The Run

Altamont Pass Road

Altamont Pass, California

Distance to New York - 2,901 Miles

Patricia Alexandrov was focusing hard on the road ahead. She had finally regained her position in the Run as she finally caught up to a pack of racers in her custom made Warthog after her foul up in San Francisco.

Patricia and the group were doing one hundred and ten down a road leading towards Altamont Pass. She dodged traffic that had been cropping up more and more as they neared the mountain path. She maneuvered and forced her way through the pack using her truck's size and weight to her advantage.

As she took the lead of the pack, an older model Crown Victoria that had been following her ever since she escaped the police crackdown in San Francisco pulled up behind her. She shifted gears, the Warthog picked up it's pace and left the Crown Victoria in behind in the dust.

Within the moment of leaving the old pack of racers, she came up behind another group of racers. The group of vehicles zoomed down the road doing an excess of one hundred miles per hour. The road began to start curving every so often, but curves didn't serve to slow them down as they were minor turns. After the pack of racers turned onto Altamont Pass, most of the cars activated their nitrous oxide systems, leaving Patricia and a HSV GTS behind.

Patricia entered into a head on head battle with the blue HSV GTS trying to pass him and gain another position in the Run. They came upon a slightly sharp curve that went right with a shortcut which led to a dirt road just before the turn. Patricia gained enough speed to hit her e-brake and drifted around the front of the GTS and onto the dirt path, forcing the HSV GTS to apply its brakes and fall in behind her. The GTS followed her into the dirt road in retaliation for the cut off. As they hit a bump and jumped across the road and onto another dirt path that drove down the road of someone's farm, a sawed-off shotgun popped out of the passenger window of the GTS and began to fire flechette rounds at Patrica, the shots missing inches away from where her Warthog was and feeling the shots whizz past her.

“Fucking cunts!” she yelled. “Let's see how you like this, eh!” She slammed on her brakes, causing the GTS to crash into her rear end before the passenger could fire off another shot. The truck and Patricia were unfazed from the rear ending, the people in the GTS however wasn’t. They were stunned from the collision.

A buggy she passed earlier on her way from San Francisco had just sped past her. Patricia noticed she had dropped quite a bit down on the leaderboard and put the car back into gear in response and sped off after the buggy and the group of racers that had left her in the dust earlier.

Rowan Ingeniare was fighting tooth and nail to keep his position on the straight ways of Altamont Pass in his Tesla Model S which only topped out at around 130 miles per hour. To his front was a weirdly colored Nissan 200sx, behind him were multiple cars and a hopped up Charger that were gaining on him rapidly even as he did his best to maintain his speed.

Earlier a black Bugatti Veyron had passed him. Rowan didn't even try to stop the Bugatti from passing as the car was doing at-least two hundred miles per hour down the Pass. Rowan eventually lost site of the Nissan who had taken an off road route. Eventually he had arrived at an overpass and topped his Tesla out at a hundred and thirty miles per hour going across it and then turning left with the road as soon as he started driving past all the grassy hills.

An off road Charger and 2015 Mustang GT had finally caught up with him, thundering loudly behind him as Altamont Pass and Interstate 580 merged. On the merge, the Charger passed Rowan without issue when he almost slammed into traffic which Rowan and his car's AI detection system failed to notice, causing Rowan to slow down and apply his brakes to avoid a collision. The Mustang followed closely behind the Charger, drafting the vehicle as if he was hunting prey.

“Well shit,” Rowan thought to himself, “I still have a chance if I don't mess up again between here and Vegas.” He applied heavy pressure against the gas pedal and rapidly gained speed again, dodging traffic as he zoomed down the interstate. He glanced up at his rear-view mirror and saw another pack of racers with what appeared to be a golden truck from a video game he knew and a buggie leading the pack, approaching from behind him. Rowan grinned and floored it.

William J Haven was a battling a Gurkha RPV in his custom Rally Fighter for the 175th spot on the leaderboard after a McLaren F1 and a Bugatti Veyron zipped past him earlier. Traffic veered out of the two behemoths’ paths as they battled down the Interstate pushing their vehicles to around a hundred miles per hour. William was having trouble passing the RPV because of it's sheer size. Any time he attempted to pass the RPV, the driver would simply veer over to cut him off.

William slightly applied pressure to his brakes and throttled it once the RPV completely passed him. He sped right up behind it, waiting for the right moment to break the draft and slingshot past the RPV. William normally should have been able to zip past the RPV but was kept below optimal speed to do so by the behemoth of a truck blocking him. William relied on his plan to drift behind the RPV and slingshot past him.

After William and the RPV jumped down a hill, William broke off from tailing the RPV and used the speed from the drift to slingshot past the RPV before the driver had a chance to cut him off again. William looked over at the driver of the RPV for merely a moment before he focused back on the road.

William was content with his current position and knew the RPV wouldn't be able to catch up with him. William shifted into the next gear and sped down Interstate 580 like a maniac.

The Run Positions

Sir Faustin 168th

Valerian - 169th

Aleksander Ivanovich Volkov - 170th

William J. Haven - 175th

Dan Grayson - 176th

Colin Carrie - 182th

Kelly - 183th

Rein Ojapark - 188th

Vincent White and Ellen Melange - 189th

Dust - 193th

Special Agent Avery Buck - 194th

Rowan Ingeniare - 195th

Patricia Alexandrov- 196th

Corpse and Carrion - 197th

Matthew Zigmantas - 200th

Johnny Goomba - 201st

Gregory “Speed Racer” Go - 202nd

Kolya Markovic and Octavia Philharmonica - 203rd