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2018 Chinese Grand Prix report
Mark Hughes provides his comprehensive take on Ricciardo's Chinese Grand Prix win
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
Opinion
F1
F1 Chinese GP: 'this could be a multi-dimensional race'
Lewis Hamilton may have topped Friday's Formula 1 practice sessions in China, but the race simulations are much more evenly matched It’s cold and damp in Shanghai…
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2018 Bahrain Grand Prix report
Pace and stealth zig-zagged their way through this race, each vying for the primary route to victory. Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari ultimately had both covered – but Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas…
Opinion
F1
The heart of Max Verstappen
Why Max Verstappen, Formula 1's most thrilling talent, refuses to deal with defeat It’s easy to miss the essence of Max Verstappen the driver, to believe that…
Opinion
F1
Vettel's Ferrari struggles
“The car just doesn’t respond the way you like and it’s sliding in places you don’t want it to slide. I want the car to be spot-on when I hit…
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2018 F1 Australian Grand Prix report
Mark Hughes reports on the Formula 1 season-opener at Melbourne The race turned on a confluence of flukes, a repaying of karmic debt owed to Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari from…
Opinion
F1
Hamilton vs 'party mode'
Was it 'party mode' that gave Lewis Hamilton pole in Australia? Mark Hughes investigates... Lewis Hamilton’s pole-securing final qualifying run, in which he found 0.6sec while everyone else found a…
Opinion
F1
The power of Ferrari's F1 veto
Grand Prix editor Mark Hughes explains how Ferrari's veto power came to be, and whether the FIA will continue to entertain its F1 quit threats The nagging…
Opinion
F1
The 2018 McLaren enigma
Change of engine, change of fortune? Mark Hughes examines McLaren's preseason It’s probably fair to say McLaren’s pre-season testing could’ve gone a lot better. Punctuated with regular…
Opinion
F1
A closer look at the preseason F1 tests
The conclusions we can draw from the two preseason Formula 1 tests So at the end of eight days of Formula 1 preseason testing, what do we know? Definitively, nothing.…
Opinion
F1
F1 exhaust blowing: not just hot air
A close look at how and why Formula 1 teams such as Renault are still using exhausts to blow the rear wing The Renault RS18 has created a lot of…
Opinion
F1
F1 testing: Inside the times
Who was really fastest in Barcelona? Mark Hughes examines the first times of F1 in 2018 So what messages did the lap times tell us during the gaps between the…
