Yep, I’m afraid after 17 years of racing the time has come for me to retire from competitive motorsport. Now this doesn’t mean Thorney Motorsport will no longer be motorsport, far from it, motorsport is in our DNA and is part and parcel of everything we develop and...
We are delighted to be able to support Ignacio Casale in his entry to the 2019 Dakar in his Yamaha YXZ1000 by supplying one of our FIA approved and certificated race cages. Ignacio, a Redbull supported athlete chose our cage to ensure the stiffest chassis as well as...
In 2017 we were the first racing UTV to be invited to attend the famous Goodwood Festival of Speed event where we joined the other off road race cars in the Britpart off road arena. We had a great time and clearly Goodwood thought so too so for 2018 we were invited to...
After the DNF at the last round at Bovington where we destroyed an engine through water ingress we knew that a championship class win was out of our hands, Neil in the other Yamaha YXZ1000R has driven too well all season for that to happen, but at least a Yamaha was...
With the new that the British SxS Championship had been opened up to non Polaris models (previously the series was Polaris only) we decided that it would be good to show our support for the series at the final enduro round of the season. As befits our role as customer...
Well it had to happen I guess - our first DNF (did not finish). In reality it was more of a DNS (did not start), we didnt even mange one run on the course before we flooded the engine with water and killed it. Round 5 of the Britpart MSA British Cross Country...
Sometimes you go racing and sometimes you go testing and this weekend was very much the latter. With a seven week break after the last race we decided to implement a range of upgrades to the car ahead for this race with sadly some mixed results. A major part of our...
Well that was an interesting weekend. Its nice to have a bit of fun from racing and whilst our main series for this season is the British Cross Country Championship its important for us to develop the car for different kinds of racing and other championships so when...
Well we knew this round was going to be tough and it was, but the net result is that we are now leading the Championship for our class. Forest Estate in Scotland is a lovely place but with teeth, it has teeth in the form of a course that bites if you get it wrong and...
As part of our role with Yamaha we are here to help promote the car both externally and internally to the Yamaha family so this month we got the chance to attend the annual Yamaha bike dealer days at Silverstone. Each year every Yamaha dealer gets the chance to come...