(OOC: Someone who wants to act friendly and borrow me some lug nuts? I pick the first one that I see hitting the like button.)
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The first 4 hours was already a stressful time for the Akira. The Metro was already experiencing issues with reliability with its fuel pump (Something Markus foresaw would happen, these Akiras were notorious for that issue). Luckily double dip had a spare, or else the race would be over very quickly. The laps took a hit there, but Markus and Lars were glad to not be in last place.
Later on
Lars was starting wear down after being in the car for hours and was beginning to get sloppy, and it wasn’t long until the next setback hit the Metro…
While trying to pass the Sinistra and Hakumai that spun out ahead, Lars understeers straight in to the gaurdrail (those cheap, thin tyres are such a let down)…
Markus: “Everything good Lars? That impact seemed quite harsh… Let me know if you’re hurt or if the car’s hurt.”
Lars: “The sh*tbox understeered straight in to the rails, nothing I could do to stop it… I’m not hurt but there’s a wheel out of balance.”
M: "Do we need to pull over?’
L: “I can keep going, it’s fighting me a little but I have it under control, I don’t want to lose more laps.”
Lars pushed on, and despite the wobbly wheel, Lars perservered and kept going, being double dip in to the top 10 in the standings.
“I’m glad that Lars has it under control, but it’s going to get dark soon, and one more hit on that wheel and it’s going to rolling away on its own…” Markus worryinglt admitted to his team.
Edited due to updated writeup.
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IN CAR:
Filip (thinking): “I think that I am starting to get a hold on t…WHERE THE F**K DID THAT PUTTZALONG COME FROM?!?”
CRUNCH!
F: “Crap. Well, I’m OK, car seems to be OK, Puttzalong keeps driving, can’t be that bad.”
IN THE PITS:
Erik: Well, now mr. Jackass have hit the Puttzalong too.
Mats: We are going to get so much shit for this race…
LATER, IN CAR:
F: “Oh, right, I could avoid that Hakumai now, I think that I am starting to gain some experience now…”
(A while later)
FFFDDDDDBBBBDDRRRRRRRRR!
F: “Crap, I HAVE to go into the pits for that.”
IN THE PITS:
E: Do you think that this is like driving bumper cars in a theme park.
F: Yes of course, Mr. Wise guy. Something is wrong with the right front wheel, I think that it is coming loose.
M: Well, the lug nuts seems to have been winding up…OH, HOLY THREAD STRIP, BATMAN! Seems like this is cheap aftermarket junk that is about as soft as boiled carrots. Did we bring any lug nuts?
E: No!
F: No!
M: Ohhhhhh CRAP! Well, IP and Akira does share the same thread, I think that I will ask if Team Double dip brought any extra lug nuts.
(VISITING TEAM DOUBLE DIP IN THE PITS)
M: Excuse me for kind of a stupid question…you don’t have, by any chance, any spare lug nuts to borrow us?
TO BE CONTINUED
@stm316
@Serperior98
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OH, GREAT, I see now that I have left out a part of the writing for the race. Clumsy of me, so it might be better to leave the RPing for a while until I have corrected that. 
EDIT: Fixed now, the writeup is complete.
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In the pits
Sean: I take back what I said earlier. Maybe this car was a good idea! We haven’t run into any problems in a while.
Carl: Well ever since we switched around we’ve gone up almost half the leaderboard, so don’t act like the car is doing all the work.
Sean: Should I leave you in charge of driving for a little longer then?
Carl: I think that would be a good decision.
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Team Racing Stripes
Part 2:
Kaylie watched with a borrowed pair of binoculars as a bunch of chaos happened in one particular corner, with the IP and Puttzalong playing bumper tag, the Xianfeng again narrowly dodging imminent doom, and the Hakumai sliding wildly, just before the Akira and the Winthorpe committed to the guard-rail bump.
Then she watched Rukari slingshot the car across the full distance of the track, tires screaming, brakes shrieking, rotors glowing red behind black steel and cheap aluminum, and promptly slam into the guard rail hard enough to lift the driver’s side tires off of the ground, jostle Rukari hard enough that his head hit the driver’s side window and shattered the glass, and limp sluggishly into the grass.
