Micro Mouse Mappy

"A French team with cars renowned for ease of handling. The team also has a new owner for this season."

―R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (Grand Prix mode team blurb)

Racing Club Micro Mouse Mappy (or MMM) is a French team in Ridge Racer Type 4 and Ridge Racer 64.

The team is ideal for beginners, cars are slower and easier to control than those of the other racing teams and the player faces rookie drivers. It is notable for its unusual headquarters, which is a small office building inside a garage.

Career quotes

See: Micro Mouse Mappy/Transcript

History

Little is known about Micro Mouse Mappy's history other than that the team was founded in 1981. In 1988, Donald Louis became the manager of the team after moving from Dig Racing Team, while in 1997, the then-owner of Micro Mouse Mappy suffered a cardiovascular illness, and the team's ownership was handed over to Sophie Chevalier, the owner's granddaughter.

Manager

MMM Manager Sophie Chevalier

The team's owned by Sophie Chevalier, who recently took the place of her ill grandfather, and managed by Donald Louis. While she lacks mechanical knowledge, she tries to form a good relationship with the player through her friendly personality and tries her best to fulfill her promise to her grandfather to win the race, even though her father prefers to get her married. At the penultimate race in Final GP, it's revealed that Sophie is already engaged. In MMM's epilogue, she announces her intentions to manage the team for the upcoming racing season and plans on renewing the contract of the player, much to everyone's surprise, as she was on the verge of an arranged marriage.

Trivia

• Sophie is 24 years old, which is around the same age as Reiko, making her the youngest team manager in R4: Ridge Racer Type 4.
• The team is named after Namco's 1983 arcade game, Mappy, featuring the eponymous anthropomorphic mouse character. Even the team's race number clearly references the aforementioned release year of Mappy.
• In CGI renderings, a scale model, and Ridge Racer 64, the team is shown to use the Lizard Detector. However, if the player chooses another team and does not choose Age Solo as their manufacturer, the team will use Age Solo cars, since both the team and the manufacturer are French.
  • The opposite occurs with Dig Racing Team, where in artwork they are shown with the Age Solo Dirigeant, but has Lizard as their official manufacturer, since they are American.
• After the events of R4: Ridge Racer Type 4, it is possible that Micro Mouse Mappy is a sponsor for Soldat, as one of the liveries of the Raggio Complete Machine in Ridge Racer 6 and 7 bears the team's colors. This also makes sense as Soldat is part-French, in addition to Italian.
• In Ridge Racer 3D, the Terrazi Wild Gang in Class 2 has the Micro Mouse Mappy livery from R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 as its second paintjob.