The Macau Grand Prix - now in its 55th year - is a strange event. On the one hand, it’s been going so long, it has to be considered a part of the motorsport furniture. But on the other, no bugger’s knows anything about it. At least, I knew precious little until the WTCC joined the bill three years ago, and it was only looking at the rather unpleasant website - and, yes, Wikipedia - today that I learned much more.

What I did know is that arguably the headline event is the Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix, which has been contested - and won - by some of Formula 1’s most evocative names: Senna and Schumacher to name but two. After British winners for the last two years - Mike Conway and Oliver Jarvis (though he was racing in Japanese Formula 3) - this year it was Japanese driver Keisuke Kunimoto taking victory. And as a result, apparently, the FIA Intercontinental Cup, which I’m sure is a lovely thing.

What I didn’t realise, is that the Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix also forms part of the event - and that really is dominated by Brits. 1997 was the last time another country won it, and Michael Rutter alone was victorious six times between 1998 and 2005. He finished second this year, behind winner Stuart Easton, and ahead of third place John McGuinness - another Brit.

I also didn’t know that the World Touring Car Championship race was previously known as - and still is known as, for that matter - the Guia Race of Macau. It was another good one for Brits, with Andy Priaulx on the podium twice, and Rob Huff taking the second race win.

So there you go: Brits rule in Macau. But not literally: it wasn’t part of the Empire. It was Portugese at one point though.

I’ve not been recording much of Five’s overnight motorsport coverage of late, because frankly I’ve not been getting round to watching much of it. But I will certainly be recording the IndyCar Series highlights in the early hours of Wednesday morning, because that man Justin Wilson only bloody won it. Hooray!

As always, my predictions have been proven remarkably wrong: Robert Doornbos wasn’t alone in suffering reliability problems in the first Superleague Formula race at Donington Park, and didn’t start the second as a result. So he’s not exactly leading the points table.

Davide Rigon for Beijing Guoan is, surprisingly, with a win in the first race, and 6th in the second. He’s done lots in his native Italy, a bit of A1GP, and is racing in the FIA GT Championship - but nothing to really suggest that he should come out on top in a single seater at Donington.

I’m not surprised that Adrián Vallés for Liverpool, and Duncan Tappy for Tottenham Hotspur, follow Rigon in the standings, level on points, having scored a 3rd and a 5th each. Vallés because of his reasonable GP2 career, and Tappy because of his experience of racing in this country - he’s British, of course. Former GP2 racer Borja García for Sevilla sits 4th, having won the second race.

With a good number of drivers with experience of GP2 in the pack, Superleague Formula could prove to be a good opportunity to shine for those with with less international experience - like Duncan Tappy. I’m interested to see how he gets on in the remaining rounds, where he won’t have the advantage of racing on home soil. He has an excellent name, and I enjoyed his Porsche Carrera Cup GB appearance, so I’d like to see him moving up in the motorsport world.

But what impact has Superleague Formula made on the real (online) world? Google News reveals that the Liverpool Daily Post noticed, but otherwise only specialist motorsport sites cared.

It’s a bit rubbish that the BBC and major newspapers haven’t even mentioned it, but I guess coverage can only get better. And for those of us without Setanta Sports, at least YouTube hasn’t entirely let us down.

I’m vaguely obsessed with digging around Superleague Formula at the moment, so I’ve been looking at the websites of the UK clubs involved. Unsurprisingly, there’s nothing about the series prominently on the websites of Liverpool FC, Tottenham Hotspur or Rangers.

However, doing a Google search for any mention of Superleague Formula on those websites - and there are plenty, to be fair - I found links to free tickets for the Donington Park meeting this weekend. So if you’re thinking of going - and you can only get tickets on the door now, by the looks of it - then click on one of these links depending on whether you want to get free tickets from Liverpool, Tottenham or Rangers. There’s no guarantee that you’ll get tickets, but it’s worth a shot - and please do let me know how you get on if you apply.

With the first Superleague Formula race at Donington Park this weekend, things seem to be falling into place.

TV coverage was announced yesterday, generally on networks which hold club football rights - Setanta Sports in the case of the UK.

I thought A1GP would be held back by being on Sky Sports, so I’m not as sure as I might have been that this is a problem. Setanta is a much smaller operation though, so it remains to be seen. Of course, my issue is that I won’t be able to watch it - and presumably that’ll be the case for many motorsport fans, so in that way it is going to limit the audience.

More drivers have been announced, and fittingly given the football connection, they’re by no means all from the same nation as the club they’re representing. Tristan Gommendy (France) for FC Porto (Portugal), Adrián Vallés (Spain) for Liverpool FC (England), and Robert Doornbos (Netherlands) for AC Milan (Italy). To be fair, though, there are plenty of more fitting drivers: Ryan Dalziel for Rangers FC (Scotland), Antônio Pizzonia for SC Corinthians (Brazil), Borja García for Sevilla FC (Spain).

