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About Alex Andronov

Alex Andronov is a writer who lives in the UK. He is currently working on 7 novels, 5 film scripts, 2 plays, 2 TV series, 1 history of the United States, 1 travelogue and trying to find some focus.

Do you want Nick Fry with that?

So we seem to think that Nick Fry is the man on his way out, and it wasn’t a particularly close one this week either. Right then, as it’s our Birthday today I think we should examine one of the … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday SofaF1

SofaF1 is a year old today, we created the blog on 2nd April 2006, and it all kicked off with this post called “F1 from the Sofa“. Nick contacted me on the bat phone last night to remind me of … Continue reading

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Kimi’s charge card

So according to my secret sources Ferrari will announce that they will have to replace Kimi’s engine before the Malaysian Grand Prix. So we will likely see Kimi charging from the back, something we know all too well that he’s … Continue reading

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The Button didn’t work

So the result of our Poll (a day late, sorry about that): And we can see that the one thing that everyone is agreed on is that Lewis Hamilton isn’t the new Button. Most people think he could be the … Continue reading

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Mass Dampners For the Soul

There does seem to be a habit among formula one pundits to extrapolate in extremis. I personally think that the murray quote, “anything can happen in formula one, and it usually does” is completely correct. In other words, each race … Continue reading

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Your flexible friend

Remember the flexible wing saga from last year? Well apparently this year it will be the flexible floor saga. Apparently Ron Dennis has lodged a complaint with the FIA about teams (read Ferrari) have developed a flexible floor. The main … Continue reading

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It’s the little things that you notice…

…Like the preverbial “Royal with Cheese” it is the little things that can make it difficult to adapt to a new team. And as Alonso proves here it may still have not happened for him:

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Getting a steer

The result of last weeks poles were very accurate, but I must say slightly skewed by the one person who voted after the race had actually occured! At least that’s one way to increase the accuracy! So this weeks question: … Continue reading

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Any questions…

There were so many questions going into Australia and almost all of them have now been answered after what was a thrilling race. Although nobody looked like touching Kimi all day (and rather worryingly I think he had his engine … Continue reading

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How Odd…

Christijan Albers has switched numbers with his team mate. I’m very surprised that this was allowed because there are strict rules to how all of the numbers are assigned. But apparently he doesn’t like to drive with an even number! … Continue reading

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