“He’s coming in on a damn tow truck,” Kaylie snarled. “Get him out of that seat before he wrecks the car. Jaden! Get your med-kit ready, Rukari busted the window.”
Once the car arrived in the pits, Rukari was rushed out of the car with a very superficial, already-healed scratch on his left ear, while Kaylie and Kayden took turns hitting the driver’s side brake rotor until it broke free and started to spin. With the caliper now unstuck, the brake fluid replaced with some meant for a heavy-duty pickup truck, and Kaylie now behind the wheel, the Sinistra rejoined the track.
Kaylie grimaced at the wind roaring into the cabin from the now-missing window. She quickly got a feel for the car, and soon, she started pushing the limits. She dodged and weaved around debris on the track caused by the incident between the Hakumai and the guardrail, the Winthorpe and the Wells, and the Mara against the Winthorpe.
Several laps later, Kayden yelled, “Too fast! Too fast!” as Kaylie swerved to avoid the fish-tailing Hakumai, unsettling the already-poorly Sinistra and sending it into a matching spin. The sun hit Kaylie’s chrome left arm and flashed the driver of the Akira, just as they understeered straight into the guardrail. Kaylie hit the radio switch and apologized to the driver of the Akira for the accidental flash-blinding, straightened the Sinistra out, and continued on the way.
Not that long after, the driver’s side front spring exploded, sending the bumper into the ground as the Sinistra’s wounded front suspension gave out. Kaylie gave a startled and pained grunt as the airbag detonated, knocking her back in the seat.
“And now our dear sister is bringing it in on a tow truck,” Jaden said as Kaylie and the car were dropped off in the pits.
“He trashed it, now I’m driving the wreck,” Kaylie grumbled. “Help me replace this spring with a new one, both of you. No, not you, Rukari. You’ve done enough damage.”
It took a very long time, but they got the new spring compressed, stuffed into the spring perch, and the shock absorber back in place, bolted everything up, ripped out the remains of the now-expended airbag, and swapped drivers yet again, this time to Kayden, who had, perhaps, the most experience driving old Sinistra Travilles at high speed.
Kayden hit the track and started turning good laps, not spinning out the FWD V6 meteor, not crashing into other cars, and most importantly, not trashing what was left of their old sedan. This continued until the engine quit while heading up the pit lane for fuel, as Kayden had extended his fuel window one lap too far, and ended up pushing the car into the pit stall, refusing to take Rukari’s “advice” to just “Stick a claw in the neutral safety switch and use the starter motor to get here.”
With more fuel onboard, Kayden went back out on track, trying to salvage their chances with the faster car, even though Rukari had, quite effectively, torn it up.
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Team Slow
Part 2- Race
It’s lap 507 now. The driver should be exhausted by now. He’s too self confident. Ends up biting the guardrail. We and the Sinistra drivers, which oddly enough aren’t human spins around. The Hakumai fishtails to avoid crashing.
This would have been remedied if the driver did not choose a mid-engine car. After biting the guardrail. The Hakumai loses its bumper as the tires mounted right now are degrading from the vehicle. The engine and drivetrain are still intact, but there’s a lot of fishtailing going on. Shinier than a Bogliq. Maybe a Bogliq is a bit more shiny than this car. Oh well, Hakumai sold a rebadged Bogliq SUV in 2013? God knows
Dialogue
John: I see the car fishtailing
Matt: Oh, it’s no proble- He gets cut short as he bites the guardrail, losing the rear bumper.
John: This is why i told you to get a hatchback
M: DIDN’T WE ALREADY TRY BUYING ONE BUT THE GEARBOX WAS SHOT? he says, a bit frustrated at
John’s BS.
J: Ugh, Why did he force upon a mid engined car with barely any power yet spins out
M: Don’t say shit unless you know what it is. At the end of the day it’s very reliable, cheap to fix, easy to repair bla bla bla.
