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.
It hardly needs to be said that there is a lot of very intense work going on at Mercedes trying to understand and rectify its porpoising problem. Until that is…
We are at an intriguing point in the season, given what became apparent in the opening round last week: a race-winning, pole-setting Ferrari, a super-fast Red Bull and a struggling…
Ferrari had the race pace but a missed test during pre-season cost Red Bull a chance of Bahrain GP victory says Mark Hughes
Supersub Nico Hülkenberg gets his fourth covid stand-in this weekend, this time for Sebastian Vettel, having been deployed by the same team back in its Racing Point days of 2020…
With just two days of testing left, there is less readiness from teams than would be normal at this point. The Bahrain circuit is inducing more extreme porpoising in the…
If the Ferrari really is as good as it looked in the Barcelona running last week – when it appeared to be nip and tuck as quick as Mercedes and…
Formula 1's big aero problem has rendered testing almost impossible to read into says Mark Hughes
Lewis Hamilton's staggering win count leaves him far in front of other F1 champions – but do his stats prove him to be the best?
There will be no Jean Todt/Ferrari reunion in 2022 despite high-level talks about a new role for the Frenchman
The ‘will he/wont he’ saga of whether Lewis Hamilton will take part this season took another turn a few days ago with the FIA statement about its ‘detailed analysis’ of…
The equation between driver and car and car performance is a complex one. At F1 level the drivers are close enough in their basic speed that it’s often a fallacy…
With the FIA set to conduct an analysis of the Abu Dhabi debacle, Mark Hughes asks what will be really learnt
