From: eabu249@orion.oac.uci.edu (Video Boy Oi)
Subject: CyberFormula GPX Synopses: Episode 5
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Organization: Dosu Productions
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:39:02 GMT


    Here's Episode 5.  

NOTE:  Episode 6 has some format problems, which I will try to fix today or
       tomorrow.

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Episode 5 - Mezase!  Zen Nippon GRAND PRIX
Go For It!  The Japan Grand Prix
Synopsis by Avi Melman

    The Sugo team is driving to the race track in Hokkaido.  Ryoohei
is enjoying watching Hayato's win on the monitor.  Asurada suggests
teaching Hayato using the built-in simulator.  Asurada shows all of
the damage it took, and blames it on Hayato's inexperience.  Asurada
is going to practice Shinjoo Naoki's driving technique.  Hayato tries
to brake, but Asurada stops him, showing him that he would've broke
too soon.
  The teaching continues as the transport trailer approaches
a toll booth.  Suddenly, from behind, another car cuts them off while
entering the toll booth.  When the attendant asks the driver for the
toll, he points to the Sugo trailer and exlaims "I'm with them."  He
then drives away, leaving Asuka to pay for both of them.  She isn't
the least bit happy.
  At the track, the order their lunches, which
makes Asuka angry, because she had already cooked.  Watching the race
preview show, they see some of the other racers who have come to
compete from all over the world.  A little girl approaches Hayato and
Asuka.  Asuka asks where she came from.  The girl points to a pink
race car and says "That pink car."  (There were actually two pink cars
parked next to each other.)  She then pointed to someone at the phone
booth who had driven her there.  It was the same green-haired person
who had cut them off at the toll booth.  Then the reporter announces a
missing girl, and the picture looks exactly like the girl standing in
front of Asuka sucking her thumb.  They decide to jump the
"kidnapper".  But when they do, a man in a trenchcoat, who had been on
the phone next to them, suddenly gets off the phone, grabs the girl
from Asuka, and runs for his car.  It wasn't the green-haired driver
after all.  He tries to get to his car, but Miki stops him by wielding
a crowbar, so he takes the pink race-car.  Hayato prepares to go after
them, when the green-haired driver stops him, and demands to go with
him.  They persue the kidnapper, while Kanto calls the police.  The
kidnapper is a lousy driver, swerving everywhere.  The police pass
Asurada, and tell the kidnapper to pull over.  The kidnapper asks the
computer what to do, and it helps him stop the police by causing them
to crash.  Asurada plans a harsh maneuver with Hayato, which calls for
Hayato to slam the other car into the wall, but being careful not to
hurt the girl.  The green-haired driver is all for this type of plan,
but the kidnapper pulls away.
  Hayato turns on turbo boost, which takes the green-haired passenger 
completely by surprise.  Hayato is reminded that is he makes a mistake, 
the car will go into a skid, so he doesn't brake when his first instinct 
tells him to.  They succeed in stopping the kidnapper.
  The green-haired driver knocks the kidnapper out for takng his car, 
pulls money out of the kidnapper's wallet to pay for damages, and slaps 
an I.O.U on his face.  He then pays Hayato for the toll, and drives 
away as the police arrive with the girl's mother. Kanto explains that 
the green-haired racer likes to win by crashing his opponents.

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