It all felt like a dream Leo had once had. The only thing that was real was the smell of simulated ozone and the vibration of the steering wheel.
He didn't wait. He pressed the throttle...
Laps fifty-one through sixty were the hardest stretch since the sensory jamming. Simex changed its fundamental approach. Instead of introducing a single, dominant obstacle per lap, it began stacking smaller ones. It was a strategy of saturation, three or four micro-variables per lap, each manageable on its own, but collectively designed to overwhelm the processing capacity of a driver.
Lap fifty-one was a chaos of inputs. There was standing water at Degner Two, rubber debris at the Hairpin entry, and a sudden crosswind gust through 130R.
