Race (2011 Film)

[Melanie Wendelberger]

LightningMcQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson in the films, Cars on the Road, video game adaption, Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure, and Lego The Incredibles, Ben Rausch in Cars 3: Driven to Win, Keith Ferguson in most video games), formerly known as Montgomery "Monty" McQueen,[1] is a custom-built racecar who competes in the Piston Cup Racing Series. His design is a hybrid of Generation 4 NASCAR vehicles and Le Mans endurance racers.[2] Lightning was initially arrogant and narcissistic until becoming stranded in Radiator Springs on U.S. Route 66, where he learned about the importance of humility and teamwork from the locals. He has since taken permanent residence there and has chosen the town as the site of his racing headquarters. He is best friends with Mater and is Sally's boyfriend.

Mack (voiced by John Ratzenberger) is a heavily modified 1985 Mack Super-Liner sleeper cab who serves as Lightning McQueen's loyal transporter. After the Dinono 400, Lightning convinces Mack to drive all night to the tie-breaker race in Los Angeles despite federal DOT regulations which legally grant Mack ten hours of rest.[3] Mack struggles to stay awake as a result, with an ensuing mishap causing Lightning to fall out of Mack's trailer. Mack later arrives in Radiator Springs after Doc Hudson reveals Lightning's location and takes residence there in the film's epilogue.

Sterling (voiced by Nathan Fillion[4]) is a wealthy businesscar who briefly becomes the new owner of Rust-eze Bumper Ointment in Cars 3. He resembles a modernized 1968 BMW E9. After meeting Lightning, Sterling assigns Cruz to train him and prepare him for the Florida 500. After watching Lightning's poor performance on the racing simulator, Sterling attempts to force him into retirement. Lightning agrees to retire if he loses the upcoming Florida 500, but otherwise keeps his right to decide. After Lightning and Cruz both win the Florida 500, Cruz declines Sterling's offer to race for him and accepts Tex Dinoco instead, who purchases Rust-eze from Sterling.

Cruz Ramirez (voiced by Cristela Alonzo[5]) is Lightning's trainer and technician at the Rust-eze Racing Center. She resembles a Jaguar F-Type and Chevrolet Corvette (C7). Cruz is known for training some of the best rookie race cars through her unconventional training methods. After Sterling introduces Cruz to Lightning, he assigns her to train Lightning for the Florida 500. At the Florida 500, Sterling orders Cruz back to the racing center to train one of the rookies. Lightning overhears the exchange on his radio and exits the race to allow Cruz to take his place, giving her a chance to become a racer. Using what she learned from Lightning and Smokey, Cruz catches up to Jackson Storm. Storm is furious at the thought of a standard production car beating him in a race and rams Cruz into the wall on the final lap, but Cruz manages to evade him and wins. Cruz later accepts Tex Dinoco's offer to race for his team and chooses 51 as her racing number as a tribute to Doc Hudson. She returns as a playable character in Cars 3: Driven to Win.

Strip "The King" Weathers (voiced by Richard Petty) is a veteran race car and racing legend. Weathers is an anthropomorphic version of Petty's 1970 Plymouth Superbird, sporting the same shade of blue and Petty's racing number, 43, as well as being a fictionalized version of him.[6] He is one of the racers in the Dinoco 400 three-way tie, along with Chick Hicks and Lightning McQueen. Known as Dinoco's "Golden Boy" having won several Piston Cups,[7] Weathers is hoping for his eighth win in the tiebreaker race before entering retirement so he can spend more time with his wife. He returns in Cars 3 as the crew chief of his nephew, Cal Weathers.

Jackson Storm (voiced by Armie Hammer in the film,[8] AJ Hamilton in Cars 3: Driven to Win) is an arrogant "next-gen" Piston Cup race car, and Lightning's main rival in Cars 3. In the film, Storm appears out of nowhere and starts winning race after race, forcing many last-generation race cars to retire. During the last race of the season, Lightning pushes himself too hard while trying to compete with Storm and loses control, resulting in a rollover crash. At the Florida 500, Storm is intimidated by Lightning's former trainer Cruz Ramirez, who replaces Lightning in the race. He attempts to make her lose focus by telling her that she is not the type of car who belongs on a racetrack. Cruz regains her confidence and drives up next to Storm, who rams her into a wall. Cruz manages to flip over Storm at the last moment, overtaking him and wins the race. Storm's racing number is 20, styled 2.0.

Sir Tow Mater (better known as simply Mater; voiced by Larry the Cable Guy) is a rusty blue tow truck resembling a 1957 Chevrolet Task Force. He is Lightning's best friend who eagerly supports him both on and off the racetrack. In Cars 2, Mater was chosen by McQueen to be his crew chief in the World Grand Prix until being mistaken for a C.H.R.O.M.E. agent by spy in training Holley Shiftwell, and becomes her boyfriend later in the film. Mater returns in Cars 3 as a supporting character.

