Together with his good friends, Cruz Ramirez and Tow Mater, Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy is a well-liked racing university in the earth of Cars. He assigns Cruz Ramirez to educate McQueen and get ready him for the Florida five hundred. After watching McQueen's bad general performance on the simulator, Sterling attempted to persuade McQueen to retire and grow to be a racing manufacturer. He is a Next-Gen SA-3 Race Car and Trainee 035.