Verstappen overtakes 100 rivals and wins a kart race: “When I went to the grid I was a little worried”

After taking second place in the first F1 race in history in the Madring of Madridthe Dutch Max Verstappenfour-time Formula 1 world champion, beat none other than none other than 100 rivals in a kart race held on the historic English circuit of Silverstone.

Challenge overcome for the Dutchman, who started from place 101 on the grid of the British track. Verstappen He overtook all his rivals in the Red Bull’s Max vs 100“the largest kart race ever held”, completing his victory on the fourteenth of the 30 scheduled laps, and he did it in just 35 minutes.

“When I went to the grill and saw where I had to start, With 100 karts in front of me, I was a little worried“said Max. “After my first lap, with all the chaos, I thought ‘Okay, we’ve got this under control!’ It started to be really fun and once I started getting into the rhythmI was able to overtake them one by one and saw how the gap was reduced, that was really exciting,” he added.

Verstappen He assured that “it was great to be back in a kart and get back to the basics, it reminded me of racing from yesteryear.” The Dutchman was happy to return to a “really nice and well-designed circuit.”

The rivals of the four-time world champion last night were athletes and players from Red Bullcontent creators, streamers, journalists and selected fans from around the world – most of them driving the circuit for only the second time after Tuesday’s practice and a single qualifying lap.

According to the same source, “the first lap decided half the race. With 101 karts entering the first corners, Max had overtaken more than 10 drivers before even reaching the starting line and, at the hairpin, the peloton folded in on itself, with karts colliding with each other and facing the opposite direction.”

“I have no idea what’s going on – it’s chaos“, he said on the radio. Two minutes later, he was 37th. Sixty-three drivers had been eliminated without completing a lap – more than half of the peloton – and when they told him the number, the response was: “Not a bad first lap then!”, explains the Oracle Red Bulla.

According to the rules, a driver was out of the race the moment the rear of the kart Verstappen It was level with the front of his car, so every overtake was definitive.