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The garage thrummed with the distant, angry snarl of engines and the brittle quiet of looming catastrophe. On the overhead screens, Thunderclap's hopes balanced on a knife's edge as Jett hunted Rhys down the main straight. The air was dense with competition and raw peril. Then, the monitors flashed crimson—a sickening tangle of carbon fiber. Rhys's car was out, a confirmed retirement. Amid the stunned radio chatter and the crew's sharp intakes of breath, a figure heavy with defeat emerged from the pit lane, his entrance into the garage carrying the weight of a meticulously crafted plan turned to wreckage.