by John Thorne | Nov 15, 2023 | BMW Racing, CSL Cup, Latest News, Off Road Racing, Other Series, Racing News
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...
by John Thorne | Jun 8, 2017 | BMW, BMW News, BMW Racing, Other Series, Race Car Preparation, Racing News
Well if ever there was a weekend of highs and lows this was it. Having never raced the Silverstone National circuit before we used the test day for Callum to find his way round and get an idea of the track, personally I love the National as its about braking and...
by John Thorne | Apr 3, 2013 | Dunlop SportMaxx, Race Car Preparation, Racing News, Vauxhall, Vauxhall News
By Thorney Motorsport – Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:00 In 2008, Thorney Motorsport’s Astra VXR registered fastest laps at all race events, 5 overall race wins, and placed 3rd in the overall championship. TMS has been fortunate enough to build an excellent...
by John Thorne | Apr 3, 2013 | 2010 Race Reports, Dunlop SportMaxx, Racing News
By Thorney Motorsport – Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:20 With newly branded trucks, cars and team clothing we’vedecided to change our own brand at the same time, we’ve had the thorns as partof the logo since we started over ten years ago so our new ‘devil’ logo heraldsour...
by John Thorne | Apr 3, 2013 | 2010 Race Reports, Dunlop SportMaxx, Racing News, Vauxhall News
By John Thorne – Tue, 11 May 2010 08:30 Well, the 2010 race season is now fully upon us and frankly it landed on us like a ton of bricks. We did have the first Sportmaxx race a few weeks ago but with only Alex out in one Astra (where he got a 4th, 5th and...
by John Thorne | Apr 3, 2013 | 2009 Race Reports, Dunlop SportMaxx, Racing News
By John Thorne – Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:30 Well, they say motor racing is a series of ups and downs; they’re not wrong! The first SportMaxx rounds at Rockingham back in April were pretty unpleasant for the whole team. A variety of contributing...