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.
It would be a major surprise if the 2016 McLaren-Honda was not a huge competitive step forward from its woeful forebear. Honda has understood the limitation in the energy recovery…
That was too close for comfort. The multiple world championship-winning Enstone team came perilously close to extinction towards the end of last year as financial brinkmanship – both from its…
Compromise solution for this season Here’s what GPDA President Alex Wurz said to the BBC last week when articulating the F1 drivers’ frustration with the current heat-degrading concept of Pirelli…
Is there one more act still to play out in the F1 engine drama? The F1 strategy group meeting on Monday and the F1 Commission the following day seems to…
2017 cars won't beat old V10 records and will not be raceable either It was at the last Motor Sport podcast that Pat Symonds let the cat out the bag…
In the new issue of Motor Sport magazine you will find my top 10 of F1 drivers 2015 and an accompanying piece on each man’s performance over the season. Inevitably…
My Hungarian journalistic colleague Károly Méhes was pulled into a love of F1 almost single-handedly by one driver: Gilles Villeneuve. He was a devastated teenager when Zolder 1982 played out…
Last week the World Motor Sport Council issued an extraordinary change to F1’s governance procedure, empowering Jean Todt and Bernie Ecclestone to over-rule, if necessary, decisions reached by the existing…
1) This was arguably the most convincing of all Rosberg’s recent wins – and essentially it was won during qualifying. Rosberg’s recent form had pushed Hamilton into trying something different…
The points table might have said there was nothing at stake in this season finale, but for Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton there was a psychological war to be won…
Here’s what Lewis Hamilton said after finishing second to his team-mate last time out in Brazil: “I’m here to race. It’s so difficult to overtake here and when you both…
1) In order to try and get past Rosberg Hamilton asked to be put on a different strategy. But competing strategies is against team policy at Mercedes. They are free…