Predictive Programming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_and_the_Chariot_Race Strange it lists as the 37th book…
Even more so if you consider the protagonist is titled The Masked Auriga - ie charioteer from a Latin constellation name, and that his chariot has wings in symbolic reference to the Sun (think winged chariot, sun worship). The killer for me, excuse the pun is that his sidekick is called Bacillus a type of bacteria…