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00:01Hello, everybody, and welcome to a special notebook.

00:03Well, it's a feature, actually, on how to make a life-size F1 car out of Lego bricks.

00:08Come on, little Ted.

00:10Last year, Formula One and the Lego Group announced their new partnership for 2025

00:14with a wild idea planned.

00:16Build all 10 F1 team cars out of these tiny colored bricks

00:20and make them fully drivable at this weekend's Miami Grand Prix.

00:25And to see exactly how that's done,

00:26I was invited to the factory where they're building these cars,

00:29in Kladno, the Czech Republic,

00:31to see how a brilliant plan like this actually comes to life.

00:34As a kid, like many children, I used to make pretty basic stuff

00:37out of these little colorful plastic bricks,

00:39helicopters, planes, that kind of thing.

00:41But this is on another level.

00:4410 teams, 10 cars, and such detail.

00:48So we're used to making vehicles,

00:51drivable vehicles out of Lego bricks.

00:53This one was really challenging because it involved 10 cars.

00:55So that was a great challenge,

00:57conceptualizing, designing, and building these cars took about 22,000 hours.

01:02I think we handle it well.

01:04And over 400,000 colored bricks,

01:06which are made in Lego factories around the world.

01:09They start as melted plastic pellets.

01:11They're injected into molds.

01:12Once they've cooled, they're trimmed, tested, boxed up,

01:16and sent off to factories like this one for big build projects.

01:19We get the bricks delivered to the factory,

01:21and the builders assemble them here on the table,

01:23put them together here.

01:25This is the design that comes from our department,

01:28the design department,

01:29and they go layer by layer,

01:31layering bricks one layer on top of each other.

01:34It's like when you're building a house.

01:36To achieve a real sturdiness,

01:37every brick is glued to the other one.

01:40You don't want the bricks to come apart for sure.

01:43If we start this project,

01:46you need some steel structure inside

01:48because you need the rigid model.

01:50And so you just pick up all of these things,

01:52a rear wing or a bodywork or an engine cover,

01:54and it just slots on to here, is that right?

01:57You move with the crane or the hand

01:59and move on these the screws.

02:02Nice bit of kit.

02:03And tell us about actually

02:04how you're going to sit the drivers down in the cockpit.

02:06This is movable.

02:07So you need to cater for Yuki Tsunoda

02:10and then Ollie Behrman at the same time.

02:12Yeah.

02:12You've thought of everything, Martin.

02:14Brilliant.

02:14If we want to drive,

02:15we need some electro-engine.

02:18And this electro-engine will be here.

02:21This electro-engine will be in one box

02:24with the differential and with gearbox.

02:27You had to work quickly or...?

02:29Time was our enemy.

02:301,000 kilos Lego bricks.

02:32So fast forward a few thousand work hours

02:35and it's time to see these big builds come to life.

02:42Oh, wow.

02:43Well, here they are, two of them absolutely ready.

02:46A Mercedes and a Ferrari.

02:48They look fantastic.

02:49Actually, they look about the right size,

02:51even though they've got two drivers.

02:52And the attention to detail is just brilliant.

02:55Look at the wheel covers here, the front wing.

02:57The colors are perfect.

02:58The Ferrari.

02:59This looks fantastic.

03:01How they've managed to fashion curved surfaces

03:04out of square plastic bricks is incredible.

03:06All the sponsors' logos are spot-on.

03:09Oh, strong, too.

03:10Love it.

03:11Now, these do actually go.

03:12So I wonder if I could take it for a cheeky spin.

03:16All right.

03:17And we're off.

03:19That's a bit quieter than a normal F1 car.

03:21Whoo-hoo-hoo.

03:23Whoa-hey.

03:25Look, Mum.

03:26I'm driving a Lego car.

03:28Ah, Lewis is going to love this.

03:30And stop.

03:32Well, that was tremendous.

03:34Next stop, Miami, where it's lights out and away Lego.

03:37Ooh, I wondered if you'd managed to get that one in.

03:42Lego Wacky Races update.

03:45And judging by the looks on some of these drivers' faces,

03:49there are a few that have regressed.

03:50Some by 10 years.

03:53Others by 30 or so.

03:54But I'm glad they've glued those together.

03:58I hope they've glued them together well.

04:00Otherwise, there's going to be a fair few thousand Lego bricks

04:03on that greasy track.

04:05Right, let's see what Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen

04:08made of their fun out there.

04:11That was the most fun drivers parade we've ever had.

04:15Some dirty driving from this one here.

04:17They're stealing the wall.

04:18Yeah.

04:19The dirty boys are stealing the wall back there.

04:21That was very fun.

04:22Yeah, I do think they have to sweep the track.

04:24There's quite a bit of Lego debris now on the track.

04:27A few cars collided along the way.

04:30But, yeah, it's a bit different.

04:32That's for sure.

04:32It must have been a bit fun to go up kind of wheel-to-wheel as well.

04:35Yeah, ours was a bit slow on top speed.

04:37So we slowly dropped back throughout the lap.

04:39But, yeah, I think it's more important

04:42to actually clean the track at the moment.

04:46There you go.

04:47I knew it.

04:47I knew this was going to happen.

04:49You give them anything and they'll race it.

04:51I think Ant's been at the sky.

04:52Ant, you were keeping an eye on what was going out on track.

04:55Was it getting dirty out there?

04:57Yeah, I am at the sky.

04:58I think this is a hit, so I'm definitely worthy of a sky pad.

05:01And I saw this was the moment where it all started going wrong, really, wasn't it?

05:04When George Russell took to the inside of Turn 3, surprising Charles Leclerc,

05:09who was being a good boy up until that moment.

05:12And then, obviously, down towards Turn 17, this is when it really started kicking off,

05:15where you had a sandwich with Pierre Gasly, good friends of Charles Leclerc,

05:19and George Russell in the middle and making contact.

05:22And that's when I thought, oh, dear, look.

05:24This is why we have a rule book in Formula 1,

05:27because without it, stuff like this would happen.

05:31Very good fun.

05:32Definitely worthy of a sky pad here.

05:34Well done, everyone.

05:34Lego Formula 1 to bring smiles onto the F1 drivers' faces.

05:38And ours, too.

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