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...
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 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 relationship...
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 6th...
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 - Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:30 Well, the first race of the 2009 season is here and there’s somany changes it’s hard to keep up. Leyton has moved from class B to the Astrain Class A, so carries his number 1 plate to the top class. We have a newdriver, Abbie...
Running a race team ofthis size in multiple championships is certainly interesting. This weekend wehad almost every aspect of racing land on our doorstep, inter team car on carcontact, a big crash, race wins and podiums, a TV crew in tow, mechanicalfailure and another...
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 'off-track' factors that we...
By John Thorne - Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:00 Final round to what feels like the end of a long season. Abbie had already secured Class B some time ago and there was still the outside chance of taking the overall championship if Simon Shaw in the SEAT had a bit of bad luck ...
By John Thorne - Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:00 ]]>Dunlop SportMaxx Race ReportFirst off, remember in the last report I mentioned that wehad our Astra and Corsa sealed by the BARC for investigation of illegal LSD’s? Wellas expected BARC inspected the cars and confirmed that...