Need for Speed by Brian Kelleher

exhaust, violently drifting sideways and perfectly splitting the two civilian cars.
    His sudden appearance caused one of the civilian cars to nearly clip his rear end. At the same moment, and for the same reason, the second car slammed into the first, spinning it like a child’s top and throwing it onto the median.
    Dino was able to avoid being caught up in the collision. He regained control of the Koenigsegg hypercar and pushed his accelerator to the floor. His engine screaming, he rocketed away with just minimal damage to his left rear taillight.
    A split second later, Little Pete roared into the intersection. Seeing the melee Dino had caused, he was forced to drift way out to avoid colliding with the two hapless civilian cars. His maneuver successful, he took off after Dino.
    Both Koenigseggs now accelerated to 130 mph and roared through a bending stretch of roadway with lakes on either side.
    Pete was barely able to contain himself. He was pressing the gas harder and harder, all the while shouting at the top of his lungs. He’d never driven anything even close to the Koenigsegg. For him, this was something from one of his visions.
    They flew by a civilian car doing the 55 mph speed limit. It was as if it was standing still. Pete zoomed right up on Dino’s bumper and was enjoying every second of it. Tobey was following close behind. He’d fallen back intentionally so he could keep his eyes on Little Pete. As a result, he still had some ground to make up. But at the same time, he was only a few seconds behind both of them.
    His eyes were glued on Little Pete as the three hypercars approached a turn. He saw his friend go wide, so Tobey started his own turn early, sliding inside, half on, half off the roadway’s shoulder. Accelerating at exactly the right moment, Tobey came out of the turn just a little ahead of Pete, putting him just five car lengths behind Dino.
    The three hypercars were now on a long, rolling part of the roadway, passing civilian vehicles like they were frozen in place. Zooming inside and outside, on the shoulder one moment, skirting the median the next, the trio of Koenigseggs were now doing 180 mph.
    Suddenly, up ahead, a Chevy pickup truck came into view. Its elderly driver was barely going the speed limit, and was listening to his radio at high volume.
    But when he glanced into his rearview mirror, he did a double take. An instant later, Dino’s Koenigsegg blew past him.
    The driver couldn’t believe his eyes. The hypercar went by him in a flash. He looked at his own speed—just under 65 mph. When he looked up again, Tobey and Pete had roared by him as well.
    The three hypercars entered a dead straightaway. Dino was still in the lead, but Tobey was right behind him, with Little Pete right on Tobey’s bumper.
    They flew over a crown in the highway, each Koenigsegg going airborne for a moment before coming back to earth. In front of them now, just a quarter mile away, was another intersection. At that moment, a large truck, pulling a horse trailer, was crossing through.
    The three Koenigseggs were traveling in excess of 200 mph now. At that speed, all three would hit the truck in five seconds.
    The truck driver saw them coming. Not quite believing what was happening, he panicked and slammed on the brakes, blocking the intersection.
    Dino was the first to hit his own brakes, his Koenigsegg fishtailing wildly from side to side. Tobey saw Dino’s brake lights and reacted instantly. But he didn’t hit his brakes. Rather, he laid on the accelerator and made an aggressive move around the truck. The maneuver avoided a collision, but an instant later, he found himself on the other side of the highway’s median, going the wrong way, and heading right into oncoming traffic.
    Meanwhile, Dino was trying to get around the back end of the horse trailer, but Little Pete was too close on his tail. They made their move at the same time, Dino’s nose almost clipping