About

The Runoff Area is a motorsports humour and satire site, opened in September 2007 by Red Andy. Some of the content of this site also appears on the motorsports forum The Pit Lane.

The stories featured on this website are only occasionally loosely based on the real world of motorsports. We habitually exaggerate, misrepresent and conflate the facts, and sometimes just make stuff up. But we’re still more accurate than Planet-F1!

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About Red Andy

Red Andy, the Runoff Area's founder, poses on a Tangier-bound ferry to shamelessly show off where he's been on holiday.

I’ve been a motorsports fan, and particularly F1, for nearly fifteen years now, which qualifies me to scornfully criticise the “Hamilton generation,” but only to fume silently at the vocal “Everything-was-better-in-the-1980s brigade.” With the online F1 community growing it’s becoming easier and easier to achieve a modicum of fame by inventing ridiculous F1 news stories and putting them on the Internet (see here for examples). Alternatively you can just indiscriminately mock everyone and everything to do with F1, which is what I do.

As well as producing regular satire for the benefit of readers looking for a laugh as they circumnavigate the F1 world, I have been known to write the occasional serious piece for F1 websites as well. Examples can be found below:

• November 2009: Motorsports Business: Manufacturers in F1 at USF1 Formula1 Journal (originally written in 2007)

• October 2009: Please Save The British Grand Prix: An Open Letter to Damon Hill at F1 Badger

If you run an F1 website or other publication and would like me to write an article or two, leave a comment below and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

Away from F1 I’m a Biology student living in Edinburgh, which explains why I have the time to maintain this website and the inclination to sit at my computer writing about F1 rather than venturing into the cold, dark outdoors.