If anyone had hoped that the final race of Season Five might be a little less violent than the rest of the season had been, they were sorely disappointed, for within five minutes of pilots arriving at the first waypoint, nine ships had been destroyed. In the end, twenty-one craft were destroyed, twenty of them by other racers – more racer-induced casualties than in all the other races of the League combined.

Already having the interceptor championship secured, Venture owner and interceptor ace Takashi Kurosawa switched to an assault frigate to aid the team in its quest to teach Vorpal Bunny Racing a lesson about messing with Venture. Though rarely thought of as an aggressive man, Kurosawa proved a very talented combat pilot, easily turning from racing ace to combat ace with five kills during the race. Joining him were VRT assault frigate pilot DeVinces and regular VRT escort Thulla Icin.

The trio easily destroyed both pilots from VBR at the first waypoint. During the confusion of their combat and a three-way battle between the Dragonstar/Scuderia Caille, Frontal Impact, and Dirtside teams, two non-aligned racers jumped into the fray as well, with one making the mistake of attacking the VRT team, and quickly being dispatched.

The Venture combat group would show their strength again as they denied a VBR pilot the ability to reach the first waypoint on their second attempt, and then raced to join the rest of the team, as VBR’s captain had been sighted attempting to attack VRT pilots farther along the track. Most of the Venture racers were able to evade him long enough for the combat pilots to arrive and dispatch him, unfortunately, he did manage to catch interceptor pilot Felicia DeWinter and destroy her ship only seconds before help arrived. Between combats, the VRT escorts were also able to salvage some of the more expensive modules from the wrecked ships of other racers and return them to their rightful owners.