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The overhead map of the English track.

The English track is located up in the topleft of the track selection screen, so if you are using MAME to play the game but have not held "9" and pressed "F2" to calibrate the steering, you will not be able to select it; its timer will also start out at 60 seconds.

When that counter has appeared in the centre of the screen and is counting down from "03" to "00", you should be in low gear with the gas pedal fully down; as you accelerate on away from the starting line and pass under a bridge for Bridgestone, then pass two grandstands and a billboard with an arrow pointing to the north-east on it upon the left side of the track, you should shift into high gear at about 100 km/h, then turn to the right as you pass two more grandstands and three more billboards for Pirelli, Ralli Art, and Nippondenso/Mobil 1 on the left side of the track. You will then have to turn to the left, as you pass a fifth billboard with an arrow pointing to the north-west on it upon the right side of the track, a sixth billboard for Toyota on the left side of the track and five chain-link fences on the left side of the track - and once you have done so, you will have to turn to the right as you pass a seventh billboard with an arrow pointing to the north-east on it, seven trees, and an orange mobile crane upon the right side of the track, along with two more grandstands on the left side of the track. You then have to turn to the left, as you pass a lookout tower (which has an eighth tree and a loudspeaker behind it) and an eighth billboard with an arrow pointing to the north-west on it on the right side of the track, before passing under another bridge for Dunlop; you'll now pass a ninth billboard for Mitsubishi Motors on the right side of the track, a tenth billboard for Ralli Art (the second one on this track) on the left side of the track, and an eleventh billboard for Autopolis/Nippondenso (as with Ralli Art, this is the latter's second appearance on this track) on the right side of the track, along with another orange mobile crane and two more grandstands on the left side of the track. You will then have to turn to the right, as you pass a twelfth billboard with an arrow pointing to the north-east on it and two more grandstands upon the left side of the track, a thirteenth billboard for Toyota (as with Ralli Art and Nippondenso, this is its second appearance on the track) and a fourteenth billboard for Agip on the right side of the track and a fifteenth billboard for Kodak Film on the left side of the track; once you have done so, you will have to turn to the right, as you pass a sixteenth billboard with an arrow pointing to the north-east on it, two more trees and an eleventh grandstand on the left side of the track before passing under a third bridge for Nissan. You will now have to turn to the left as you pass a twelfth grandstand (this one's for Jax) and seventeenth billboard with an arrow pointing to the north-west on it upon that right side of the track, two more orange mobile cranes on both sides of the track, and a thirteenth grandstand upon the left side of the track - and once you have done it, you will have to turn up to the left again as you pass an eighteenth billboard with an arrow pointing to the zigzagging (not curved) north-west on it upon the right side of the track, two more billboards for Subaru on the left side of the track, a twenty-first billboard for Tamiya/JVC/Mazda on the right side of the track, a twenty-second billboard for Pioneer on the left side of the track, a thirteenth grandstand upon that left side of the track, a fourteenth grandstand (this one's for Scania) on the right side of the track, and two more grandstands on the left side of the track. As in the first two games, once you have completed a full lap of the track, that text "TIME EXTENDED LAP TIME XX.XX" will appear on the screen ("XX.XX" being your lap time), and you will gain 32 extra seconds of racing time to try and complete another lap; also as in those first two games, once you have completed four laps of the track, another woman will wave a chequered flag in front of your car, as it races off into the distance. The text "OFFICIAL RESULT" will then appear on the screen with your position (1st-8th) below it - and your distance travelled in metres, number of laps, fastest lap time and ranking will then be displayed below that. If your total time is less than 2:29:91, the game will go into "best-time" mode, so you should enter your three-letter name on the English table with pride; once you have done so, the game will go back into attract mode.