Author Archives: nickollivere

Our Brazilian correspondent has recently returned from Rio de Janeiro with the news that the country is really getting behind Massa. He is obviously not as popular (yet) as Senna or Piquet, but people believe in him a lot more … Continue reading →

Were you surprised to read Ross Brawn’s comments that the British TV coverage of F1 is not good enough? On one level, seeing as I had understood him to be friendly with the presenters, yes. But on another, of course … Continue reading →

Except for MotoGP, the only other sport besides F1 that I watch with any modicum of regularity is Baseball (that of the ‘cap’ fame). It occurred to me that our two sports are similar in many respects. The amount of … Continue reading →

Well, not really, but it’s interesting what Eddie Jordan says about Ron Dennis being over-protective of Hamilton. This is exactly what I thought when I saw Dennis huddling round Hamilton on the Melbourne grid, and Martin being forced to keep … Continue reading →

So, after three races we have three drivers tied on 22 points, one of them being the rookie Lewis Hamilton, who is 22 years old. Only he and Raikkonen have been on every podium – and no team other than … Continue reading →

Sofaf1 has been strangely quiet this week. I’m not sure why – personally my browser has been having problems with Stew’s posts, though I know Firefox can handle them. Anyway, what’s the problem with Kubica? My question is twofold. Firstly, … Continue reading →

A short word about Ferrari’s new sponsor, Alice. When Alex pointed it out I said something like ‘Oh, that’s always been there’. The reason for this mistake was because the MotoGP team Ducati are sponsored by Alice (2004 onwards), and … Continue reading →

As you can see, the old Ferrari team gathered together at Maranello today to celebrate sofaF1’s first birthday. If you look carefully you can spot Adrian, Alex, Stew and me. We had a great time, much Chianti drunk and much … Continue reading →

I don’t know about you, but I feel that there is something missing from this weekend. It’s been two weeks since Australia, and I’m ready for another Grand Prix. How about you? This whole ‘three weeks’ thing seems to be … Continue reading →

To continue today’s trend of journalist-bashing (although I wouldn’t quite go so far as Alex to call them all a cancer on the sport), a point made by Richard Barnes annoyed me quite a lot. He said that it was … Continue reading →