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.
While Ferrari was slower than Mercedes in the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas found the W10 to be a handful – and things could change…
Think Verstappen trounced Gasly in the Formula 1 season-opener? And Kvyat did similar to Albon? And Norris to Sainz? It’s not that simple... Pierre Gasly's 11th place at the 2019 Formula 1 Australian…
Mark Hughes reports from the 2019 Formula 1 season-opener: the Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park, Melbourne “I don’t know what just happened,” said Valtteri Bottas after totally dominating the…
Think the first practice sessions of the 2019 Formula 1 season are an accurate marker of race performance? Think again So we find out at Melbourne what we didn’t in Barcelona…
With the clock ticking to settle the spec of Formula 1's 2021 brave new world, FOM's Ross Brawn says a solution is getting closer Netflix’s Drive To Survive, a fly-on-the-wall…
We analyse the Formula 1 preseason lap times to provide a pecking order in advance of 2019's round one So later today preseason testing will be over and the reality of Melbourne…
We crunch the numbers from 2019's opening Formula 1 preseason Barcelona test to find out who's quick and who's not The weather was kind to F1's first test week, the…
After Ferrari launched its SF90, one question comes to mind: is the year that Ferrari topples Mercedes for the 2019 Formula 1 championships? So is this the one? Ferrari, on…
With Mercedes, Honda and Ferrari spending more and more to compete in Formula 1, Renault has found its own ways to compete with the other factory teams Among the…
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Before the Formula 1 circus kicks into gear, grand prix editor Mark Hughes looks back at the life and career of Cliff Allison
There are parallels between Alfa Romeo's latest F1 return and its oft-forgotten pace in 1980 The Sauber name disappears from the grid with the announcement that the Swiss-based team will henceforth…
Haas and Ferrari's relationship has sparked a new focus on F1 cost caps and regulating against 'slave' teams How the post-2020 Formula 1 landscape will look is still far from…
