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>> And now the car champion you've all been waiting for
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>> Tow Mater, (laughs) boy y'all thought it was gonna be someone else (laughs).
Well hey there rookie racers. You're parked in Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy.
My bestest buddy, Lightning McQueen done ask me to introduce him.
[up-beat country music]
🎵 Here's a story of a car, piston cup racer rookie star 🎵
🎵 end of the season went that far, to a crazy three-way tie 🎵
🎵 everybody say "Dad Gum", "Dad Gum" 🎵
🎵 teddy got lost, late one night made new friends 🎵
🎵 right found a new home sunny and bright in Radiator Springs 🎵
🎵 Honk your horns and say it loud, Ka-Chow, Ka-Chow, Ka-Chow. 🎵
Hit the music
hit the lights
make them spin
hit the lasers, less lasers, less lasers
[action music]
[audience applause]
>> Ka-Chow.
[audience applause]
>> Wow, Mater, that was some introduction.
>> Well, nothing's too good for my best buddy.
I pulled out all the stops, with lights, lasers,
and smoke.
>> There was no smoke.
>> No smoke?
(coughs)
>> Thanks Mater. (clears throat)
Now winning is great and all but Doc taught me
at the end of the day, without your friends it's just an empty cup.
Doc's passion for racing was inspiring,
if he couldn't outrace him, he would out-think them.
>> Ladies and gentle cars, the fabulous Hudson hornet. >> Wow.
>> Now to kick off today's lesson, I'm going to take a few laps on a simulator.
>> Hello everybody, after today you'll be ready to meet it, read it, and defeat it.
>> Exactly, Mater, boot up the simulator.
>> You got it.
What oh, gotta push a button.
[smoke effects] (coughs)
Wrong button.
>> Right.
>> Initiating simulator.
>> Yeah, now that's what I'm talking about.
>> Here we go rookies, help me with the countdown...
three.
two.
One.
Now, all right it's always good to start with the practice left.
Warm up your tires hey, hey, hey, hey, wow, wow.
[electrical sounds]
>> What was that? >> I didn't press nothing.
>> Probably a bug, I can fix this.
>> Uh sorry rookies, I don't know how that happened.
>> Wait, the simulator was corrupted.
>> Uh guys, what's happening? Wait, I'm facing the wrong way.
>> I'm sorry no excuses McQueen, drive.
>> Whoa, I'm driving backwards here...
oh he's sorry oh that's gotta hurt
>> You got this buddy, remember you don't need to know where you're going.
>> Right. I just need to know where I've been. Thanks Mater, how am i doing everyone?
[applause]
>> Ka-Chow.
Well Rockies, that was not how I thought this lesson was gonna go.
But Chick reminded me that in the end
racing isn't about speed and flash and crossing the finish line,
it's about the journey you take to get there and who you've got driving alongside you.
>> Don't mind, I'm getting all rusty-eyed back here. (laughs)
>> Thanks for coming out today. Consider yourselves honorary members of my
Lightning McQueen Racing Team. Now go out there and get your tires dirty,
Ka-Chow.
[up-beat music]
[wind howling]