Viral Video: Real-life Mario Kart race in shopping mall

Group of friends dressed as characters and sped to a finish line

KSAT – A video of a real-life Mario Kart race through a local mall is now trending on YouTube.

In this fun video, Base37 and his friends dressed up as popular characters from Nintendo's Mario Kart video franchise and raced through a local shopping mall.

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The flash mob received some looks from shoppers but otherwise were left alone throughout their race. At one point in the video a banana was thrown like in the game in attempt to slow competitors.

View below to see which character won the race.

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