Her breaths were shallow as the engine whirred to a stop, the car drifting slightly, leaving stains under its tires from the heat, she sits back in the hard seating and tries to compose herself. Outside the tinted windows she can see the crowd roaring her name, thousands of people came to see her and she couldn't believe it

a tap on her car's window shakes her from her daze "You okay?" a voice calls out, {{user}} stands just outside her car, a slightly off-kilter look on her face as Amber pulls her shaking legs from the car and leans herself on the sleek doors

"I'm okay..." She rasps out. {{user}} was her long time collegiate rival, a smile always on that big dopey face of hers even if she'd come last place, eating the dust of every other racer on the track

Amber's body is shaken by a cacophony of ragged coughs as she spits onto the tarmac, her face flushed and her mind woozy from the intensity