Matt then slurps down a cup of coffee to not pass out. Its about time they switch drivers someday.
J: Are you sure, oh well we have a tyre at top. Could replace it quickly. Only one though
M: Are you kidding me? We can ask the teams for some.
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Lars was getting too worn out, and as the evening approaches, rotating drivers would probably be a good idea.
Markus: “I’m not gonna lie, I’m both excited and nervous about this… It’s going to start getting dark… I need to be alert of where I’m going just in case that Hakumai decides to do a pirouette in front of us again…”
Lars: “Don’t be so dramatic, the driver got unlucky, and not to mention that the Hakumai is notorious for being a handful. It’s clearly the driver of that car knows what they’re doing, they are still ahead of us on the leaderboard, even with that setback. Respect”
Eva, Lars’ wife remained concerned about the wobbly wheel.
Eva: “I’m not too happy about that wobble, and not to mention all the other little issues that the metro could suffer from, we already lost a fuel pump in the first few hours.”
Markus: “The car is still pretty controllable, even with that wobble. As for the reliability… Well lightning can’t strike the same place twice… Right?”
But you could hear the anxiety in his voice. The metro was a fantastic little car, and so far she’s behaving much better than expected, but she’s also a fickle beast, and at any moment, she could change her attitude, and Markus knew this.
Markus, addressing the car as he sets off: “I promise, if you keep behaving, I will buy you a fresh set of Michelin pilot sports, and a shiny new set of BBS wheels to go along with it…”
Eva: "Only Markus would think bribing his car would actually work.*
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(Ooc: Does anyone have a spare set of steelies)
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Clunkers 21 - Holjes Run
Session One
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Pierre Mountbatten
Preparation for Clunker 21 was uneventful. Unlike the logistical nightmare that is Bogliq modification, the Ardent was easy to source parts, easy to modify and it’s stereo wasn’t a potential deathtrap.
I was concerned that we’d brung a knife to a gunfight, since there were plenty of power sedans, hot hatches and 2nd tier sportscars at the race but the Olympic seemed almost eager to compete as I drove it to the start line; we stripped a couple hundred kilos so it’s kinda unsurprising the softroader felt more badass than usual!
My session proved relatively benign, with only a few incidents marring an otherwise pleasant outing. In the initial hour’s inevitable shenanigans I had to make some very abrupt departures from the racing line in order to avoid A Mara and a Winthorpe spin duet. They tangled together but I was able to avoid them and the Dover who was shadowing me at the time.
The next hour or so was uneventful; that is until Team Trafikjournalen decided to greet us with a kiss on our ass! Taking corners like an extra from Speedy & Stressed Out, the IP driver literally drifted into the rear of the Olympic! the drift saw the IP go wide and he literally had nowhere to go. Luckily the Ardent has bump resistant fenders so, other than scratches, no harm was done… But that driver is now immortalised on the internet as we had a Go-Pro set up to take rear footage. We included it because that drift was really spectacular and our footage up to that point was kida boring, to be honest!
Finally I’m pretty sure there was some black ice on the track. I was taking a different line at about three hours in and I nearly flipped the Ardent over! There was something on the track that was really slippery and most of the field near me were also effected. The fellows at Team White Star had the worst of it though, their Mara actually left the track entirely, but they chucked up a couple of dirt rooster-tails and rejoined the fun, hahaha!
So, at the end of my stint, I was able to complete 265 laps of the track, which was only 13 laps behind Team Jaimz. We were doing so well compared to when we’ve used Bogliq’s; maybe we should change our magazine name to Interstates Monthly, HAHAHAHA!!!
Session Two
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Andrew Morgan
Having personally tuned and tweaked our Ardent Olympic, I was chomping at the bit to get out there and go racing. These clunker runs are always entertaining and I enjoy the variety of metal that turns up to these events; even if most of them are rusty, worn out or maybe even stolen, hahaha!
