In previous lives Mark raced cars, worked at Jim Russell racing school, got a university degree which he never used, tried working in industry, didn’t like it, left and joined Motoring News in 1988 as a junior club race reporter. Went freelance in ’96, concentrated on F1 from 2000. Grand Prix editor of Autosport for 10 years.
Max Verstappen’s victory at the Hungaroring last Sunday secured – as you will doubtless have been told many times already – the 12th consecutive grand prix win for Red Bull,…
The gold-standard driver and team of the F1 grid broke one of the championship's most significant records in Hungary, as the battle for 'best of the rest' rages on
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Chris Amon was one of the most naturally gifted drivers F1 has ever seen – Mark Hughes remembers a man who deserved much more, but never looked back in bitterness
F1 Retro
Silverstone marked the arrival of Williams as an F1 grand prix winner, writes Mark Hughes. It witnessed dominant victories in the constructor's glory days and, last weekend, it saw a (temporarily) resurgent team celebrating its imminent 800th GP.
Officials could have engraved the Austrian GP trophy in advance, so comfortable was Max Verstappen's win, but behind him saw the grid jumbled up again and a morass of track limit penalties, as Mark Hughes examines
The unique Red Bull Ring has a reputation for shaking up the F1 order, with several factors pointing to the chance of a shock Max Verstappen defeat, writes Mark Hughes, who is keeping a close watch on Ferrari
In this season of Verstappen dominance, the most intriguing competition is that between the three teams directly behind - Aston Martin, Mercedes and Ferrari – where the initiative has swung…
Max Verstappen did what was expected and delivered Red Bull's 100th F1 win at the 2023 Canadian Grand Prix. But the winning margin was smaller than usual for this season. That doesn't mean opponents are getting closer, writes Mark Hughes
Mercedes' upgrades allowed it to pull clear as best of the rest in Spain, but can Ferrari show its true colours in Canada?
Max Verstappen's 40th F1 win in Barcelona was the latest landmark in a long history of rivalry and friendship between Helmut Marko and the late Niki Lauda and Dietrich Mateschitz
Both Ferrari and Mercedes are ringing the technical changes in a bid to catch Red Bull – but they've already spent too long going in the wrong direction, writes Mark Hughes
Fernando Alonso had hopes of winning the Monaco GP, but they were crushed at every stage by Max Verstappen: Mark Hughes on the F1 World Champion's masterclass
