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.
Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz has once again made it plain that he’s serious about pulling both his teams out of F1 at the end of this season if he…
Sebastian Vettel was in very familiar territory, sitting there on pole position under the Singapore floodlights, everything under control, a set of fresh option tyres saved from yesterday, a stronger…
The echoes of the Spa Pirelli tyre controversy resonated at Monza. For a while post-race it looked as if it might even lead to the disqualification of dominant race winner…
As the F1 circus prepares for Monza, with the highest speeds of the season, the elephant in the room is that there is still no full explanation for the tyre…
Mercedes finishing 1-2, Lewis Hamilton from Nico Rosberg, was just a routine story. Romain Grosjean running fourth in an impounded Lotus, pressuring the one-stopping Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel for the…
Honda’s motor sport chief Yasuhisa Arai went into F1’s summer break shooting from the hip and sounding very gung-ho about the progress he expects from the ‘Phase 3’ version of…
A season’s-worth of incident in one frantic, uplifting, passionate race. What lay behind it? The desire of racing, the sheer competitive appetite that drives it, on raw display; particularly poignant…
The subject of racing driver egos is always a fascinating one; ego-centricity at some level is a vital ingredient of the competitive make-up. But for a few moments on Thursday…
From Spa onwards there can be no radio communication to the driver about clutch settings once he has left the garage on the way to the grid. That’s the full…
It was a time for keeping your nerve, when the British weather was holding the crowd’s race-leading favourite Lewis Hamilton hostage to fortune. The rain had arrived on around lap…
There are two conflicting theories relating to Ferrari’s 2016 driver line-up from those close to the driver market. Perhaps significantly, neither includes Kimi Räikkönen. There is an element that insists…
Lewis Hamilton did one lap all weekend that was quicker than Nico Rosberg – that which secured him pole. Other than that, Rosberg was just slightly quicker and better over…