As you have seen, the people at the derby were very nice and made many friends with both fans and competitors alike.
But that all came to an end upon the arrival of three friends who began making their lives rather difficult.
The first was Arvy Motorhome, a bumpkin rental vehicle hailing from a trailer park somewhere along the border of Arkansas.
The second was Dr. Carson "Damage" Beck, an ambulance who had been fired from his job at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Pennsylvania for reckless driving.
And the third and most famous of the lot was Valerie Fritter, a school bus who had been kicked out of her school district and blacklisted for endangering students with her driving skills.
As you might expect, a normal car wasn't really going to knock over any of those three, and so Fritter and her friends began winning matches for two years, culminating in Fritter having a winning streak that lasted an entire year.
During that time, rumors began circulating that Fritter was dating a water truck sanitation worker named Mr. Drippy who had been hired to keep the mud in the center of the track wet- something both parties vividly denied.
Eventually, the arrival of Lightning McQueen and Cruz Ramirez, who had both come to Thunder Hollow assuming the track was still being used for normal races, finally broke Fritter's streak, but the two wanted nothing to do with being champion, and a match for the vacant championship spot was held.
The other cars, having learned from that night, were able to beat Fritter and her friends not with physical force, but by causing them to crash into the walls.
Taco eventually won the derby, and soon the other cars fully inducted Fritter and her friends into their clubs.
And so, all was well at Thunder Hollow. The derbies continue to this day, and both B.J. and Roscoe have no regrets about what they did.
After all, you have to live life dangerously sometimes.
THE END