Cruz Ramirez

Cruz Ramirez is the deuteragonist of Pixar's 18th full-length animated film Cars 3 and a minor character in Cars on the Road.
She is a racing trainer who helped Lightning McQueen get his racing mojo back so he can defeat Jackson Storm. Later, she becomes a racer as she has dreamed of it, and defeats Jackson Storm herself.
==History==
===Cars on the Road===
In the final episode of the first season of Cars on the Road, "Gettin' Hitched", Cruz is revealed to be attending the wedding, happily reuniting with McQueen and Mater. The groom is revealed to be Mateo, one of her cousins. When Mater says the bride is his sister, she's ecstatic at the prospect of having a family connection to Mater due to the marriage. Throughout the course of the episode, she reveals that she's done a lot of things during the off season, including, opened a racing school, formed a non-profit organization that provides snow tires to the “lightly treaded,” and is learning French. She also confirms that she is a licensed wedding officiant after Justice Stern left and pronounces Mato and Mateo as married.
==Personality==
Cruz Ramirez is described as optimistic, sunny, kind and fierce. As a racing trainer, she enjoys assisting other cars in improving their racing abilities, including Lightning McQueen, whom she greatly admires. She believes ones can use anger as motivation. She also wanted to become a racer forever because of Lightning McQueen, and in the end, she got her chance. She is also very sweet, and even became close as a family to Mater, which he became her cousin in law.
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