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"So, Francesco. When are you going to tell Lightning that you can go?"
"Not now. I don't know what time it is and I don't really want to wake him up and be on the phone to a tired Lightning. Is it possible to find out what time it is there?"
"Yes, I think if you search it online there might be a website. After that, we go and start training. Would you like that?"
"Yes. Yes I would like that. But can you answer just one more question for me please?" I asked, really hoping he wouldn't say no. He thought about it for a few minutes until he answered.
"Yes, but after that, shall we get on with the tasks in hand."
"Ok. Here it goes. Where's Kathy? I haven't seen her for ages." He answered after a while, his face and eyes showed signs that he was thinking hard about the question. Eventually, he answered.
"I don't know. I spoke to her a few days back but I haven't seen her since. Maybe you should ask Jules later. Now, shall we?"
"Yes, we shall. But what should we do first?"
"Well, we could start by looking for what time it is in Radiator Springs. But how would we do that?"
"I have a laptop we could use. It would definitely be the quickest and easiest way."
"Ok then. Where is it?"
"Over here Raffaello!" I moved towards the desk where I kept it and picked it up. I took the protective cover off it, which of course had me on it, and placed it in front of me. I started it up and waited for it to do its checks. After it had finished, I went into a search engine and searched 'World Clocks'. I clicked on the first result. It showed all countries then you could go select a town or county. It was 3am there. Not the best time to ring him unless your intention was to wake him up. I made not of the time zone and then headed back to where Raffaello was.
"It's way to early to ring him now."
"What time is it?"
"3 in the morning."
"Ok, we will have to ring him later. Do you want to go training now?"
"Yes. Let's go." I was eager to get back on the track and couldn't for the life of me keep the excitement from showing in my eyes. We started to make our way to the course. Little did I know that Raffaello didn't have the same race track in mind…
When we passed the Monza course and didn't go in, I started to get confused.
"Raffaello, didn't we just pass the track? Shouldn't we have just gone in there?" I questioned, motioning towards the entrance.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you. You wont be training there today. I booked you time on a dirt track today. McQueen will probably have you race on one so I think its fair you train on one."
"Fair enough. How are we going to start? I think we both know that I am not as fit as I was before this whole incident. And I have never raced on a dirt track without slipping or sliding."
"Well, I thought what we could do is start off by slowly driving round the track until you get used to it and then gradually build up the speed. That would get you used to the dirt and get you fit again." While he answered he glanced at my tires. "And some new tires wouldn't hurt either…"
We stopped off to get me some special dirt track tires before we continued to the track I was to practice on.
When we got to the track, I drove round it with Raffaello until I had got the hang of the dirt. Then Raffaello went to the side to sit and watch me go. Now I had got the hang of it, it became quite easy. I started to speed up, hoping that slowly increasing the speed meant that I wouldn't get out of breath. Unfortunately, it was doing to take a while to get back to my precious level of fitness that I had before. I just wished that I could get close to it at least before I went to visit McQueen. Me and Raffaello had our headsets on and it felt so good to be back. Even if it was on a completely different track. I was nearly completely better now, so I was basically back to my old self and Raffaello was telling me how I was doing like how he would in my real races.
"I think it's time you had a little break. You don't want to strain yourself now, do you?"
"Ok then. One more lap and then I will come into the pits. I think I need a break anyway." I accelerated a little more and went round the track again a bit faster. When I got to the pits, he was waiting for me. He looked happy at my progress, but then, who couldn't? I was happy and so was he. He passed me a bottle of something, most likely an energy drink of some sort. I thanked him and took a sip. It wasn't what I had suspected but it was good. Then I realised what it was. It was one of Jules' processed food drinks and I was so glad that I hadn't sniffed it.
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