Author Archives: Alex Andronov

One of the most difficult relationships in Formula One to navigate is that of team mates. They tend to resist the urge, unless they were Jaques Villeneuve – thanks Jaques, to trash talk their closest rival. But why? Formula One … Continue reading →

What is it that autosport has against Bernie Ecclestone? A clear editorial decision has been made over there to mention a certain something every time they write about him. His age. I’m not exactly sure when I first started noticing … Continue reading →

The votes are in and it looks like our readership is tied between staying up and going to sleep. But clearly Bearded Stew didn’t vote because if the man isn’t drinking John Smiths during the Grand Prix then I’m a … Continue reading →

I wanted to say, “What on Earth” but Autosport beat me to it. My favorite thing about this story is that in their presentation to the FIA (before the public presentation) Honda said, “We want Formula 1 to be carbon … Continue reading →

Willy Rampf of BMW has been talking about trying to make his cars more reliable before Australia. The BMWs do seem to be running very well at the moment. Reliability is the achillies heel for these cars. We could be … Continue reading →

I found this on another blog, a very funny alternative view of 2007. A short sample click through for the rest. Pre-season testing continues in Spain. Toyota are one team encouraged by their winter progress and state that they will … Continue reading →

So Scott Speed still hasn’t been confirmed as the Torro Rosso driver number 2 because his commitment or lack of it. You can hear Gerhard Berger talk about it here. It seems like Scott isn’t very good at taking criticisim … Continue reading →

So with less than a month to go until the season starts, the beer is chillin’ and here at SofaF1 we’re just getting revved up. We will have a number of new features rolling out over the next month as … Continue reading →

Sorry, especially to Stew, for two video posts in one day but I really thought this was interesting. At Goodwood in 2006 they had Jackie Stewart and Nico Rosberg switch cars and describe what it was like. Nico seemed to … Continue reading →

Was he rubbish? Or did he simply have the misfortune to be the top British racer when Michael Schumacher was at the height of his powers: