Max vs 100: Verstappen Passed Every Karter in 14 Laps — and Streamers Were on the Grid

The Race in One Table

Thirty laps was the allowance and he used fewer than half of them. Which, for an exhibition built to look like a genuine challenge, is the honest result: a four-time world champion on a kart track against people who mostly do not race for a living was never going to be close. The format was the product, not the jeopardy.

Who From Streaming Was on the Grid

Red Bull filled the 100 with professional racers, athletes, streamers, YouTubers and media personalities from around the world. The creator contingent is what makes this a streaming story rather than a motorsport one.

A partial list — Red Bull published the full 100-driver line-up, which also runs deep into motorsport names and athletes from other sports.

Why Brands Keep Building These

Put a hundred creators in an event and you do not buy one audience, you buy a hundred overlapping ones — each of whom has a reason to watch a specific kart rather than the race. It is the same arithmetic behind creator sports events generally, and it is why the participant list matters more to the numbers than the headline name does.

The 230,000-plus figure is for the official broadcast. What it does not capture is the clip life afterwards: a hundred participants means a hundred people with first-person footage and a reason to post it, which is where events like this usually out-earn their live audience. If you want the mechanics of turning a day like that into content, our clips guide covers it.