Some of the UK's finest motorcycle journalists got the chance to drive the Yamaha YXZ1000R round the Yamaha Experience, located at Thorney Motorsport, home of the YXZ1000R Race Team. Yamaha YXZ1000R Racing & Experience Media Day The video and pictures says it all....
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SxS Endurance Championship, Round 3
A central part of our role with Yamaha is the support of all new owners and drivers of the new YXZ1000R. Our operation and indeed Yamaha's own ethos is that the relationship starts with the car purchase not ends so our role is to support all new drivers in all their...
Britpart MSA British Cross Country Championship Rnd 2 – Bovington, Hampshire
Round two is at Bovington, the British Army tank training ground so its rough and with added tank obstacles so we knew it would be fun if nothing else. Day 1 The drive round showed the track to be smoother than we expected, a lot of open gravel trails were fast and...
Britpart MSA British Cross Country Championship Rnd 1 – Pikes Peak, Wales.
The Britpart MSA British Cross Country Championship is one of four different race series we will be competing in this year, the events are Competition Safaris, that is a single stage, usually 8-10km long that you run multiple times over the course of two days. The...
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2018
For the first time ever at the Goodwood Festival of Speed guests will be able to come have a high speed passenger ride in a Yamaha YXZ1000R courtesy of the Swift Yamaha YXZ1000R Racing Team. Following the huge success at last years Goodwood Festival of Speed where...
New team partner – Avant Techno
We are delighted to announce a new partner for the Swift Group Yamaha Racing YXZ1000 Race team - Avant Tecno UK We tend not to use the term 'sponsor' here at Thorney Motorsport, we prefer 'partner' as it more accurately reflects the nature of how we and Yamaha work. A...
SxS Championship Tyre Test
The majority of our racing in the Yamaha YXZ1000R since launch has been in rally type events on tyres that are heavily controlled by MSA (UK Motorsport Association), in short if they aren't on their approved list - you cant use them. However for the 2017 season we are...
Yamaha YXZ1000R Factory Race Team
Media Information For Release January 13th 2016-01-07 Yamaha announce the UK's first full factory backed UTV race team Working with recognised UTV racing operation, Thorney Motorsport, Yamaha have launched the UK's first dedicated, factory backed UTV race team...
BCCC – Round 2 Radnor, Wales
By John Thorne - Sun, 10 May 2015 20:03 One of the best aspects of the British Cross Country Championship (and the idea of Safari Rallying) is that each track is different, some are more rally type stages and some are more full offroad and the whole series is...