Sheriff (voiced by Michael Wallis) is a 1949 Mercury Eight police car.[10] Sheriff is painted in classic black and white with a single red light dome, two sirens, and curb feelers. Sheriff was the first resident of Radiator Springs to appear in Cars and the first to meet Lightning. Sheriff reappears in Cars 2, seeing Lightning and his race-crew off to the World Grand Prix. During the climax of the film, Sheriff arrives with the other Radiator Springs residents as new members of Lightning's pit crew in England, and is informed by Mater of the Lemons cars' plot to kill Lightning in order to turn all vehicles in the world against alternative fuel and rely on gasoline for profit. He does help in the arresting in some of the Lemons. Sheriff returns as a supporting character in Cars 3.

Luigi (voiced by Tony Shalhoub in the films and video games, Michael Shalhoub in Disney Infinity) and Guido (voiced by Guido Quaroni) are part of Lightning's pit crew. Luigi is a 1959 Fiat 500[11] who owns a tire shop called Luigi's Casa Della Tires,[12] which is known for its "Leaning Tower of Tires", a tower of several tires shaped like the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Guido is a forklift that resembles a BMW Isetta. Together, Luigi and Guido specialize in changing and maintaining Lightning's tires during all his races. Both are Scuderia Ferrari fans.

Fillmore (based on Route 66 artist Bob Waldmire[15] and voiced by George Carlin in Cars, the video game, and Cars Toons (via archival recordings), Scott Wood in Cars Mater-National Championship, and Lloyd Sherr in all other media after the first film due to Carlin's death) is a 1960 Volkswagen Type 2 who owns a store that sells his own recipe of organic biofuel, which he also gives McQueen during his races.[16] He is a stereotypical hippie,[17] as he has numerous peace sign and flowers painted on his body as well as a front license plate that acts as a soul patch. His license plate number is '51237,' a reference to Carlin's date of birth.

Holley Shiftwell (voiced by Emily Mortimer) is a British spy-in-training at C.H.R.O.M.E. and Mater's love interest. According to Pixar's Meet the Cars book, Holley's model is a Pixar in-house design known as a 2008 MT-R Mark II. Her model name appears to be in reference with a TVR sports car called the Tuscan Mark II, one of Holley's design inspirations. She bears resemblance to the 2008 RMC Scorpion, along with having a similar 3.5-liter V6 engine to this vehicle.

Leland Turbo (voiced by Jason Isaacs) is a British spy at C.H.R.O.M.E. who infiltrated the Lemons. His vehicle model resembles a Jaguar E-Type. Before he was discovered by Grem and Acer and thrown into a car crusher, he sent out a warning to Finn McMissile to let them know what Professor Z and the Lemons have been up to.

Rod "Torque" Redline (voiced by Bruce Campbell) is an American spy who was supposed to meet up with Finn McMissile after infiltrating the Lemons. Before he is captured by the Lemons in Tokyo, he slipped a device under Mater during the bathroom fight so that it can be retrieved by Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell. Professor Z later killed Redline with a combination of Allinol and an electromagnetic pulse. His design is based on modern American muscle cars such as the Dodge Challenger and Ford Mustang.

Tomber (voiced by Michel Michelis) is a French auto-parts dealer, and Finn McMissile's underground informant. He is a blue Reliant Regal threewheeler, with a few added features including the headlights of a Citron Ami.

Sir Miles Axlerod (voiced by Eddie Izzard) is the main antagonist of Cars 2. His design is based on the Range Rover Classic and Land Rover Defender 90, two cars famous for poor build quality. Axlerod created the World Grand Prix to promote his new biofuel called Allinol that turns out to be ordinary gasoline engineered to ignite when hit with an electromagnetic pulse. While he appears to the public as friendly, in truth he's the main leader of the Lemons conspiracy, and is shown to be very greedy and ruthless. He ultimately tries to kill both McQueen and Mater by placing a bomb on Mater that can only be deactivated by his own voice, but this ends up backfiring when Mater deduces he's the culprit and cornered him, leading to him deactivating the bomb to avoid being killed by the explosion, but exposing him to the world and leading to his arrest. Axlerod planned to use Professor Zndapp and the Lemons to kill Lightning in the final race, but the EMP weapon failed because Sarge had switched Lightning's Allinol for Fillmore's organic fuel before the start of the race. His engine, quoted as "the worst motor ever made" in the film, is based on the Lucas fuel injected 3.5L Rover V8.

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