Driller Engine Grand Prix (episode)

Driller Engine Grand Prix (ドリラーエンジングランドプリー) is the 26th episode of the Space Ninja Team Star Trigon anime. It aired in Japan on August 27, 1972 and in North America on August 29, 1981.

Plot
While Wataru begins to go outside to do his weekly bike ride across Kasukabe, he notices a will-o-the-wisp that appears. As Wataru walks down the path it takes him to, it takes him down to a go-kart track. When he arrives, he notices a glasses-wearing girl in pink hair, and introduces herself to Wataru as Miyuki Takara, making it Miyuki's first appearance in The Drillimation Series. As Miyuki explains, she tells Wataru that she has been enslaved by Team Ankoku and the only way to free her is to win a gold medal at a Driller Engine Grand Prix. The referee tells Wataru that he has never been experienced with a Driller Engine machine before, and that Wataru has never competed in any race before.

During practice before the official Driller Engine Grand Prix in Guy City, RG, Wataru struggles to drift while turning, and when Wataru tries to drift on a really tight curve, he slips on a banana and crashes into a pole. Wataru becomes briefly injured from the crash until the next day, where Wataru drifts successfully but doesn't perform a mini-turbo.