Author Archives: nickollivere

Qualifying today was quite exceptional (except that ITV edited it too much in their late morning repeat). Despite it going against my personal advantage in the championship, as soon as Lewis started his last lap I found myself rooting for … Continue reading →

Autosport.com has been getting a bit excited over the last two days. First, yesterday evening it claimed McLaren had been banned from this championship and next year’s. Very quickly it printed a clarification (which had now disappeared from the site). … Continue reading →

The general feeling around the paddock seems to be that McLaren will be disqualified from this year’s championship. One of their employee’s, remember, has already been found guilty of holding technical data about the Ferrari. Things can only get worse. … Continue reading →

No, not Formula 1, but MotoGP. Ok, so Casey Stoner is actually in his second year, but he did spend most of his debut season falling off his bike. This makes it all the more remarkable, I think, that he’s … Continue reading →

Does Alono’s McLaren steering wheel have a display of the time left during qualifying sessions, or not? This seems to be an essential point no one can agree on. Mark Hughes says: ‘He knew how long he needed for an … Continue reading →

I’ve never particularly noticed le Tour de France before. Obviously this year, starting as it did in London, there’s been a lot more publicity than usual. It also happened that as F1 was engaged in a spy scandal, so cycling … Continue reading →

I was mightily impressed with Alonso yesterday – everyone who’s ever played an F1 computer game knows you can’t overtake at that chicane, but somehow he did it – and Hamilton round Kubica was also incredibly brave. There were two … Continue reading →

So what do you think of the new design for Formula1.com? At first, because I’m scared of change, I didn’t like it. But when I tried to analyse why, I couldn’t come up with many reasons. The best thing about … Continue reading →

I noticed something in the coverage of NASCAR that we definitely need for F1. They manage to impose onto the footage a moving pointer that shows you who’s driving each car. And this is in real-time, so there’s no fiddling … Continue reading →

David Edwards wrote an article for thelondonpaper that typifies the British media’s ignorance of Formula 1, how annoying they’re becoming, and how it’ll never stop until Hamilton retires. Here’s what he says ‘I would have to admit that, while stopping … Continue reading →