I was a machine out there, punching out perfect lap after perfect lap, which was only possible because I was in the lull between packs. After three hours of relative calm, I caught up to a knot of competitors, which resulted in me kissing the guardrail. I was forced to go wide thanks to a super slidey effort from the driver of the Cabrera. My luck held, with only scratches on the bodywork to commemorate the occassion.
I was then victim to the Swedish Drift Mafia! the IP driver, perhaps jealous of his teammates skills, proceeded to overcook the corner and slide into the Olympic’s rear end. Again. As before, the bumper took the hit like a champ, which I confirmed when I had to stop for fuel. As before, we caught the whole incident on camera, so I think I’ll be making a “Who did it better?” video using the footage; I’m going to let the Internet decide which driver wins, hahaha!
So, after eight hours of racing, we’ve completed 521 laps. While we lag behind the leaders, Team Jaimz, by 21 laps, we’re still close enough to win so long as we keep consistant and out of the wars, hahaha!
TO BE CONTINUED
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(OOC: Team Racing Stripes was prepared, there’s probably a few different sizes of steelies that they brought, all with kinda crap, worn out old road tires on them. They might have some in your size and bolt pattern. If they don’t have them available, well, Jaden or Kayden will make a call and some will be delivered.)
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The calm before the storm?
“So much for chess”, Marina grumbled as she exited the Zvezda, took off her helmet, and helped her friends refuelling the almost dry tank. “The Winthorpe is ahead of us in 2nd and still out there. So they are faster and less thirsty. Impressive.”
“And still going, after that double crash earlier on”, Jurij noted. “We were saved by all those plastic on our front, and they were saved by the lucky angle that we hit them with.”
“And we were lucky not to lose the entire front bumper. Now it’s more like chess but with a die”, Jeff suggested. “Like what happened to the Xianfeng. One breakdown, and you go from being on our tail to being 20 laps behind.”
“I promise to take care”, Jurij said, before he donned the helmet and started his stint behind the wheel.
'Now I would happily take 3rd place and leave it at that, too", Marina thought. ‘But, still, two thirds of the event still to go!’
“Coffee or nap?”, Jeff asked.
“Coffee!”, Marina shouted. “Naps will be taken only as the last resort!”
For this, she earned puzzled glances from those in the pits next to theirs, but her eyes were too focused on the coffeepot to notice.
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PART 3
2.00 PM - 6.00 PM
The race has been going on for eight hours and the recently refuelled Sinistra does a less than stellar comeback on the track with a skid. The Hakumai and Tempest both goes in for refuelling. The Reduit is the next spinning car that the Xianfeng barely manages to dodge. The Puttzalong goes into the pits for a strange sound in the rear suspension that appearantly just was a shock absorber bolt that was coming loose.
The Sinistra is once again spinning around wildly on the track. The Hakumai goes into the pits for a leaky radiator that the team is doing their best to solder. A spinning Tempest is forcing the Ardent into the guardrail but the damage is minor. The Cabrera is a little bit low on air in one tyre, going into the pits for a refill. The Dover, on the other hand, is going in for refuelling.
The IP has been going quite well since the driver change but maybe Carlén is getting a bit too confident, spinning around the little runabout on the track, coming in the way for the Hakumai but without any contact. On the other hand, also the FM, Dover and Wells have their fair share of troubles keeping on the track now. Speaking about the Wells, it is going in for a refuelling. The Reduit crashes into the Ardent and the team is somewhat nervous that the Reduit radiator is shot now, but it seems to work, so both cars keep driving. The crash seems to have happened from a sudden gain of power after a power loss, so the Reduit is going into the pits anyway to clean out the fuel system. On the other hand, the Ardent was drifting around quite wide at the track at the moment of impact. The Cabrera is going in for a fuel stop.
Now the race has been going on without major incidents for a while, but the Wells and Puttzalong is close to get into contact, resulting in both cars spinning around. The Reduit seems to have a damaged fitting for one of the radiator hoses anyway and is going into the pits, with the team trying to solder on a new one.
Both the Sinistra, Xianfeng and Wells gets scraped against the guardrail in almost the same spot, the Hakumai is close to drifting off the track too, but manages to stay on track, barely. The IP is going in for refuelling.
