After competing in and completing the reality show, Trackdown, the five contestants, Axel, Hawk, King, Lioness and Shark are offered jobs to test new and experimental vehicles for Mr Lee, Trackdown's creator and president and founder of Lee Industries, a multi-billion dollar company. The five accept his offer, but when a dangerous criminal mastermind named Paine escapes from prison, Axel has personal interest into helping recapture him.