What is the name of the race car driven by Speed Racer in the late 1960s series of the same name?
"United States on April 3, 2008. In the United Kingdom the sets Speed Racer & Snake Oiler, Racer X & Taejo Togokhan, and Grand Prix Race were released on April 6, 2008, while Cruncher Block & Racer X was released later at the start of May. ""Speed Racer & Snake Oiler"" is a 242-piece set. It features the Mach 5 supercar and Oiler's orange race car, both around 17 cm (6.5"") long, and two minifigures: Speed Racer, wearing a blue pullover, and Snake Oiler. 'Racer X & Taejo Togokhan' is a 237-piece set. It features a red and black racecar,"
"Speed Racer Speed Racer, also known as , is a Japanese media franchise about automobile racing. ""Mach GoGoGo"" was originally serialized in print in Shueisha's 1966 ""Shōnen Book"". It was released in tankōbon book form by Sun Wide Comics, and later re-released in Japan by Fusosha. Adapted into anime by Tatsunoko Productions, its 52 episodes aired on Fuji TV from April 1967 to March 1968. The anime was later re-broadcast on Tokyo MX from July 1 to September 25, 2008. Selected chapters of the manga were released by NOW Comics in the 1990s under the title ""Speed Racer Classics"". These"
"Speed Racer (film) Speed Racer is a 2008 sports action-comedy film written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers and based on the 1960s Japanese anime and manga series of the same name. It stars Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Roger Allam, Benno Fürmann, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rain, and Richard Roundtree. The film is a joint American-German venture produced by Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures, Anarchos Productions and Babelsberg Studio, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The plot revolves around Speed Racer, an 18-year-old automobile racer who follows his apparently deceased brother's career. His choice to remain"
"course of five days. The car will automatically be modified with a Speedhunters kit based on the Nismo Z-Tune when won, but can be made stock. The event was rerun on August 2017. An event series called Fastlane started on July 13, 2016. The first car was the Nissan 180SX Type X, followed by the 1969 Dodge Charger R/T, later a rerun of the Jaguar F-Type event, followed by the 2006 Ford GT, the Nissan Silvia S15 and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI. Another event ran from August 11-18, 2016, entitled Devil's Run, an event inspired by where the player"
"his crew, and with other racers. Functions are not activated by a steering wheel hub lettered A-G, but instead, by switches mounted around the steering wheel. The Mach 6 succeeded the Mach 5 as the main vehicle for the rest of the series. More of the original gadgets were gradually revealed (such as the sludge slick) and used in future episodes. Eventually, the Mach 5 returned as Speed Racer Sr.'s main car in the season 2 premiere. Mach Five The is the racing car Speed Racer (Go Mifune in the Japanese version) drives in the anime series of the same"
"flashbacks throughout the series). Racer X drives the number 9 car, the Shooting Star. Throughout the course of ""Speed Racer"", Racer X's identity is constantly revealed to the audience in almost every episode in which he appears, while Speed is unaware of it. Speed starts to suspect that Racer X might, in fact, be his estranged older brother in the ""Challenge of the Masked Racer"" saga (episodes 3 and 4). Speed finds out that Racer X is his long lost brother near the end of the series in ""The Trick Race"". It was acknowledged by both Pops and Speed over"
"Speed Six's engine produced at 3500 rpm. The Speed Six chassis was available to customers with wheelbases of , , and , with the 138 inch wheelbase being most popular. The Criminal Investigation Department of the Western Australia Police operated two saloon-bodied examples as patrol cars. In March 1930, Barnato raced against the Blue Train in a Speed Six with H. J. Mulliner saloon coachwork, reaching his club in London before the train was due in the station at Calais. It had generally been believed that the car in the race was a Gurney Nutting Sportsman Coupé, but the coupé"
"it available again, and they put it in their new Dodge Charger which had a low-drag rear window that was radically sloped. It was called a ""fast-back"", and because of this David Pearson was the series champion that year with Richard Petty dominating 1967, winning 27 of 48 races (including 10 in a row) in the boxier Plymouth Belvedere. The 1969 season featured the Torino Cobra or Torino ""Talladega"" which had enough aerodynamic body improvements that it gave it a higher speed than the 1968 Torino, with no other changes. The Cobra, featuring extended nose and reshaped rockers, was renamed"
