Given the nature of the saying, it’s perhaps ironic that the origins of the phrase ‘there’s lies, damned lies and statistics’ are murky. In Autosport's in-depth investigation, there are plenty of statistics about the club racing campaign that has just concluded, which can be interpreted in many different ways.
Take the headline figure of 50% of series with comparable year-on-year data having a smaller average grid size this season than last. The impression that gives can depend on whether you are a glass-half-full or half-empty kind of person.
