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.
The occasion of Lewis Hamilton’s record-breaking 92nd grand prix victory was a virtuoso performance in a Mercedes with an advantage that was exaggerated by Red Bull’s wrong tyre choice. Ironically,…
Take a look at the graphs below. They compare the qualifying form of Mercedes and Red Bull over the last four seasons. Two patterns are immediately obvious: 1) The Mercedes…
The route to Hamilton’s Schumacher-equalling 91st victory wasn’t as swashbuckling as he’d perhaps have chosen. It relied upon a single error and a subsequent series of misfortunes for his only…
The reasons for Honda's F1 departure raise questions about the future of Renault and Mercedes in grand prix racing, writes Mark Hughes
Car manufacturers are rethinking the justifications of competing in Formula 1; does Honda's departure signal a return to the earlier days of the sport?
The 91st Schumacher-equalling victory will just have to wait, as Lewis Hamilton’s Russian weekend cascaded out of his control through an unfortunate series of events, albeit triggered by his own…
Amid the flurry of nine grands prix in 11 weekends, there have been a few developments in the regulations and as we catch a rare pause for breath before next…
The first F1 race around the beautiful Mugello track, the Tuscan Grand Prix, was very different from pre-race expectations. Not in its outcome – Lewis Hamilton headed a Mercedes 1-2…
The fairytale played out. Pierre Gasly, the demoted Red Bull driver, pounced upon a series of lucky breaks to deliver a brilliant pressure victory drive at the same venue as…
The 2020 Belgian Grand Prix saw another straightforward victory for Hamilton — but it could easily have been very different, writes Mark Hughes
F1’s own attempt at ranking the fastest drivers of the last 40 years has involved probably the most sophisticated algorithm yet at this sort of thing. It’s almost certainly a…
This was a tyre deg race. Yet it was also a Lewis Hamilton virtuoso performance. That may sound contradictory. But there are sometimes days when a great driver can deliver…
