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In July, British supercar manufacturer mclaren
Automotive unveiled the fruits of an audacious
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collaboration with the Lego group.
The Lego Technic mclaren P one was a 1 to 8
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scale 3893 piece Lego set that paid homage to
the best driver’s car in
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the world on both road and track.
But like many a toy,
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the small replica left many fans curious as to
whether this box of bricks once fully assembled
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could manage a lap on the track, much less
match the performance of its elite engineering
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inspiration.
Yesterday, the Lego Group and mclaren debuted a
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one of a kind fully drivable mclaren P one made
from 342,817 Lego
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technic elements and an electric motor.
The car also includes Lego technic function
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batteries as well as an EV battery enabling it
to travel further than any other Lego model
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before it.
According to the company, the supercar marks
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the first big build for the Lego group that
will navigate an entire lap of a racetrack.
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It’s actually kind of hard to believe that Lego
until now never built anything that could drive
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around corners The Lego technic engine consists
of eight motor packs each with 96 Lego power
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function motors, which means the car features a
total of 768 Lego Motors.
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The eight motor packs mimic the V eight in the
original mclaren P to make it happen.
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The partners tapped mclaren formula.
One driver Lando Norris to put the car to the
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test at the Silverstone Circuit.
An iconic racetrack in the UK that spans some
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3.66 miles.
The car weighs 1220 kg or about 2689
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pounds and has fully functional steering which
was a great benefit for Norris who drove the
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concept vehicle around the tricky track corners.
The vehicle required 23 specialists from lego
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and mclaren’s design engineering and building
groups who spent more than 8344 hours of
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development and construction to make it happen.
The team had to use 393 different types of lego
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technic elements including 11 molded
specifically for this project.
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The vehicle uses zero carbon fiber and the
technic made flexible skin helped replicate the
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original car’s curvature.
The LEGO measures up to its real life
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counterpart measuring 4980 millimeters long,
2100 and one millimeters wide and
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1133 millimeters high.
During the test drive,
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Nora seemed surprised it actually drives pretty
good.
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He said, and hey, for just a shade under $450
you can build your own,
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the 1 to 8 scale model.
Anyways, no word on the cost of the track ready
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concept car.
I had a wells and this is manufacturing now.