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Shun to booth!
2
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Kanata's dropping like a lead balloon.
What happened?
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Katagiri Kanata seems to have lost
second gear due to a technical issue.
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You're kidding me.
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It'd be one thing if Ogata was maintaining the
car solo, but with Okuyama-san in their corner?
6
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There's no way something so basic
would get past him.
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What the hell has happened to you, Kanata?
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Miraculous
Comeback
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Beckenbauer in the 12 is in the lead.
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And Sawatari in the 4 car is right on his tail.
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A bit further back is Akaba in the 2 car.
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Koki to booth. Any movement from the 86?
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You're asking about the 86 again?
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It's falling further and further back.
Currently in seventh.
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It's no good. There's no sense
in waiting if he's not coming.
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Change of plan. I'll drag this German jerk
out of first place myself!
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The 2 was expected to lose more and more
ground, but it seems to be holding steady.
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Akaba-kun's pride is on the line.
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Especially since lesser drivers have
outperformed him both this year and last.
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This race is bound to be more intense for him
than for most of the other drivers.
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He's a pretty emotional guy.
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I can't let them get any further ahead of me.
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But if I wear out my tires too quickly,
there's no point in keeping up.
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The downside to this much horsepower is
the harder I push, the faster I eat up my tires.
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Better to keep my weapons hidden
and still sharp for now.
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You won't get away.
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Is that Yanagida?
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Makes sense. You always do well
on twisty roads like these.
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Not that I'll let you past.
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The Huracan's wide frame makes it perfect
for blocking on these peninsula roads.
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He's braking hard with
his left foot while cornering?
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Is that to make up for
a lack of torque in third gear?
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He's pumping the brakes with his left foot
and has the gas pedal pinned with his right.
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He's trying to maintain his speed while
increasing the boost from the turbines.
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Turbo lag has more or less
been eliminated these days.
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But I guess this stuff comes in handy
in the right conditions.
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I've never even considered
how to drive without second gear.
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It's practically the default gear
when it comes to street racing.
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Watching him like this is mesmerizing.
Almost makes me regret having to pass him.
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From here in the tower
overlooking the Manazuru Peninsula,
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we can see Kibune Shrine quietly looming.
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Records say Minamoto no Yoritomo prayed here
while raising an army for the Genpei War.
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And it would seem...
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we have our own army of modern warriors
aboard steel steeds, roaring past Kibune Shrine!
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Okay, a question for Marie-chan
now that she's done.
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What's your biggest worry at the moment?
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I'm worried about how I can't seem
to stop gaining weight.
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I keep getting bigger.
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Ah, yeah. I can see why
you'd be worried about that.
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What's the plan? Exercise? Dieting?
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Kanata...
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I've tried both approaches, but it's so hard.
I can never keep it up for long.
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Why couldn't I just tell him I was grateful?
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And I'm so bad at dieting.
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Can I really keep avoiding him like this?
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I bet it mostly has to do with stress, so...
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I think I wouldn't be lonely if I had a boyfriend,
and that'd help me lose weight.
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Any takers out there?
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That was Marie-chan, who's always
got her eye out for a special guy.
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But quick word of advice:
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If you come sixth or lower in the Fall poll,
you're off the team, so good luck.
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No way!
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I kind of like a rounder figure, though.
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What's wrong with having more to love?
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Here's the battle for seventh.
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A pair of Toyotas come tearing
around Aoi corner.
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The course gradually climbs uphill
from here to Route 138!
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And pouring the pressure on the 86 with
a sheet of paper between them is the 885 car!
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Aw, we're so screwed!
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This whole uphill section's gotta to be
the worst part of the course for Kanata.
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Thinking back, I may have made the wrong call.
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If he had a paddle shifter,
or we'd switched to a Supra,
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the injury to Katagiri-kun's elbow
wouldn't be so much of a handicap.
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He would've likely been...
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locked in battle with the 12
and the 4 in the top group.
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Booth to Sena.
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It's about time you passed the 86!
Stop goofing around!
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This is a real masterclass
he's putting on here.
