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...
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Oulton Park ’10 – Rounds 4, 5 & 6
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...
Snetterton 2010 – Rounds 1, 2 & 3
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...
Dunlop SportMaxx Rounds 4 5 & 6Brands Hatch 6th & 7th June 2009
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...
Dunlop SportMaxx – Round 7 8 & 9Donington Park 5th & 6th July 2009
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...
Dunlop SportMaxx Rounds 1 2 & 3Rockingham 18th & 19th April 2009
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...
SportMaxx – Combe 18/19 Jun 09
By John Thorne - Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:19 Weather was always going to be a feature at this race, the forecast was pretty miserable but very changeable – just about the worst kind of weather for racing, but we had no idea just how important it would be until later in the...
SportMaxx – Croft 22/23 Aug ’09
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...
SportMaxx – Snett 26/27 Sep 09
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 ...
Dunlop SportMaxx Rounds 1 & 2 – Snetterton 26th / 27th April 2008
By Thorney Motorsport - Thu, 01 May 2008 10:38 First rounds of the new season are always eye openers butthis was an interesting one to say the least. We arrived at circuit onWednesday for three days of testing, Leyton had got some time in the Corsa atThruxton the...