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Can you build the MCL35?

Find out if you have what it takes to build our 2020 Formula 1 challenger

IKEA. For many, it’s the place to go when it comes to furnishing a home. Its flat pack furniture has quite literally shaped lives, from Poäng chairs and Fjällbo shelves to Sundays spent swearing at seemingly innocuous pieces of Swedish plywood.

And when you reach breaking point – curled up in the foetal position, surrounded by screws and Allen keys – you’d be forgiven for thinking that building a Formula 1 car must be more straightforward and a whole lot less traumatic.

But is it really? While we prepare the MCL35 for its eagerly-anticipated launch on 13 February, we thought we’d turn the tables (no pun intended) with this quiz to see if you could be up to the task of building our 2020 challenger.

13 questions are all that separate you from proving you might have what it takes, and that it really was the assembly instructions for that flat pack bookcase that were wrong all along…