She has three days to prepare her car for the first run at the Osaka pass.
She obviously has to prepare herself.
Kisosaki, Mie Prefecture
9.17
A pub just recently opened, it was pretty much nice, the food, the drinks, the other features like TV on the bar and the audio systems, especially the service, except for the fact the owner rarely played J-Pop, not even an Anisong, now they go for a western dubstep (The Mob Glitch - Seven Nation Army). The place is recommended for Ramen, but also the sweet breads, the many of sweet breads and sweets, intrigued, and the fact that she's quite hungry, she's inside there, taking some sweet breads and a cup of mocha latte, not mood for a ramen the shop do served.
Thinking while eating, Minami must plan things to prepare, to prepare fot the race, the final first phase race. Osaka, it isn't to takes place right in the urban setting, but mountain road somewhere northeast of the city, pretty popular for amateur and professional drifters alike.
So what to do first, huh?
As of now, the 24lb single bottle nitrous on her car has been refilled and that's about the preparation. Little bite after little bite is taken while working up her mind about what to do with her car for the tomorrow night race, the first wave race instead the usual fourth wave, the last wave.
Nitrous refill? Check!
Brake fluids? Check!
Suspension Re-setting? It's already intended for pretty much both touge and highways, and so as the ECU mapping and Turbo system which both's curves has been middled to give a balanced traits of Wangan top speed and Touge acceleration, which in other words, Three Checks!
So maybe tyres, then?
when she thinks about it, it does crucial too, she's been drifting her rubbers at high speed near the end of the previous race along the Isewangan just after exiting Tomei, but then again, if she remembers it, there's still some rubbers remaining to do a run. She may have to change up again, but for now, she's about to bet on the current sets.
So then there's nothing to be concerned about but the next race, all she do now were taking bites of her soft and sweet supper as well as her mocha latte. The many bridges crossing the Sumida river were filled already, motor vehicles were leaping to and from inside and somewhere outside Oshiage District of Tokyo.
Oshiage District, Tokyo
9.18
The area where the famous Tokyo Skytree has just recently built. "So, how long would you staying here in Tokyo?"
"Don't know, a half more month maybe, before i'm head south!" Replied a man, it was the last before the sound of a car door opened heard, then it closed again, all two were heard once again followed by the living up car engines ensues, revving slightly for some moment before the source of the sound leave.
Strolling among the motorized road strollers on the two ways, four lanes road were the 2017 Nissan GTR R35, colored with the famous special color trim of the Nissan flagship, the Midnight Purple Pearl mated with the set of 18 inches black five spoke Nismo Wheels, the rear wings were black of Carbon Fiber, following behind it were black FD RX-7, outfitted with the Black Edition wide body kits from the shop 'Aero-Tech', the wheels are 16in silver wheels set taken from the 1993 RX-7 model. "So, Cooper-San, where else do you want to go here?", said the previous woman, driving the black FD3S, "I wanna go back here later night and check out the Sky Tree. How about we check out Sumida park and the Aquarium before we go to Yotsuya?" The previous man driving the GTR replied her. The black Mazda speed up to the purple Nissan's right side, "Let's go to Shin-Michi when we get to Yotsuya!" The two cars pace up slightly and headed northwest and went on towards Komagata bridge ahead, with a growl that can be heard half of the block.
"You already know where i want to go, Kyoko-san!"
Nagoya Prefecture
11.16
"Yeah, okay!"
She speak on the phone, behind her were mechanics beginning their assembly of the newer and better core intercooler bar to her 180SX, the front bumpers were already dismantled someplace temporarily to allow them to screws and clamp bolts and lungs to the brand new car parts comfortably and easily. "Mount Ikoma?" Minami asked to be asured, Mount Ikoma is one of many famous tourist spots around Kansai region, she remembered that the road to the foot of the mountain, like Ashinoko and Hakone, are narrow like some other mountain pass of Japan, in fact, it's narrower than the two she just run before. "Alright, thanks!" She ended the call, she just kept the phone on her grasp, nothing to do yet to it. Now that she think of it, maybe she had to indirectly see the racetrack herself, sure, Kenzo had taken her there before, but with the recent national roadway repairs following the earthquake long before, there's no guarantee that the course layout, the turns, the apex and some backstraights will be the same again, all and all so the defeat at Ashinoko wouldn't be repeated.
