Ayumi Iwase
Loudest girl on the pass, bravest entry on any mountain, top of her medical cohort. Knows everyone's business, remembers every birthday, refuses on principle to lift.
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峠 SPECIAL ISSUE · DRIVER FEATURE No.06 · 1997年4月号 特集 · 走り屋名鑑Driver Feature Second-year medicine · Sagamihara ThunderGals · runs it in all but title The Bravest Entry Ayumi Iwase Route 16 gas stand, three in the morning, between customers. Peace sign in every frame. We took eleven. The loudest thing on the mountain except her own exhaust, the bravest driver on it — and, though nobody at the parking area would believe it, the top of her year in medical school. データDriver File TEAM Sagamihara ThunderGals — all-female, about ten cars, blue stickers, matching nails on race nights. Founder Rumi keeps the name. Ayumi runs everything else: recruitment, meets, discipline, birthdays, and the peace with the SevenStars. CAR Blue-over-white 180SX, bought half-dead off a customer and revived one pay cheque at a time. Loudest exhaust on the mountain. One lazy pop-up headlight — the wink. She calls it Ao-chan, and she talks to it. ROAD Otarumi, from the Sagamihara side. You will hear her before the first hairpin. RECORD The bravest entries on the mountain. Also the most crashes on the mountain. Has walked away from every one of them laughing — so far. OFF THE MOUNTAIN Second year of the six-year medical programme, top of her year, aiming for paediatrics. Three nights a week on the counter at the Route 16 gas stand. Cosplay club — its best seamstress; the 180SX hauls the costumes to the summer convention. KNOWN FOR A nickname for you inside a minute; everyone's order, everyone's crush, everyone's birthday; and being the only person who has ever sat on Yelena Lebedeva's bonnet. 本文The Feature At the guardrail Sun-tanned, twenty, impossible to ignore. An enormous bleached-blonde mane with an electric-blue inner layer and streaks, bright aqua eyes, long decorated nails, a grin that arrives before she does. A cropped royal-blue racing jacket with a white dragon up the sleeve — and a blue-over-white 180SX you will hear a full minute before you see either of them. How she drives She commits where the seniors lift, at an angle the seniors would not hold, on a throttle that is frankly greedy. The exits are a mess and she knows it. She has crashed more than anyone else in this issue and walked away from every one of them laughing, which the seniors find harder to watch than the crashes. Gum snap on the entry. Lip gloss before every race, for luck. Bearing Full volume, full speed, nicknames for everyone within minutes. Knows every regular's order at the gas stand, every crush, every grudge, every birthday. Commits to corner entries the seniors quietly refuse. And if you are ever having the worst night of your life, notice who somehow ends up next to you at the vending machines, talking about nothing, until it is survivable. インタビューSeven Questions Conducted at the Route 16 gas stand between two and four in the morning, in the gaps between customers. She had a nickname for our reporter inside a minute. It has stuck. — We heard you from the bottom of the pass. 「Everyone hears me from the bottom of the pass. That's Ao-chan saying hi. Say hi back, it's rude not to.」 — You crash more than anyone on the mountain. 「I ENTER more than anyone on the mountain, babe. The crashing is just, like, a percentage.」 — Medical school. For real? 「For real. Top of my year, paediatrics. People laugh. Then it's 3am and their finger is pointing the wrong way, and guess who's fixing it.」 — You seem to know everyone's business. 「I know everyone's ORDER. The rest comes with the order. What I do with it is between me and the coffee machine.」 — Any advice for a new driver on Otarumi? 「Eat before, not after. Don't lift. And come by the gas stand on your first night — I'll have already picked your nickname.」 — Your manager has been watching us the whole time. 「Ikegami-san? He's allowed to worry. He's the only one who's allowed. Everyone else, I'm mega fine.」 — Anything to add? 「Yeah. Whoever's reading this — if it's a bad night, the vending machines are on the left. I'm usually there.」 The last answer came in a different voice — quiet, level, nothing like the rest of the night. Then she snapped her gum, told a customer his radio was tragic, and was back. IN HER OWN WORDS 「You LIFTED?! Babe. Lifting is for elevators.Get in, we're going again.」 Said to a passenger at the bottom of Otarumi. He got in. 峠 · DRIVER FEATURE No.06 · THUNDERGALS · 定価 ¥980
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