"(rather than having it serve solely as an excuse for Spritle and Chim-Chim to stow away in the vehicle). The Mach Five is later modified with gadgets and becomes Speed's alternate car for off-track races such as the Casa Cristo 5000, as well as everyday driving like a normal car. The Mach Five originally belonged to Speed's older brother Rex, who relinquished ownership of it to Speed before he left the Racer home. Speed's main car for races on the WRL track (Thunderhead, etc.) is the Mach 6. The Mach 6 was destroyed in a fixed race, but was later"
"models were introduced to the speedway in 1960 under the name of the charger class. The charger class was eventually renamed to the cadet division, also known as the late model cadets. In 1978, the cadet division was renamed again to the late models, but the name was changed back to the cadet division the following year. For 1980 to 1989 however, the name had once again been changed, this time back to the charger class. In 1990 the charger class had another name change, this time being named the late model sportsmen. This name was used until 2003, when"
"and movie related die-cast cars and plastic model kits for Playing Mantis, including Speed Racer, Supercar, Land of the Giants Spindrift and others. Winckler was instrumental in obtaining the Speed Racer license for Playing Mantis since the U.S. licensee Speed Racer Enterprises initially rejected the offer from Playing Mantis, and Winckler had to go straight to the original Speed Racer licensors in Tokyo, Japan, Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. to secure the license. The Speed Racer Playing Mantis cars were the first ""officially licensed"" die-cast vehicles of Speed Racer sold in the U.S. thanks to Winckler. William Winckler assisted in the"
"(Results in bold indicate pole position; results in ""italics"" indicate fastest lap; † indicates shared drive.) Casner Motor Racing Division Casner Motor Racing Division – also known as America Camoradi (casner motor racing division), Camoradi USA or Camoradi International – was an American racing team of the 1960s known for racing Maserati Birdcage sports cars, and a Porsche and Cooper in Formula One. It was founded by Lloyd ""Lucky"" Casner in 1960, after he gained interest in the Maserati Tipo 61 in August 1959, and was created to race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Camoradi team won"
"the original Speed Racer series at #29 on its ""Best 100 Animated Series"" list. At Otakon 2015, Funimation announced that it had acquired the license to ""Speed Racer"" from Tatsunoko and would release it on Blu-ray for the first time. Funimation would give ""Speed Racer"" two separate home video releases: a standard release for the English version on May 30, 2017, and a collector's edition for the Japanese version with English subtitles on November 07, 2017, the first such North American release. The large red M on the hood of the Mach 5, as well as on Gō's helmet, is"
"Casner Motor Racing Division Casner Motor Racing Division – also known as America Camoradi (casner motor racing division), Camoradi USA or Camoradi International – was an American racing team of the 1960s known for racing Maserati Birdcage sports cars, and a Porsche and Cooper in Formula One. It was founded by Lloyd ""Lucky"" Casner in 1960, after he gained interest in the Maserati Tipo 61 in August 1959, and was created to race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Camoradi team won the 1000km Nürburgring in 1960 despite a broken fuel line halfway through the race. The team"
"is the main competitor for Speed in the Mach 6 and features a secret weapon called a ""spear-hook"" that is illegal in professional racing. After Taylor deploys the device against Speed during the Grand Prix, Speed uses the Mach 6's auto-jacks to flip the cars and reveal the hook to the track cameras, automatically disqualifying Taylor and aiding the case built by Inspector Detector against Royalton. Like most manga series adapted to anime, changes occur in both timelines of the ""Speed Racer"" series. Besides the obvious Americanization of the original Japanese characters' names, other changes include character's backstory and new"
"small collectible die-cast cars, to action figures, to home video releases of episodes from the original series. Speed Racer Enterprises was also involved in creating original American takes on the Japanese series such as ""The New Adventures of Speed Racer"" and ""Speed Racer: The Next Generation"". Due to Speed Racer Enterprises, the original 1967 series made a comeback through reruns on MTV, broadcast in the early morning hours. In 1993, the series was rebroadcast in syndication concurrently with a new American-created remake. Since all the rights were now under Speed Racer Enterprises, all references to the original rights holder, Trans-Lux,"
"Speedy Thompson by half a lap. Other notable drivers who participated in the race included Arden Mounts, Cotton Owens, Fireball Roberts, Tiny Lund, Paul Goldsmith, and Lee Petty. The winning vehicle was a 1956 Dodge Coronet. Thirty-five American drivers dueled each other with no foreign-born competitors either in qualifying or the race itself. It would be the first time that a driver with the number 502 would win a race. Most of the stock car owners were independent and had no formal ties to the multi-car teams that would start to form in the 1960s and 1970s. A vehicle made"
