17-05-2025
New regulations miss the point — F1 needs closer racing, not faster
Formula 1 drivers can sometimes appear rather jaded, traipsing from media commitments to sponsor events and the plethora of other drains on their time in a gruelling 24-race season.
So when it was announced that they would be asked to drive around the track in life-sized Lego cars as part of the Miami Grand Prix weekend, they would have been more than within their rights to complain of another additional request.
Instead, as they completed the drivers' parade, wheel to wheel, tiny bricks falling off their cars as they crawled at the sedate pace of 20 km/h, they laughed and joked in glee.
It was by far the happiest many of the drivers have appeared for months. 'Lego racing is the future,' was how George
