Lightning idled in the infield, dazed. He could hear The King and Chick speeding around the track—but they seemed far away.
“Kid, you all right?” Mack asked over the radio.
Lightning gave himself a shake, trying to clear his head. He knew that he was losing time. He’d never catch up to the other cars now. “Uh, Mack, I don’t know. I don’t think—”
Suddenly, a different—and familiar—voice growled over the radio. “I didn’t come all this way to see you quit.”
Lightning gasped. “Doc?” The rookie peered at pit row, where a crowd of folks were waving. Almost everyone was there—Ramone, Flo, Luigi, Guido, Fillmore, Sarge—even Mater. “Guys!” Lightning cried happily. “You’re here!”
“Hey, it was Doc’s idea, man,” Ramone said.
Lightning looked at the crew chief platform. Doc was there—painted up as the Fabulous Hudson Hornet. He looked glorious. “I knew you needed a crew chief,” Doc rumbled, “but I didn’t know it was this bad.”
“Doc, look at you!” Lightning said in awe. “I thought you said you’d never come back.”
“Well, I really didn’t have a choice,” Doc replied. “Mater didn’t get to say good-bye.”
“Good-bye!” Mater hollered. He looked at Doc. “Okay, I’m good.”
Lightning laughed.
“All right,” Doc said, getting down to business, “if you can drive as good as you can fix a road, then you can win this race with your eyes shut. Now, get back out there.”
In an instant, Lightning tore onto the track. Suddenly, he felt he had the focus of a laser beam. The team from Radiator Springs let out a cheer as he ripped up the asphalt, gaining on Chick and The King.
“We are back in business!” Doc shouted. “Guido, Luigi—you’re going up against professional pit crews, boys. You’re gonna have to be fast.”
“They will not know what hit them!” Luigi promised.
“Kid, you can beat these guys,” Doc said over his headset. “Find the groove that works for you and get those laps back!”
Meanwhile, the monitors showed Lightning’s new crew. “Darrell, it appears Lightning has got himself a pit crew,” Bob said as the cameras zoomed in on Doc, “and look who he has for a crew chief.”
The crowd recognized Doc and began to cheer, welcoming him back.
Bob looked down at pit row in amazement. “Wow, this is history in the making; nobody has seen the racing legend in over fifty years.”
But history was happening on the track, too, as Lightning whipped past Chick and The King.
“Lightning’s coming up fast… He goes three wide and passes them on the inside!” Bob announced excitedly. He couldn’t believe it.
“What?” Chick was shocked as Lightning slid past, making up the first of his two lost laps.
Back in Radiator Springs, Sally, Lizzie, and Red watched Lightning on television.
“C’mon! You got it, Stickers!” Sally exclaimed.
Making up his second lap, Lightning closed in on Chick and The King again.
“Oh,” Chick muttered, “kid’s just trying to be a hero, huh?” With a sudden jerk, Chick knocked Lightning as he started to pass. “Well, what do you think of this?” He sneered as Lightning spun around until he was facing backward.
But Lightning didn’t slow down. He bolted past Chick—in reverse.
“Whoa!” Mater whooped from pit row. “I taught him that. Ka-chow!”
“What a move by Lightning!” Bob cried as he looked down on the race from the booth. “He’s caught up to the leaders!”
“A three-way battle for the lead with ten to go,” Darrell continued.
麥坤在內(nèi)場(chǎng)不知所措,頭昏眼花。他能聽(tīng)到車(chē)王和路霸在賽道上飛馳的聲音——但他們看上去很遠(yuǎn)。
“孩子,你沒(méi)事吧?”麥克通過(guò)無(wú)線廣播問(wèn)。
麥坤抖了抖身子,試圖清理頭上的泥土。他知道自己是在浪費(fèi)時(shí)間,可能沒(méi)有機(jī)會(huì)追上其他的對(duì)手了?!斑?,麥克,我不知道,我想我不能……”
突然,廣播里傳來(lái)一聲異樣卻又熟悉的咆哮聲?!拔掖罄线h(yuǎn)趕來(lái)可不是來(lái)看你半途而廢的!”
麥坤驚訝地問(wèn):“藍(lán)天博士,是你嗎?”他朝維修站看去,溫泉鎮(zhèn)的村民正朝他揮手。幾乎所有人都到了——雷蒙、芙蓉、卡布、奇諾、輝哥、士官長(zhǎng)還有板牙。麥坤高興地大喊:“伙伴們!你們都來(lái)了!”
