Formula racing have always been considered a national past time in the Universial Century.
While it enjoyed a measure of popularity, it wasn't until the year of 0079 when the popularity suddenly took off when a renowned Formula racer from the colony "Side 3" named Char Aznable burst into the scene and pulled off an impressive string of victories by a huge margin.
Not wanting to be shown up by a spacenoid, the ruling party of the Earth Federation went and designed a special vehicle RX-0078 in order to compete with Char's trademarked red MS-06S. The development went through series of setbacks as Tem Ray, the designer of the RX model suffered from a tragic accident when he fell down the flight of stairs, breaking his neck in the process.
As a result of Tem Ray's sudden demise, the design of the vehicle would remain incomplete and the project was scrapped, resulting in a billion dollars of fiasco. But one day, the fortune would soon change when Tem Ray's son, Amuro grew bored and ditched class in hope of finding something to distract himself from his father's death when he stumbled into the incomplete RX model that have been sitting in the garage. Fascinated by this, the young teenager got into the vehicle and took it out for a joy ride, committing series of traffic violations.
Although Amuro Ray would run out of fuel and was apprehended by the police, the teenager's reckless escapade managed to catch a level of interest from various racing scouts. Not long after, Amuro Ray would receive contract offers from several racing teams and it took awhile for the teenager to decide before ultimately settling with White Base which was lead by an future racing Hall of Fame instructor, Bright Noa.
Despite the impressive start, many experts didn't think that Amuro would stand a chance against Char due to the fact that the latter was an established veteran at the time. There's also the fact that Amuro and Bright would spend much of the first half of the season feuding as the former developed a reputation of a "prima donna" due to his impressive start, including an upset victory over Char (whose vehicle broke down half-way through the final lap, diminishing Amuro's win in the eyes of the public). In time, Amuro's feud with his racing instructor have gotten to a point that the egotistical racing prodigy threatens to desert the team in a mocking tone, resulting in the instructor to assault the young racer.
Being that the event have been witnessed and covered by the news media, many have taken it as a sign that Bright Noa was losing control of the team and there were rumors of the instructor's impending dismissal.
However, one event would change the whole situation.
Bright Noa's close friend and Amuro's mentor, Jose Ryu was killed in the gas station accident while he was fueling his car on his way to try and help mediate the situation between the two. It was reported that a couple of teengers were seen fooling around with gas station nozzles, spraying each other with gasoline and Ryu tried to stop them when a gas station attendant lit up a cigarette.
The tragedy would lead to Bright and Amuro realizing that the feud isn't going to help their team if they wanted to win for their fallen friend. Since then, the two reconcile and Amuro was able to lead his team to an impressive string of victories, even beating Char in several come from behind victories.
But one day, a rumor comes up that would intensify the hostility between the two rivals.
A word got out that Amuro slept with Char's adoptive mother, Lalah Sune (despite being several years younger than he is). This upsets Char, leading to a distraction that would cause him to miss the next several races.
To make the matters worse, Lalah would die in an accident a week later.
To make the matters awkward, both Amuro and Char would attend Lalah's funeral.
The situation reached the breaking point when the two rivals got into a fight in the middle of the funeral in which Amuro and Char winds up trying to kill each other with pointed umbrellas.
According to the witnesses, both men were blaming each other for Lalah's death and it wasn't until Amuro's friend and Char's sister, Sayla Mass comes in to break up the fight.
In the end, both men parted ways without saying a word though not before thanking Sayla.
Later that year, Amuro would edge out Char by the score of 203 to 198 points for the championship.
Due to the fact that both drivers established a very impressive reaction time and having an incredible perception that seems inhuman, there were speculations that the two drivers may in fact been "Newtypes".
As a result of the excitement generated by the two rivals, many teams sought out a newtype to help enhance their competitive edge. Unfortunately, this would lead to consequences as some drivers were subjected to series of inhumane experiments in order to enhance their perceptions. At the same time, the treatments caused the individuals to become unstable and many of them would become involved in series of off track issues, including dependence on drugs, domestic violence, assault and battery, and sometimes even murder.
The racing commission allows it however because the rivalry between Amuro and Char had led to the increased interest in the sport. After the two abruptly retired, the ratings quickly pummeled.
Bright Noa spoke out against the practice of creating artificial Newtypes and a day later, the racing instructor of a defunct racing team was found beaten badly at the alleyway and needed several stitches to his face as well as few days stay at the hospital before being granted a discharge. The a week later, Bright Noa's family were threatened though it was later dismissed as a hoax.
