Spotlight: Racing to Recovery with Turbo Titans

Our spotlight series focuses on exciting things our customers create using our products. This week, we’re doing things differently. 

Ben Horle, a longtime customer, shared an incredible personal journey with us. A story that combines deep hardship with big wins and heart-warming joy in between. Above all, it’s a story about a Gravity Wiz customer, and something we think our customers will relate to. 

It’s also a request: Ben is looking to lift off a new Gravity-Forms-powered venture into orbit and needs our help. More on that below, and check out Ben’s overview of his new venture (and Gravity-Forms-powered donation form) here:

Meet Ben Horle, Founder of Turbo Titans

Ben Horle is the founder of Turbo Titans, a pop-up remote control racing experience built to bring families together, help kids rediscover real-world fun, and inject fresh energy into local communities. Think remote control cars, inflatable race tracks, and big smiles all ‘round.

Turbo Titans isn’t just about racing. It’s about reclaiming time and connection — something born from a series of unfortunate events that turned Ben’s life temporarily upside down.

Catering and a Health Crisis

Before Turbo Titans — for years — Ben ran a successful catering company, until a carbon monoxide leak during a routine cooking session changed his life.

I was doing what I loved when it hit me. Confusion, dizziness, nausea. Some days I couldn’t function. I’d be in bed for sixteen hours, barely able to think. I won’t go into every symptom, but it was deeply frightening.

Eventually, Ben found hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Slowly, his cognitive function began to return. But the experience forced him to reevaluate everything: his health, his work, and most of all, how he was spending time with his kids.

Support in the Form of… Forms

In the midst of recovery, Ben started looking for ways to work again. 

I reached out to Scott at Gravity Wiz looking for a way to build a future I could manage with my new limitations. The Gravity Wiz team’s kindness was a lifeline at a truly dark time. They didn’t just give me technical support — they gave me social connection when I felt isolated. Honestly, it felt like I had my own development team cheering me on.

Using Gravity Forms, Ben began building digital tools for the catering industry in hopes that they might be of use upon his return to work — quote calculators, job onboarding systems, KPI trackers, PDF generators, and Kitchen management systems. They worked well. So well, he estimates those tools could’ve “saved over £80,000 in labor” in his previous catering business.

Then Ben’s employer let him go after nearly a year had passed without him being able to work. And later on, the stress of everything got to his wife, who left and announced that she wanted a divorce.

He tried selling what he had built but the truth was, selling websites wasn’t lighting Ben up. “I wanted to do something fun — something that helped me reclaim lost time with my kids.”

The Birth of Turbo Titans

Ben’s idea came on a quiet day at the lake.

I remembered the day I bought my son a remote control boat. I couldn’t run with him — but I could sit there and cheer him on. The joy on his face was everything.

That memory became the foundation for Turbo Titans, the pop-up RC racing business that started with zero budget, a lot of heart, and a wizard’s vision.

Ben asked a shopkeeper (RCScrapyard East Sussex) what it would take to buy 20 RC cars and host small racing events. The answer? Surprisingly doable. The opportunity? Too good to pass up.

I was fed up with being too unwell to take my kids out, then on the days I was strong enough there just didn’t seem to be anything affordable.

With no real budget — just heart — I began building.

Turbocharged with Gravity Perks

To bring his vision to life, Ben leaned heavily on Gravity Forms and Gravity Perks. He built:

• A custom ticketing and registration system
• Event check-ins for smooth on-site operations
• Affiliate QR codes so local shops could sell tickets and earn commission
• Scalable backend systems that made a tiny team feel like a polished company
• A donation form enhanced with conditional logic 

It may have started small, but I built it with big business in mind. When your systems are stronger than you are, it instills confidence.

Ben also mentioned our good friends at Gravity PDF saying, “Jake [CEO], his team, and their products have been so helpful throughout this process.”

What’s Brewing for Turbo Titans

Turbo Titans is… picking up speed. He’s aiming to bring Turbo Titans to:

• CarFest, Silverstone, and Brands Hatch
• Birthday parties (including “Man-Child” editions for grown-ups)
• After-school clubs that promote focus, social skills, and real-world play

He’s also working on a mobile inflatable racing arena that can travel to schools, festivals, and underserved communities — and he’s launched a fundraiser to help make it happen.

But Ben could use some help. To make it to CarFest, one of his inaugural business debuts, he needs to cover costs.

Help Turbo Titans Make it to CarFest!

As I’m sure you can tell by now — this isn’t our typical spotlight. But Ben’s vision has heart, and he’s genuinely looking to give back to his community. As wizards, we love to see that. 

Ben’s offering multiple donation rewards, including:

• A certificate of support
• A personalized “Thank You” video shout-out
• Laser-cut medallions
• A founders bundle
• The ability to book a Turbo Titans party
• A 12 month sponsorship package

To make it meaningful, I’m planning to laser-cut pieces of the original ramps into medallions — small keepsakes for donors. Each one a symbol of joy, struggle, and forward motion.

As I’m sure you could have guessed, Ben’s donation form takes serious advantage of Gravity Perks. It includes GP Address Autocomplete, GP Copy Cat, GP Entry Blocks, and more.

Watch Ben’s overview of his story here and how his donation form uses Gravity Perks here:

Want to help support Ben on his journey?

“I would like help getting to CarFest this year to stake out the venue with my two sons and a friend as backup should my health let me down, I will then be able to research what size pitch would be suitable and make plans to bring Turbo Titans there for 2026.”

Whether you’d like to donate or find out Ben’s one free piece of advice to overcome hard times you can visit #GetBenToCarFest and his donation page below.