I'm definitely Arial Tetsuo. She's one of the pilots from the first WipEout, but she's also appeared in music videos and in Japanese animes. I'm not as outgoing as her, but I'm definitely as scary!
Edit: I found some information about her on a fansite:
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Arial is a simple girl actually, she takes life the easy way: her way. Not content being Auricom's lead pilot in f3600 anti-gravity racing, she would really like to rule about everything on this planet and she's pretty good at it too. Using her popularity as a pilot and her innocent looks she wins votes of people about everywhere. Politicians understood quite fast that it is a bad idea not to do what baby wants.
As you see, Arial's pretty much the average extremely rich v.i.p. with a bit of an eccentric (not crazy, commoners are crazy, rich people are eccentric) taste in possessions. well, I don't mind the monorail or the shopping mall, but that atom bomb is quite scary...
I tried to find the meaning of the name "arial", since most anime characters seem to have names related to their personality, looks or background. I didn't find the exact meaning of "arial", but I did find 2 other, very similar names. Must be a mix of both.
aria: melody
ariel: heavenly, unearthly of appearance
According to Zamise her last name, "tetsuo" means techno. fits her perfectly.
Theory of Rob "Arashikaze": "tetsuo as a name usually means 'of iron' so Arial Tetsuo could mean Arial's got a 'will of iron' and will let nothing get in the way of her quest for world domination."
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I've also noticed that one of the characters in Speed Freaks (PSX cart racer usually acclaimed as being second only to Crash Team Racing) is called Tet'Suo. In a trailer for Speed Freaks, he is shown throwing himself into a wall, which would imply that he is hard, and thus 'of iron'. Which supports Rob 'Arashikaze''s theory.
With reference to the 'monorail', 'shopping mall' and the 'atom bomb', these come from the lyrics to Atom Bomb by Fluke. Arial stars in the video of this song, and a remix of the song appeared in WipEout 2097.
baby's got an atom bomb
twenty two megatons...
...she got a motorcade
she got a monorail
going coast to coast on a campaign trail
playing deck of cards in an armored car...
...she got a tv show
she got a shopping mall
she got a miracle
she doesn't want at all
she got a monument and at a great expense
she got a head of state and a president
she got destiny
she got supremacy
she got everything ever from a to z
she got it all down tight
she got nothing wrong
she got the whole wide world singing baby's song
[ January 22, 2002: Message edited by: One, Two, Middlesboogie ]