It’s said that when you’re traveling at 80 mph on an ATV, you’re covering over 117 feet per second. In the time you blink your eyes, you can travel over 60 feet. If realizing that you’re riding blind for that period of time is scary, throw in 3-foot-deep whoops, rain ruts, boulders and dust for miles. These are conditions that not every rider can handle on their best day.

It takes a special type of person to tackle the terrain of the open desert on a fast ATV. That’s where guys like Wayne Matlock come into the picture. Wayne has been racing in the rough deserts for years and has just the mentality and skill it takes to win championships. In 2007, he won the championship in the Best In The Desert and the National Hare & Hound series and also secured second place in the 2007 SCORE Off-Road series. It’s because of this track record that Honda has signed him to race its ATVs in the desert since 2006 and continues to support him in 2008.
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Following on from its history making win in the Tokachi 24-Hour Race in July, Toyota’s Supra HV-R hybrid race car has been named Race Engine of The Year 2007 by the editors of Race Engine Technology magazine.
Incorporating three electric motors – two 10kW in-wheel motors in the front plus a 150 kW rear-axle mounted electric motor – and a quick-charging capacitor system in place of the usual rechargeable batteries, the Supra HV-R can efficiently recover a energy during rapid decleration and braking from high speeds with its combination of electric engines and a 4,480cc conventional powerplant delivering 700bhp.
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