"Mach Five The is the racing car Speed Racer (Go Mifune in the Japanese version) drives in the anime series of the same name (known as """"Mach Go! Go! Go!"""" in Japan). The car was designed, built, and created by ""Pops Racer"" (Daisuke Mifune), Speed Racer's father. It features a set of special devices which Speed Racer uses throughout the series. In the original 1967 series, the Mach Five is a white racing car with an ""M"" written on its hood (which does not stand for ""Mach 5"", but instead stands for ""Mifune"", both Go's last name, and the name"
"Hours of Le Mans, and again the following year. A TVR Tuscan was used as a spy car in the 2003 movie . It was also used in the movie Swordfish, starring John Travolta and Hugh Jackman. TVR Tuscan Speed Six The TVR Tuscan is a sports car which was manufactured by TVR in the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2006. Five different inline-six engine options were offered to customers. Four of these were variants of the naturally aspirated 4.0 L ""Speed Six"" fuel feed by multipoint fuel injection making different amounts of power and torque, depending on the trim"
"which became known as the ""Blue Train Bentley"". Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of a new Bentley Speed Six streamlined fastback ""Sportsman Coupe"" by Gurney Nutting. Barnato named it the ""Blue Train Special"" in memory of his race, and it too became commonly referred to as the ""Blue Train Bentley"". The H. J. Mulliner-bodywork was stripped off the original car's chassis to make place for a bespoke replacement, as was common practice for automobiles at that time. As time passed, the Gurney Nutting-bodied car was regularly mistaken for or erroneously referred to as being the"
"had been delivered to Barnato in May 1930, more than a month after the race. The racing version of the Speed Six had a wheelbase of and an engine with a compression ratio of 6.1:1 that produced at 3500 rpm. Successful in racing, these cars won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1929 and 1930 with Bentley Boys drivers ""Tim"" Birkin, Glen Kidston, and Woolf Barnato, the chairman of Bentley Motors. Bentley Speed Six The regular Bentley 6½ Litre and the high-performance Bentley Speed Six were rolling chassis in production from 1926 to 1930. The Speed Six, introduced in"
"contested on the 3.1 mile infield track in a 1960 Valiant with an average speed of 83.546 miles per hour. Joe Weatherly would flip his 1960 Falcon upside down during the race, but no other cars were involved in the accident, and Weatherly was not injured. Weatherly then went on to win a 10-lap, 25-mile event dubbed a ""Race of Champions"" on the 2.5-mile banked tri-oval. Drivers competed in the same cars that they would run in the Daytona 500. The race proved to be a tough loss for Fireball Roberts, who had started at the rear of the field"
"characters. (""See Manga section for more information"") The show's mainstream success in the United States spawned an ongoing ""Speed Racer"" franchise, ranging from comics, video releases, merchandise, a live-action film, and newer series either rebooting or continuing the original series. The franchise began in the early 1990s when a company, Speed Racer Enterprises, acquired rights to the original series. At the time when the series was originally released, very little merchandise was released in the United States. However, during the series' re-airing during the 1990s, Speed Racer Enterprises was responsible for the creation of actual ""Speed Racer"" merchandise, ranging from"
"was simply renamed the ""Super Sports"". Regardless of its short life and small size, the Hotshot is remembered as an impressive sports car within its class. A Hotshot won the Sam Collier Memorial Endurance Grand Prix, (averaging 52 mph), as well as the ""index of performance"" — an award which took speed and engine size into account — at the 1950 Six Hours of Sebring; and a Siata 300 fitted with Crosley power won the SCCA's 12 hour Vero Beach race. Throughout the 1950s, Crosley engines dominated 750 cc sports car racing, winning 10 out of 12 SCCA west-coast races"
"array of sports racers over the next three years. This included the traditional compact V12-powered 166 MM and 250 MM, the larger V12 Ferrari 290, 340, and 375 MM and 315, 335, and 410 S, the four-cylinder 500, 625, 750, and 860 Monzas, and the six-cylinder Ferrari 118 and 121 LM. With this potent lineup, Ferrari was able to claim six of the first seven WSC titles: 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, and 1958. Throughout the 1960s, Ferrari were a dominant force in sportscar racing, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans 6 years in a row from 1960 to 1965."
