Formula 1’s second edition of its Lego drivers’ parade, this time using go-karts featuring 28,000 Lego bricks, ended in a ‘win’ for Fernando Alonso at Silverstone as a number of drivers got beached in the gravel.Following the success of the drivers’ parade in Miami last year, featuring 10 full-size F1 cars built out of Lego, all 22 drivers got their own Lego go-kart to drive ahead of Sunday’s British Grand Prix.Although it didn’t quite offer the same level of crashes and incidents as the Miami parade, many of the drivers once again leaned into the moment, bumping their karts together and even trying to forcibly push the rival karts onto the grass.FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem led the drivers away from the grid in his own go-kart, before many of them tried taking a short cut across the gravel early in the lap and got beached.
The corner cutting continued around the lap, with many of the drivers even using the second pit lane approaching Copse to save some time and running across the grass at the exit of Maggots and Becketts. No incidents of track limits breaches were noted by race control.The ‘battle’ for the win boiled down to Aston Martin’s Alonso, Cadillac’s Valtteri Bottas, Haas driver Esteban Ocon and Lewis Hamilton, the last-named having hinted on Thursday that he wasn’t sure he’d even take part in the Lego drivers’ parade.Alonso, Bottas and Ocon cut across the grass at the final corner en route to the line, with Alonso crossing it first to take the ‘win.’Reigning world champion Lando Norris gave his former teammate Carlos Sainz a lift on the back of his go-kart for some of the lap, before Norris got out to do an interview and greet the fans in his ‘Landostand’ at Stowe. Sainz drove Norris’s Lego McLaren around the rest of the lap.Ahead of Norris and Sainz on the Hangar Straight, Ollie Bearman decided to do donuts in his go-kart.Plans for the Lego go-karts were agreed upon back in October, starting a nine-month process that spanned a team of 20 designers and took up more than 6,400 hours of work.Each go-kart featured 28,000 Lego bricks that weighed 65kg, carefully constructed around a metal frame, and had a top speed of 20mph from its electric motor. The Lego go-karts have been on display in a fan zone through the Silverstone race weekend.The second drivers’ parade was part of F1’s wider partnership with Lego that started in late 2024, and has seen the company make brick models of every car on the F1 grid, as well as an F1 Academy car, that are on sale to the public.