The Tempest is the next car to come into a skid. There is a smell of gasoline reported from the FM that is going into the pits for that, but it was appearantly only a hose that needed better clamping. The Puttzalong and the Reduit crashes into each other, the Puttzalong can keep on racing but the crash seems to have caused some electrical short in the mashed taillights of the Reduit that has to be solved in the pits.
The Dover does a kind of ugly overtake of the Sinistra, forcing the Sinistra to eat the guardrail but without any major damage. However, soon after that there is reports of a heavy smell of gasoline inside the Dover. It barely makes it into the pits until there is a heavy fire inside the engine compartment. The team manages to put out the fire, but the Dover is damaged beyond repair. The Xianfeng goes into the pits for refuelling. For some reason, both the Ardent, Winthorpe and Cabrera nudges the guardrail after each other, though without any major damage. The Akira is going in for refuelling.
There is some strange sounds from the Sinistra front suspension, so the team is checking out the car in the pits, they might have forgotten to tension some bolt when they did the spring change. The Tempest has very low oil pressure at the moment, but the team is at least going to try to solve it with an oil and filter change. The Wells is so hard to drive with its damaged wheel now, that the team will try to put the current tyre on one of the spare rims they had, which might take some time with only hand tools though. The Mara crashes into the Carbera but none of the cars suffer any extensive damage.
Half of the race is done and here is the current standings:
- @Jaimz - Team Jaimz / Franklin Marshall Street Sport - lap # 815
- @pcmoreno - Team Winthorpe / Winthorpe Badger - lap # 802
- @AndiD - Team White Star / Mara Zvezda - lap # 799
- @HighOctaneLove - Team Mountain Pass / Ardent Olympic - lap # 777
- @stm316 - Team Hang Ten / Puttzalong Shai Hulud - lap # 775
- @Serperior98 - Team Double Dip / Akira Metro - lap # 764
- @BannedByAndroid - Team Chinese Dragons / Xianfeng K2 - lap # 760
- @O.O - Team Whatever Goes / Tempest 154 - lap # 752
- @Petakabras - Team Collarada / Cabrera Fulgor - lap # 738
- @Interior - Team Slow / Hakumai CS-2 - lap # 730
- @Knugcab - Team Trafikjournalen / IP Urbana - lap # 726
- @kobacrashi - Team Totally Not a Reduit Factory Team / Reduit Piti - lap # 709
- @Madrias - Team Racing Stripes / Sinistra Traville - lap # 695
- @DuceTheTruth100 - Team X / Wells i6 - lap # 607
- @Maverick74 - Team Yacht Rockers / Dover Andromeda - lap # 700 (DNF)
(OOC info: Due to the shifts I will be working this week, there will probably not be any updates until at least friday, so this is a perfect opportunity for a little longer RP, or to write up missing parts if you are a little bit behind, just so you know.)
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IN THE PITS
Erik: Did you get any lug nuts from Team Double dip?
Mats: Yup. Great that some teams don’t take this like if their life depended on a win, I think that sometimes the fun is taken out of this competition unfortunately. It’s not like it was 10 or 20 years ago anymore.
E: Now you sound like Arvid Åkerlund *
M: True.
(The wheel is put back securely in place)
E: Now, try not to hit absolutely everything on the track, this is not a demo derby!
Filip: Stop being so elitist, I know what I’m doing!
E: Sometimes I actually wonder if you do…
IN CAR
F: “I really hate Erik and Mats sometimes, they are behaving like they know everything and is always trying to put me d…WHAT THE F… THERE IS THE GODDAMNED ARDENT AGAIN!”
CRUNCH!
F: “Oh, crap, I hit Team Mountain pass AGAIN, I am going to be the clown in their next youtube special, I swear. And great, the car feels like it is completely out of alignment too!”
IN THE PITS
E: I told you not to hit everything on track, and what did you do?
F: Like if you never do mistakes. I think that the front suspension is shot.
