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.

At the Miami Grand Prix’s driver’s parade, the sport’s biggest stars rode in drivable Lego cars that took eight months to build. It was as awesome as it sounds.

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, ...

It’s no different from how kids would build Lego sets ... This started with Lego’s new Speed Champions product, launched for 2025 featuring small car kits of all 10 teams.

The cars look like scaled-up versions of the Lego Speed Champions models you can now ... The Lego engineers were given just eight months to develop and build all 10 cars, to create something ...

In fact, far from it. The Lego F1 cars have about seven or eight horsepower, carrying a maximum speed of 20 kilometers an hour – or just 12 miles per hour. The real F1 cars can reach upwards of ...

The LEGO F1 cars that made a splash during the Miami GP ... the sight of F1 drivers attempting to control these heavy, high-speed models. The moment quickly went viral when the drivers ...

The reigning constructors champions get their own LEGO City set, a quick build at just 86 pieces. It includes a driver minifigure – like the Speed Champions sets, once the car is assembled ...