It was suspected that two of the racing officials, Bask Om and Jamaican Daninghan ordered the attack on the instructor, but no charges were filed.
Then in the year of 0087, Char suddenly emerged from his seven years of retirement where he would team up with Bright Noa to form a new racing team called Londo Bell. It was speculated that the reason for the two to join forces was to battle against the team formed by the corrupted officials of the racing committee known as The Titans which features several artificial Newtypes and couple of convicted criminals, one of which happens to be Yazan Gable, a direct descendent of a famous actor who was also happens to be known for suspected of series of murders prior to his recruitment into the racing team.
Char was able to recruit some of his old teammates but he and Bright weren't able to talk Amuro out of his retirement, forcing them to look elsewhere in hopes of fieldling a competitive racing team.
From there, the team starts looking toward youth movement where they recruited Katz Kobayashi, a talented driver but also reckless and has a tendency to get himself into trouble. Instructor Bright figured that he can at least try to get the most out of Katz because he was one of the children mascot for White Base and even hired an old friend, Hayato who happens to be an adoptive father of the boy. The problem is that Katz felt that he's entitled to do what he wants and rarely listens to anyone, even if it helps sharpen his skills.
Out of desparation, Char decides to scout the local racing academy in hope of finding a promising young talent.
That's when he encounter his most famous protege and a legendery racer of his own right, Kamille Bidan.
Kamille happens to be a son of an influential family who works for the racing committee. Due to this fact, Kamille's personality wasn't much better than Katz's as he has a tendency to commit actions that would get him into trouble with the law. However, each time the troubled teenager was arrested, his mother, Hilda Bidan would come to bail him out and pulled some strings to make sure he won't get charged.
The main problem with the teenager was that he was saddled with a feminine name, making him into a target for bullies throughout much of his childhood. This led to a growing insecurity in which the Kamille would pick fights with those who picked on him, even going as far as learning martial arts to improve his fighting skills.
At one point, some of the teachers would try to keep watch on the troubled teenager as they believed that he was more likely to shoot up the school.
He also possessed an incredible Newtype potential at a very young age to the point that due to his behavior, Bright Noa would have to file paperworks to prove that he wasn't an artificial Newtype (which teams have to pay a luxury tax for each one to keep them).
The team's recruitment of Kamille Bidan generated a massive hype as not only the teen happens to be a well known troublemaker and a highly regarded racing prodigy at the academy, he also happens to be a descendent of the members of a legendary survey corps. that fought against the man eating monsters known as the titans several centuries ago.
This would lead to a joke among the media in regards to that hilarious coincidence.
One day, tragedy struck not long after Kamille joined Londo Bell.
Kamille's father, a well-renowned designer of several racing models for The Titans murdered his wife before committing suicide. This caused a huge shock as the teenager blamed the corrupt officials of the racing committee for their deaths before refusing to attend their funeral, stating in the interview that they're not his parents as his father had an affair for years and his mother simply ignores it.
Toward the end of the interview, the racing prodigy broke down in tears on national television and people began to question his mental stability further as his reputation doesn't help.
Later, one of The Titans' rookie recruit, Emma Sheen, would defect to Londo Bell citing that there were suspicious activities going around and she no longer want any part of it.
Not long after the incident, Kamille was with his childhood friend, Fa Yuiry when he overheard someone talking about his feminine name, causing him to run toward the stranger and punched him in the face.
After being subdued and beaten by several people despite Fa's plea to stop, Kamille was incarcerated for a week prior to the beginning of the racing season. As fate would have it, the man he punched turns out to be one of the racers for The Titans named Jerrid Messa, of whom would become known for his rivalry with Kamille although the latter would finish ahead of him on almost each and every race, making it somewhat one sided.
Londo Bell would acquire couple of latest racing models, the most famous of which is the MSZ-006. What made the model notable is that Kamille had a hand in the design as well, mostly to ensure that no one but him can drive it to its full potential.
Halfway through the season, the racing prodigy would become involved in a well publicized media circus as he was involved in a love triangle that features Fa Yuiry and a artificial Newtype driver from The Titans named Four Murasame. The infamous romantic relationship between Four and Kamille would last for over a month, leading to speculations that the artificial Newtype driver was going to defect to Londo Bell before suffering a suspicious accident in which resulted in injuries that led to her death. Kamille would accuse the corrupted officials and the members of The Titans for Four's death, vowing to kill each and every last one of them for what they have done.
