this year marks a new record as the grand prix will be broadcast in eighty-four different languages. the camera pans. over the multitude of ethnic broadcasters.
just gets bigger every year, doesn't it ben?
we've got an incredible lineup this year. some major competition. we got a few fan favorites like the gray ghost, sonic "boom-boom" renaldi and prince kabala. we got perenial powerhouses like nitro venderhoss, gary "gearbox" kalinkov, and mori minimoto.
we're seeing some kind of commotion down at the trailer entrance.
something big is going on because every race official has been-- wait, wait. an announcement is being made. a new driver is being added to the field.
as the cars take to the field you can feel the anticipation mounting in the audience. something is different. there is an electricity in the air. the presence of speed racer has completely changed the equation.
there he is now, speed racer, perhaps the biggest wild card in grand prix history.
speed racer gets his first eyeful of the coliseum.
the final countdown has begun and a stillness has fallen over this stadium as all eyes turn to one car.
trouble at the start, a misfire traps speed racer, causing a
i don't know how he got out of that one--
speed fakes left, jumps right--
he slips in behind gearbox---
speed racer seems unstoppable, moving up from dead last, nearing the leaders as they head into the slalom with the gray ghost battling prince kabala and cannonball taylor for the lead.
a spectacular crash as the prince's jewel-covered gigerbon worth an estimated 22 million dollars is scattered over a quarter mile of track.
but look out, as they approach the big drop, here comes speed racer?
speed racer is knocking on the door of the new grx driven by cannonball taylor.
cannonball taylor is in trouble.
cannonball has speed pinned as they grind through the butterfly turn.
cannonball clearly using a spear hook.
not to mention what it might do to remmington industries.
he's back in it, but less than a lap and a half, i don't know what kind of chance he has.
look at the split! he's shattering the lap record.
no hesitation, nothing fazes him, no one seems capable of stopping him.
with a quarter lap to go speed racer is back, two cars beneath him and destiny.
it's a pandemonium! people have gone completely crazy! in fourteen years we've never seen anything like this!