Authors notes: This story I have been trying to fix the paragraph errors that was in the "Defeating Project D" story, there may still be some left, but I am trying to get them as accurate as possible to the word document I have written the story in.
Oh and GTSilverShadow, if you have any comments I think you are better off emailing me rather than writing a review to this.
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It was afternoon in Chicago and most of the city was on the way home from work.
However in one company building a few of the higher executives had gathered in the conference room.
The man at the end of the table rose out of his chair.

"I am happy we all could meet at a time like this, but I have gotten an idea how to boost our sales."

A Japanese guy spoke up.

"The trends are changing, not many people use our tuning garages anymore and your special yearly venture drains our funds, what did you call it again?"

"World Cup! It is the World Cup that will help us in these difficult times."

"If you mean by broking us, then you are on the right trail." An American said at the back of the business men that had met.

"I will get right down to business then; we all know that the market in Japan pretty much affects the market in other countries when it comes to tuner gear, right? So what we will do is turn that market in our favour." The leader at the end of the table said while reaching for the remote for the projector.

"The Japanese market will be impossible to change just with words, we have tried that for a long time, and unless we change our strategies we will go bankrupt!" The Japanese guy said.

The leader switched on the monitor and rolled a few pictures of a mountain pass over the screen.

"This is the most common scene we in Japan see our tuner gear being used on, the Touge or mountain passes. There is a market for the regular street as well but that is affected by the passes as well. The recent changes in Japan have put a lot of focus on the Touge and the racing that goes on there. Under here the racing team called "Project D" have put down a trend and has gained a lot of attention."

Pictures of Project D rolled over the screen and the business men watched it with a little less satisfaction.

"I am sorry we are so simple minded, but all 15 of us that gathered here today came for a solution to our problems. Not what caused the problem." the American bursted out.

"You look for the simple answer, and that is that we defeat Project D!" The leader said we great enthusiasm.

"Sorry, but we are not racers so we cannot do that I am afraid." The Japanese said with a slight annoyance.

"I know, but that's where the World Cup event comes into play, we sponsor a major expedition with the top racers from the World Cup and we go gunning for Project D in Japan."

A Japanese man coughed a bit before he rose out of his chair.

"I have studied this phenomenon with the mountain passes for some time and to be honest, we don't have enough reputation to go up against Project D, if we challenged them directly we wouldn't get much of an impact with our sponsorship."

"EXACTLY! Thank you for bringing that up Keiichi, but I have already thought out a plan for that, we will race a few of the opponents they have raced so far and beat those. We will finish up in Gunma area on their respective home courses. After all I have named this Project S."

"Project S? May I ask what that S means if it has a meaning at all?" The American asked.

"The S stands for Superiority; we will show our products superiority as well as the skilled drivers we have been sponsoring events for."

"Have you chosen the drivers for the expedition then?" Keiichi asked.

"Yes, I have already selected the best from the World Cup to do this, however we still need to sort out the support crew for this operation, so if we decide to do this I was hoping some of you could contribute to the project in form of providing mechanics, support truck drivers and parts as well as trucks themselves."

"I got a few trucks in Tokyo that we can use for the project and drivers, my mechanics are busy at this time though." Keiichi said.

"Allright, if you can provide flight for some of the crew I got then you got a deal on some American mechanics." The American said.

"I got a lot of spare mechanics that I can assign to this project without many problems." The Japanese guy stated.

"Then we got what we need, those in favour of Project S, please rise, those who vote against remain seated."

The entire crowd rose from their chairs.

"That settles that matter then, now here is the list of drivers I have prepared."

On the screen a list of drivers was shown and Keiichi smiled from ear to ear.

"There is no way we can lose to Project D with these guys, no way in hell we can." Keiichi said.

A woman nodded from the back seat, next to the American.

"Especially with that guy up there using my products, if he loses then I know he has lost something." The woman said.