TimeLooper
A rider's intuition is one thing, but this was not intuition, Johnny thought. This was years of study. Whoever this man was, he knew Johnny in a way that he didn't the other racers. A fan from his glory days, perhaps? No, that didn't feel right for some reason.
But if this stranger had in fact been studying him prior to the Steel Ball Run, wouldn't it have made sense for him to know some of the other racer's habits as well? At least the more well known ones. And how did he know Johnny was even going to compete if study was the reason at all? It'd been two years since his last race, it didn't make sense at all. What was this guys deal?