The service bay Shen Qi was in was filled with bizarre laughter.
Golett had no idea what had happened, but joined in with happy, gurgling laughter anyway.
Lilligant and Lopunny were doubled over with laughter too. They had felt somewhat confident about placing in the top five in this Summer Race, but they had never expected to take fourth this way.
It really had been unintentional. People simply did not pay much attention to the exterior of a car like the Little Sheep.
As long as its internal components were sorted out and suitable for racing, that was enough. With a car in the Little Sheep's class, nobody bothered repairing exterior scratches and dents, which was why its license plate had ended up half-detached and jutting forward.
Nobody would deliberately design a car that way. Adding a protrusion ahead of the front bumper ruined the overall aerodynamic design and increased drag.
They would be better off fixing the car up properly so it could go faster.
It truly had been unintentional.
Shen Qi wanted to remark that luck had favored him, but swallowed the words.
What luck?
His brake pads had failed at such a critical moment in the latter half of the second lap. If he had not kept his cool and pulled off those tricks with game items, he would not have placed even with a ten-meter-long license plate on the front.
"Damn it."
Feiyue tossed her skull-decorated bad-girl helmet into her car and stormed over with her baseball bat. Anyone who did not know better would have thought she was coming to challenge Shen Qi.
And not to a Pokémon battle, but a fight between the trainers themselves.
"What? What do you want?!"
Shen Qi backed up two steps. "I earned that placing fair and square."
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