Author Archives: Alex Andronov

In the warm up to the qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix Nick texted me to say, “I wish they’d shut up about Lewis”. I reminded him to embrace and enjoy it as it would be going on all summer. … Continue reading →

Well with F1’s resident Pole having a quiet lie down it’s time for us to have a quick recap of what Indie is all about. Indie is in many ways the oddest circuit that we go to. The mechanics have … Continue reading →

Well No Blue Flags and No Fuel stops (just tyres) are the only two things that have beaten out No Change in the poll. The only things people definately don’t want is GP2 style two races per weekend (which Flav … Continue reading →

So it’s a grand prix weekend coming up. What’s you experience like? Fill in our handy set of questions or ignore them completely. Do you watch qualifying? Do you watch the race? Do you watch both of them live? Even … Continue reading →

“The past is the past, the future is the future, and now is now.” So says Ron Dennis about Kimi. And let me tell you it’s insight like that which is why he’s a team boss and you aren’t. So … Continue reading →

The reason SofaF1 might be particularly interested in this article from Autosport will be unclear for most of our readers. But for the contributors this is probably a pretty interesting read: Two motor technology companies have struck a deal aimed … Continue reading →

The Canadian Grand Prix is the third most watched sporting event in the world allegedly. Behind the World Cup of Football final and the Superboll. (This is the list of single events rather than contests. As a contest the F1 … Continue reading →

So a statistician would be intrigued by the results of this weeks poll, I think. Before the race weekend there was a clear bias in favour of Kimi being a car breaker, and although that remains over the race weekend … Continue reading →

The British Press are famously mean sons of bitches and they are so powerful that they know when somebody trys to snub them they’d rather shame them than let them get away with it. Ron Dennis has been denying the … Continue reading →

Two things occur to me. One that when they were suggesting that it made no sense for Hamilton to go out again in Q1 because he was definitely safe I remembered that I had thought we had heard Ted saying … Continue reading →