Lightning McQueen

Description
Lightning McQueen is the main character of the Cars series. He has appeared in almost every installment of the Cars series, with the only exceptions being media based on the first Planes movie, and the rest of the Planes series, besides Planes: Fire and Rescue, where he appeared as a cameo on a newspaper. He is a Piston Cup race car that has won 7 Piston Cups since he debuted in 2005. Lightning resides in the small town of Radiator Springs in Carburetor County, where he has a racing headquarters, as well as a stadium.

Pre-Piston Cup
Before he would become a famous Piston Cup racer in 2005, Lightning McQueen raced in the JUNIOR Piston cup for Smell Swell with the number 57. Then he was fired from Smell Swell in 2004.

2005 Season (Rookie Year)
He debuted in the Piston Cup in 2005 as a rookie. He replaced Gerald Leadfoot, who had a career ending crash at the 2004 Dinoco 400, McQueen was kinda mean and fired 3 crew chiefs. In the 2005 Dinoco 400, he tied With Chick Hicks and The King, which would set him for three way tie battle race for the Piston Cup. however, on the way to Los Angeles, McQueen got lost, he was found a week later in a little town called Radiator Springs were he had been arrest for 5 days to fix the road after accidental wrecking it. During McQueens time in Radiator Springs, he went from being an self-center rookie to and kind and caring car and he made new Friends such as Tow Mater, Sally, and Doc Hudson. McQueen began the tie breaker poorly due to missing his friends in Radiator Springs, but when he saw Doc Hudson and the other Radiator Springs townies with Doc being McQueen's crew chief, McQueen started to perform better, he was about to win the 2005 Piston Cup, however, Chick Hicks Rammed The King and sent him flipping several times, McQueen went back to help The King, Chick Won the 2005 Piston Cup but was booed.

2006-2010 Seasons
Lightning would do Amazing in these seasons winning 3 piston cups in a row! In 2009 Lightning Could've took the Piston cup Home that year but he decided that winning is not always the point of racing it's supposed to be fun. So he let his friend Kevin Racingtire pass him and He won the Piston Cup! Then in 2010 Lightning will win in 4th Piston cup.

2011-2015 Seasons
These seasons were the greatest for Lightning but he kept on Racing, In 2011 McQueen would meet now racers such as Cal Weathers, Bobby Swift , Brick Yardley. Lightning Would give the rookies a challenge but Brick Yardley was Really Fast for Lightning to Handle But in the last race Lightning pulled one of the most memorable moves in history of racing, Through the 2012 and and 2013-2014 seasons he has only won 1 Piston cup in 2013. Cal and Brick has won Piston Cups. In 2015 Lightning Has won his Final Piston Cup.

2016-2017 Season (Final Seasons)
Lightning would be happy for most of the 2016 season until Next-gens came along and he lost the piston cup to Jackson Storm and at the end of the Season, Lightning Would end up in a Violent crash. But McQueen still Would not quit and compete in the 2017 Florida 500 and did good most of the race until There was a Crash and Lightning went to the Pits and switched out with Cruz and she was the First Racer to beat Jackson Storm.

Crew Chief Career
Lightning said that he would Return to racing but he's happy training Cruz in honor of Doc Hudson.

2010-2016
Crew Chief - N/A

Pitty 1 - Guido

2006-2009
Crew Chief - Doc Hudson

Pitty - Guido

2005-2005
Crew Chief - Greg Startman, Bill Tropspace , Tony Goer

Pitty 1 - Not Chuck

Pitty 2 - Fernie Fork

Pitty 3 - Austin Wheels

Pitty 4 - Donald Fuelins

Pitty 5 - Billy

Hauler - Mack Haulsmith