What's that Toad thing in that chair for?

I guess Drew is playing again now, it's showing his name, the track is RR (he drove a pretty good GV3 a minute ago), but there is no sound now, and the stream isn't going as smooth.
EDIT: Watching him play CI1 with NBT inspired me to break out my ZSNES and PAL SMK ROM to try it myself... after a few tries and adjusting my NBT line I just got a 1'00"67 (still a bit sloppy).
Update: 1'00"33 on CI1 (still inconsistent splits; can definitely get under a minute), and also a 1'11"42 during a quick CI2 session (not even doing the wall gap NBT in every lap; I can't depend on my emulator controller to produce boosts on straights)
Aron is up now; I was really horrible with BC3 on PAL...
He's really putting up a good MC1 at the moment.
They must be playing well into the night over there in France, it would be 1 AM there as I write this.