In Red Bull’s Max vs 100, streaming on Disney+ and the ESPN App, Verstappen overtook all 100 of his challengers after starting dead last in 101st place. Even more impressive, he completed the task on lap 14 of a 30-lap race at Silverstone. He cleared the field in just 35 minutes.

“When I went to the grid and I saw where I had to start, with 100 karts in front of me, I was a little bit worried,” Max said. “After my first lap, with all the carnage, I did think ‘Okay, we have got this under control!’ It started to become really fun and once I started getting into a rhythm, was able to overtake them one-by-one and saw the gap closing, that was really exciting. “It was great to just be back in a go-kart again and go back to basics, it reminded me of racing back in the day. It’s a really beautiful track and well designed, and it was a nice touch to be able to get all the data fed through the radio too. I had a great day and it was good to come out with the win!”

The scale of it was clear from the moment the grid formed up. Seen from above, 101 karts stretched back along the Silverstone asphalt in rows, with Max in the very last one. Ahead of him were Red Bull athletes, Red Bull players, content creators, streamers, journalists, and fans selected from around the world—most of them driving the track only for the second time after Tuesday’s practice and a single qualifying lap earlier in the day.

The opening lap decided half the race. With 101 karts funneling into the first corners, Max had passed more than 10 drivers before he even reached the start/finish line and at the hairpin the field folded in on itself, karts running into each other and facing the wrong way. Two minutes in, he was 37th. 63 drivers had been eliminated without completing a lap—more than half the field—and when the number was relayed to him, the reply came back: “Not a bad first lap then!”

Under the rules, a driver was out of the race the moment the rear of Max’s kart drew level with the front of theirs, so every pass was final and the onboard microphones caught the field coming to terms with that one by one. On Lap 7, motorsport YouTuber Paky TWC, running sixth at the time, could be heard asking Max over the radio not to overtake him. He was passed shortly afterwards.

By then the race had settled into a chase. Pole-sitter Jacky Martens, YouTuber Zac Alsop, and Red Bull Ford Powertrains technician Lewis Osler had built a lead of around 12 seconds while the chaos unfolded behind them, and Max was taking three seconds a lap out of it.

With 54 minutes still on the clock, the Race Director handed the leading group an extra fast lap. The three of them used their shortcuts together on Lap 12, then stopped fighting for the top sport and started driving defensively. It bought them a little time. On the next lap Max arrived, cleared Alsop and Osler in one corner and then passed Martens to finish the job with 35 minutes still on the clock.

Martens, a Dutch Formula 1 journalist, had led for most of the race. He and Osler joined Max on the podium, the champion’s own team technician standing one step below him. Very few people have ever stood on a podium alongside Max Verstappen and tonight two everyday racers joined that list. Behind Alsop in fourth, renowned off-road motorcyclist Pol Tarrés was fifth. Livestreamer RDJavi, photographer Larry Chen, mountain biker Bernard Kerr, and actor Neo Yau completed the top 10.

Max’s fastest lap of the race was 2 minutes 20.673 seconds, while the next best was Martens’s 2 minutes 23.327 seconds. Across the full 35 minutes, Max passed a driver every 21 seconds on average.