Any gamer who has played Mario Kart knows what a nuisance a simple banana peel can be, as they are mostly easy to avoid for the more practiced player, but even the best Mario Kart drivers run into a banana peel every so often and it sends them spinning out like a spinning top. The guys from YouTube channel Hoonigan decided to test whether this reaction has any real world merit, and have created an experiment to see if banana peels can really make a driver lose all control over their spiraling vehicle.
Mario Kart might not be the best racing game to test out in the real world, as it is far from the most realistic racing simulator out there. Instead, it uses arcade-like tracks with goofy animations and magical items. The closest the game has come to the real world is Nintendo's most recent release in the Mario Kart franchise, Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit. Made solely for the Nintendo Switch, it allows players to turn their homes into a virtual racetrack to zoom around as Mario or Luigi.
On an episode of Scumbag Labs, recently shared by GameRant, the crew from the Hoonigan channel test out whether banana peels are as dangerous as Mario Kart makes them out to be. However, instead of using a kart and one banana peel, they decided to up the ante by introducing an Audi Quattro to 1,000 banana peels. The guys from Hoonigan also got a professional driver to try his luck around the circuit and through "banana corner." The test results were anti-climactic, to say the least, as the Audi didn't go spinning like a kart from a video game. However, going around the track with banana peels scattered over a corner rendered the lap times an average of one second slower than without the banana peels, and the driver lost control of the car once for a brief moment. Although he didn't lose control to the degree that players do in Mario Kart, he said that it felt as if the car was aquaplaning over the banana peels, meaning it felt like driving over some slippery ice.
The Hoonigan crew could add a longer stretch of banana peels, a less skilled driver, and a car that isn't as trustworthy as the Audi Quattro if they really want to make an attempt at getting the car to spin out. These factors added might make the drive as stressful as an actual Mario Kart circuit can be, and may give viewers a better idea of what the mighty and hated banana peel can do in the game.
While the banana peels didn't send the car wheeling, it certainly added more time onto the laps, going from about twelve seconds to thirteen seconds, showing that it would hinder a driver somewhat in a race. While it is technically a failed experiment, players now know that the banana peels that steal all momentum and turn it into a twirl in the middle of a Mario Kart race aren't completely unjustified.
Source: Hoonigan/YouTube, GameRant
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