Looking at the CLS Mercedes sports car among the other cars, which looked out of place, the surrounding racers all showed expressions of doubt and amusement.
The price of a CLS Mercedes generally doesn't exceed $200,000. Although it's called a sports car, it's just an ordinary sedan and can't even compare to the most basic Ferrari sports car, let alone their professional racing cars.
CLS sports cars like this are only suitable for driving on highways as a means of transportation. Bringing one to a professional racetrack is an insult to them, the professional drivers. Why would the official racing organizers allow this car in?
Besides the racers, the spectators were also very puzzled. How could a CLS Mercedes sedan get mixed into a professional racing competition?
Fortunately, the racing officials immediately explained why. They had the cameraman point the camera at the CLS, filming Tony Stark inside.
At this point, everyone understood. It turned out that Tony Stark was inside the CLS, so it was no wonder the racing officials allowed a CLS to enter the race.
In addition to Tony Stark's existing title as a super genius, the reputation of Iron Man had spread throughout the world during this time, even safeguarding the peace of certain countries. It could be said that his fame had spread globally, making him more famous than most national presidents.
Since Tony Stark was inside the CLS, given his personality, it was highly probable that this CLS had undergone countless modifications, and its performance should not be inferior to professional racing cars.
Although many racers were still angry and wanted to protest, they eventually gave up.
After all, he was famous and rich.
Meanwhile, in the De Paris Hotel, Pepper was also trying to contact Tony on her phone, but found that Tony had turned it off.
"Miss Pepper, look." Happy, standing on the other side, was also anxious. He glanced around and then saw Tony's figure on the live TV broadcast.
"Happy, let's go to the racetrack to find Tony. This guy has been letting himself go more and more lately; I have to keep him in check." Seeing Tony preparing for a race, Pepper's face twisted with anger. She took Happy and prepared to go confront Tony.
Happy, of course, listened to Pepper. As Tony's bodyguard, protecting Tony's safety was his most important duty.
Carrying the red alloy case, Happy and Pepper got into the Rolls-Royce and embarked on their journey to save Tony… In front of the many racing cars, there was a traffic light-like signal. At this moment, the five lights on the signal began to light up gradually from right to left, indicating that the race was about to begin.
Tony was very relaxed, his eyes fixed on the signal light ahead, waiting quietly.
He had been living too exhaustingly lately. First, he was kidnapped for three months, then he fought Obadiah after returning, and he also had to rebuild Stark Industries, which no longer had a weapons division. All of this had left Tony extremely fatigued, especially after he learned that his body was poisoned with palladium!
He had been suppressed for too long; it was time to indulge himself, and this race was a perfect opportunity!
As soon as all five signal lights were lit, Tony immediately stepped on the accelerator and sped off at the first opportunity.
However, embarrassingly, even though Tony had floored the accelerator of the CLS, its speed simply couldn't pick up.
After the initial phase, the CLS maintained a speed of 210 kilometers per hour. While this was definitely among the highest for ordinary cars, it was completely insufficient against professional racing cars, and it quickly fell to last place.
This awkward situation made Tony helpless. He said into the car's radio, "Source, tell me, how can I increase the speed of this car?"
"This speed is already the car's limit. To accelerate, you must activate the car's advanced mode, and Mr. Stark, you do not have permission for that." Source's voice came from the radio, answering Tony.
"Shit!" Hearing Source mention the word "permission" again, Tony cursed, then continued, "Listen, Source, I don't care if I have permission or not. I just want to say, we are in last place now. You can be embarrassed, but I can't be!"
Tony then used a threatening tone, continuing, "Source, if I lose face, I will definitely blame this on Ron, making Ron lose face with me. Source, you wouldn't want Ron to lose face, would you?"
"This…" Source seemed to think for a moment before agreeing: "Alright then, Genesis, activate advanced mode directly."
"Yes, Source." Another voice came from the radio, very cold, and very different from Source's neutral voice, as if they were two extremes.
Hearing this voice, Tony frowned, feeling that something seemed off.
However, before Tony could think further, in the next moment, he felt as if he was being pushed from behind by a rocket, his body flying forward with immense G-force.
Fortunately, Tony often wore Iron Man armor that could fly at supersonic speeds, so he quickly adapted to this sudden acceleration. The car itself also seemed to have a stabilization system, and after a while, the G-force wasn't as severe.
"Oh! Cool…" Tony glanced at the speed displayed on the dashboard. Seeing the speed of 420 kilometers per hour and still rising, Tony shouted happily.
What followed was a chase scene, as a CLS sedan gradually overtook the professional racing cars, directly moving to the front of the pack.
After overtaking most of the racing cars, Tony suddenly saw a person appear on the main road ahead, standing in the middle of the road, doing something unknown.
Tony tried to steer the car to avoid him, but the person directly swung a white-glowing iron whip at him, as if to split him and the car in half.
The situation was extremely critical; Tony felt for a moment that he was doomed, just short of writing a will.
However, in the next moment, Tony suddenly felt his altitude increase, from less than a meter to over three meters.
This was just Tony's own feeling. In the eyes of others, the situation at that time was like this:
Originally, the CLS was about to be split in half like the previous racing cars, but in an instant, the ordinary CLS transformed directly into a three-meter-tall, silver-bodied robot. It then grabbed the iron whip that was swinging towards it, taking it away.
This wasn't all. The car-turned-robot also snatched the other iron whip from the person's hand, then gently grabbed the person and threw them, subduing the whip-wielding, fox-borrowing-tiger's-might individual, who was knocked unconscious.
"Iron Man! Iron Man! Iron Man!" Upon seeing the situation below, the countless spectators at the racetrack erupted in deafening shouts, cheering as Tony in the middle of the field defeated the lunatic who had suddenly intruded.
Subsequently, a Rolls-Royce Phantom drove up. Happy and Pepper inside the car looked at this scene with confusion.
Was it really Tony inside this three-to-four-meter-tall large robot?
But they clearly remembered that Tony didn't seem to have researched three-to-four-meter-tall robots. What exactly was going on?