"Racer X is really Speed Racer's long-lost older brother Rex Racer" OF COURSE HE IS HE JUST MOVED THE SYLLABLES AROUND They had to have done that on purpose, especially since the Narrator reminds us of this EVERY TIME WE SEE HIM
-
Show this thread
-
(Fun fact, "Mach 5" is a significant number in and of itself, as the demarcation between what aircraft engineers call "supersonic" vs. "hypersonic" speed Originally it seems like the Mach 5 is just its name, rather than there having been a Mach 3 or Mach 4)
1 reply 0 retweets 21 likesShow this thread -
(This was, of course, changed for the 2008 movie, where the creation of a Mach 6 is a big deal I figure it's like the version numbers on Windows Anyway when I was a kid I thought this meant the car could literally go at Mach 5, which is totally impossible)
1 reply 0 retweets 26 likesShow this thread -
The rl land-speed record was set by the ThrustSSC in 1997 at 763 mph, which is just barely over Mach 1 depending on how you count Fun fact, the "Fastest Car on Earth" on Speed Racer (the GRX) has a speedometer that tops out at 400 kph (250 mph)
1 reply 0 retweets 19 likesShow this thread -
I mean, maybe the car goes faster than the top speed on the speedometer, but then why even have it But they talk about the GRX going "at the speed of sound" like it's a big deal, and he needs the special V-Gas drug to keep the G-forces from killing him
2 replies 0 retweets 17 likesShow this thread -
When the Wachowskis did Speed Racer 2008, on the other hand, and the associated video game, they specified that all the cars have to be traveling at ~400 mph most of the time just to stay on the tracks (they designed them with roller-coaster-style vertical loops etc)
2 replies 0 retweets 20 likesShow this thread -
The G-forces involved in making hairpin turns at that speed over and over again would probably cause a human being to black out (the top speed of a real-life Formula One racecar is in the low 200 mph range) But that's why it's set in a goofy science-fiction future
2 replies 0 retweets 17 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @arthur_affect
Even safety aside, where exactly are cars supposed to overtake without proper braking zones? Seems like cars would either get stuck behind each other like Monaco (which would be boring) or there'd be pack racing and drafting wars like Daytona (which sounds like a nightmare)
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @toadeightyfive @arthur_affect
I guess that's what the weaponry and gadgets are for: if the track design means you can't make a clean pass, might as well make a really dirty one.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @toadeightyfive
The movie makes a distinction between "dirty" races where the cars actually have guns and missiles and "clean" ones where weapons are banned but *either way* it seems like the main way cars advance in the race is disabling their competitors
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
Like deliberately sideswiping a car to force it off the track isn't seen as a shocking foul, it's a completely normal element of everyone's strategy, including Speed's It's video-game-style "combat racing", which is probably legal in their world because of Kwik-Save
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.