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PROLOGUE

My name is Akira Schumacher, I was born in German in 23 February 2002. I have a dream, to become a legendary racer, so I decided to attend so many races to gain my experience in racing career. Thanks to my supportive parents I could join any go kart racings events, they always support me in any racing events. I think I got a hot-tempered personality, because whenever I spin out in practice and race, I will lose my mind and hit my steering wheel like a crazy. Now that's my challenge, I need to overcome it no matter what, and also how I evolve in every race in every practice, that's a few of my challenges, there is still a lot of challenge in front of me. And its my time to break the mountain in front of me, that is my father himself.

So let me introduce you to my parents first, Lets start from my dad, his name is Robert Schumacher. He was born in Germany in 25 August 1975, and his hometown was in Stuttgart. He was a rally driver back in his day, he already won 3 titles in Sports Car Racing with his lovely Nissan GTR-R33 Race Car. He told me a lot of stories about him in every event, how he handled the engine issues and how fast he and his teammate change the wheel in pit stop. And I always enjoy the time when he told me the story, I used to fantasize about me become a great racer like my father does, but in different racing category. My father already faced a lot of big challenges, from track to his own emotion, he could overcome it. I think my challenges is bigger than his challenges, and I need face it to beat his record that already marked by him.

And then I will tell you about my mom. Her name is Hana Hashimoto, he was born in 28 May 1978 in Kanagawa prefecture. She is an amazing mother, I'm happy to have her. She always supporting me in my hard time, and hug me while giving a gift when I success to pass some challenge. My mom is a journalist for Japanese magazine company, she always seeking some news about cars and some sport which have a relation with car. She really loved car, when she was young, she always dreaming about become a racer, but my grandparents forbid her to reach it. But my mom was a rebel, she always sneaking out in midnight and join the highway racing with her tuned Supra MK III. Anyway, her tuned Supra is so powerful, with a solid body and it has 550 HP, the weight of her Supra itself is 1330 Kg, her Supra could run to 310 km/h. To avoid my grandpa about her night race and her car, she hid the car in her friends garage. And one day, suddenly my grandpa spotted her sneaking out, then she disallowed by my grandparents to drive a car. And then my mom decided to become a car and race journalist in the Japanese magazine company.

And this is the fun part, that is how my mom and my father met. So, the story begun when my father done some tour to Japan 1996, he was surrounded by journalists. And his eyes locked onto a journalist girl who stand in the crowd of the journalists, my father said it was easy to find her in the crowd, because my mom is the only one journalist girl in there, and also she is so attractive back in that day, not gonna lie my mother is still attractive in these day. So, my pops start to get to know my mom and then they are chit-chatting. Then, they are married 2 years later, they living happily ever after. And a year later, they have me, the light of them, my mother said with love tone while hugging me when I was 8 years old.

Back to myself. I will always think about what kind of race I will attend after this; I always think about it in 24/7. It would be a go kart racing or a car racing, I ask my father too about this, and he give me an advice, he said why dont you join this race, Akira, he said while holding his phone while showing an advertisement about racing events. Without any thinking, I accept it right away.

"But I dont have any car yet", I said it in a confusion. But my father gives me a solution, "I'll lend you a car. but first, can you drive a manual car?", my father gives a stupid question. Before I could answer it," my mom cut it off suddenly,"of course he can, silly". You already forgot our sons skill with a manual transmission car, my mom said while hugging my dad from behind. "Ok-ok, my pops forgot about my skill", I said jokingly, because I knew he was joking with me. The car that my father will lend his GT-R R34, with a deep blue colour. Im so excited to drive this car, Nissan GT-R R34 is my favourite car since I was a kid. Its like a dream come true, a lot of fantasy come into my mind after I heard that my race car is Nissan GT-R R34. But we need do a lot of preparation since his car is fast but not fast enough, and there I feel a little downforce when I drive this car, I feels like I will be spinning around million times during the race with this car. so, my father brings this car to the workshop to tuning up. Car already sent to workshop, now its my time to do a preparation. The race is still 9 month away, so I got a plenty of time to preparing both my physique and my car.

All of my preparation was a physique, I want to have a fit condition during the race event. All I do is jogging and weightlifting. I do that all days in a week. yes I tired but, I don't care about it. All I think is just the day of the race. my heart is always pounding so hard when I think about it, I wonder what kind of opponent that I'll face in the race.

4 months away before the racing event, I think my physique was ready for the races. And then, my parents take me to the hospital to checking my physique. they checked my fitness, and the result is fine, I could join the event safely without a serious injury that I will receive during the race. And then, I go to the workshop that tuning my car. I go in to the garage and then I see the most jaw dropping view in my life, the stock skyline already change into a totally demon in my eyes. the color is still the same, the hood has changed into carbon fiber, and the interior already taken off for the weight reduction, and the most lovely part of this car is the headlight. they replace the headlight become an intake headlight, I don't know how that lamps work, but my car looks more fantastic than before. "I could feel the fire inside my body", I said that I to myself.