The radiator grill were taken off slowly, then the main fans, before they begin unscrew the bolts on the intercooler pipes and bar, "Pass me that box!", one mechanic asked as he unscrew the pipes, the box were used as to place the nuts safe and close by. Another mechanic were opening the oil cap, it's wand were part of it that has been already dipped to the oil, "It's looking good! Give at least a month or a half before you have to change it!" The mechanic said to Sonozaki which she nod understand.
New pipings were in the process being installed, a better graded aluminum materials than the one they've dismantle off her Sileighty, it's battle worn anyway, so Minami wouldn't mind for the mere added ¥6.500 of the ¥45.000 tagged intercooler core bar for a better pipes she traded, may just all for 7 BHP more, but for now, more is more. Another technician, as Sonozaki called to a mechanic whose help her car most of the time with computers and gadgets than wrench, screws and bolts, were remapping her ECU for the next battle at Ikoma, the place which the technician quite well know, "There's lesser guardrails there, but don't worry! Its to cover up part of the road by the ravines only, mostly were U-Turns and some hairpins, some sectors allows you to go deep on the accelerator but not long enough though!" The technician explained her as his hand played with the tuts really fast, "So what should I do?" To which Minami asked, "I'd suggest you go at around six to seven and half thousand RPM throttle input, that would give you some room before you pull off some drifts or anything since the road is quite narrow! But actually, that only if you ready, if not then...give seventy to eighty percent throttle at most of the time, it should be comfortable to you for most of the area!" Minami nod with that.
23.55
Late night in the japanese expressways, one part of the toll roads were already bewildered. Three cars were dashing out of the tunnel by Chiyoda, the road were part of the famous C1 Inner Loop of the Tokyo Metro Expressway, otherwise known as Shutoko.
Three Porsche 911s were blitzing out to the night amidst the neverending traffics, each are three different generations, leading the pack were the black 964 Turbo, followed by the bright red Targa top 996 Carrera, the tip of the tail were the most advanced generation of the trio colored in sky blue with red stripes by the lower sides and the red tips straight GT spoiler, the 997 GT3 RS, they were all trailing the Chiyoda park area, passed the Italian embassy before, the 964 then lights up it's two red rear lights, slowing the car steadily until it stops on the middle left lane of the narrow two lanes only mountain pass, waiting for it's adversary.
"Alright, young lady! You got what you want!"
Mount Ikoma, Nara Prefecture
00.00
The road she were to meet and race her opponent were just east of the city Osaka itself, pitted also by another city of it's east which shares the same name to the mountain she's at, the mountain itself in fact, just sitting in might to her left beyond the dense trees which many of the leaves has deprived to the soil, the same view goes to her right side on the home side lane of the road where she can see the KIX (Kansai International Airport) far away at the daylight, she's waiting right at the foot of the mountain. It wasn't the Osaka high ground to which the place were popularly visited by the local drifters Minami would compete at as she'd thought, it was rather a daylight tourism spot she'd make a run for instead.
Her smartphone takes a beep from the AllDrive
Izanami - Toyota Chaser (X100) Tourer V
Minami Sonozaki - Nissan 180SX (S13) Type S
Faint lights shown to the rear-view mirror, the lights were brighter steadily and gradually, and then clearly to reveal two lights from the front beams of the now known to be a JZX100 Chaser, a red Toyota Chaser, the known lightweight rear-wheel drive sedan that could takes on drift cars and wins them, also made famous by the certain drifter whose jump drifting it during the D1GP round at Ebisu, and has since getting stronger reputation by drifters around the world. It seems it would be another typical battle, it's...her fifth Touge run, third Touge battle, it will not be easy for her, never be, but except that she's all by herself with nobody on the either side of the road but Izanami besides her, there's nothing unordinary to expect than that.
Then she remembers the red Chaser, Izanami, or Miki Amami in truth.
Miki were with her facial expression showing her certainty that to win this race against Minami is absolutely small odds, every stacked advantage on her behalf would not enough to beat the young girl whose living closely with her mentor, that said, odds are this girl were taught with something Kenzo did not taught to Miki, she need a luck.
Which Minami also needed.
The LED on the cones of both sides of the road begins to glow red, both cars screams out a feral howling, outloud howling from the distinct SR20 and 1JZ engines as each carriers were readying upon the cones, whoch were nothing but still emitting red light. It wasn't long until two fireworks streak up hig between trees and popped to glittering pattern that reads 'START!', the two cones change it's LED color to green at the same time, followed by tyre screeching as the two RWD cars accelerate underneath the fireworks down the hill.
