But it’s not as if traditional vehicles couldn’t do tracks, we see the Mach 5 perform just fine on Thunderhead, it’s just that there were vehicles specifically designed for track racing. Hence why we don’t see any track cars during Casa Cristo, they weren’t made for those conditions. Likewise, off road vehicles are more traditional to fit that environment. The terrain of the tracks is very different, so track cars are designed different (like all wheel turning) to better handle that environment. You can imagine that it would be no different in the WRL. In NASCAR, each division (I think that’s what they call them) have there own qualifications for what kind of vehicle and the specifications of that vehicle are. These would likely be like separate decisions. In the movie, there are two kinds of races that can get you to the Grand Prix, track racing and off road. I always thought that it was because the Mach 6 was specifically designed to be a track car. Someone contact the Wachowskis or anyone who worked on the film please. I just really need someone to tell me exactly what happened because I've been sitting with this in my head for months. I really believe that there's an official copy out there where the Mach 6 only appears for the last race. Though it was the wrong copy, they could still pretty much explain what happened in-story, so rather than recalling a bunch of wrong copies, they just said it was the official one and the Mach 6 had been there from the beginning. I don't know what could have happened, maybe they finished the CG model for the Mach 6 first and rendered the races temporarily with that model for test screenings and it's that copy that's somehow been officially released. MY GUESS ON WHAT HAPPENED: They originally intended Speed to be driving the Mach 5 from the beginning, but for some reason, the official copy that came out was the one where he's driving the Mach 6. ![]() Besides, when Pops says he wants to build an entirely new car, shouldn't he have named it the Mach 7? ![]() Some would say that it's because the Mach 6 was destroyed in a previous race, but the Mach 5 would have easily been repaired in-story because of the scene where Inspector Detector's team adds modifications to it. There is even no mention of the Mach 6 at all. During the scenes that aren't races, we only ever see the Mach 5 (dates with Trixie, Racer garage), and the first time we see it in a race, it's in Casa Cristo. IMDb says this is mistakenly considered a goof, but looking at the entire film, the Mach 6 feels so out of place. Whenever I watch the movie again though, we already see Speed driving the M6 during the 'Legacy' race. I saw Speed Racer in theaters when it came out, and the first time I remember seeing the Mach 6 was near the end when it was built for the final race.
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