Speed arrives at the Racing Academy and meets all of the main cast with no race car of his own.

Speed takes advice from X on how to deal with the fame of being Speed Racer's son from his classmates.

Speed and X must work together as a team in order to win a multi­school racing tournament. Meanwhile, Zile plans to ruin Speed and X's teamwork during the tournament and destroy the Mach 6.

Speed gradually receives mysterious notes signed by his father, but he suspects that they could be false.

Thanks to Joel the lab technician, Zile takes over the virtual track to mess up Speed's race at the Redwood Rally so he doesn't survive.

Speed is faced with expulsion when it appears that he cheated in a race. Knowing that he was framed, Speed sets out to find the real culprit.