Chapter 311 - First Stage

The Lotus City Motor Speedway Championship is a 400-mile stock car racing event that is held annually at Lotus City Motor Speedway. The owner of the Lotus City Motor Speedway personally sponsored this event. The whole race will take 200 laps divided into three stages and will take around 3 hours to complete. Luckily, the weather seems to be good, although there were large masses of clouds in the sky, it won't probably rain all day. Rain will cause a delay in the competition since it will be dangerous for the racers to race in a wet slippery track.

The 36 cars were now taking warm-up laps before the pace car. They were now in their third lap and after this everyone is anticipating the green flag as soon as the track is clear.

Black Heiress is now driving in the pole position following the pace car at a limited speed. As soon as she saw and passed the green flag, the pace car was nowhere in front of her, she stepped on the gas and speed up. But, she didn't speed up to her maximum, she just let the other racers and herself enjoy the first stage.

The first stage of the race has already started, but Black Heiress was already left behind by JK and other racers despite her advantage of being in the pole position. Everyone noticed how aggressive JK is at the start of the race while Black Heiress seemed to be having a stroll on the track putting her in either the 10th or 11th spot.

On the two-way radio, Black Heiress heard the calm voice of the Crew Chief. "Miss, is everything fine in your end?"

"Yes, everything's good. Kind of enjoying this." Black Heiress replied.

"Okay, whatever your plan is. Enjoy!"

Black Heiress stick to her position 2 seconds behind the lead. While JK who is in the lead is becoming more aggressive as he enjoyed his position.

The first stage runs smoothly without any caution or accident. On the 43rd lap, the pit stop opened giving chances for the cars to refuel and change tires but Black Heiress didn't take the pit stop until the 45th lap.

As soon as they saw no.88 car enter the pit road, the pit crew immediately jumped over the wall one carrying the fuel, one carrying the jack and the others carrying the tires. In 10 seconds, refueling and tire changing was done making the audience and other teams gasped in awe at the efficiency and fastness of Black Heiress' pit crew.

Soon Black Heiress is back in the track, but instead of sticking to her previous position, the no.88 car started to catch up with the top five cars and now she is in the 3rd spot. The audience who were doubting earlier if Black Heiress did really come to race now has their butt slightly rising from their chairs. There were only 15 laps before the end of the first stage and now everyone especially the fans of Black Heiress and JK is getting anxious and excited. Who is going to win the first stage?

Five laps left and now Black Heiress has already surpassed Hans who is performing well on the 2nd spot. Black Heiress is now 0.17 seconds behind JK.

"JK, Black Heiress is behind you." The Crew Chief of JK warned him.

JK wanted to say something but keep it to himself, instead, he remained silent. Because of the in-car communication equipment making it possible for radios to broadcast his conversation with his crew, safety and security staff and the officials. So, even if JK wanted to curse out at Black Heiress, he chose to remain quiet because it could ruin his image.