After watching Lightning's poor performance on the racing simulator, Sterling attempts to convince him to retire and become a brand.
Sterling assigns Cruz Ramirez to train Lightning and prepare him for the Florida 500. Sterling Burnish (voiced by Nathan Fillion ) is one of the main antagonists of Cars 3.Mack arrives in Radiator Springs after Doc Hudson reveals Lightning's location. As a result, Mack falls asleep and, distracted by a group of teenage tuner cars who attempt to push him off the road to the shoulder, loses Lightning.
One night, Lightning convinces Mack to drive through the night to his tiebreaker race with Chick Hicks and The King in Los Angeles, despite federal DOT regulations which legally grant Mack ten hours daily of much-needed off-duty rest.
Lightning McQueen (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 and Keith Ferguson in all other media ) is not modeled on a specific type of vehicle.This page is a list of characters that have appeared in the franchise. Cars is a media franchise including the 2006 film Cars, the 2011 film Cars 2, the 2017 film Cars 3, the 2022 series Cars on the Road, the 2013 film Planes and the 2014 film Planes: Fire & Rescue.