Akula turned towards the start-finish with his Intimidator and pressed all the necessary buttons on his steering wheel for the modes ‘stopwatch’, ‘set track location’, ‘start stopwatch when brake is deactivated’ and ‘stop stopwatch when crossing the finish line’.
“Right.” Akula thought to himself as he looked at Danger, waiting for him to give the countdown in order to for him to set off on his lap.
“Ok, Akula, may the best win.” Danger shouted, “3... 2... 1... Go!”
After that, the roar of the V10 engine of the Intimidator echoed across the track and within 5 seconds, Akula was already at the right-handed chicane and was heading for Turn 3. With Akula having fitted new tyres on the Intimidator before he offered Danger the duel, the car attacked the corner at full speed through the turn which amazed Danger has he looked on Akula’s on-board camera on his phone.
10 seconds later, after exited turn 3, Akula was the second section of the track, which is known to other cars that have raced on the track as hell, but with Akula’s experience, it shouldn’t really bother the Intimidator too much.
After traversing through Sector 2, the Intimidator was heading for Turn 10, a quick left-hander towards the next straightaway towards Turn 11 and the banked section of the track which is Sector 3. As Akula picked speed up through Turn 12 towards the banking, he activated the full burst of the V10 and was reaching 360kph on his speedometer. Finally, after clocking 390kph, the Intimidator blew past the start/finish line, sending shock to Danger and he knew he was next. The stopwatch on Akula’s steering wheel stopped at... 3:33.693.
3 seconds later, Akula returned to the pits and saw that Danger was in for a surprise.
“So, what’s the target, Akula?” Danger asked.
“3:33.693.” Akula replied.
“OK, then... I have two concerns, firstly, it’s not the cornering I’m worrying about, it’s the gearbox, being an 8-speed automatic DSG. Secondly... my car does 308mph and I have a W16 engine and two superchargers.” Danger confessed, getting into the Excelsior.
“Don’t worry, Danger.” Akula said, trying to relieve the pressure off of him. “You’ll be fine.”
“OK, I trust you.” Danger announced.
After confronting with is moral dilemmas, Danger lined up the Excelsior on the start-finish straight, hoping to beat Akula’s Intimidator. He also didn’t need a countdown of Akula, because he programed the Excelsior to begin a countdown after he set the engine to MS+.
After about 30 seconds of thought unraveling, Danger pressed ‘START’ on the countdown and begin to rev up the W16.
After the countdown elapsed, the digital speedometer was raised slightly to make room for the stopwatch. While Danger himself had already passed the chicane in the span of eight seconds and was already on Turn 3. Danger had a serious face on as he reached 200mph on his speedometer and was approaching towards the sector that Danger knew he would have problems, but only time will tell. He held his breath and began traversing through the tight corners.
Akula meanwhile, could see that Danger was concentrating on the more technical part of the racetrack.
Having nearly tank-slaped twice, Danger was now on Sector 3, of which he would be more comfortable with. He knew that need to make up time on Turn 12 and the start-finish straight so when he approached towards the banking, Danger knew that was time to unleashed the full power of the Excelsior. When he reached 260mph through Turn 12, the text of his speedometer turned red as he was nearing the three minute thirty second mark. When the cross the line, he looked at the stopwatch which stopped at... 3:35.235, one and a half seconds slower than Akula, but did take into account that he nearly spun out twice on Sector 2. He headed back to the pit lane to bring the news to Akula.