A Girl Who Races

Friendly Competition

Amelia wakes up from her spot in the trailer. She gets straight into her leather racing suit and ties her hair into a low ponytail. McQueen is still asleep so she decides to let him be. She heads outside in the dusky light, the sun just about to rise. She takes a deep breath of fresh cool morning air. What now. She thinks to herself, she's the first one awake of her crew. She decides to go look to see if Cal and Bobby are up and at it. After some wandering around the racetrack she spots the purple car.

"Hey Bobby." She says as she comes jogging up to him.

"Oh, hey girlie. What's up?"

"Not much to be honest, I'm the first one awake so now I'm not sure what to do."

"I see your an early bird." Bobby comments.

"Well no actually, I'm normally one of the last ones to wake up back at home."

"It's the nerves and excitement." Bobby states, Amelia nods in agreement.

"Well, normally I go for a few warm up laps, but since your awake how about going against me in a 5 lap race."

"Really?! We can do that?"

"Yea why not, the track is open to the racers 24/7."

"Are you kidding, count me in."

"Do you have room for one more?" Cal asks, as he comes driving up to the pair.

"Yea sure, hurry up." Amelia squeals impatiently as she runs over to Tsunami.

"She likes to squeal doesn't she." Cal mentions to Bobby as they follow her.

"Hey! I heard that!" Cal looks over to see Amelia glaring at him halfway in her car. Bobby just laughs.

"Buddy your gonna dig yourself your own grave if you keep messing with her like that." Bobby says with a wide grin on his face as he hits Cals tire with his own. They wait for Amelia to get into her car and put on her helmet. The three of them head to the track side by side.

"Alright Amelia, have you raced on a real track yet?" Bobby asks from beside her car.

"No, I've raced on dirt but this is my first time."

"Alright, we'll do two laps for warm up and for you to get a feel for the track, your tires will grip it differently from the dirt your used to driving on."

"Well, obviously." Amelia says sarcastically.

Bobby chuckles. "Once our two laps are up we'll wait for each other at pit road, got that." He shoots a glare at Cal from the other side of Amelias car.

"Yea, Yea, I got it." Cal says rolling his eyes. Amelia giggles.

Amelia rolls onto the slanted track and immediately feels like electricity is running through her blood, she just wants to hit the gas and go but she resists the urge. She stays behind Bobby and Cal for now. She picks up speed to 90 km/h feeling the track under her tires, she slowly gets up to 100km/h, when she reaches the finish line for her second lap she sees Cal shoot forward. Bobby slows down to come up beside her.

"Alright, I want you to floor it." Bobby says through her safety netting.

Amelia gives a competitive smile but she realizes Bobby can't see her face through her helmet so instead she gives a firm nod, "you got it!" She pushes her pedal as far as it can go, she feels the back tires spin a bit, but within seconds she's going 320 km/h. As they reach the first corner she dips into the inside of the track and looks out her passenger side window to see Bobby going just as fast as her. They hit the straight away, Amelia on the inside of Bobby. When they reach the second curve she hears Bobby yell at her from over the sounds of the engines.