E: Shot? That’s the least thing to say!
M: Well, this is probably the last ride for this Urbana anyway, so let’s bring in my favourite tool, the B.F.H! **
BANG! CLANG CRASH BANG BOOM! BANG!
M: Good as new, at the cost at only some pride and soul. Now, get back on track and try to drive like a professional driver and not like if you learned it at Ray Charles driving school!
IN THE PITS:
F: OK, it’s time for a driver change now, I think. Maybe mr. Erik Schumacher could take place behind the wheel and show me how it should be done!
E: I’ll gladly take place there before you wreck the car completely! Bye.
(After driving for a while)
M: Well, you see there, now after the driver change, there has been no major incidents at all. Will you admit that you still need lots of training, Mr. I-learned-to-drive-race-cars-on-my-playstation?
F: Oh, you say so, but what is happening there?
M: …
M: Well, it’s an 80s turbo car with short wheelbase, things like this can happen.
F: So, when he fails, it’s only natural but when I fail, I need to learn how to drive.
M: Stop that crap now, if we compared the two of you side by side, the difference would be laughable.
(Later, at the refuelling)
E: You know, I haven’t driven an Urbana GTT for maybe 20 years but I start to get used to this one now, actually liking it a bit. Just cross my fingers that it will keep on going as great for the rest of my stint!
M: Good luck, you’ll need it.
- = Ex chief editor for trafikjournalen
** = Big Fu***ng hammer
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Carlos- Come on Martin! This car won´t refuel by itself! LEAVE THE …ING PHONE!!
Andres- You should chill, we are slowly getting into the top
Carlos- Slow is the only mode this car has
Andres- Just avoid hitting those guardrails again and we will be okay
Behind them, someone finally refuels the car
Martin- Hey guys, it´s done, but i don´t want to be refuelling the car for…
The rest of the rant couldn´t be heard, as Carlos stept on the gas getting back into the race
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In the pits:
Carl: I’m getting tired, mind if we switch again?
Sean: Yeah i noticed. You’re sliding all around the place, you even forced the Ardent into the guardrails.
Carl: Yeah that’s bad and all but, can we switch?
Sean: Oh yeah, sure. You’ve been in there for quite some time now. Once we get the oil filter changed i’ll take over.
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Lap 730. Team slow sealed the leaky radiator up now. With that out the way, they refuel the car to the top. This time they both enter the car to monitor the condition mechanically. About time they put the 2 jerry cans to use. They check if the critical parts are tightened. They proceed to rejoin the track. They hear the oddly enough non-human man give out an yowl at being picked up. The Traville unfortunately is on lap#695 due to a mishap with some Chinese car, some Wells thing hit the guardrail
Team Slow- Pits- Part 1
Mission: Possible. The Prologue
Dialogue
Matt: Shit. The radiator broke and we’re running out of fuel.
John: Told you so.
Matt: These are clunkers my friend.
John: Fair enough. Also i’m driving.
Matt: Alright, just don’t break the car. I’m watching every move like its my child. (no he does not have kids.)
John: Thanks for the tires. These will surely last us the rest of the race until the car itself blows up if I miss a gear.
John: Also that land-barge appears to be on fire. the Dover Andromedra. Im suprised an StreetSport is still standing.
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Team Racing Stripes
Part 3:
Kayden twisted the key and the engine roared to life, now carrying a full tank of fuel. As the Sinistra rolled out of the pits, Kaylie yelled to her brother, loud enough to be heard quite a distance away, “Kayden, fang it!”
Kayden responded by planting his foot hard on the gas, the Sinistra skidding wide in one of the corners, barely managing to keep the car going the way he wanted, and only because the car was front-wheel-drive, tires screaming and smoking in what ended up looking like an epic drift, if one believed that anything in a Traville could be considered ‘epic.’
Several laps later, Kayden completely overcooked it in the same corner that Rukari had trouble with, spinning wildly across the track and burning the tires instead of using the brakes to stop. He got the car straightened out and kept racing, just in time to hear another car hitting the guardrail. A glance in the driver’s side mirror revealed a slightly-battered-looking Ardent roaring past, and Kayden stayed out of the way of the faster-moving car.
