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Rubina's number 10 sprints to the front.

"Yes!　There's no one ahead of me now!"

Number 10's lap time is still in the low 36s. That's pretty fast.

Numbers 11 and 12 were close behind.

"Rubina, you did well. ......, but we have our own reasons."

Jin had a good time.

Jin enjoyed the fact that he could give it his all in this way.

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Lackhardt shouts. The crowd is going crazy.

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The three cars of 11, 12, and 9 are chasing number 10.

They are running hard as if it is the last time.

(Rubina's handling is rough. (Rubina's maneuvering is rough. There is still room for her to overtake.)

Although she has shown a lot of growth in this competition, she is still a child. She is still a child, and she is not without her unevenness.

But what makes up for it is the overhead monitor. You can see at a glance which side of the course you are running, thus making the course easier to navigate.

The disadvantage is that Rubina has to drive the car while watching the monitor.

"Ugh ...... my eyes are getting tired!"

Yes. To drive the car at full speed, we can't stop looking at the front of the car.

Then she glances at the overhead monitor and corrects her course. It was a heavy burden for Rubina, who was still getting used to it.

Two laps to go. Rubina gritted her teeth to defend her lead.

The lapped cars are far behind her in terms of timing, and with two laps to go, she will not be able to catch up with them. It should be much easier to keep an eye on the front .......

"Aaah!"

Rubina's car scraped her stomach.

Yes, the course was unpaved, and now, at the end of the race, it was gouged and rutted here and there.

Rubina's car was lower than those of Jin and Rhodes. Therefore, they were vulnerable to large gouges.

The belly rub made the car unstable and slowed it down slightly.

Jin and Rhodes did not miss this opportunity.

"Oh, I'm hit. ......"

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Numbers 11 and 12 are racing side by side instead of front to back.

Jin's car is on the outside and Rhodes' car is on the inside.

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Zion speaks calmly.

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Jin suddenly decelerates at the entrance of the corner. This allows Rhodes' car to temporarily pull ahead.

However, Jin takes advantage of his reduced speed and makes a sharp turn. It was his signature sharp angle turn.

Then he accelerates. The lines of Rhodes' car and Jin's car crossed.

"Okay, now I have the inside track.

"You did it, Jin-sama!"

However, Rhodes was no slouch either. He skillfully maneuvered his car and successfully exited the corner alongside Jin's car.

"Rhodes, you're good!"

Jin grinned from the driver's seat.

Technique, not technology. Software, not hardware.

It had been a long time since such a confrontation.

One and a half laps to go.

"Let's go in a straight line!"

Jin decided to give the Beetle full power.

Not the 80% we've been giving you, but 10%.

"Oops!"

The <> lost its balance after passing the Roadtoss number 12.

It bounced three times and ended up near the outermost part of the course.

However, the road surface was not so rough as there were hardly any cars running in that area, and Jin managed to get his car back on its feet.

(Phew, it's a good thing I installed dampers properly.)

Suspension is a spring. Without dampers, the shaking would not be dampened, and in a case like this, the car would bounce around, and in the worst case, it could even tip over.

In this respect, Jin understood the importance of dampers in his bones from his carriage trip with Erza and Reinhardt 400 years ago.

And Jin had once again experienced the ease of driving on the outer course (see !).

(This is ......!)

(This is from !) In theory, he knew that the outer course would not be too rough, but now that he had been driving on the rough surface for a long time, controlling the cars, he felt relieved and thought that this ease of driving would allow him to drive at his best.

（He was 90% there!)

However, Jin is a cautious man who is afraid to drive at 90% power because he is afraid to drive at 10% as he did before.

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Rubina's number 10 is back in the lead as the cars of Jin and Rhodes get tangled up.

(The Jin I know should be able to handle this kind of handicap and adversity. ...... Hey, Jin?)

Theon does not say the latter half of the line, but mutters it only in his mind.

And just as he thought, Jin's car accelerated again.

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"All right, go, go, go, go!

The number 11 car accelerates furiously. Using the outermost part of the course, which even Marikka did not use, the car shows a steady drive.

And he is faster than the other cars.

He seems to be slightly faster even when he is going around the outer most part of the corner.

"d*mn!　That's Jin-sama!"

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The acceleration on the exit of the corner was slightly faster.

"Oh, no!

The tires lose grip and the wheels spin. That is a loss of power and time.

Number 12 of the RODOTOS, who was following diagonally behind, calmly swerved to avoid the flying gravel and overtook number 10.

"I'm in the lead here!　There's only the straight!　You can't overtake me now!

Rhodes is a bit excited. He was about to be beaten by the legendary Jin, the "Magecraft Meister," even if it was only for fun.

It was hard not to get excited.

But...

"What, what, what?

Jin, who had passed the number 9 from the outside at a dash, unleashed his power to the hilt as he came to the last straight line.

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Number 11, with 10% of its power released, speeds along on a rough road surface, overtaking Rubina's number 10, It was close to Rhodes's number 12, and passed it .......

The finish line was just ahead.

And the checkered flag held by the female golem is now ......!

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The hall was filled with cheers.