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Alex Albon says Williams suffered a “self-fulfilling injury” with the early season timesaving but weight-adding measures on its 2024 Formula 1 car, which led to additional crash damage.

Now in my 48th year of writing for Autosport, I reflect on another interesting season over which I have reported 25 varied meetings at 12 venues, commentating at many, and attended more out of my undimmed passion for club and historic events.

Maverick Vinales believes he would have already won a title in MotoGP if Yamaha had followed his advice in the early years of their partnership.

There have been 258 drivers who have triumphed in a race in one of the support categories at a British Touring Car Championship event in the past 10 seasons. That’s a truly staggering number and certainly makes picking the best 10 of these a very tricky task.

The last Formula 1 race of the 20th Century occurred 9190 days ago. That means we are now closer to the start of the 2050 season, assuming the world championship is still around to commemorate its centenary anniversary, than we are from the 1990s.

Max Verstappen thinks Red Bull can forget about winning any championship in Formula 1 next year if it does not make good progress with its RB21 car.

Sean Reynolds and Andy Boyce were the final victors of the UK club racing year at Mallory Park, before thick fog resulted in the Plum Pudding meeting being abandoned.

George Russell reckons his lost 2024 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix victory was a better drive than his Las Vegas domination because of how in the former he held off Lewis Hamilton’s charge.

Vanwall, BRM, Cooper and Lotus. These are the names that usually get the credit when it comes to the early days of British motorsport success. They certainly all played their part in Formula 1 in the 1950s, but two decades earlier a different firm had hinted at what was possible…