(crowd cheering)
(car engine revving)
- [Rutledge] The crowd is on their feet.
They know we are going to get a show right now.
(tires screeching)
- [Mike] Okay, let's go, let's go!
- Wow! - Hit that corner, baby!
Woo!
Bam.
Uh, he ain't taking it easy.
- [Michael] Yeah, yeah, I was gonna to say,
definitely not taking it easy.
- No, sir. - Nailed that first target.
He was almost up on the curb there
on that first left turn.
(computer voice speaking)
Let's see how he does with the double super nova.
- [Mike] Here he goes.
(tires screeching)
- [Michael] Ay! (yells in foreign language)
(audience applauding) (car engine revs)
- Look at the speed he's going 'round there.
- [Rutledge] Oh, that's beautiful, isn't it?
- [Mike] Nicely done.
Super nova, he's gotta do it twice.
(car engine revving) Back it up again.
- [Rutledge] Ahhhh, wow!
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Michael] Absolute perfection.
- [Diego's Father] My man.
- [Rutledge] We're looking at a kid who's got a future
at being a precision driver.
(speaking in foreign language)
When you have moves like that
and you can hold it so perfectly!
(crowd cheering) - Flawlessly.
- [Rutledge] What can't you do?
- [Michael] Absolutely flawless!
- [Diego] That was nice.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Woo! - Ohh!
Look at him flying through that narrow tunnel.
Diego Higa showing no fear on this course.
- [Rutledge] He is on fire out there!
- [Mike] Working his way to the leveler.
- [Michael] So the thing is this,
he's clearly a superior driver.
But the leveler right now is like nothing
that people have ever seen before in their lives
and they're just not used to doing that.
So I'm really intrigued to see how
it's going to go for him. (car engine revving)
- [Mike] Diego Higa coming up on that checkpoint
well ahead of Atsushi's first place time there.
And as we've seen already tonight,
if you can not solve the leveler,
it can absolutely cripple your run.
- [Rutledge] Yeah,
the leveler doesn't care where you're from,
it doesn't care how good you think you are.
It only cares about one thing
and that's the balance.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Mike] It does not discriminate.
- [Michael] Oof.
- [Mike] We'll see how he uh, levels this out.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Mike] You can hear that communication between
father and son there.
(speaking in foreign language)
(Diego speaking in foreign language)
Diego clearly frustrated now.
- [Michael] He's falling apart!
He's falling apart here.
- [Mike] He's having some issues.
- [Rutledge] He's trying to use his speed to help speed
this process up. - To level it out, I get it.
- [Rutledge] Except it doesn't really help everybody.
- [Michael] So here's the thing,
21 years old,
still a little,
I don't want to say immature,
but not as mature as the other drivers.
And you can't rev your way out of this one.
Patience is key.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Mike] Uh oh, he might get it!
Oh, no, don't go back!
Don't go back!
- [Michael] No, that's it.
- Nice, stay! - Stay, stay!
- Whoa! (crowd cheering)
- [Michael] Okay, Diego's the man.
- [Mike] Yes he is.
Cracking the leveler on his first attempt.
Great communication between he and his father, Neto there.
(suspenseful music playing)
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Mike] So Diego solves the leveler
but not nearly as quickly as Atsushi did.
If he wants to take first place,
he's going to have to execute perfectly here.
- [Rutledge] This will be his first time
coming into walk on water.
We've seen this obstacle cripple drivers' runs before.
- [Michael] Whoa!
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Mike] Now he's gotta lick these four targets
with slick tires.
Remember, Atsushi aced this.
- Oh! - Oh!
- Just missed it. - Missed that spot.
- [Rutledge] Here we go.
And he got it. - Keep it going.
- Here it goes. - Hold it, get back to it.
- Keep it going! - Bam, bam.
There it is, okay.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Mike] He's at 5:45.
He's looking good!
6:07, the time to beat!
The kid from Brazil.
He's going to be in the number one spot.
- Wow! - Diego Higa!
The young gun!
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Rutledge] Sideways across the finish line.
- [Mike] 5:54 point two, no penalties.
We've seen this young man take this track twice
and finish atop the leaderboard both times.
- [Michael] Wow, by a long way.
- [Rutledge] Unbelievable.