F1
2017 Spanish Grand Prix report
Mark Hughes reports from the 2017 Spanish Grand Prix Decision time in the Mercedes pits. To pit or not pit as the lap 34 Stoffel Vandoorne/Felipe Massa collision has left…
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.
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2017 Russian Grand Prix report
Mark Hughes on the fascinating Russian Grand Prix, the fourth round of the 2017 F1 season Closing, closing on the race-leading Mercedes. So close now on the penultimate lap Vettel…
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2017 Bahrain Grand Prix report
Mark Hughes reports from Bahrain The contest rages on and for the third time in three races it was close enough between the red and the silvers that only outside…
F1
2017 Chinese Grand Prix report
Mark Hughes reports from Shanghai and the second Grand Prix of 2017 The second 2017 instalment of Lewis Hamilton vs Sebastian Vettel turned on a random factor, just as at…
Opinion
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2017 Australian Grand Prix report
Mark Hughes reports from the opening round of Formula 1 2017 – Melbourne The talk afterwards was about the track position Mercedes surrendered with Lewis Hamilton and how that had…
Opinion
F1
Update: Changing of the old guard
Taken from the February issue of Motor Sport, available as a back issue from the shop Nico Rosberg won’t be the only significant absentee from Mercedes technical briefings in 2017.…
Opinion
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Damon Hill founds Professional Racing Drivers Association
Personalities could return to the paddock, if the PRDA takes off The Professional Racing Drivers Association (PRDA) is a new body founded by 1996 World Champion Damon Hill, its impetus…
Opinion
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Testing times
What can we read into the Barcelona testing times? The stand-out stories from two weeks of pre-season testing at Barcelona appear to be a) Ferrari and b) McLaren-Honda, the former a…
Opinion
F1
Pirelli in F1: One problem to another
Harder, faster, stronger... better? “The tyres we have here are good,” said one driver after his first experience of the wider, all-new compound and construction Pirellis during Barcelona testing. “On the…
Opinion
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Suspensions: Mercedes legal, Red Bull not?
Question marks continue to be raised about the legality of Red Bull's new suspension at the Barcelona F1 test Speculation continues to rage about the legality or otherwise of the…
Opinion
F1
The faster, raw and physical F1
Mark Hughes casts his first impressions of the new F1 cars The light is beautiful as the late morning Barcelona sun is burning off the haze and the new generation…
Opinion
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F1 2017 – the prospects
As Formula 1 moves into its latest 'new era', Mark Hughes considers the prospects of every car on the grid. It's in 2016 finishing order... Mercedes Major new aero regs…
