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To celebrate the centenary of the Le Mans 24-hour race, LEGO Technic builders and the car design team from Peugeot Sport are taking on their greatest build challenge to date — scaling up the LEGO Technic Peugeot 9×8 24H Le Mans Hybrid Hypercar to 11:1 scale in just 24 hours.
At 1 p.m. ET today, the builders will kick off the endurance build challenge at the Circuit de la Sarthe track at the Peugeot Sport stand in the Fan Village. Visitors will be able to experience the car being assembled live on-site by 12 design, engineering, and building specialists from the LEGO team in Kladno, Czech Republic.
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The team has developed a concept for ‘hyper elements’ — upscaled versions of regular LEGO Technic elements made from hundreds of individual LEGO Technic pieces — that will be used by the master builders for the first time today.
After unveiling the LEGO Technic model in April, the teams have been preparing for this challenge. While LEGO Technic builds of this size usually take teams of 8 builders and more than 5 months to construct, the team taking on this challenge have just 24 hours to see if they can beat the clock and recreate the formidable hyper car just as the real Peugeot takes to the Le Mans track.
Fans at Le Mans can visit the LEGO shop or explore their love of motorsports at The LEGO Group Experience Zone in the Fan Village. They will have the chance to test their engineering prowess by building and racing their own LEGO car, take photos with LEGO displays built by local fans, and enter competitions to win LEGO sets signed by LEGO Designer Aurélien Rouffiange.
The checkered flag will wave at 1 p.m. ET tomorrow. Follow The LEGO Group on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for live updates from Le Mans.
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