“Mike Adcock’s commitment to the racing scene in the Dallas area is so important, especially reopening this track after it closed,” said IHRA Division Director Frank Kohutek. We’re shooting for June 1 as our opening date.” ![]() That whole year I knew what I was going to do. The season already was under way so I let the year finish up. “I bought the track last March and it was in really poor shape. There’s a lot of different things happening at one time here. We’re building a new ET house and putting in new scales. The road coming in to the race track is about 500 yards of concrete by itself. “We’re replacing the walls and the concrete on the track. “We’re pouring a lot of concrete today,” said Redline Raceway owner Mike Adcock. To say the local racers and fans may not recognize the place on opening day might be an understatement. The 1/8-mile track, located in Caddo Mills, east of Dallas, is undergoing extensive improvements. “We certainly are impressed with the work under way at this important Texas facility.” “We are pleased to welcome Redline Raceway to our growing IHRA family,” said IHRA President Scott Gardner. The audience at Fantastic Fest ate it up.NORWALK, OH – IRG Sports + Entertainment™ and the International Hot Rod Association™ (IHRA) are proud to announce the owner of Redline Raceway has signed a multi-year sanctioning agreement to join the IHRA as a member track. REDLINE feels like it's feeding adrenalized candy to your nervous system for the entire length of its running time. It feels like every centimeter of every frame is filled with some kind of kinetic color or action or bit of business, making it an experience that is sure to overload the senses. The plot is developed - in that sense, this is a more linear movie than FUNKY FOREST - characters are examined in a compact manner, and the final competition lives up to its billing as the most amazing and funny race in recent memory.ĭirector Takeshi Koike, who did the animation for FUNKY FOREST and Ishii's THE TASTE OF TEA, as well as NINJA SCROLL, brings Ishii's vision to life. Oh, yes, did we mention this is not anime for kids?įrom there the movie rockets forward. The other racers are profiled in some kind of crazy news program, including a corrupt cop and two smoking hot sisters who provide the requisite fan service. Alien creatures are jammed into every crevice, and they're of the oozy, bizarre, and entirely funny nature. Once on RoboWorld, any concerns about the straightforward nature of the narrative quickly disappear. When two other drivers drop out of Redline, expressing concern for their own personal safety on the dangerous and unstable RoboWorld, JP is offered a slot, and he eagerly takes it, over the objections of Frisbee. So we know that some fixing of the race is involved, and JP isn't happy about it. ![]() JP is in collusion with his team manager Frisbee, who was watching the race with a mysterious gangster and talking about odds and maximizing winnings. That qualifies her for Redline, the supreme test of a race driver. ![]() JP, a driver with an extreme duck-tail atop his head, looks to be a ferocious speed demon, and is on the verge of winning an important qualifying race when he blows out, allowing the sumptuously stacked Crab Sonoshee to win the race. ![]() Sure, it looks wild, a riot of action and color, but it plays out almost in normal fashion. It's kinda scary how routine the first racing sequence appears. As few others do, Ishii understands that you don't need to let silly concepts like gravity and logic get in the way of entertainment. REDLINE provides all the thrills, crashes, and automotive porn that the sub-genre of racing movies demands, while setting the action on a planet called RoboWorld that allows the free floating imagination of Katsuhito Ishii to take root and bloom a thousand freaky characters and situations. If you'd been hoping that the writer of FUNKY FOREST would conjure up a feature-length anime that is every bit as insane as that cult classic, your dreams have come true.
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