The long awaited 4th stage finally arrives and in it we learn that Ryosuke Takahashi has formed his new racing team “”Project D”” consisting of his hand picked Double Aces his brother Keisuke Takahashi with his Mazda RX-7 FD3S and of course Takumi Fujiwara with his Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno. In Act 1 we learn that Project D has been undefeated so far into there campaign to become the greatest team in japan not only that but they have also been setting record times wherever they go. They’re opponents for the first two act’s are a team called The Seven-Star Leaf and that they will have to deal with a Mazda Miata NA6C on the downhill and a Nissan Skyline ER34 on the uphill.