A Little Weekend Away in Zolder

  April was a great month for Titan Historic Racing with Greg Walking away from with 2 Trophies. The First outing of the month was at Zolder in Belgium for the first round of the Masters Historic Formula One Championship. We took the beautiful 1982 Lotus 91 and also the 1965 Ford Mustang with us to Zolder which turned out to be a ... More

Our New Chevron B8

We here at Titan Historic Racing are proud to introduce our newest car to our already fine collection of historic racing cars, the Chevron B8! This hugely successful Chevron B8, is the Ex Works car which went to South Africa in 1968. This very special car has been lovingly restored to its original beauty by Vin at Chevron using all original ... More

For the first time in Titan history we have broken a lap record!

The Weekend of the 12 - 13 February was a bit up and down for Titan historic racing. We started off the weekend in East London, South Africa with the practice session where we were right up at the front in our beautiful Formula Junior Lotus 22. When it came to qualifying Greg Pulled off a great lap time of 1:34.408 to take pole position for ... More

A great article about Greg Thornton & his formula 1 conguering Chevron B24 Author: Simon Chapman

Simon Chapman has wrote a brilliant article on velocity news about Greg and his Chevron B24 which is worth a read. Find an extract of the article below. Once upon a time, Formula 1 beauties and Formula 5000 beasts lived in harmony, roaming the various circuits throughout the Americas, Europe and Australasia. Lotus, Lola, McLaren, McRae and ... More

Events to look out for next year

Here at Titan Historic Racing we have a very exciting start to the year with some of our favorites cars and locations. The F5000's and Formula junior will be racing in South Africa and New Zealand. With over 250 classic & historic car’s competing and a great spectators atmosphere this is a great showcase for the F5000 and Formula ... More

Whats coming up this month?

The doctors have given Greg the all clear to go the Austin, Texas for the F1 support race at the American Grand Prix in his Lotus 91 driving for Classic team Lotus on the weekend of 23rd October after his shoulder operation and extensive physio (its not fix but you know Greg is pig headed so lets see how it goes!). Greg will be testing on the ... More

Greg Thorntons Recovery

Unfortunately we must report that Greg crashed his March 761 at Road America when he was chasing pole in qualifying a few months ago. Whist in turn 7 he went to deep and dropped a wheel off of the track, the car span 90 degrees to the left, slid across the track and straight into the wall. Although Greg took his hands off the wheel and feet ... More

Brands Hatch Super Prix

The HSCC Brands Hatch Superprix meeting is always eagerly anticipated, giving, as it does, Derek Bell Trophy competitors an opportunity to fully extend their cars around the iconic Grand Prix circuit. Over the years the Derek Bell Trophy events staged at Brands Hatch have been action filled. This year’s events again packed plenty of action. ... More

Brands Hatch – Masters Historic Festival

After a successful April, Greg Thornton was going into weekend 2 of the FIA Masters Historic F1 Championship at the top of the table. It was a damp day at Brands Hatch for qualifying on Saturday but that didn't stop Greg qualifying on Pole by 0.186 seconds with Simon Fish 2nd and Andy Wolfe 3rd.  After a great qualifying session Greg ... More

Donnington – Donnington Park Historic Festival

On a wet and windy Sunday morning at Donington Historic Festival Greg Thornton managed to bring the sun out with his driving ability managing to qualify the 1965 Ford Mustang into 7th place and 4th row on the grid. After a brilliant qualifying session in the rain Greg Thornton had some gear box problems on lap 4 after climbing up to 5th ... More