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During this episode, Speed attends a road racing school where Racer X suddenly appears, wheels the Mach 5 through a tricky slalom course, and thus intimidates the other drivers and the school instructor, but not Speed; Racer X also chances upon Pops, Mom and Speed, all remembering Rex and saddened in wishing he would return - a wish Rex quietly ...
Pops and Speed always acknowledged that Racer X was the superior driver, and the greatest driver that they had ever seen; however, Speed still vowed to defeat Racer X. In the anime, Speed was often suspicious of Racer X's identity and motives, because Racer X would sacrifice winning races to protect Speed from drivers who tried to harm him.
However, Annalise, under Zile's orders, destroys it in a match against X. Spritle reveals a shocking surprise to Speed; that he is Speed Racer's son and is X's long lost brother. Speed and his friends discover the secret plans to build the Mach Six and its unique engine from the remains of the Mach 5.
The series follows the adventures of an orphan teenager named Speed who dreams of being a famed car racer like the one he is named after. He takes a bus to the elite Racing Academy, founded by the Racer family, and soon experiences the difficulties of fitting in and competing with X, the best racer/student in the school, and Speed Racer's son.
The show aired in Japan in 1997 on TV Tokyo and lasted only 34 episodes of a planned 52. In 1998, Speed Racer Enterprises planned to release an English dub of the series in the United States as Speed Racer Y2K, though the project did not succeed and only the third episode, "Silver Phantom", was dubbed. [2]
The New Adventures of Speed Racer is a 1993 update of the Speed Racer animated series. [1] This new Americanized version was designed as a single 13-episode season (the first episode was entitled “The Mach 5’s First Trial”), with the intent of launching a feature film adaptation.
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Speed Racer X: 2002: Nickelodeon Nick GAS: Tatsunoko Production, Speed Racer Enterprises [note 3] English dub; owned by Tatsunoko Production Liberty's Kids: 2002–03: PBS : Melusine Productions, [4] WHYY: Stargate Infinity: Fox Disney Channel France M6: Les Studios Tex, MGM Television Entertainment: International rights owned by Amazon MGM Studios