Today’s guest article comes from Scott Bowman, an engineer and racing official who founded ideaBRICKworks, who is taking an expert look at the 42172 Technic McLaren P1 on BrickNerd’s behalf. An Engineer and a Racing Expert I have been a fan of LEGO my whole life but only started seriously building in 2013. Ironically, it was the same year that the P1 came out. Since then, I have been heavily involved in LUGs, helping to start two of them in Iowa and Idaho; doing large community build projects involving kids at the Science Center of Iowa and STEM Moon Shot; building lots of sets; MODing lots of sets; and of course, creating lots and lots of MOCs. I am also a BrickNerd Patron (because why wouldn’t you want to support them?). But I don’t think that is why I came to their mind when LEGO offered them the 42172 Technic McLaren...

