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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...
By John Thorne – Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:00 ]]> Dunlop SportMaxx Race Report First 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Thorney Motorsport – Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:50 Its a funny thing fate, one minute you’re just going about your business and the next you’re helping the UK’s most popular motoring TV program in their largest feature they’d ever done. I...
By Thorney Motorsport – Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:00 From: £1000 Thorney Motorsport are offering full arrive and drive packages for the CSL Cup. These vary from one off drives (single race) in either class, to race support and full team drives. Contact us for details,...
Britcar 24hr 2011, you really couldn’t make this up… Usually after the 24hr (this was our 4th) I writeout a race report that tells our story and hopefully a positive outcome,however this year whilst the result was excellent for us the journey is thestory. We...
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...
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...
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 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...