By John Thorne – Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:50 Well that was about as many new things we could pack into a weekend as is possible. First time racing on gravel, first time out for the Wildcat in MSA BCCC spec, first time on All Terrain tyres, first time driving the car...

By John Thorne, Team Principal – Thorney Motorsport – Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:41 Looking back over the year if I’d known then what I know now we wouldn’t have entered the BTCC this year. Sounds harsh but with what we’ve been through this year...

Last time I explained what we do to a standard shell to prepare it for racing, this week I’m going to explain how the concept of Next Generation Touring Cars (NGTC) rules work and how this applies to the cars you will see on the grid this season. Firstly though,...

Thorney Motorsport with great regret confirm theirwithdrawal from the Oulton Park and Croft rounds of the Dunlop MSA BritishTouring Car Championship. The team has also decided to drop Swindon Engines, anNGTC TOCA supplier, as power supplier with immediate effect. The...

By John Thorne, Team Principle – Thorney Motorsport Tony Gilham at the hands of our Insignia VXR-R BTCC Race Car Happy with that. Happy that we showed everyone that the Insignia can run in the top ten, happy that we suffered no mechanical failures (on a day when...

By Thorney Motorsport After 5 years of careful planning we are finally entering the BTCC for 2012. This project has been carefully planned to coincide with the new Next Generation Touring Car technical regulations which allows the creating of a fully competitive car...

Winning team: Mirror Online are sponsoring Thorney Motorsport’s BTCC effort in 2012 Get used to seeing the letters NGTC this season in the BTCC. Indeed I have a spread bet just how many times in the course of ITV4’s live coverage just how often...

Silverstone Test After the frustration of DoningtonPark and grim decision to withdraw from Thruxton the team have taken the chanceto re-group in the last few weeks, hence the lack of features from me,sorry.  Our view came down the fact thatwhat was the point in...

Thorney Motorsport has confirmed that joining team principal John Thorne as their second driver for the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship will be Rob Hedley. This will be Rob’s first foray into the BTCC but he is no stranger to saloon car racing having...

By John Thorne, Team Principal – Thorney Motorsport 15th October 2012 Media Information for Immediate Release Tony Gilhams team, Team Hard, have today confirmed the purchase of the first two Thorney Motorsport Vauxhall Insignia VXR-R’s BTCC cars. The current car...

Mirror Online will be sponsoring the Vauxhall Insignias run by British Touring Car Championship team Thorney Motorsport.  As we build up to the new season we sat down with team owner and lead driver John Thorne to get his thoughts ahead of what promises to be an...