Tesco 99 Octane Shoot News

By Thorney Motorsport

Thorney Motorsport Bring Motor Racing to Tesco's Kingston Petrol Forecourt!

Refueling your car these days can be a painful experience with the price of fuel rising and the wait while you watch the dial count down your savings a boring one. However on Wednesday anyone filling their car up at the Kingston branch of Tesco would think they were on the grid of a car race!


We were at the store to promote Tesco 99 Octane, a high octane petrol which we use in all our racing and is also available to buy at the store. Three of the our cars were present, the Vauxhall Corsa SRI, Vauxhall Astra VXR and BMW M3 along with our respective drivers, Leyton Clarke, Simon Shaw and John Thorne.


It was quite fun really, We were expecting a bit of hostility from the public seeing as this is a very busy fuel station but the response has been overwhelmingly positive, We’ve never seen so many people taking pictures while they fill their cars!”


Store trade manager Paul Barwick added “We were keen to ensure our customers weren’t delayed but it all went very smoothly, the response was great with even staff coming over from the store to have their pictures taken with the cars and the team.”


We have been using the high performance Tesco 99 Octane fuel for some time and the fact we race on the same fuel as you can buy at the forecourt is testimony to its quality.


“Tesco 99 Octane really is impressive, you get more power from the car and your mpg is improved as well”


Following the great response from the public we plan to co-promote in some form in the next month. One plan is for a race car to be displayed in store ahead of the Silverstone 24 hour race on September 19th so watch out next time you go shopping, you may walk down an aisle and come face to face with a race car!