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Verstappen's 2016 Brazil brilliance was a rehearsal for 2024 masterclass
Max Verstappen showed all the traits needed for his superlative 2024 Sao Paulo GP performance on the same track eight years earlier
Mark Hughes
Grand Prix editor
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.
Latest articles from Mark
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Advantage Norris in Brazil. Then red flag set up Verstappen masterclass
Max Verstappen all but clinched this year's Formula 1 championship with a masterful drive in the wet 2024 Sao Paulo Grand Prix, while Lando Norris was left rueing a red flag that ended his hopes of victory
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MPH: F1 stewards need a penalty as brutal as Verstappen's tactics — why not deduct points?
Max Verstappen drove Lando Norris off the road in the past two GPs and did the same to Lewis Hamilton in 2021. It's an effective tactic, even when penalised, says Mark Hughes. So F1 stewards need tougher sanctions
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2024 F1 champions? Ferrari's shot at first constructors' title in 16 years
Ferrari’s rich vein of form since Monza – interrupted only by its mis-step in Singapore qualifying – continued in Mexico last weekend. In this phase of the season it’s vying…
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Verstappen games F1 system again as Norris loses shot at Mexican GP win
Once again Norris tried to pass Verstappen. Once again he was forced off track. This time, at the 2024 Mexico City GP, Max did get a hefty penalty but Lando lost out again
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MPH: Franco Colapinto exposes how F2 is failing young stars
Judge Franco Colapinto - or Oliver Bearman and Liam Lawson - on their Formula 2 results, and they wouldn't be in F1. Mark Hughes says that F2's profit-focused set-up means that it's no longer an indicator of driver talent
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Mark Hughes: This is how F1's sloppy overtaking rules need to change
Lando Norris's penalty at the US Grand Prix — after being forced off track by Max Verstappen — showed how defending drivers can game the current regulations. It's time they changed, writes Mark Hughes
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Norris's lap of wonder and super-quick Ferraris: 2024 US GP stars
With raw pace and flawless strategy, Ferrari impressed in the 2024 United States Grand Prix — as did Liam Lawson who did his chances of a Red Bull seat no harm. It was the day before, however, the brought a magnificent lap, writes Mark Hughes
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MPH: Red Bull caught cheating? It absolutely, categorically, was not
F1's rumour mill has been buzzing with suggestions that Red Bull could secretly, and illegally, change the height of its car's floor. Mark Hughes has the real story
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MPH: Haas bargain deal is a headstart for any future Toyota F1 team
Haas's new F1 partnership with Toyota runs deep, with extra testing, new manufacturing capability, and pipeline for promising young Japanese drivers. That might only be the start, says Mark Hughes
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MPH: Will Red Bull bend to F1's aero rules?
McLaren and Mercedes have managed to exploit the grey area of elasticity in F1's aero rules, much to Red Bull's chagrin – if it can't beat them, will it take the risky option of joining them?
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MPH: F1's new dark arts – why teams can't work out their own cars
The F1 performance advantage in the modern ground effect era changes from week to week – but no team can truly work out why, writes Mark Hughes