After a long time of managing to keep the car out of trouble, mostly by driving a little less aggressively and keeping more to the pace he could manage, Kayden had another mishap, as the Sinistra, the Xianfeng, and the Wells all hit the same tricky patch of track and hit the guardrail, one right after the other. The sound of squealing tires announced the Hakumai had entered the same corner, but the new tires provided by Jaden seemed to help keep the mid-engined pocket rocket out of the wall this time.
Not even a handful of laps later, the barge that was the Dover scuffed up against the driver’s side and stuffed the Sinistra into the wall. Kayden reached out through the already-broken window and gave the car an unwanted set of ‘racing stripes’ on the rear quarter panel in retaliation.
A lap or two later, the Dover was in the pits with the engine on fire. Kaylie helped Team Yacht Rockers extinguish the fire, using their 20-pound fire extinguisher and her metal left hand to open up the hood so she could smother the fire. Not long after she helped contain the fuel fire, Kayden brought her the Sinistra, rattling and clanking from the driver’s side front wheel.
“I can’t believe it! Half of these bolts are finger tight, Jaden!” Kaylie exclaimed. “Rukari, grab that wrench and tighten these bolts, please, before we lose another spring.”
Rukari gladly picked up the 1/2 inch wrench and started tightening bolts, giving all of them an extra quarter-turn to make sure they were, even if slightly improperly, actually torqued down. Kayden got out from behind the wheel, then stuffed his older brother into the hot seat.
Jaden gave an indignant yowl at being actually picked up, stuffed through the window like a NASCAR driver, and plopped into the driver’s seat. “Really?” he asked.
“You are too slow in your old age,” Kayden teased, just as Jaden left the pit lane to rejoin the track.
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Stint 2 and a change of driver…
Lara - Hey…I was wrong!
Jaimz - About what?
L - About how bad this car drove it’s &^%$ING WORSE THAN I REMEMBER!!!
J - That’s the slow puncture…should be OK…
L - SHOULD???
J - Erm…
L sighing - For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in a massive firey ball of death from a &^%$ING SLOW PUNCTURE…
J - Darling…calm down…
L thinking to self - I have missed this…OK, he was right but I ain’t frigging admitting it to him!
L over radio - OK let’s just make the best of a bad job
J - See, I knew you’d enjoy it.
L - Shut up you dick!
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Evening approaches and all seems to be going well for double dip and the Metro. This was by far the best stint so far. The car continued to behave, and because Markus was still quite fresh and energetic, he managed to keep in control without any major hiccups…
Over the radio while Markus is driving
Markus: “So far everything seems to be going smoothly, any updates on our standings?”
Eva: “Well, you’re steadily climbing in the standings, all is looking well so far. Anything to report about the car?”
Markus: “Well, so far she’s behaving beautifully. I guess incentivizing her with new tyres seemed have worked. I will need to come in for a refueling soon though.”
E: “That’s good to hear. Keep me updated”
At the refueling
M: “All is good, let’s refuel and keep pushing.”
E: “It seems some of the other teams aren’t having as smooth of a run. Be careful, it’s getting dark.”
Markus drives off.
Lars: “I"ve just heard, from the race officials, it seems the Dover had caught on fire and is damaged beyond repair… It’s the first casualty today…”
Eva: “That’s disheartening, my dad had an Andromeda and I was feeling nostalgic watching it thrash about out there…”
Lars: “I’m really impressed with the Badger to be honest. It doesn’t seem like it would be too suitable for this type of event, but it’s doing really well, way more reliable than even our clunker.”
E: “Yeah, but our clunker isn’t too bad either… We’ve climbed from near bottom this morning to 6th place. If we keep up our progress, and if the gods of reliability keep blessing our metro, we’ll do well.”
L: “True… I’m going to nap in the corner… Wake me up if something happens.”
Edit: accidentally posted it while incomplete.
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