History TearJerker / RidgeRacer

* From ''R4'', we have Racing Team Solvalou's GP Mode story: [[spoiler:Enki Gilbert's son Giuliano was killed in a driving accident {{thirteen|IsUnlucky}} years ago. When he sees you, the player, you remind him of his late son, and his paternal instincts kick in.]] In the Final GP, [[spoiler:Gilbert goes from demanding perfection out of you to worrying for your safety to outright begging you to just ''survive'' in the final race, because he doesn't want you to fall to the same fate that his son did.]]
** [[spoiler: This story also has something of a {{Real Life}} equivalent. In {{Formula One}}, Scuderia Ferrari had a young, talented driver who was destined for great things, named Gilles Villeneuve, and to Enzo Ferrari, the team owner, Gilles was like a son to him, and would restore Ferrari to glory. Sadly in 1982, Gilles was killed at the Belgian Grand Prix, and it subsequently broke Enzo's heart in a similar way to Enki's. After this, Enzo swore to never grow connected to the drivers he hired, since he was afraid of being heartbroken again. It only gets worse when you note Enzo's real son died in 1956.]]

** Pac Racing Club's Shinji Yazaki: He was [[spoiler: Giuliano's teammate at RTS the day he died, and is still having trouble coming to terms with it. Part of what triggers the reaction in Enki above is finding out he's in charge of PRC.]]
** Micro Mouse Mappy's Sophie Chevalier [[spoiler: getting forced into an ArrangedMarriage towards the end of the season by her dad. Subverted in that she tells him to stick it.]]
** Dig Racing Team's Robert Chrisman, a genuine NiceGuy in a struggling team, always getting utterly shat on by his BadBoss, with Rob giving an increasing savage ReasonYouSuckSpeech to them as the season progresses, but never taking it out on you, [[spoiler: and when the team tries to butter him up for next season after the final race and a season of being put upon, he finally says ScrewThisImOuttaHere]] People with a similarly fraught relationship with their boss will sympathise.
** SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: He gets to show his FamilyMan credentials in the epilogue.

** HeartwarmingMoments: He gets to show his FamilyMan credentials in the epilogue.

** Dig Racing Team's Robert Chrisman, a decent FamilyMan, always getting utterly shat on by his BadBoss, with Rob giving an increasing savage ReasonYouSuckSpeech to them as the season progresses, [[spoiler: and says ScrewThisImOuttaHere after the final race.]] People with a similarly fraught relation with their boss will sympathise.

* From ''R4'', we have Racing Team Solvalou's GP Mode story: [[spoiler:Enki Gilbert's son Giuliano was killed in a driving accident {{thirteen|IsUnlucky}} years ago. When he sees you, the player, you remind him of his late son, and his paternal instincts kick in.]] In the Final GP, [[spoiler:Gilbert goes from demanding perfection out of you to worrying for your safety to outright begging you to just ''survive'' in the final race, because he doesn't want you to fall to the same fate that his son did.]]

* From ''R4'', we have Racing Team Solvalou's GP Mode story: [[spoiler:Enzo Gilbert's son Giuliano was killed in a driving accident {{thirteen|IsUnlucky}} years ago. When he sees you, the player, you remind him of his late son, and his paternal instincts kick in.]] In the Final GP, [[spoiler:Gilbert goes from demanding perfection out of you to worrying for your safety to outright begging you to just ''survive'' in the final race, because he doesn't want you to fall to the same fate that his son did.]]

* From ''R4'', we have Racing Team Solvalou's GP Mode story: [[spoiler:Enzo Gilbert's son Giuliano was killed in a driving accident {{thirteen|IsUnlucky}} years ago. When he sees you, the player, you remind him of his late son, and his paternal instincts kick in.]] In the Final GP, [[spoiler:Gilbert goes from demanding perfection out of you to worrying for your safety to outright begging you to just ''survive'' in the final race.]]