The tirade would lead to another media circus where the public started to believe that Kamille is an unstable thug, even to the point where they start making an unfavorable comparison with him to Amuro and Char. The fact that Kamille was two years older than Amuro when he made his debut in the competition doesn't help.
Amuro would later come out of his seclusion and spoke out against The Titans as Char publicly defends Kamille, declaring that what the teenager said is justified.
Later that year, Char declared at the press conference that he has evidence of the illegal activities performed by The Titans along with the officials of the racing committee connected to them.
The evidence of the scandal that Char provided resulted in a huge outcry against the racing committee, leading to the sport's decline in popularity.
But the racing committee refused to do anything as two of the most important officials, Bask Om and Jamaican Daninghan held much of the power that time.
Soon, The Titans would unleash their new ace, Paptimus Scirocco, a notorious womanizer.
Scirocco was considered a powerful "one-two" punch alongside Yazan Gable as they would intimidate their opponents by having one of them taking out the driver they deem as a threat to their success.
Things didn't go well for Londo Bell as Katz Kobayashi got himself killed when he tried to hand feed a lion at the zoo, getting his hand bitten off. Later on, one of the drivers, Reccoa Londe had a feud with Char because he refused to sleep with her so she defected to The Titans. The there was a YouTube video where Kamille was beaten up by a representative of Anaheim Electronics, the team's sponsor.
Being that the person who beat up Kamille somewhat resembles Willy Wonka, it led to series of jokes and the teenager becomes a huge laughingstock over the internet.
Few days later, Radish, a team whom Londo Bell happens to have a good relationship with suddenly perished at a tragic air crash. No one really knows the cause to this day but some of the witnesses said that they saw the plane explodes mid-air and bits of body parts would rain down along with the debris. It gotten sickening when not only the members of The Titans made light of the news on YouTube and Facebook, someone even auctioned a man's head on eBay. The person was quickly arrested and the head was identified as that of the instructor of Radish, Henken Bekkener, a close friend of Emma Sheen and Bright Noa.
Toward the end of the season, the fortune would soon change for Londo Bell in that infamous racing tournament when Yazan Gable intentionally rammed into Emma Sheen's vehicle from behind, sending her veering into the war before bouncing off into the field (where the vehicle clips Reccoa, sending her spinning out of control before bursting into flames, killing her). Kamille would pull up to check on his team mate, only to learn that Emma suffered from a massive trauma to the head, leading to her eventual death few days later due to brain hemmorhage.
Angered by this, a week later at the Formula One tournament, Kamille's rage resulted in his powers to grow to the point that his vehicle became enveloped with a pink aura.
Yazan tried to avoid him but it was too late as the teenager sends the former convict's vehicle flying into the sky.
The race would become as anticlimatic as it can get as Kamille won by a huge margin.
In the end, he was able to to pull off strings of victories, easily besting Paptimus Scirocco who have suddenly became a racing official after the mysterious deaths of Bask and Jamaican. Jerrid tried to block Kamille, only to be knocked away to the side where his vehicle explodes, instantly killing him although no tears were shed as Kamille blamed him for getting in the way.
Besides, Jerrid's with The Titans so he got what he deserved.
After pasting past Scirocco for a first place finish, enabling him to finish the season with most points at 197, edging out The Titan's ace by a margin of five points, Kamille has finally won the media over.
Unfortunately, this story doesn't have a happy ending as Scirocco attempts to kill his rival by attacking him at his own home. Kamille was able to kill Scirocco, but not before the latter dug his machete into his brain.
Although the racing prodigy did recover, he was never the same and Fa would took up a role of his caretaker until his mysterious disappearance. Fa would never forgive herself for leaving him unattended while going out to buy some fruits at the grocery.
A search was made to find Kamille but in the end, nothing have been turned up.
Several months later, Kamille Bidan was declared dead despite his body not being found and in time, there were rumors floating around the internet that the former racing superstar might have secretly underwent a gender reassignment surgery and changed his name.
This would cause problem for Kamille's younger cousin, Monica Arno as she and her mother bore a strong resemblence toward Hilda Bidan whom Kamille happens to took after.
The rumors would soon die down over a year later.
During that year, thanks to series of deaths, The Titans would disband and Londo Bell was in danger of doing so as well despite being able to lure Robin Diez, a former driver of The Titans into their team. As a result of the depleted roster, it seems that Londo Bell is finished now that Kamille has been incapitated until a help from an unlikely source arrives...