French YouTuber Lucas ‘Squeezie’ Hauchard hit the headlines on October 9th after he successfully organized a Formula 4 racing event that featured 22 renowned streamers.
Over 40,000 people gathered to watch the event live at the Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, while the livestream that took place on Twitch managed to garner over a million additional viewers.
The Twitch stream had an average of a whopping 404,429 concurrent viewers,
The event was initially announced by Squeezie through a Tweet on September 29th. The Tweet, when translated, reads, “22 pilots; 11 stables; 1 big winner. Saturday October 8 live on my Twitch channel.”
It also included a minute-long trailer for the event that showcased all the streamers who would race in the event.
Squeezie is a 26-year-old YouTuber and content creator who has been posting videos on the platform since 2011. Over the years, the star has gained over 17 million subscribers and boasts about 9.3 billion channel views at the time of writing. He is mainly known for playing a variety of popular video games on his YouTube channel.
