2014 in numbers

Dry weather tyres used during the 2014 F1 season. These comprised 83 sets of the hard tyre, 378 of the medium, 463 of the soft and 177 of the stickiest supersoft

Koenigsegg caught up in the USA's car recall crisis, due to a tyre pressure-monitoring fault

Points amassed by Britain's Lewis Hamilton in his successful quest to score a second Formula One World Driver's Championship title. Get in there!

New cars registered by Brits first 11 months of 2014 (the final totting up won't arrive for a few weeks yet). Ford wins, with 306,134 shifted. Amazingly, three of you out there bought Saabs.

Time taken, in seconds, for the AMZ Racing Grimsel electric car to accelerate from 0-62mph. A new world record. Not bad for a project dreamt up by a load of science students. Well, they are Swiss science students...

Horsepower mustered by the TopGear Hyundai i20 rally car that Ollie Marriage and co-driver Jack Morton took to a superb class win at the 2014 Wales Rally GB. Where's the champagne, chaps?

At the time of writing, the number of views Ken Block's glorious hoon around Los Angeles in his Hoonicorn Mustang (you know it as Gymkhana Seven) has racked up on YouTube.

Top speed, in miles per hour, achieved by the Hennessey Venom GT on 14 February 2014. Faster than a Veyron, yes, but not enough for a Guinness record as the run was only made in one direction

Number of donuts completed around a moving car in 60 seconds, set by Chinese stunt driver Zhang Shengjun.

Cost, in pennies, of the average litre of petrol cost in the UK by the end of 2014. That's a four-year low.

Estimated number of speeding offences committed in Britain by untraced overseas drivers in 2014.

Gallons of fuel Team TG fed the new Ford Mustang as it tracked its way 11,175 miles across all fifty states of the USA. Well, almost...

Laps completed by the winning Audi R18 e-tron Quattro at the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans. While we're on endurance racing, special mentions for Porsche's valiant returning effort, Toyota's overall World Endurance Championship win with Brit Anthony Davidson, and Nissan for actually getting the ZEOD RC to do a world-first electric-only lap (before breaking down).

Number of working Nissan GT-R Nismos in Britain as Olympic cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy set off on his run up the hillclimb at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this summer.

BONUS NUMBER: 1 - the number of working GT-Rs left in the country a mere 20 seconds later. Oops.

Official mpg figure for TG's car of the year, the BMW i8 hybrid supercar. Okay, that figure isn't really achievable in real life, but there's no doubt the i8 remains a sensational achievement by BMW, and a standard-bearer for the future of our beloved sports cars.

Fastest lap of the TopGear test track on the show in 2014, set by the crackers Caterham 620R in the wet.

Days of dithering between the 2014 Abu Dhabi F1 grand prix and McLaren finally deciding to give Jenson Button another drive for next season, alongside Fernando Alonso.

Cubic feet of capacity offered by the front boot in a Ferrari 458, which was temporarily banned from sale in the USA earlier in 2014 after officials decided it was possible for hostages to be trapped in the cargo area with no escape handle. Riiight.

Photos taken of Red Bull racing's Daniel Ricciardo in 2014 not depicting the talented Aussie pulling a massive grin. Surely a future world champion, and a very smiley one at that

Lifespan in years of the faithful old tax disc, which was pensioned off in November 2014 in favour of a computerised system. No more swearing at the flippin' perforated paper menace.