed truck where F1’s 20 main ...

the wheel rims and tires (which were each sourced from their respective F1 teams and Pirelli for authenticity), the steering wheel (though it is decorated with Lego), and the steel frame attaching ...