Genuine curiosity here. I played the hecc out of this as a child, right, and I always thought that car building was purely aesthetic. Is it, or does it actually change how cars behave?
It changes the physics for sure. I'm actually not too familiar with 2001 version (the one in this run), but on 1999 more bricks is more weight which is more speed. You can unbalance the car by putting more bricks on one side or to the front or the back. The more bricks you have on your car, the more speed you keep when decelerating from above top speed (warps, any turbo) if holding accelbrake. The less bricks you have the more speed you have exiting warps, but you can't hold the extra speed for quite as long.
![Lego Racers Any% Glitchless in 43:57.160 LRT [Current WR]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ebYgnVUX3cE/mqdefault.jpg)
![Lego Racers Any% Glitchless in 43:57.160 LRT [Current WR]](/img/tr.png)
![Lp. Сердце Вселенной #60 РОЖДЕНИЕ ЛОЛОЛОШКИ [Финал] • Майнкрафт](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YoR0pAV9FVQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Almost WR, you got this! X_x
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Genuine curiosity here. I played the hecc out of this as a child, right, and I always thought that car building was purely aesthetic. Is it, or does it actually change how cars behave?
It changes the physics for sure. I'm actually not too familiar with 2001 version (the one in this run), but on 1999 more bricks is more weight which is more speed. You can unbalance the car by putting more bricks on one side or to the front or the back.
The more bricks you have on your car, the more speed you keep when decelerating from above top speed (warps, any turbo) if holding accelbrake.
The less bricks you have the more speed you have exiting warps, but you can't hold the extra speed for quite as long.