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What I'm learning will be worth it.
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This isn't a classroom. If you finish in
this position, the boss'll tear you a new one.
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I hear you.
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I'll overtake him at
the T-Point corner up ahead. Over.
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I'm going on ahead, brother.
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And the 885 car pulls off
a sweet overtake on the 86!
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Is that the conclusion to the
much-anticipated "battle of the rookies"?
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I'd say Katagiri Kanata
is putting up a great fight.
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His cornering while left-foot braking
shows remarkable adaptability,
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and more than a few times, he's shown
an intention to pass any cars that pass him.
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That resilience and refusal to give up really
reminds me of his mentor, Fujiwara Takumi.
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You and the tragic genius, Fujiwara Takumi,
are still in contact, right, Akiyama-san?
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I sure am. When he was in Japan at
the end of last year, we went for a meal.
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Do you mind if I talk
about Fujiwara for a bit?
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By all means. Please go ahead.
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I'm sure there are many MFG fans
who'd love to hear about him.
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Fujiwara Takumi gets called
the "Tragic Rallyist."
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But I don't think about him in those terms.
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I guess he was unlucky with the accident that
stopped him from making his mark on the WRC.
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But I don't think that's enough
to pigeonhole him as a tragic figure.
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I think real happiness doesn't come
from results, but the process itself.
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Fujiwara-kun often came across as enigmatic,
and you never quite knew what he was thinking,
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But deep down... I guess you'd call them beliefs?
Well, you could tell he held them very strongly.
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When you consider he moved
to England at 20,
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with no backing or funds to speak of,
it's really impressive.
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He barely spoke any English,
for that matter.
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Definitely sounds reckless.
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But I think his passion and his resoluteness
in his beliefs won over his English audience.
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He's the kind of man who mesmerizes
spectators when he's behind the wheel.
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And the way he pressed on towards
his dream without looking back...
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He seemed happy to me.
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Still, how can another person judge
if someone's happy or not to begin with?
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The race of life continues until the day you die.
And in that final moment, before it ends,
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as long as you can say, "Yeah, I was happy,"
I don't think anything else matters.
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Fujiwara Takumi is an eternal challenger.
Even now, I consider him my number one rival.
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He's the man I envy. The one who makes me think,
"I'm not losing to you, damn it!"
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How was Fujiwara when you saw him?
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Oh, naturally, he's doing well.
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I'm digressing a bit, but he actually
got married last year in England.
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Really?
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Well, that is some surprise good news!
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Could you tell us about the lucky lady?
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Is she blonde?
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She's Japanese, actually.
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She's another athlete from Saitama
who supported him during his rehab.
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She's a celeb in her own right and wowed
everyone in Japan's women's golf tour.
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Are you talking about—
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Y'know, we should probably drop the subject.
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He might get mad if I say any more.
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That actually reminds me of something
he told me last year.
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He said one of his students
was a particularly unique driver...
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...and he wanted him
to experience a year in MFG.
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He specified just a single year?
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That's right.
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I'd actually been thinking...
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that Katagiri Kanata has become a pillar
of MFG in such a short time.
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I believe that in the foreseeable future,
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he'd be a source of endless excitement
for the world's MFG fans, myself included.
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Now back to the race. We pick up the battle
for sixth on the Midnight Straight.
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The Toyota GR Supra is showing the kind
of pace to put it on an equal footing
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with the 500 horsepower BMW M4!
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The rookie, Moroboshi, is closing
the gap on Yanagida in the 6!
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And they're coming up to the
Peninsula's toughest corner, Eau Rouge!
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I've got you. You're just prey.
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Passing around the outside?
Who do you think you are?
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He makes his move around the outside!
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I'm just ripping off Katagiri Kanata.
And while I haven't got it fully figured out...
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He's doing it! He pulls in front of the 6 car!
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00:10:03,710 --> 00:10:08,850
Akiyama-san, it looks like one of
the star rookies is showing us what he's made of!
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Next on his list is the 3 car!
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While the 86 flounders, Moroboshi Sena
is determined to strut his stuff!
