A Girl Who Races

Willies Butte

Amelia wakes up and quickly pulls on her leather racing suit, she brushes her thick silky hair and lets it hang, nearly touching her butt, she grabs a ponytail holder from her desk and slides it onto her wrist, she puts her skates on outside. She skates over to Flo's, where they normally meet in the morning, only Lightning and Jakob are there right now, it's 6:20 in the morning so the lights of Flo's V-8 cafe give off a soft glow in the dark light.

"Hey guys!" She says as she approaches

"Hey Amelia, looking good!" McQueen says.

Amelia does a twirl around to show off her leather racing suit. The suit is very tight so it outlines every single one of her curves. All Jakob can do is stare speechless. Lightning gently hits Jakob with his tire to get him out of his trance before Amelia turns to face them again. The boy and race car had a good heart to heart talk about Amelia before she came out of her cone, the red stock car can tell he idols her.

The rest of the crew come to Flo's, and soon after, Doc follows. The team have breakfast and head over to the garage to get Tsunami. Amelia opens the front door and grabs her helmet through the window, she ties her hair in a low ponytail, takes her glasses off so she can slip the helmet over her head, then puts them back on her face.

"So where are we training today Doc?" Amelia asks as she buckles her helmet.

"Willies Butte." Doc says matter of factly

"What! But I haven't done turns yet. I thought we were going to work my way up to Willies Butte."

"You'll be fine."

"But Doc, what about that dirt turn."

"McQueen will show you how to do it. Don't worry Amelia we'll take it slow ok, we'll show you everything you need to know."

"Ok, ok, ok... I can do this." She says un-surely to herself as she shakes her gloved hands and does little bounces out of nerves. She wiggles into Tsunami through his window. She turns the key and momentarily forgets about everything worrying her at the sound of the engine. She revs the engine a couple times with a wide grin before she rolls out of the garage. The rising sun catching Tsunami's glinting metal and spoiler. Jakob hops up into Jessie's truck bed as all of them head to Willies Butte.

Amelia and Lightning line up at the make shift start/finish line.

"Ok Amelia, we're just going to do the simple turns first, slow right down when you get to the tricky one. Remember you're not racing McQueen on this one he's just there to drive by you so don't feel the need to speed up if you don't feel comfortable. When you come to the turns you'll want to take your foot off the gas a little when you go into it, when you feel you car has traction step on the gas again. Got all that."  Doc instructs.

"Yep." Amelias says.

"Ok, go when your ready." Doc moves out of the way. Amelia hooks up her window netting and flicks her visor down, she looks over to McQueen who gives her a wink. She takes a deep breath and hits the gas. The back tires don't get traction right away, as normal, once they do, Amelia goes jerking forward. Lightning has to constantly tell himself to stay behind Amelia, as much as his instincts are telling him to pull ahead to the front, he doesn't. As Amelia reaches the first corner she takes her foot off the gas a bit, but not enough, Tsunami doesn't get the grip he needs and goes drifting to the side, and up the dirt ramp a bit, Amelia squeals but stays calm as she maneuvers her steering wheel and lets off the gas a bit to gain control again, She feels Tsunami grip the dirt again and keeps going around, the second corner she reaches she does much better on executing it, she takes her foot off the gas more than last time and is able to go deep in the inside of the corner, she feels her back tires lose grip as she drifts around the corner a bit, she doesn't take her foot off the gas though and straightens out Tsunami as she hits the straight away. As she sees the tricky corner coming up she starts to slow down and comes to a stop at the makeshift line.