![]() ![]() It worked beautifully for the URANO who rejoined the circuit leading. This call forced the hand of both Khimichev and Albert with both cars first and second in the following rotation. All three drivers would gain a position in the short term thanks to a very early stop fo Leo, a stop which Fuller chose to match. Mercifully, a calm followed the storm with the only real story of note being Caryl’s inability to sustain podium-bound pace.įorty minutes in, he has lost third to the URANO of Vlad Khimichev and was now hounded by Fuller in the sister Apex Racing machine. All of this was set against the backdrop of the GTP class’ first lapping of the GT3 field. Then came Burns who was last seen parked up on the side of the road before he confirmed that a second Redline car was out of proceedings. ![]() The Redline trio had not figured much in the narrative to this point although featured for not the best reasons soon enough.įirst was Vecchio who lost his brakes dramatically into the Hairpin forcing a very early retirement. Lebigre managed the situation well enough although Sipilä would take over leading duties before the first ten minutes had elapsed. Leo wrestled second away from the Apex driver with the move completed by Turn 5.Īs the BS+ sprinted away, attention turned to the GT3 class which appeared significantly closer across the opening few laps. The Spaniard’s getaway was sublime, helped all the further by a rather lackadaisical reaction to the lights by Caryl. If Albert’s qualifying performance was well-earned, his start to the race was practically gift-wrapped. HardMode’s Matti Sipilä got to within two hundredths of the R8G pilot’s time whilst three Team Redline drivers found themselves less than nine hundredths away.Ĭhris Lulham, Gianni Vecchio and Tom Burns – starting third, fourth and sixth respectively – hoped to find great solace in potential team plays throughout the contest. Do yourself a favor and catch Redline on Bluray some evening and enjoy a ride that you won't soon forget.Florian Lebigre sat pretty on GT3 pole position though the margins were much tighter across this category. While on the hostile planet for the Redline race, the story does take an Akira-style turn for the bizarre, but with all the other weird and crazy things assaulting your senses throughout the movie, it doesn't seem as out of place as it otherwise might. While the characters are mostly light on meaningful personality, and the story is little more complex than "he's in these two races", the movie turns out to be a flashy action ride that should not be missed. The Redline race happens to be held on a planet that doesn't want it to be, so the Redline racers have to dodge not only each other's artillery, but also that of the entire planet's military. The movie, which seems to be at least partially based on Kawajiri's similar Running Man segment from Neo Tokyo, follows a car racer named "Sweet JP" as he competes in two large races, the Yellowline and then the Redline. Within 20 minutes of starting to watch Redline, though, all of my reservations were blown away. The movie's over stylized and exaggerated characters brought Yoshiaki Kawajiri (incidentally a mentor of sorts for the movie's director, Takeshi Koike) immediately to mind, and I have never appreciated Kawajirisan's work. In spite of the praise that has been heaped upon Redline, I was not actually expecting it to be that good.
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