Lilligant was still dazed.
"Y-yes... 20,000 b in prize money and a set of tires."
Shen Qi stammered a little too.
Jili!
Jili! Jili!
Inside the half-open Poké Ball, Chansey started making a fuss.
She had no idea how the race was going and was simply waiting for instructions. For some inexplicable reason, she had gone ages without any contact, and Shen Qi had not even told her whether they had finished, leaving her a little panicked.
"It's okay. Don't worry. We won."
Hearing that, Chansey cheered and bounced with joy, without many questions.
She thought "won" meant they had achieved their goal of third place. She would probably be stunned for quite a while when she got onto the podium.
After getting out of the car, they waited another five or six minutes before the second-place car reached the finish.
In a normal race, there was no way first and second would finish five or six minutes apart. Even a gap of a minute or two would have been outrageous.
Screech-
After crossing the finish line, the Torrent 2nd Generation pulled over and braked hard. Its Racing Driver got out in a huff, gulped down some water, and muttered under his breath.
Clearly, he was building up steam, ready to launch into a torrent of abuse once the Yuanbao 1st Generation arrived.
About another two minutes later, the Yuanbao 1st Generation crossed the finish line, holding back a whole pack of cars.
Right to the end, no third car had broken through the Haze defense.
It was not that the cars behind had given up. They had actually tried very hard. Nobody wanted to be held down from start to finish by a Class C Car that had barely been modified.
But Tentacruel and Crobat's teamwork grew increasingly polished,