The next day at Willy's Butte, Lightning was training.
"Come on, come on." he said.
Luigi cheered.
"Keep it goin', buddy!" Mater said smiling.
"You can do it rookie!" Doc said.
In the third race, Lightning won again.
"Whoo-hoo!" he said.
After the race, he walked by his sponsors.
"Hey, are my sponsors happy today?" Lightning asked.
"Stop winning for crying out loud. We're running out of bumper cream to sell." Dusty said while he and his brother Rusty laughed.
"Hey, big Tex, how's my favorite competitor?" Lightning asked.
"We were thinking of booting Cal off the Dinoco team and replacing him with you." Tex said.
"I know you can hear me, right? I'm right here." Cal said.
"Bye, Cal. See you next week. Or not." Lightning said smirking.
Doc snickered at that.
"Come on, Cal. I'm joking." Tex said smiling.
At Dinoco 400 race, Mater wore a race track like hat while he cheered for Lightning.
"Go, little buddy. And big buddy too! Whoo-oo!" he said smiling.
On the track,
"How's the view back there, Bobby?" Lightning asked.
"Great." Bobby said.
Bob and Darrell watched the race as usual.
"Well, we are witnessing some got races out there today, Darrell." Bob said.
"Okay, let's see what you got!" Lightning said smiling.
"Sweet!" Bobby said smiling.
Just then, out of nowhere, a black and blue racecar whizzed between the racers, gets passed Lightning, Bobby and Cal and crosses the finish line.
"Oh. It's Jackson Storm for the win." Bob said.
"Whoa. What a victory." Darrell said.
After the race, Bobby, Lightning and Cal got out of their cars and looked at Jackson on the screen.
"That was an amazing win." Bob said.
"Hey, Bobby. Who is that?" Lightning asked.
"Oh, um... That's Jackson Storm." he said.
"Yeah, he's one of the rookies." Cal said.
"Really?" Lightning said then walked up next to Jackson.
"Thank you very much." Jackson said.
"Hey! Jackson Storm right? Great race today." Lightning said smiling.
"Wow! Thank you, Mr. McQueen. You do not know what a pleasure it is for me to finally beat you." Jackson said.
"Thanks." he started then was confused. "Wait a minute. Did you say meet or beat?"
"I think you heard me."
"Oh. Right."
"Smile for the camera, Storm." a reporter said.
"Storm, can we get a picture?" another reporter asked.
"Sure we can, let's get a picture." Jackson said smiling then pulled Lightning closer. "This big boy has been my inspiration for many years. What... McQueen over here."
"Storm, can we get some pictures?"
"Yeah yeah, come on. Let's get a picture. You know what, you can get a ton of pictures. Because the champ here has been a role model of mine for years now and I mean a lot of years. Right, I love this guy."
The team watched as Lightning took a picture with Storm. Doc could already see a repeat of his time.
'I really hope it doesn't add the crash.' he thought.