Race 1: Mute City: Twist Road
3… 2… 1…
Thirty racers exploded off the pole position. On Jake's Left the Blue Falcon sped past him and on his right the Hyper Speeder rocketed alongside him. Twist Road was a simple course with easy curves and bends and Jake was confident he could place well on it. As they all took the first turn Jake aimed for the booster but was rammed away by the Black Bull. As he span he hit the White Cat and rebounded onto the second spinner, spiralling out of control and wiping out the Death Anchor before flying off the jump in the course and steadying himself on the recharge strip.
The Wild Boar sped alongside him and tried to take him out at the S-turn but missed as Jake took his drift. The Machine swirled unto a direct hit on the Super Piranha and it flew off the course and plummeted to the depths below the track. In the space of the first 15 seconds of race time, Jake realised how fierce and dangerous professional racing was.
As he thundered up the loop, the Hyper Speeder and the Big Fang were trading blows up ahead. The Hyper Speeder smashed the Big Fang's engine and it exploded. The remains bounced and crashed and tumbled past Jack and hit Twin Norrita behind him. Both were blown off the course. Jack hit the booster and sped further ahead until he crossed the goal in eighth place, just ahead of the Wild Goose and just behind the Hyper Speeder.
He was allowed to boost now, and did so. He turned and hit the booster on the track, making himself go even faster. Then disaster stuck as he lost control and smashed against the curved wall and lost ten places. He hit the steering wheel in anger as he accelerated towards the jump and swore as the Space Angler boosted ahead of him, but was silenced as the boosting vehicle was wiped out by the Green Panther in mid-air. The remains crashing into the wall of the turn ahead.
He boosted and cut across the inside of the Green Panther. This obviously angered Antonio Guster, because directly afterwards he was hit with a sharp blow to the side and bounced off the wall, losing two places as he re-accelerated. The Deep Claw drew up alongside him. Jake rammed it and threw Octoman off of him and watched as he fell away behind two other racers.
'Sorry'
But that was not the least of his worries. He was speeding up the loop as the Night Thunder and the Mad Wolf were speeding up behind him. The Mad Wolf stuck a killer blow on the Night Thunder and it flew off the track. Jake saw what was going to happen next and boosted, keeping himself ahead. He hit both boost panels and blasted through the finish line in 20th, but the Great Star, in 19th, was far clear of him. Then he noticed that he was ranked 19th, and that someone must have been wiped out ahead.
Jack boosted for all he was worth and speed over all of the boosts on the track. Even with this effort, Great Star wouldn't budge from his position ahead of him. It was infuriating. Jack hit the recharge strip and boosted when he had filled his energy. Great Star kept boosting, and wasn't budging from his position.
Then Jack did something stupid.
He decided to boost on the turn and get a lead on Great Star. He merely crashed out and watched in terror as four vehicles overtook him and sped away as he accelerated. When he finally crossed the line, he was in last by three seconds.
Final Placing
1. BLUE FALCON - 1:11:325
2. RED GAZZELE - 1:11:743
3. HYPER SPEEDER - 1:12:002
4. BLACK BULL - 1:12:231
5. FIRE STINGRAY - 1:12:346
6. WHITE CAT - 1:12: 983
7. KING METEOR - 1:13:256
8. WILD GOOSE - 1:13:457
9. WILD BOAR - 1:13:565
10. MIGHTY HURRICANE - 1:14:643
11. MIGHTY TYPHOON - 1:14:698
12. SONIC PHANTOM - 1:14:999
13. QUEEN METEOR - 1:15:362
14. WONDER WASP - 1:15:902
15. GOLDEN FOX - 1:16:293
16. CRAZY BEAR - 1: 16: 823
17. GREEN PANTHER - 1:17:764
18. GREAT STAR - 1:17:983
19. MAD WOLF - 1: 18:346
20. DEEP CLAW - 1:18:565
21. BLOOD HAWK - 1:18:727
22. ASTRO ROBIN - 1:19:224
23. THUNDER BIRD - 1:22:345
Wipeouts: DEATH ANCHOR, SUPER PIRANHA, BIG FANG, TWIN NORRITA, SPACE ANGLER, NIGHT THUNDER, IRON TIGER
Leaderboard
1. BLUE FALCON - 100 100
2. RED GAZZELE - 93 93
3. HYPER SPEEDER - 87 87
4. BLACK BULL - 81 81
5. FIRE STINGRAY - 76 76
6. WHITE CAT - 71 71
7. KING METEOR - 66 66
8. WILD GOOSE - 62 62
9. WILD BOAR - 58 58
10. MIGHTY HURRICANE - 54 54
11. MIGHTY TYPHOON - 50 50
12. SONIC PHANTOM - 47 47
13. QUEEN METEOR - 44 44
14. WONDER WASP - 41 41
15. GOLDEN FOX - 38 38
16. CRAZY BEAR - 35 35
17. GREEN PANTHER - 33 33
18. GREAT STAR - 31 31
19. MAD WOLF - 29 29
20. DEEP CLAW - 27 27
21. BLOOD HAWK - 25 25
22. ASTRO ROBIN - 23 23
23. THUNDER BIRD - 22 22
24. DEATH ANCHOR - 0 0
24. SUPER PIRANHA - 0 0
24. BIG FANG - 0 0
24. TWIN NORRITA - 0 0
24. SPACE ANGLER - 0 0
24. NIGHT THUNDER - 0 0
24. IRON TIGER - 0 0
---
Stay tuned for the next race!