Honda Ridgeline Trophy Truck - Four Wheeler
In the last decade alone, factory-backed Honda motorcycle teams have notched nine straight wins in the Baja 1000. It would be hard to count just how many other off-road races have been won by riders astride Hondas, whether factory-backed or... Faced with a mixed reception to its all-new Honda Ridgeline pickup, Honda decided to prove its truck's mettle by entering one in the grueling Baja race. Many truck makers over the years have traded on the cachet that comes with south-of-the-border desert competition, and Honda no doubt figured the Honda Ridgeline could get a nice boost by surviving one of the toughest challenges in all of... Rather than start a truck-race program from scratch, Honda sought partners with experience in the desert, especially in the area of turning production vehicles into competition-ready machines. Originally with Don-A-Vee Motorsports (which has since become California Race and Rally, or CaRR), the Skiltons have spent some 15 years prepping and racing unibody Jeeps, and Clive now heads the JeepSpeed racing series. Gavin Skilton headed up the Honda race effort for CaRR. and to build the truck he assembled a team of desert-race veterans, including fabricator Jason La Fortune and his crew at Temper Mental Racing. With its years of experience in race series as diverse as motocross and Formula 1, Honda probably could have fielded a super-exotic, Honda Ridgeline based Trophy Truck and gone on the hunt for an overall win. Source: www.fourwheeler.com
