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Lightning McQueen was originally a number 57 car (after John Lasseter’s birth year!). But it was changed to 95 to represent the release date of Pixar’s Toy Story in 1995! After being rebuilt, Lightning receives inspiration from Sally to continue racing. He heads to the Rust-eze Training Center and trains with Cruz Ramirez, a yellow high-performance coupe, during the off-season in hopes of increasing his top speed and beating Storm. Lightning's new sponsor Sterling, a successful business car, tells him he will have to retire if he loses his next race, with Sterling planning to profit off Lightning's retirement merchandise. Devarakonda, Mythili (November 3, 2022). " 'Ka-Chow!': What car is Lightning McQueen? Here's how the 'Cars' lead was designed". USA Today. Archived from the original on March 3, 2023 . Retrieved March 3, 2023. Inspirational Insult: Doc tells Lightning after Lightning falls into the cactuses that his driving is as lousy as his ability to fix roads, giving Lightning more motivation to do a proper job in fixing the road he damaged. Lightning even says "I'll show him."

During this, Lightning and Cruz watch old footage of Doc's races. They see that he used the drafting technique to gain speed and see him use the barricade to flip over another car who tried to ram him into the wall. On their final day of training, Lightning manages to pull ahead on the speedway, but Cruz still wins. They have to head to Florida for the race. Continuity Cameo: The birds from Pixar short For the Birds can be seen very briefly on their power line as cars zip by.

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The fact that in this universe the cars are the athletes is a fairly decent Tire Wave for why the rules wouldn't be exactly the same, but whether the rules make more or less sense because of such a setting is best not thought about too hard.

She used to live in California before she decided to take things down a notch by heading up Route 66. Despite the fact this world is full of anthropomorphic automobiles, a lot of them seem to closely resemble their voice actors. Lightning for instance has the same sky blue eyes and smooth smile as Owen Wilson, whilst Doc still looks like Paul Newman dead-on.Los Angeles International Speedway is meant to be the Auto Club Speedway, but with the outer facade of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and interior architecture from the Rose Bowl. note Nearly 16 years later, the LA Coliseum would eventually become the location of a NASCAR race, the 2022 Clash held on February 6 of that year, prior to the running of the Daytona 500.