The Elemental Drifters: Second Stage (2018 Edition)

Episode Five (Clip Two)

----('Speedy Speed Boy' starts playing)----

Both racers revved their cars and turned on their headlights as it flashed into the darkness of the night. Louis raised his left hand in the air.

"Countdown in ten!!!"

"Nine!!"

"Eight!!"

"Seven!!"

"Six!!"

"Five!!"

"Four!!"

"Three!!"

"Two!!"

"One!!....GO!!!!"

Marcus shifts into first gear. The gearbox immediately responded, the gears turned and moved as the GT-R launched.

The tyres of the Jaguar skidded as it left the starting. Tony shifted to second gear swiftly. Then he moved to the third and then the fourth. Marcus shifted late, purposely doing it to let the F-Type R lead.

"The Jaguar is leading!!!!" One of Tony's crew member pointed out.

"Just as planned." Louis thought in his head. "Keep putting pressure behind him Marcus and the race is yours."

The two sports cars disappeared into the first corner. Tony and Marcus downshifted and stepped on the brakes. Both cars gripping through the left hairpin the whole way.

Marcus stooped on the accelerator, speeding out of the corner.

The next hairpin approached, both cars losing ground fast. They braked and downshifted, counter steering into hairpin. They got out of the curve as it was followed by another right hairpin. Both cars gripped the inside and exited out with great exit speed.

Marcus shifted into fifth gear and tailgated the F-Type R.

Tony looked at his rear-view mirror. The R35 GT-R was right at his tail.

"It's amazing you can keep up with a pace like mine." Tony admitted. "But after a few more hairpins you wouldn't be a speck in my rear-view mirror."

"It's obvious that the Jaguar is the best racing machine you can get out there and it's British made too."

"With 550 horsepower I could already beat you in the uphill. This race is mine the moment we began!!"

A hairpin came, a tight right.

"Follow this!!" Tony braked, the brake disc of his front tyres glowed red due to heat inside the tyres. The Jaguar shot past the left curve, leaving Marcus behind by a second.

"Whoa! He shot through that curve like a rocket!" Marcus thought as he watched the F-Type R disappear into another corner. "I need to catch up, or he'll leave me behind in the next corners!!"
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(At the bottom of the hill climb.....)

"Hey, I've got a word with the staff. They said that the Jaguar still in the lead!" A crew member annouced, grinding happily.

"That R35 doesn't stand a chance! Tony's the fastest on the corners here!"

"Well, all we can do now is relax and wait for that sweet GT-R to be ours."

The team heard the conversation.

"This isn't good." Louis stated. "If Marcus falls behind too much, he might not be able to catch up with the Jaguar even if it's tyres start to wear out."

The team looked at the road ahead, there were muffled sounds of tyres squealing and engine revving.

"Come on Marcus! You've gotta keep this up." JL said.
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The GT-R backfires, flames coming out of the exhaust as Marcus gripped into the next right curve. Closing the gap between him and the F-Type R.

"I need to win this, FOR THE TEAM!!!!" The violet hair stepped on the gas, the GT-R's powerful AWD system able him to get closer to the F-Type R.

"Huh?" Tony's rear-view mirror flickered. The GT-R had caught up. "Ok, that's how you wanna play it huh?"

"Then try this!" The black hair did a low gear grip through the next turn. Pull away from the R35 by only a fraction. But at the straights the GT-R closed in.

"He's shifting is perfect!" Tony realized his former crewmates technique. "You've improved Marcus, that amazes me."

"But you still won't keep up with this 550 horsepower F-Type R cause I dominate the Cat and Fiddle roads here!"

The next L-shape curve appeared, the F-Type R was losing ground. "Or to put it simply..." Tony braked and downshifted into the hairpin with his fastest entry speed. "... because I won't let you!!!"

Marcus however had his tyre strength saved. He entered the hairpin at a quicker pace, before braking. His headlights stalled as he pulled the handbrake, pulling the nose out and sliding the GT-R into the curve, tyres squealing.

*EEEEEEE!!!*

The GT-R shortened the gap, appearing behind the Jaguar and shocking the black hair with his eyes widen. "How did he do that?!!!! That was my bloody fastest entry into that curve!!"

"No hard feelings Tony." Marcus thought. "I've saved enough tyre strength to do something I picked up while I was in Japan."

"Power sliding!!"

The Jaguar entered the straightaway with the R35 following tailing behind, closing the gap.

Marcus was analysing his opponent for the back. "He's braking a lot to gain the inside every time he enters a corner." The brit noticed.

"Partner, my tyres are getting compressed!!" Frost, Marcus' partner claimed.

"If we are already hurting much of our tyre strength." Marcus looked onto the F-Type R in front of him. "Then he must be wearing the hell out of them."

It was true, the Jaguar began to skid a little on the next hairpin. Tony furiously counter steered and aimed for the inside.

"The tyres are an issue now! Serves me right for taking the inside so often. Damn!!!" Tony thought, flooring the gas on the straights. "But I had this feeling that the GT-R is gonna overtake me on the inside of these corners and so I've been defending the inside of the curve with all my life."

"But why is he not attacking yet?! He has been behind my bumper every since we took off!" The black hair lad downshifted and braked into another left hairpin. The Jaguar taillights stalled as Tony counter steered into the curve, letting his black hair fly right due to the g-force.

The R35 followed behind. The Jaguar began to move a little to the outside on it's own.

"He's understeering!" Marcus took noticed. The long straight began, both cars began to floor it. Marcus shifted into fourth gear and then the fifth as the exhaust backfires. He able to touch the F-Type R's bumper.

Tony was shocked with eyes widen. The GT-R was right behind him!

"No good, I'm not losing him at all in corners." The black hair realized. "Nothing but hurting my bloody tyres that's for sure!!"

A S-hairpin approached, the Jaguar slowed down a little more than usual and went into the S-curve. Marcus kept up pace closing in with Tony, counter steering through the S-curve. The Jaguar almost touched the outside guardrail due to understeer when it exited out.

"He's still behind me!!!" Tony yelled in frustration as he glanced at his rear-view mirror. The R35 was hard to shake.

Marcus braked lightly and dived into the corner going at 200km/h around it.

The next corner came. A sharp right. Tony went in the corner but he began understeering so much that the Jaguar tapped the guardrail lightly before speeding off.

The violet hair followed the F-Type R behind, he shot through the curve seconds faster than the Jaguar could have done and was now almost side by side with it.

(Music ends)

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