The red Chaser is shooting a small shot of nitrous, the sudden acceleration force the rear of the car forward with more powerful kinetick energy than on the front, with a little left steering, it oversteers to the left turn ahead, and so with a countersteering it then enters to the left turn sideways close to 35 MpH. Miki, sat on the black Recaro seat, comfortly control her steering input and softly plays the throttle pedal, she's focused on the road, but the otherhand she's not dare to look behind even once, "It's really her! Minami! Kenzo's protege! She may very young but she can drive obviously", by thinking about the track layouts ahead and not anything else unrelated to racing, she remain calm on keeping her driving clean and constantly high speed without much effort, "Alright, Miki, just concentrate on the road, just the Road!". Minami, in her comfort, did not let up, the double kick on the clutch is her only quick memorable way to initiate drift without loss of significant speed, the two cars then put off the throttle for a moment and let the car steered to the wide U-Turn to the right, the counter steer is just under fourty five degrees leftside steering rotation and a half full throttle retake, resulting in a wider drifting angle, which match part of the road they're at, brakes were literally applied just to keep the car from drifting to the ravine. "I can't close up the gap with her! It's like we're standing still!" Minami realized as she sees the TRD customized sedan she can't get closer to, one very little mistake and Izanami is very liable to dash away from her, "No! I have to hold it for a while, i'll save my energy to overtake her later!".
Halfway through, the forests to their left were still there, by the ravine underneath as Minami sees several top edges only, then the ravine were higher again with the road, the track were covered by trees again, ahead is a tight rightside chicane, with no room for error, soil were gapping between the end of the technical turns, the two RWD cars already disengage the gas, for a moment, as then the weight of each cars is shifted towards the right side of their car trying to heed the direction left, through the 'Nipple' between the connecting bends, the two japanese drift weapons were closing faster to the chicane, which then they see that the soil gap were one high mound that can flip about any speeding cars coming on top of it. Fortunately, Minami and her opponent managed to swerve through safely, mere inches from the mound surface and the front bumpers, drifting slightly too fast, they have passed the chicane as their right wheels stray through the righthand road gutter, crossing throug the grassy soil which affecting the cars behavior, in this case, the grippy left wheels were slightly pushing the left side of the cars and by the time the right wheels regains the traction, the cars is no longer drifting as they coming to the soft righthand, so soft as it were literally straight line, long enough to let them gain some needed speed, they going fast enough to mandate them to shift up to fourth gear, hand swiftly but smoothly moved the knob middle up. Minami gazed away for a moment to see her GPS connected already smartphone, shows that ahead is a lefthand ninety degrees turn led to a three way intersection, the turns were sort of forming reverse greek letter 'Phi'.
Miki were set her eyes on the lefthander turn, she pressed the brake pedal with her right foot, hitting the pedal with her toe and the heel together on the accelerator, her left foot were on the clutch which it pressed deep one for a second, her hands angled the steering wheel left about twenty degrees, her JZX reacted to do the 'Scandinavian flicks', she get through the turn so fast she went too wide, braving it, she keeps the drifting regardless the rear bumber bends in as it scrapes the guardrail separating the road and the downhill forest. Checking Minami on the otherhand, she founds the headlights were still reflecting on her rear view mirror, the S15 headlights were still partially visible to the mirror, the schoolgirl is still sticking closely behind the red TRD Chaser. "I knew it! So that's how good her driving is, as she seems handicapped all my advantages on my car and the road!", looking back to the roads, Miki tries to calm herself and decided it's best she's concentrate back to the road. Miki kept on with her drifting, stabilizing the throttle at medium to higher RPM area and giving little input to her steering to the right road ahead and drifting in wider angle towards there, about seven meters close to the intersections, the throttle were ease up a bit, the RPM she runs were mostly midrange and slightly lower. Coming in fast, she Let off the throttle letting her sedan car run by the gravity, 100 yards closer to where they have to turn right, she steer back to the turn until she feels the weight shifted from the back end of her car steadily to the direction she's onto. Pulling the handbrake, for the first time, which locking up the rear wheels momentarily, her drift angle were more tightened, she counteract the steering leftside, and enter the westward road sideways. It's a U-turn from where she enters, and shortly after one, another just before them, going leftside, Sonozaki were going sideways after Izanami's sedan, "What?!" Minami gasped when a bright light shone on the passenger door, which to her dismay, it's another car coming from the south road, bound to intervene her.
"KYAA!" Scream were heard, the crash then follows.
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