A race between 24 high streamers in Formula 4 automobiles in Le Mans, France was watched by 1.4 million folks on the Twitch platform and virtually as many on tv.
The GP Explorer race — the third and closing in a collection organised by French influencer Lucas Hauchard, alias Squeezie — drew 1.2 million viewers on public broadcaster France 2, viewers measurement agency Mediametrie mentioned Monday.
Around 200,000 folks confirmed up on the racetrack well-known for the Le Mans 24-hour endurance occasion.
Spanish streamer Karchez claimed first place within the 16-lap contest, with the 1.4 million watching on livestreaming platform Twitch a brand new French file for a dwell occasion — topping the 2023 version of the race.
“It was the very last one, so it was important for me to be here,” 21-year-old Romane Auffret-Lebon advised AFP on the monitor.
Spanish and American groups have been invited this 12 months to boost and internationalise the GP Explorer, which emerged from a problem launched on-line in 2022 and has attracted an enormous viewers of largely under-30s.
The 2025 lineup included a slew of web celebrities every with thousands and thousands of on-line followers — chief amongst them French juggernaut Squeezie, who has 20 million YouTube subscribers.
Twitch chief Dan Clancy, who was on the race, hailed the “passion” of the French neighborhood on the platform.
Squeezie has hinted that the GP Explorer might return in a special format, trailing “several races a year” in a Saturday interview with sports activities paper L’Equipe.
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