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In several stories Racer X is seen as an international spy or agent and is often responsible for thwarting evil corporate schemes.
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Masked Racer) identity, to pursue his racing career.

During his exile, Rex assumed the mysterious Racer X (a.k.a. In an even more enraged response, Rex fled the family and exiled himself while vowing to become the world's greatest race car driver. Pops exploded with anger and berated Rex. With less than one lap to go in his first major race, Rex was leading and cruising toward victory, but lost control of the car and wrecked it.
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Pops had told Rex prior to the race that Rex was not yet prepared to compete at the professional racing level. Once, Zile was defeated, Rex and his brother make amends. His observations are later proven right when it is revealed Zile Zazic was attempting to destroy the racer family.
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In the series he is depicted as being alienated from his brother and family due to his investigations into possible conspiracies. Racer X appears in Speed Racer: The Next Generation in the episode "The Iron Terror". He is finally convinced that Racer X is in fact his older brother. When Speed wakes up, he finds Racer X's mask on the ground beside him. As he walks away, he takes off his mask and he tells the unconscious Speed that he will look after him wherever he might go. He then vows to quit automobile racing and becomes a full-time international secret agent instead. As Speed lies unconscious, Captain Terror, of the Car Acrobatic Team, soon recognizes the resemblance of Rex under the mask of Racer X. In that episode, Speed finally gets a chance to ask Racer X if he is his older brother-only to be interrupted by a punch in the stomach. His face was shown a second time near the end of the series in "The Trick Race". It was not until the episode "Challenge of the Masked Racer Part 2" that fans of the show finally got to see the face of Racer X. Racer X, with Rex Racer's unmasked face exposed. Racer X always left the scene unnoticed, receding into his secret life. The assistance from Racer X nearly always led to Speed winning races, while Racer X came in second place.
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Speed was often suspicious of Racer X's identity and motives because Racer X would repeatedly, and inexplicably, sacrifice winning races to protect Speed from drivers and others who tried to harm him.
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It was acknowledged by both Pops and Speed over the years that Racer X was the superior driver of the two, and the greatest driver that they had ever seen, but Speed always vowed to defeat Racer X as the two vigorously competed. Speed finds out that Racer X is his long lost brother near the end of the series in "The Trick Race". Speed starts to suspect that Racer X might, in fact, be his estranged older brother in the "Challenge of the Masked Racer" saga (episodes 3 and 4). Throughout the course of Speed Racer, Racer X's identity is constantly revealed to the audience in almost every episode in which he appears, while Speed is unaware of it. Racer X drives the number 9 car, the Shooting Star. Years before the start of the series, when Rex was 18 years old (Speed's current age), he had a falling out with Pops after wrecking the Mach One (the first car Pops ever built) at the end of his first race as a professional driver (seen in flashbacks throughout the series).

His 'Racer X' moniker is actually a play on his own first name Rex. His true identity is Rex Racer ( 三船 研一, Mifune Kenichi ), the eldest son of Mom and Pops Racer and the older brother of Speed and Spritle. Racer X is a heroic, mysterious, flamboyant, selfless, sympathetic and often brooding soldier of fortune. the Masked Racer) is a recurring fictional character in the manga and anime series Speed Racer. Racer, Interpol agent, soldier of fortune