But there are still a lot of gaps though: we’ve only got 17 of the mooted 20 clubs confirmed, and we only know the driver for 14 of those 17. Will it all be in place for the weekend? I doubt it, but I’m sure the races will go ahead.

My prediction is that AC Milan will come out of the weekend leading the championship, simply because Robert Doornbos has been driving the car longer than anyone else. But there’s a pretty strong field of former GP2 and World Series by Renault drivers, so it could be quite competitive.

There’s a proud tradition in all sections of the specialist media of reporting on not news - stories purporting to be news, but which tell no-one anything new. With a quiet weekend ahead, not news has had a particularly prominent role to play on Autosport this week.

There’s the shock news that NASCAR driver Tony Stewart is aiming to win a race that he’s won four times before. Equally surprising is the news that Chris Vermeulen is targeting another MotoGP podium finish, after finishing on the podium at the last two races. Were it not for these important articles, I would have assumed that both men were intending to do really badly.

We have two revelations from the Ferrari camp. Kimi Raikkonen - who has qualified down in sixth for the last two races - says he needs to qualify better to keep his Formula 1 championship chances alive. Meanwhile, Felipe Massa - who retired from the lead of the last race three laps from home - says that Ferrari need to improve reliability to keep him in the championship fight. This sort of deep insight from drivers into how teams operate is simply invaluable.

Elsewhere, we have word from the A1GP technical director that the new Ferrari chassis the series will be using - which has been designed to encourage overtaking - will allow plenty of overtaking. I would have thought that he would be pessimistic about the new car, and tell us to expect really rubbish racing.

I don’t think so. Superleague Formula is a vaguely interesting concept, in that the teams are branded with individual football teams. But my prediction comes from looking at the website today, after seeing the news that Tottenham Hotspur are the English team entering the series.

What’s my prediction based on? Well, it just seems like a bit of a mess. Most visibly, the website looks cluttered and unprofessional. More concretely, I can’t find anything about TV coverage - and without that, it’s never going to be a serious international motorsport championship. Plus early information about the series talked about payments to teams from TV rights, so it’s certainly part of the plan. With only 23 days until the first round at Donington Park, there’s not much time to generate interest if a deal is yet to be announced.

But on the other hand, there are some decent motorsport teams (including Fisichella Motorsport) and drivers (like Robert Doornbos and Andi Zuber) involved. So they must see something in it. But that something could just be prize money of €1 million per race weekend - which for the first season has presumably been put up by the financial backers, and that could quickly dry up if there are no signs of commercial success.

I’m intrigued by Formula 2. When it was first announced, it sounded like the FIA wanted it to be like the GP2 Series - which that Bernie Ecclestone is involved in - but magically much cheaper.

Some more details have come along, and it’s a bit clearer. The intention is that it be a “one-make arrive-and-drive category”: there would be a pool of cars, from which teams would be assigned cars randomly for each race weekend, all maintenance being taken care of by the manufacturer between races. Teams would only have to repair accident damage over the course of the weekend. This has inevitably caused teams to question what exactly would be the point of them being there.

But my question is whether, like that, it could be a true Formula 1 feeder series. GP2 and Formula 3 have a similar team set-up to Formula 1. Without experience of that team relationship at a sufficiently advanced level, could a driver really step straight up to Formula 1 from this idea of Formula 2? It seems to me like more of a GP2 feeder series. And I’m sure that’s not the FIA’s intention.

I do wonder how some sponsorship deals come about. It was a stupidly long time before I realised why John George had such strong sponsorship from JAG in the BTCC: it’s his company. I drive past a branch of mobile phone shop JAG every day, and it’s got John George in his BTCC garb in the window. But still it took me ages to work it out.

One I’m still trying to figure out, though, is Lego and the Chilton family. There was Tom Chilton’s Lego Star Wars Honda Civic Type R in the BTCC a few years ago, and now Max Chilton’s British Formula 3 car has got a Lego Batman logo on the side. As far as I can see there isn’t a Chilton on the board of Lego, or the developer of those Lego games, Traveller’s Tales. It could be coincidence, but it’s more likely to be further proof that it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

Watching Five’s highlights of the last round of A1GP yesterday, it occurred to me just how much variation there has been in only three years. Team Germany, for example, have finished 15th, 1st and 8th in the final championship standings since the series began.

So putting all three seasons together, who’s best?

With a 4th and two 2nd places, in terms of overall championship position it’s New Zealand. France and Great Britain are joint second.

On total points scored over three seasons, it’s France, thanks mainly to their huge margin over second place in the 2005/06 season. Switzerland are second, Great Britain third.

It’s France again if you look at number of wins, podium finishes or fastest laps; Switzerland have the most top ten finishes and pole positions.

If you want Great Britain to be the best, then you just have to look at consistency: they’ve finished 3rd overall in every season so far.