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Even Katagiri Kanata
pales in comparison this time!
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Screw you. You don't know
what you're talking about.
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If Kanata wasn't injured,
this guy wouldn't be a patch on him.
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I mean, he set a course record
on the third day of qualifying.
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If he was in good shape
and could lap like that again...
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My partner's a sprinting prodigy, damn it!
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And here we have the 86 and the 13.
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It looks like the 86 has the edge!
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Crazy.
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It's hard to believe this kid's human.
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It's fair to say that Eau Rouge is
the least popular section with the drivers.
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You come out of
a tunnel at top speed
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and are greeted by
a sudden incline
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that slopes down
mid-corner.
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With stock cars like this,
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the lack of downforce can make them
take off and lose control.
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What do you suppose led
to such a dangerous road design?
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Well, that's an obvious one.
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When the Manazuru
Blue Line was built,
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no one thought anyone'd be crazy enough
to do over 200 kmph on it,
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much less a whole group of wackos
racing each other.
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It's a very safe stretch
of road at normal speeds.
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And might I add,
the view is fantastic.
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Now our cameras focus on the first hairpin.
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This is another point
where momentum can be lost.
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And sure enough, the 86
seems to be struggling again.
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And Katagiri Kanata
falls even further back!
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It's unbelievable. Who could've possibly
foreseen this is how it would shake out?
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The super rookie is struggling desperately!
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Did Kanata-kun expect this to happen?
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If he did, it'd explain why he was
acting differently this morning.
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Say, dear.
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Huh? Oh, she's gone already.
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If he knew this would happen
by this morning,
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the cause must've been from
the day before, maybe even earlier?
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And I can't believe Ogata-kun wouldn't have
tried to mitigate the issue in that case.
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So maybe the problem's not with the car,
but with Kanata-kun himself?
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Is that why?
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In saving Ren...
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did something happen when
he jumped in front of that train?
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So you can't use second gear, huh?
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Maybe if you had five liters of
displacement like this baby,
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you'd have enough torque in third
to make up for losing second.
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00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,280
But with a 2-liter engine?
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You're good as dead.
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00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:18,250
Dr. Takahashi, the patient
has taken a turn for the worse.
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Understood. I'll be right there.
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MF Ghost.
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The leaders are heading into the third lap,
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moving from the inland
portion to the peninsula.
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So far, the 12 and the 4 have
been rooted to their positions,
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but Sawatari Koki won't let this end
without trying something.
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00:13:48,570 --> 00:13:54,450
He's bound to be using the insight he gained in
the Ashinoko defeat to overcome Beckenbauer.
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Compared to the more orthodox Beckenbauer,
Sawatari-kun has a few tricks up his sleeve.
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You might even call him
the joker in this pack.
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00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:06,210
I'm sure he's working on a way
to turn this in his favor.
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00:14:06,620 --> 00:14:09,720
Now we turn our attention
to the fight for fifth!
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The 885 is chomping at Oishi's heels!
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00:14:14,770 --> 00:14:17,060
Fantastic. Another weirdo.
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00:14:17,620 --> 00:14:21,160
These rookies are too hard to predict.
It makes dealing with them a pain.
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As Kanata raced on, wracked with pain,
something began to change within him.
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Something that had been obscured
after a year out from racing...
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started to come into sharp focus.
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His loss of motivation
after his mother's death.
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The weak side of him that
turned inward, away from racing.
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The fruitless downward spiral
in pursuit of his identity.
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A maze of doubt with no exit.
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These circumstances that had cornered him
mentally were stripped away, one by one,
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until only two things remained.
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The first: his deeply ingrained racing driver
skills, learned at an impressionable age.
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And the second?
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Pure, unshackled competitive spirit.
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Ironically, it was this bout of adversity
that let Kanata Rivington
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return to his peak as a driver.
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But even as he ascended to a level he'd reached
prior to his time away from racing,
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his inability to use second gear remained
a wall he couldn't easily overcome.
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Whoa! The 885 car makes its move!
