Thanks to a placement deal with Warner Brothers, looks like the "Mach 5" will be racing an actual racing team from Japan in the up coming Speed Racer movie. The team I am talking about is a very well known Japanese team called "Autobacs Racing Team Aguri" or "ARTA" for short, that participates in the Japanese Super GT series (and might I add is the 2007 team and driver champion in the GT500 class) with their ASL Garaiya machine. You might also already guessed from the name of the team that it is the same Aguri in the F1 "Super Aguri".
The futuristic machine that will be appearing in the movie was unveiled to the Japanese press in the current Tokyo Auto Salon, complete with the actual team number and color scheme of the ARTA's Super GT 300 machine.
[source: response, supergt]
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Japanese racing team to appear as main rival in Speed Racer movie
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I don't know about that car for the movie, but the real car next to it looks real good. The evolution of speed racer is crazy to me, everyone I know has heard of it or likes it but it has never had a sustaining cartoon version over the years.
To Bad the movie flopped and the car wasn't that cool. It had too much CGI stuff in it. They Should have made the movie set in current times and just not made it so over the top. The Car looks like a big toy.
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What is that orange car in the background?
Bigman
"What is that orange car in the background?"
Its the ARTA GT500 NSX of the Japanese Super GT series (formerly known as the JGTC Series)
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