Doc enjoys peace and quiet and loves the town of Radiator Springs and its citizens. However, nobody in the town had any idea of his past as a racer he was just an ordinary Hudson Hornet to them.ĭoc is portrayed as a grumpy old man who wants to leave his racing career behind after the painful rejection of the racing world and stay out of the public line. He is respected, well-loved, and serves not only as of the town's physician but as its judge as well. As times changed and the town got bypassed in favour of Interstate 40, Doc stayed on, even when the population had dwindled to a meagre dozen or so residents. He runs Doc's Clinic as a 'doctor of internal combustion'. He instead opted for a simple navy-blue paint job and the life of a physician in the tiny town of Radiator Springs, the 'shining Gemstone' of the Mother Road, Route 66. The famous #51 disappeared into obscurity, leaving many wondering where he had gone. Jaded by the racing scene, he left that world, apparently taking out time to study medicine. He kept a newspaper article on the career-ending crash as a reminder to never to return to the career that nearly killed him. Upon his return, he was received with a complete absence of fanfare and told that he was a has-been who had been passed up for the next rookie in line.

However, it all changed for Doc when he was involved in a terrible crash during the final lap of the 1954 Piston Cup championship race, which saw him put out for the season.

He was once one of the most famous race cars in history he won three Piston Cups in a row and still holds the record for most wins in a single season.

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