“喂,這是藍(lán)天博士的主意。”雷蒙說(shuō)。
麥坤向維修隊(duì)所在的站臺(tái)望去。博士果然站在那里,還是當(dāng)年大名鼎鼎的哈德森·大黃蜂一樣帥氣的打扮?!拔抑滥阈枰幻S修隊(duì)長(zhǎng),”博士抱怨著說(shuō),“但我不知道實(shí)際情況這么糟糕?!?
“藍(lán)天博士,你今天太帥了!”麥坤肅然起敬,“我以為你說(shuō)永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)回來(lái)了?!?
“哦,我別無(wú)選擇,板牙還沒(méi)來(lái)得及給你說(shuō)再見(jiàn)。”博士回答。
“拜拜!”板牙呼喊了一聲。他看了看博士:“好了,我說(shuō)完了?!?
麥坤笑了起來(lái)。
“好了,”博士言歸正傳,“如果你開(kāi)車(chē)的技術(shù)和修路一樣好,你閉著眼睛也能贏這場(chǎng)比賽。現(xiàn)在,迅速返回賽道。”
一眨眼工夫,麥坤已沖回賽道。突然,他感覺(jué)自己的注意力就像激光束的焦點(diǎn)一樣。麥坤在瀝青賽道上飛馳,溫泉鎮(zhèn)前來(lái)的親友團(tuán)正為他歡呼。他正向路霸和車(chē)王逼近。
“大家準(zhǔn)備好,各司其職!”藍(lán)天博士厲聲說(shuō),“奇諾,卡布!你們的對(duì)手是專業(yè)的維修團(tuán)隊(duì),你們的速度一定要快!”
“他們輸都不知道怎么輸?shù)?!”卡布保證。
“麥坤,你能打敗他們,”博士通過(guò)耳麥對(duì)麥坤說(shuō),“找到適合自己的最佳狀態(tài),把落后的幾圈追回來(lái)!”
正在這時(shí),麥坤的維修團(tuán)隊(duì)出現(xiàn)在賽場(chǎng)的大屏幕上。場(chǎng)上的攝像機(jī)鏡頭紛紛給藍(lán)天博士特寫(xiě)。鮑勃說(shuō):“達(dá)倫,看來(lái)麥坤已經(jīng)有了新的維修團(tuán)隊(duì)??炜此木S修隊(duì)隊(duì)長(zhǎng)是誰(shuí)!”
觀眾認(rèn)出這位是曾經(jīng)的大黃蜂哈德森,歡呼著迎接他的回歸。
鮑勃驚訝地朝維修區(qū)看去:“哇,真是見(jiàn)證歷史的時(shí)刻。大家有超過(guò)50年沒(méi)有見(jiàn)過(guò)這輛紅極一時(shí)的傳奇賽車(chē)了?!?
然而,歷史也在賽道上上演。麥坤趕上并超過(guò)了路霸和車(chē)王。
“麥坤奮起直追,他沿外側(cè)賽道追了三圈后從內(nèi)側(cè)賽道反超!”鮑勃興奮地解說(shuō)著。麥坤的表現(xiàn)令他難以置信。
麥坤從路霸身邊飛速超越。剛才落下兩圈,現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)補(bǔ)回了一圈?!笆裁??”路霸感到震驚。
水箱溫泉鎮(zhèn)里,莎莉、荔枝婆和小紅正通過(guò)電視觀看麥坤的比賽。
“加油!你能行的,閃電俠!”莎莉興奮地吶喊。
落下的兩圈追平后,麥坤再度向路霸和車(chē)王逼近。
“哼!”路霸嘀咕著,“這小屁孩想逞英雄?”他猛然移動(dòng)車(chē)身,狠狠地撞在正要超車(chē)的麥坤身上?!昂?,這個(gè)滋味好受嗎?”他譏笑著說(shuō)。麥坤的車(chē)身被撞得亂轉(zhuǎn),幾圈后車(chē)頭向后停了下來(lái)。
然而,麥坤并沒(méi)放慢速度。他像閃電一樣超過(guò)路霸——并且是倒行!
“哇!”板牙在維修隊(duì)里歡呼起來(lái),“這招是我教的,咔—嚓!”
鮑勃從轉(zhuǎn)播室俯瞰著賽場(chǎng),他大喊:“麥坤這招太帥了!他要追上領(lǐng)先的賽車(chē)了!”
“三人之戰(zhàn),最后十圈定勝負(fù)!”達(dá)倫接著說(shuō)。
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