The weekend was quiet in terms of motorsport on terrestrial television, but it was all going on in foreign lands. And we’ll be able to catch up eventually.

First and foremost, one of Scotland’s least recognised exports – and that’s official, it says so on the BBC – Dario Franchitti took the IndyCar Series title for the second time.

It was shown on Sky Sports, but that’s no use to the likes of me, who will have to wait until 4.20am on Thursday morning, when Five will be showing highlights. Intriguingly, it was the first IRL race without a single full-course yellow. Does that make it a more interesting race, or less? You tell me. Especially if you watched it.

The other big thing was in V8 Supercars, which held the Bathurst 1000 endurance race. It’s an event of sufficient significance to even appear on the front page of the BBC News website at one point last week, albeit not for the racing.

Sticking with the theme of successful but unrecognised Brits in motorsport, Andy Priaulx – probably slightly better known to the general public than Franchitti – took part, and clearly enjoyed it. He finished 11th.

It’s Five in the middle of the night again for the highlights, but I reckon they won’t be on for about a fortnight yet. That seems to be the sort of delay we get with V8 Supercars.