This is Keisuke’s first race against a professional driver in Initial D, and you can feel how much it means to him. He’d always wanted Tomoyuki in Fourth Stage and was frustrated when he wasn’t chosen. So when Minagawa shows up, this isn’t just another battle. It’s Keisuke proving he belongs. In the manga, Keisuke uses the same technique he used against Sakai (DC2). He lightly taps the brakes to make his opponent hesitate and touch their brakes for a split second, then immediately goes into a fu