By John Thorne - Tue, 13 May 2008 10:17 Another mixed fortune week end for us as a team, fantasticperformance from Simon in the Astra, a frustrating time for Leyton in the Corsaand a luckless time for myself in the M3. Weekend started reasonably badly,technical issues...
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Dunlop SportMaxx Rounds 5 & 6 – Croft 14th / 15th June 2008
By John Thorne - Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:51 Well, sometimes racing doesn’t get much better than that! Thewhole team had worked so hard on these cars that we really felt deserved a goodresult. After Simon’s first win the Astra VXR at Pembrey we wanted both for himto...
Dunlop SportMaxx Rounds 7 & 8 – Castle Combe 19th / 20th July 2008
By John Thorne - Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:00 Well like most things in life success in motorsport needs a combination of planning, skill and luck and we came up a little short on the luck part this weekend. Castle Combe is always a popular circuit for competitors and...
Dunlop SportMaxx Rounds 9 & 10 – Donington 2nd / 3rd August 2008
By John Thorne - Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:30 I can’t help feeling that the Dunlop SportMaxx came of age this weekend. Grids are getting bigger, the variety of cars is getting wider, the comments from the teams and drivers are getting more and more positive, the regulations...
Dunlop SportMaxx Round 13 – Rockingham 28th Sept 2008
Yee-ha! We did it, Leyton is 2008 Dunlop SportMaxx Champion in his Thorney Motorsport Vauxhall Corsa SRI-R! What a season and what a perfect end for what has been a long and sometimes difficult year, we’ve had some desperately poor luck, some difficult technical...
Dunlop SportMaxx Round 11 – Brands Hatch 25th August 2008
Well race weekends don’t get much better than that! The weekend began as usual with testing. RMA hosted a Trackday on Friday, so we took advantage of that. The RMA Trackdays offer a lot more track time and in some regards, a higher quality of driving is exhibited. We...