"have a series of races with Outlaw Bodied Late Models that includes four 100-lap races and ends with Glass City 200. The track hosts the “Fastest Short track show in the world” which features winged sprints, and winged Super Modifieds on the half mile. The Biggest race of the year was The Glass City 200 Late Model race from 1968-1977. This race discontinued with the sale mentioned above. It was resumed in 1999. 1968-Joy Fair 1969-Joe Ruttman 1970-Bob Senneker 1971-Bob Senneker 1972-Danny Byrd 1973-Joe Ruttman 1974-John Anderson 1975-Jim Bickerstaff 1976-Ed Cooper 1977-Bob Senneker 1999-Tim Felver 2000-Tim ""Iceman"" Ice 2001-Junior Hanley"
"raised the stakes on Rover and its Rover Light Six, having raced and beaten ""Le Train Bleu"" for the first time, to better that record with his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six on a bet of £100. He drove against the train from Cannes to Calais, then by ferry to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public highways, and won. Barnato drove his H.J. Mulliner–bodied formal saloon in the race against the Blue Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of a Speed Six with streamlined fastback ""sportsman coupé"" by Gurney Nutting. Both cars became known as"
"Zerex Special The Zerex Special (Bruce McLaren called it the Cooper Oldsmobile in 1964, and it was also nicknamed the Jolly Green Giant) was a sports racing car. Originally a Cooper T53 built for the 1961 United States Grand Prix, it was rebuilt for usage in American sports car racing, and featured open-top bodywork. Initially using a 2.75-litre version of the Coventry Climax FPF straight-four engine, it later used a Traco-Oldsmobile 3.5-litre V8. The car won numerous races throughout its four-year career, being driven by drivers such as McLaren and Roger Penske. In 1961, Cooper Car Company constructed chassis F1-16-61"
"1966. Zerex Special The Zerex Special (Bruce McLaren called it the Cooper Oldsmobile in 1964, and it was also nicknamed the Jolly Green Giant) was a sports racing car. Originally a Cooper T53 built for the 1961 United States Grand Prix, it was rebuilt for usage in American sports car racing, and featured open-top bodywork. Initially using a 2.75-litre version of the Coventry Climax FPF straight-four engine, it later used a Traco-Oldsmobile 3.5-litre V8. The car won numerous races throughout its four-year career, being driven by drivers such as McLaren and Roger Penske. In 1961, Cooper Car Company constructed chassis"
"technology and were frequently as fast as or even faster around laps of certain circuits than the contemporary Formula One cars. Noted constructors in the Can-Am series include McLaren, Chaparral, Lola, BRM, Shadow and Porsche. McLaren cars were specially designed race cars. The Can-Am cars were developments of the sports cars which were introduced in 1964 for the North American sports car races. The development variants M1A and M1B were raced as factory cars in 1966 with Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon as drivers. In 1967, specifically for the Can-Am series, the McLaren team introduced a new model, the M6A."
"in sport compacts, while the Italian ""Assoluto"" and ""Soldat"" produces high-performance supercars like Ferrari , the German ""Himmel"" Produces supercars similar to Porsche Boxster, and American ""Danver"" marque makes muscle cars, trucks and SUVs. Cars in the series have taken their names and sponsors from various Namco-produced video games. The original ""Ridge Racer"" was a launch title for the original PlayStation. Namco went on to make a long launch title trend for various systems, making ""Ridge Racer V"" a PlayStation 2 launch title in 2000, and subsequently ""Ridge Racer DS"" for the Nintendo DS, ""Ridge Racer"" for the PlayStation Portable,"
"Earning itself the nickname the ""Brooklands Battleship"", as after putting the fire out Birkin kept racing. Paget resultantly paid for No.1 to be re-bodied with a single aluminium shell by Reid Railton, and painted in their racing red colour. The cars were too late for Le Mans in 1929, hence Birkin's co-driving of the Speed Six, and only two of the cars reached the start line in 1930. After an epic duel between Dudley Benjafield and Birkin's privately entered Blower Bentleys, and Rudolf Caracciola's Mercedes SSK, all three retired leaving the victory to the Bentley works team Speed Six of"
"years of racing at the speedway. In 1968, the underdog of the Emo Speedway, #33 George Oltsher <ref name=""http://canadianracer.com"">Canadian Racer 'Emo Speedway Champions List' Retrieved February 16, 2009</ref> would be triumphant in beating the much bigger competition to win his first championship of three he would earn. 1969 saw owner Ed Rea with his driver #38 Mike Andrusco win the championship in the last season of the 1960s. 1970 saw #33 George Oltsher return to the champions circle at the end of the season, the last year in which there was only one class of cars. 1971 saw the introduction"