The Rainbow Road master is back with a new record in Mario Kart World

Polygon.com / 07.07.25

The Rainbow Road master is back with a new record in Mario Kart World

If anyone can lay claim to the most iconic track in Nintendos jubilant kart racer, its probably Twitch streamer Technical. The 22-year-old holds the distinction of having the fastest possible run time in Mario Kart 8s Rainbow Road, both for original version and the Deluxe re-release on Switch. Naturally, the speed demon has been grinding away on the prismatic track since the release of Mario Kart World, and after nearly a hundred hours of Rainbow Road loops hes hit a record way faster than anyone anticipated. That Rainbow Road would be different than other iterations of the track was a given from the get go. Beyond being the most majestic interpretation of the multi-colored circuit, its also one of the longest since Mario Kart 64. One lap on its own takes most of us a minute or more, and there are four of them in a time trial. Onlookers guessed that finishing the course in under four minutes was entirely feasible but it would likely take months if not a year to whittle it down that muc...
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