The next day, the race was the talk of the base. It was on everyone's mind, and not even the fact that they were going to start adding to the framework and actually building what should be a functional Dyson Sphere the next day was enough to distract them from the jokes and laughter.
Max and Nico had been swarmed with people, so they hadn't really noticed, but the racer who had been knocked out on the first corner had come in second, and had not taken losing well.
He spent the whole race thinking that he was winning, and that the reckless racer who wrecked him had crashed as well and started over long after he had left. Then, when he finished the race, he realized that they had finished while he was still two thirds of the way around the course and had already logged out and rejoined the party.