Auto Race
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Auto Race (Jpn:オートレース - Aūto Rēsū) is a Japanese version of motorcycle speedway, but combines gambling added into it and is held on a asphalt course, throughout Japan.
An typical Auto Race bike is 599㏄
Unlike other forms of motorcycle and gambling sport, prior to race day, the rider have to stay over at the dormitory with over 500 riders and refrain from contacting anyone within the outside world including any forms of communications to prevent race fixing which scandalised the sport during the years of the sport when the Yakuza took over the sport and as a result, crowds dwindled and it was saved when a motorcycle federation took over it in 1967. An average rider usually spend half a year living away from home. A race usually involves eight riders and runs for no more than three minutes. Between races, the bike is kept together with other bikes.
Unlike its road racing counterpart, although they are better paid than most of its counterparts, the riders do not have a celebrity status or any product endorsements, although one of the better known rider is the veteran Mitsuo Abe as he is better known as the father of the Moto GP and Superbikes star Norick. The sport also spawned a manga called Speed Star.
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