Following further investigation into the engine bay fire at mallory, the source of the fire was originally wrongly identified as the oilcooler lines. The cause of the fire was found to be caused by the camshaft oil seal been blown out after blowing a hole in the piston and the block becoming pressurised, forcing [...]
Unfortunately there isn’t too much news to report from round 5 at Mallory park due to a terminal engine bay fire in the first practice session. The source of the fire has been identified as a failed fitting as oilcooler lines return to the block. This then sprayed onto the red hot manifold and ignited, destroying [...]
The hortonracing team has been busy developing the Subaru Impreza ready for the first every night race in the british rallycross championship. “Racing in the dark brings it’s own set of challanges to the driver and spectators alike. I hope to shine in these conditions with my previous experiance of night time rallying” commented Simon [...]
Just a quick announcement that we have just uploaded a brand new technical video about the Hortonracing Subaru Impreza http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daesMMSX9Lg
After the numerous problems in round 1 at Lydden Hill, the team has undertaken a massive amount of work to solve the transmission problems. The gearbox has had the selector rods replaced with uprated units thanks to Zen performance for supplying the parts at short notice and technical assistance. The gearbox has also had internal [...]
It’s been quite a few weeks now since the curtain closed on the 2009 season now, so it’s about time for an update on what’s happening behind the scenes. The item of the most important piece of news is the preparation of a brand new race engine for the Impreza. After the failure of the [...]
The team travelled down to Lydden Hill for the annual Bank Holiday event in high spirits, following recent successful test runs at both Mallory Park and Santa Pod. Sunday the 30th of August was a chance to compete in the Belgium Championship together with some familiar faces from the GB team which included Pat Doran, [...]
The Horton Racing team is very proud to introduce a new sponsor on the Subaru Impreza –HT Auto’s. The body panel specialist’s produces aftermarket spoilers, splitters, diffusers and other associated parts for all shapes of Subaru Impreza. Some of these items will appear on the Hortonracing car over the year so please keep an eye out for [...]
Prior to the 2nd & 3rd rounds of the BRDA Rallycross Championship, Simon has decided to participate in the Scoobysprint Championship at Elvington airfield on the 19th April. After the failure of a selector arm and linkage in the Impreza’s gearbox during testing at Anglesey, Simon felt the need to run the car again prior to [...]
On the 1st of March 2009 the Hortonracing team hit the track in style for a bit of pre-season shakedown at the Anglesey circuit in North Wales. The car was only fresh out the body shop earlier in the week after being prepped and sprayed by the Greyhound Ford body shop in Accrington and Simon [...]