Usually we do a whole season of reports for our BMW racing, a blow by blow account of each race, how we did and how things are going but its safe to say that this year has been a little different. First of all Covid meant the season was about as screwed up as was...
Race Car Preparation
Thorney Motorsport FIA cage competing in 2019 Dakar Rally
We are delighted to be able to support Ignacio Casale in his entry to the 2019 Dakar in his Yamaha YXZ1000 by supplying one of our FIA approved and certificated race cages. Ignacio, a Redbull supported athlete chose our cage to ensure the stiffest chassis as well as...
Badger Oak Sponsors Day
To reflect the enhanced support we have had from Badgers Oak this season we decided to host a fun day out for them at Bruntingthorpe Training Ground. Bruntingthorpe is basically an airfield where you can use areas simply for fun and also a short course track to both...
2018 Season Report BMW M3
2018 Season report – BMW Racing Over the past few weeks we’ve had a few people ask why we’ve not been releasing race reports this year and whilst we dont want to disappoint our followers we did have a couple of reasons why we havent. The first reason...
Britpart MSA British Cross Country Championship 2016 – Final
After the DNF at the last round at Bovington where we destroyed an engine through water ingress we knew that a championship class win was out of our hands, Neil in the other Yamaha YXZ1000R has driven too well all season for that to happen, but at least a Yamaha was...
British SxS Championship Final Round 2016
With the new that the British SxS Championship had been opened up to non Polaris models (previously the series was Polaris only) we decided that it would be good to show our support for the series at the final enduro round of the season. As befits our role as customer...
Britpart MSA British Cross Country Championship Round 5 Bovington 2016
Well it had to happen I guess – our first DNF (did not finish). In reality it was more of a DNS (did not start), we didnt even mange one run on the course before we flooded the engine with water and killed it. Round 5 of the Britpart MSA British Cross Country...
European ATV Trophy, Bastogne 2016
Well that was an interesting weekend. Its nice to have a bit of fun from racing and whilst our main series for this season is the British Cross Country Championship its important for us to develop the car for different kinds of racing and other championships so when...
Britpart MSA British Cross Country Championship Rnd 3 – Forest Estate, Scotland
Well we knew this round was going to be tough and it was, but the net result is that we are now leading the Championship for our class. Forest Estate in Scotland is a lovely place but with teeth, it has teeth in the form of a course that bites if you get it wrong and...
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2018
For the first time ever at the Goodwood Festival of Speed guests will be able to come have a high speed passenger ride in a Yamaha YXZ1000R courtesy of the Swift Yamaha YXZ1000R Racing Team. Following the huge success at last years Goodwood Festival of Speed where...
2018 Race Season
Our 2018 racing plans are our most exciting yet and the first one we can announce is our latest E46 M3 (our 9th we have built) to be driven by our regular driver – Callum Noble. Callum has decided to jump into the deep end moving from two successful seasons in...
BMW Racing 2017 Round 3 Silverstone
Well if ever there was a weekend of highs and lows this was it. Having never raced the Silverstone National circuit before we used the test day for Callum to find his way round and get an idea of the track, personally I love the National as its about braking and...
Yamaha YXZ1000R Factory Race Team
Media Information For Release January 13th 2016-01-07 Yamaha announce the UK’s first full factory backed UTV race team Working with recognised UTV racing operation, Thorney Motorsport, Yamaha have launched the UK’s first dedicated, factory backed UTV race...
Steaight Six magazine GT3 Aero Feature
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BCCC – Round 2 Radnor, Wales
By John Thorne – Sun, 10 May 2015 20:03 One of the best aspects of the British Cross Country Championship (and the idea of Safari Rallying) is that each track is different, some are more rally type stages and some are more full offroad and the whole...
BMW E36 M3 & M3 EVO Race Preparation
By Thorney Motorsport – Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:00 The E36 M3 is pretty much the perfect BMW chassis to prepare for racing, the shell is lightweight, strong and readily adaptable to track preparation and donor vehicles can be obtained for relatively little money....
BTCC blog: From production line princess to caged warrior
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...
Building the perfect beast: Preparing for BTCC’s Next Generation rules
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,...
NGTC Touring Car
By John Thorne – Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:30 Much has been discussed (and will continue to be discussed) about the Next Generation Touring Car regulations and how best to make use of them to create the most competitive car. Thorney Motorsport are uniquely placed in...
E92 M3 Race Car Preperation – Chassis and Cage
By Thorney Motorsport – Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:28 We seem to have more phone calls and questions on cages andtheir fitting than anything else these days, be them for full race carpreparation or just track day use there does appear to be a lot of...

