There was a screech of tires as Lightning McQueen rolled out of his pit and slipped in behind Murray Clutchburn and Dud Throttleman as they headed down pit row. Once he rolled over the yellow line, all three sped up and joined the rest of the pack. He went into turn one before he shot forward, slipping between the gap that Phil Tankson and Murray Clutchburn made and rolling alongside Terry Kargas. The two battled it out on the straight before McQueen raced in front, turned right and went on the outside of Jimmy Cables, Rex Revler, Bruce Miller and Lane Locke. He shot down in front of them and weaved his way through the gaps of Dino Draftsky, Ralph Carlow and Markus Krankzler. He overtook Jack DePost but was then quickly over Brain Spark. The white flag waved above them and the two raced side-by-side. Brain shot in front, cutting McQueen off and taking the lead.
"Go McQueen!" Maddy, his biggest fan yelled.
McQueen winked at her and chased after Brain. He smirked and drifted through the corner, overtaking Brian in one move. The chequered flag waved in front of him but before he knew it, a purple and blue blur shot pass. The purple car took the win, the blue one taking second and McQueen settled for third.
The three cars pulled into their pits and the drivers got out. Lightning took off his helmet and smiled as he walked over to join his friends, Bobby Swift and Cal Weathers.
"Oh, and it is a heart-breaker for Lightning McQueen. He trained so hard but was defeated by the better driver, Bobby Swift."
"Yeah, you wish." McQueen laughed while Bobby was busy high-fiving his team.
"Excuse me, who won that race?"
"Who won the most trophies?"
"I won more trophies than Cal. It's like on a losing streak."
"Hey, you're...on a losing streak." Cal's voice trailed off as both Lightning and Bobby chuckled.
"Good comeback Cal."
"I'm Shannon Spokes here with racing winner today, Bobby Swift. First off, great win today Bobby-"
"Good race McQueen." Brain called as he and Phil walked by.
"Thanks, you too."
McQueen winked at Guido and Guido walked away. Cal raised an eyebrow at McQueen, who only chuckled.
"...though it is impressive you actually won since you were in last place on the last caution. Did you think you were going to win?"
"Honestly Shannon, I didn't think but I felt like it would be quite a challenge if I did-" Bobby was cut of when Cal and McQueen suddenly laughing. Bobby's car had it's wheels taken off and was on bricks.
"Good luck getting that back to the trailer, champ!" McQueen called as both walked away with Guido winking to Bobby's crew. Of course his crew were in on it. Bobby rolled his eyes.
"How much trouble are Cal and Lightning in?" Shannon asked, knowing all to well of the three's antics.
"Let's let the outcome of the next race decided that."
Lightning and Cal were neck and neck heading into the final turn on the next race. Lightning had the inside line but Cal was ahead before going into the turn. The two left the turn but Cal was still in the lead. The flag waved and Cal took the win.
"Great win today Cal."
"Thank you Shannon."
"Did Lightning pose a challenge for you?"
"For the most part but I got much more of a challenge from-"
Cal was hit in the face by champagne. Once the champagne stopped and he could see properly, he looked crossily at Bobby.
"Why the long face? I thought you would enjoy that. It is the drink of champions after all." Bobby laughed as he walked away to clean the bottle.
"Ha, ha, ha. Laugh it up, so funny."
Lightning led the next race, with both Bobby and Cal on either side of him, behind him. Lightning smirked trumpantly as he shot cross the line, letting out a "Woo!" very loudly. Lightning continued to cheer in his car as Bobby smirked happily to himself.
"This has been Shannon Spokes with tonight's winner, Lightning McQueen."
Lightning nodded and headed for his trailer. As the door went down, he scratched the back of his head to see a purple car that had Dinoco balloons attached to the spoiler.
"I didn't know you were a fan of Cal and I." Bobby laughed. Lightning glared angrily at Bobby who walked over to the garage door and opened it. Inside was McQueen's car, just the way he left it.
Bobby walked away laughing as McQueen shook his head, smirking to himself. He pushed out Bobby's car and left it outside the garage door on his left and began pushing his car inside, when the garage door beside him opened. A man in a racing suit came out and looked at Bobby's car in confusion. Lightning studied the man carefully. He looked like he was in his twenties and his racing suit was black with a big bright blue, what seemed to be a, S above the belt. On his right leg was a few new sponsors. The man looked up and at McQueen. He quickly looked away and straighten out his car so it went up the ramp. Lightning pushed his car inside and he could hear the man scoffed outside. Then, he realised there was an second voice outside.
"You own this car?"
"Of course." Lightning walked out and saw Bobby talking to him. "The name's Bobby Swift, pal."
"Right." He scoffed, sounding very disinterested. "You have no idea how glad I am to know that I'm racing against jokers."
"Jokers?"
"You heard me." He stared coldly at Bobby. Bobby staring back. "How long are you going to keep this act up? You really think you can be the racer you are know, let me tell ya something, the winds of change are here and your car isn't modified to handle the winds." He walked away. Bobby looked at him, studying the back of his suit. There was a blue and above it was the name Jackson Storm and under it was IGNTR. Bobby raised an eyebrow at McQueen and watched the new rookie walk away.
It would appear this season was about to get a lot more interesting.