After all, the best part of a race is a close battle.

In a sense, it is a bit disappointing to see a single strong team win the race by a landslide.

As the <> entered the final stages, close and heated battles were beginning to unfold in each group.

The fiercest group was the second group. The numbers 8, 2, 6, and 3 were all mixed up, and the positions were changing rapidly.

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Just as Sion said, the number 8 is gaining speed, spraying gravel, and following the number 2. Then, on the corner, he pulled out from the outside to cover the car, and was able to pull out in front of it.

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The crowd is heating up. The dead heat between the two is a spectacular sight to see.

However, the number 2 car is not going to stay in the same position.

On the straight, the car slightly changed course to the outside and accelerated at full speed.

However, he did not lose time by spinning the wheels like Rubina.

Shu accelerates just before the tires lose grip. This is where we could see his sense of maneuvering.

Meanwhile, in the battle for the top position, Rhodes was a bit early, but he had started to drive his car at full throttle, and the gap between him and the second-place finishers was about 4 seconds.

"Rhodes, you're good!"

Jin thought it was time to give it his all.

Unlike Rhodes, who is from the north, Jin himself is not used to this kind of maneuvering.

He thought that he would only have five or six laps to go before he would be able to concentrate enough to drive at full speed.

It is now lap 23. Only 7 laps to go.　Jin asks himself, "Can I do it?

(Not that he has to maintain his best concentration throughout the seven laps. Let's go to ......!)

Jin comes to a conclusion in his mind and decides to use the full potential of the <>.

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A serious battle has begun.

Rhodes accelerates his car even faster. <120%>.

Jin, on the other hand, was at <80%>.

The difference between percent and percentage is the unit of measure in each of their consciousness.

Rhodes is a runner who literally draws out performance beyond his capabilities.

Jin ran at the very edge of what he could control.

It was a close battle.

When the number 11 car tried to push the inside, the number 12 car swung its tail and did not let him in.

When the road tossers tried to push away and sped down the straight at more than top speed, Jin's car was able to keep up with them.

Zion, who was watching the situation, nodded his head repeatedly as if he was satisfied with the situation.

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Will Rhodes' car reach its limit earlier or will Jin lose his concentration first?

On the surface, Sion is calm, but inwardly he is excited to see how the race goes.

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Now, the battle was intensifying in the other groups.

The third group was now numbered 7,5,13,4,1.

Marikka was now running in the 37-second range, a victory for her own pace.

Marikka was now lapping in the 37s, while Jin and Rhodes had already reached 35s.

And with a time difference of 3 seconds, it would take 11 to 12 laps for the lead group to catch up to them.

In fact, the third group has already been overtaken twice by numbers 12, 11, 10, The third group had already been overtaken twice by numbers 12, 11, 10, 9 and so on.

And now the second group, numbers 8, 2, 6, 3 and others have caught up with them.

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A one second difference in lap time is a big one, but not enough to overtake them all at once.

If they had taken a course around the outside here, they could have easily overtaken, but none of the cars in the second group did so.

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They entered the corner in a dangling situation. Cars with different lap times were jostling each other, resulting in contact between the cars.

The cars were cornering and the lateral Gs were applied, making it easy for the cars to lose their balance.

The two cars that made contact with each other hit three more cars, causing them to spin out. It was chaos.

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Marikka, who is running alone on the outside, is not caught up in this chaos and has taken the lead of the third group. She is indeed not the leader of the second group.

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Fortunately, no cars were turned over or disabled, so the race was not interrupted and continued.

However, this accident caused a major shake-up in the standings.

The top group remains the same with numbers 12, 11, 10, and 9.

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Lackhardt was in such a hurry that he forgot that the third group was lapped.

After a lap with the confusion cleared up, the order finally became clear.

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Thanks to my pace.

But then comes the next confusion.

The second and third groups were jostling for position when the lead group caught up with them.

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The dangling pack was back together again on the 27th lap of the race, which should have happened on the last lap.

The two cars with the biggest advantage at this point were

Marikka, number 13, was running at her own pace.

The number 10, Rubina, who can be seen in the overhead video.

"...... is in the way. Can't you maintain your top speed indeed? ......"

"I guess these things happen. ...... I guess I don't have a choice."

Rhodes and Jin slowed down, but.

Marikka!

Rubina!

The two cars are driving through the empty out-course, while the in-course is crowded with cars.

（Oh, yeah!)

Jin immediately realized the advantage.

He turns the steering wheel of the car and sends it toward the out-course.

A moment later, the Rhodes is on the same course.

Shu, number 2, and Eugene, number 3, also noticed this and followed suit.

However, due to this mix-up, Rubina's number 10 finally took the lead.

"Yay!　I'm in first place!

Rubina is still young and therefore quite uneven. She is still young and can be more than capable, depending on her mood.

And now was the time.

As if to release the frustration of being in third place for so long, the number 10 car sprinted around the course with no one in front of him.

His lap time was 35.1 seconds, a course record.