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Peter Fernandez, best known as the title character's voice in the animated Speed Racer TV series, died Thursday from lung cancer at age 83, Anime News Network reported.ernandez conceded to the Times that he would be best remembered as Speed Racer. I keep saying to myself, 'Of all the things you've done in show business, this is the one thing that's recognized,'  he told the Times. The only instructions I got was to Americanize it, he said of his work on the show.
Selected chapters of the manga were released by NOW Comics in the 1990s under the title Speed Racer Classics. These were later released by Wildstorm Productions, a division of DC Comics, as Speed Racer: The Original Manga. At the end of the manga, Rex Racer is portrayed driving the Mach 5 â a scene that may have inspired the backstory of the car in the live-action film, in which it originally belonged to Rex who relinquished ownership to his younger brother, Speed.