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The right route in these three forks
is thought to be quicker,
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but he takes the left!
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And going into Mitsuishi corner...
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He caught up! They're side by side!
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The 885 is pulling away!
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What an intense overtake!
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A rookie in his first race has bested the driver
who came third in last season's rankings!
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Akiyama-san, can you talk us
through that overtake?
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There are three forks on the peninsula,
and the right route is usually better,
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but that third one's a unique case.
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While it's true the right route was used
when the record was set in qualifying,
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you can use the left route
to draw alongside your foe,
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providing you with a chance to overtake.
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By dropping some lateral Gs
and easing off a smidge,
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by the time you hit Mitsuishi corner,
you have an effective chance to go up the inside.
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It was perfectly executed by Moroboshi-kun.
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The fifth-placed group is now
into the sea-level stretch of the course.
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And the 3 car is gradually losing ground.
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The 885's drone camera
is closing in on the 1 car!
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And if Moroboshi manages to pass him,
it'll be huge news!
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Another damn rookie.
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Maybe teaching these reckless young chargers
just how scary MFG can be is my job...
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as a veteran driver.
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He normally drives really aggressively,
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but Aiba Shun in the 9 is weirdly subdued.
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Him acting this calm is
so out of character, it's creepy.
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That's the way, Shun.
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Pressuring the Yashi-Kita Gang in the
peninsula section won't break their formation,
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but it will eat your tires.
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Your chance will come later on.
Preserve your tires until then.
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And keep a lid on it until I give the signal.
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Roger.
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Booth to Sakamoto-san.
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Try to take it easy on
these narrow peninsula roads.
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The 86 is bound to lose speed
at the T-point corner,
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so do a cutback and pass him up the inside.
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Got it.
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It's gonna feel good moving up a spot.
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The Godly Fifteen make their way
along the peninsula,
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and here on the third lap,
they've reached the halfway point of the race.
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It's still a little early for anyone
to start their final charge,
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despite some intense jockeying
for position in the middle of the field.
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The biggest moves of the race tend to
happen near the end of the fourth lap.
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Let's pay close attention to what
the lead group does at that point.
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Damn it. The 5 behind him is acting
like it'll be an easy overtake.
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I can see why. That car's got
a 5.2-liter engine, giving him 620hp.
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He has an easier time of it uphill.
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Kanata's getting passed at
the T-point corner again, huh?
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That'll put him in tenth,
despite starting in third.
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At this rate, he could even end up
in last place on the final lap.
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He really could.
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But despite that, Katagiri Kanata
will grit his teeth and continue to race.
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We know the truth. We may as well
watch it play out to the end.
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This might be the most meaningful
last-place finish in MFG history.
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And we need to see it through.
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We have two cars competing
for ninth place: the 86 and the 5.
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They're weaving through narrow residential
streets towards the T-point corner.
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We're at the T-point corner. Let's do this.
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He's got us. This sucks, Kanata.
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He's off like a rocket!
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Okuyama-san, what was that?!
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The only possible explanation
is he used second gear.
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Ogata here.
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What are you doing, dummy?!
That was second gear, wasn't it?!
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Kanata to Ogata-san.
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Before I realized what was happening,
my left hand shifted up into second.
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Ogata-san. I'm not feeling the pain anymore.
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I'm not following you, man.
Explain yourself.
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I can't.
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I don't understand it, either. Over.
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What is this?
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A warm feeling of power is reaching over
to me from the passenger seat.
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And it's enveloped the whole of my left arm.
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It's like the pain was never there.
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Ogata-san. It's time for revenge.
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Hold up. Don't do anything rash. Cool it.
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Let's focus on maintaining
your current position.
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I'm begging you, Kanata.
Don't mess your elbow up even more.
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No.
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All the cars that passed me...
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I need to pass them again...
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before this race ends.
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Over.
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Kanata.
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I was running away from
something really important.
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I'll tell him. When this race
is over, I'll let him know.
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I haven't told Kanata that
I'm one of the MFG Angels.
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Next time, Turn 26: Fireball.