Keisuke Takahashi vs Seiji Iwaki

"You won't have another chance to pass"

- Keisuke Takahashi The battle between Keisuke Takahashi and Seiji Iwaki is the eleventh battle in Initial D Battle Stage. This is an anime only battle, only being featured in Battle Stage. The existence of this battle is mentioned within the manga, but it isn't shown.

Prior to the Battle
The night after Takumi's loss against Kyoichi, the Emperors goes against the RedSuns at Akagi and Keisuke goes and battles Seiji first.

During the Battle
Seiji and Keisuke starts off together with Seiji taking the lead (using the Simulation 1) and Keisuke follows him closely. Both drivers drifts their cars throughout the uphill battle. Keisuke then takes his chance and takes the outside on a corner. Seiji seeing this blocks him by taking the outside, but he immediately realizes his mistake as Keisuke brakes and takes the inside, causing him to get the upper hand. Seiji tries desperately to get back the lead, but its too late and Keisuke passes him, stating there's no chance he's going to overtake him again, and races on to win the battle.

After the Battle
After this battle, it was time for Ryosuke's downhill race against Kyoichi. It isn't referenced in later stages, but Keisuke had broken the uphill record for Akagi in this race.

Battle Stage

 * She Devil - Triumph

Fastest Typing in Kanto Project

 * Burning Desire - Mega NRG Man

Special Stage

 * Grand Prix - Mega NRG Man

Trivia

 * This was the only battle to use character footages from different stages altogether.
 * Keisuke's was taken from his First Stage battles, while Seiji's was used from his battle against Takumi in Second Stage.
 * All Keisuke dialogues are from Second Stage Act. 4, when Takumi is overtaking Seiji in Akina.
 * The move Keisuke does to overtake Seiji here is very similar to that of how Takumi did his overtake against Nakazato at Akina.