Race cars crossed the finish line one after another. Some arrived a full five minutes late because the fighting up ahead had been so intense that they had no hope of catching up. Some drivers had parked by the roadside to chat, then finished in the spirit of sportsmanship once the storm had passed.
After all the cars reached the finish, the organizers did not announce the results. The electronic scoreboard remained blank.
Having entered so many races, Shen Qi knew what this meant. Clearly, someone had committed a violation and needed a time or distance penalty, and the final results were being calculated.
Blue, who had finished first, had interfered with multiple drivers using Sandstorm beyond the permitted threshold. An 80-meter penalty;
Sakura's Poliwrath had likewise failed to control Hail's intensity and overused it. The penalty... outright disqualification from this race;
Competitor Brock, Brock's father, had interfered with multiple drivers using Sandstorm. A 100-meter penalty...
After a whole string of penalties, the Little Sheep actually ended up in second place.
An easy 30,000 b.
Once the results were announced, the drivers who had been penalized all asked to see the surveillance footage.
They were not disputing the rulings. They simply wanted to see the footage.
The new season had lifted the ban on Sandstorm and Hail, with the stated requirement that they must not cause damage.
That damage did not just mean type-based attacks. The impact of hailstones and flying sand particles colliding with race cars also had to remain within reasonable limits. There were also limits on the reduced visibility and visual interference caused by those two weather conditions.
What counted as reasonable limits, and how was visibility calculated?
The penalized competitors were requesting the footage to get a clearer understanding of the limits on move control.