- HOVER CAR RACER GAME MANUAL
- HOVER CAR RACER GAME LICENSE
Later, Principal LeClerq actively sabotages her in championship races simply because she's a girl. One actively propositions her, telling her it's the only way for a girl to get ahead in the hover car game - later, with help from Jason he unknowingly races her and she beats him as payback.
Straw Misogynist: Ariel, arguably the school's best racer, has to confront a whole world of them. Punch a Wall: Jason punches his steering wheel after yet another mysterious mechanical failure causes him to lose a race. Photographic Memory: Bug has one, allowing him to remember the way through a complicated shortcut maze. Only Known by Their Nickname: The Bug's real name is never mentioned. Honey Trap: No sex is involved, but Jason's rivals, Xavier Xonora and Barnaby Becker, persuade Xavier's beautiful cousin Dido to pose as one of Jason's fans so he'll go on dates with her and tell her about his strategies and weaknesses, after which she reports back to Xavier and Barnaby. He won't even let his dad touch him, until he hugs him at the end of the book. Hates Being Touched: The Bug only lets two people in the world touch him: Jason and his mom. Graceful Loser: Alessandro Romba, the veteran hover car racer on the cusp of a historic Grand Slam, congratulates Jason on a good race when he wins the Masters championship, and tells him to go celebrate. After the Italian Run a newspaper prepares two versions of the front page but prints the wrong one, leading to Jason reading a story with the headline "The Death of Jason Chaser". Failed Future Forecast: In-universe example. Down to the Last Play: Jason wins or loses several races by just a few centimeters. 
Barnaby is disqualified and Jason is declared the winner.
Disqualification-Induced Victory: After Jason loses a race to Barnaby, his mechanic, Sally McDuff, discovers that Barnaby has placed a microwave emitter next to her supply of magneto drives, draining their power. Crowd Chant: The audience chants "We love the Bug!" after Jason passes out during a 9G turn, and the Bug leans forward to pilot the car to the finish. In the highly automated/computer-driven world of hover-car racing they're considered so anachronistic only Jason and his team train to do them - which comes in very handy when a virus crashes all the systems in one race, leaving them with a crucial advantage. HOVER CAR RACER GAME MANUAL
Chekhov's Skill: Manual hovercar pit stops. Brain damage is the only kind of disability that can't be cured by modern medicine. Career-Ending Injury: Scott Syracuse, Jason's mentor at the Race School, used to be a champion racer until his neurotransmitters got busted in a crash. The Bug dives across the Line, holding the steering wheel in his outstretched hands, and wins by less than a foot. When the Bug has almost made it, Xavier gets his car working again and races after him. 
Jason is in a position where he can't easily get out of the cockpit, so he removes the steering wheel, gives it to the Bug, and has him run the rest of the way, since according to the rules of this race, the first car to get the steering wheel across the Line wins. Bringing Running Shoes to a Car Chase: Xavier Xonora rams into Jason, causing both of their hover cars to crash 500 meters from the Finish Line.
HOVER CAR RACER GAME LICENSE
Artistic License Geography: Based on the lengths of the race courses we read about, Tasmania in that book is less than a quarter of the scale it is in real life (which would also explain how the entire island being bought by the International Race School would be plausible in any way). Principal LeClerq even persuades some of the students to sabotage her equipment so she'll lose races and drop out of the School. All of the Other Reindeer: Ariel Piper is the first female racer ever to be accepted into the Race School, which was male-only until recently, and she's ostracized by most of the boys. 20 Minutes into the Future: The book is set "a few years from now.".
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