This is probably one of, if not my personal favorite submission from this year. While I can understand some of the criticisms I think it excels at delivering an intense drifting experience, especially given the restrictions. 
Is the window to get the shifts right pretty tight and unforgiving? Yes. But so is drifting a car. Getting it right is extremely satisfying and once you realize you can change gears faster by cutting it short it almost emulates discovering advanced manual driving techniques (multiple gear shifts, double clutching, etc). It also gives a sense of mastery and advancement. It feels a bit crazy that I feel this way about a game that at its core is a number memorization game but the stick and the visuals surrounding it complete the experience.

I will say the first race does take a bit too long imo or the first race should be super easy to have a better learning curve. Numbers on the screen would also be nice as I am not a manual driver. I wrote the numbers on sticky notes and put it on my screen lol. I did get a bug multiple times where I would get the "good" sound and then get the "bad" engine animation which would ultimately cut my runs short as I think the "bad" engine animation somehow wrote over my correct shifting. On thing I saw you said you might do that I would advocate against is returning the stick to the middle every time, I am assuming you were going for seamless "drift switches"(idk how to explain it") But I liked that part of the challenge was remembering where I left off. For me personally it left just enough difficulty where I wanted to keep trying to get better.

Despite those critiques, this one definitely left an an awesome impression on me. Great work!

Very cool animation sequences, though very hard to play. 

Took me forever to understand it was not a count down, but the order of the shifts, thought I had to guess which shift I was on to then move on the next. Even when I understood the rules, it was too challenging.

I love the animations and the Initial D reference. It was unclear that the numbers were what you want to shift. It feels pretty difficult. It's wild you're shifting to R in the middle of a race - doesn't that blow out your transmission!? Having it start where you left the stick - while it makes sense - feels a little unfair. The stick should probably start in neutral each round.

It took me a while to understand that the random numbers weren't a countdown T _ T

Very cool concept and amazing art and animations!!!  I absolutely love how clear and clean everything is!! Especially the rotating car :-] The game itself unfortunately is way to hard for me...  I have tried multiple times but never had enough time.... It would help if the numbers were actually displayed on the driving stick screen :-]] Other than that - really good job :DD

This is very cool and feels very polished. I love your characterdesign and all your art. it looks very very good.  Its way to hard for me but I suck at driving in general. Thanks for not making me try to parallel park.

 It would be so cool if you had a trainig level because i want to be good at it. (Also one can tell that you know how cars look like I drew some for my game and im glad that mine are roughly carshaped yours even have mirrors.) 

The game’s animations were really excellent.

Cool concept, cool premise and really really good art ! Was a bit hard tho, maybe having more time to think at least against the first opponent would allow people who don't know how to drive like me to 

better adjust to control, had a fun time with the game nonetheless !

This one was really fun! As a fellow enjoyer of Initial D, I enjoyed the references and music. The animations and expressions were also really well done. The gameplay was also fun.

However, there are a few things of note.

First of all--while minor--people unfamiliar with stick shifts (like me) will have a hard time figuring out what to do. Having some sort of in-game tutorial would immediately remedy this issue. Though, I'm glad I stuck through the learning curve.

Also, the rounds last for what feels like forever, and given the minimal amount of mistakes the player is allowed to make, this can be quite frustrating (I never ended up finishing the second round because of that). Having a clear indicator of how far along you are would really help with this. There also isn't much gameplay variety between the two rounds I played as well. Even a simple difficulty curve with the amount of time you have to input could fix this.

Despite my criticism, I really did enjoy this game! I think that, with a bit more polish, this game could be even better! Great job.