This weekend marks the start of what is a very intriguing 2025 Formula One season as the Grand Prix circus descends on Melbourne. But no matter what happens in the race some of the best F1 content you will see this weekend comes courtesy of Hungarian photographer Benedek Lampert.
It’s been an age since the F1 season started in Australia, but this weekend’s race has all the hallmarks of a classic season opener. Writing this after FP 1 & 2 took place in Melbourne on the Friday, the McLarens and Ferraris look fast, the Red Bulls do not, and there is searing heat forecast for Saturday and cold rain for Sunday. What is a race engineer to do?
As a long-standing fan of F1 for <mumble mumble> decades, I could go on for several more long and lengthy paragraphs, but I won’t. Instead, have a look at this.
Official LEGO Photographer Benedek Lampert scratch built the sets himself to highlight the new LEGO Formula 1 Speed Champions range. He writes that the project “took almost 70 working hours, tons of raw materials, 10 race cars, three types of lenses (the video namechecks the Laowa 24mm f/14 2x Macro Probe), a room full of smoke, and an embarrassing amount of coffee!” to complete.
“In these toy photography shots, the motion blur, water vapor, smoke, water, and environment—including the grandstands—are all real!” he says. “Generally, the only thing added later is the cloud texture of the sky (and in one case, the car's rear lights), but everything else is pure miniature reality!”
h/t to Digital Photography Review.