Mark Hughes

After an 11-year absence we’re back at Spielberg; the old A1-Ring has been renamed the Red Bull Ring and the press room has been moved to the opposite side of…

So the Mercs finally broke – and emerging from the desperate dog fight to pick up the pieces was the remarkable Daniel Ricciardo; the first time in his short Red…

Jenson Button was asked in Montreal about progress towards a new McLaren deal, given that his current contract expires at the end of this season. “No,” he replied. “No more…

This one had naked ambition written all over it, pretty appropriate given the venue. On his own doorstep Nico Rosberg showed what he was prepared to do to in his…

  Sir Jack Brabham OBE, who passed away peacefully on Sunday evening UK time, was more than just one of the great drivers and a triple world champion. As he…

“No more feedback please,” said Lewis Hamilton to his engineer Pete Bonnington as he went into the last couple of laps, team-mate Nico Rosberg hard on his tail and on…

McLaren’s apparent competitiveness in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix has turned out to be a false dawn. Now that we’ve been to a couple more aerodynamically demanding tracks than Albert Park it’s…

You may have watched the BBC’s Panorama programme on Monday evening, the subject of which was Bernie Ecclestone and how he allegedly avoided a potential £1.2 billion tax bill to Her Majesty’s…

Three consecutive Lewis Hamilton victories to tie him with Jim Clark and Niki Lauda in the all-time winners list, the third consecutive Mercedes 1-2, but as a contest, the Chinese…

The upholding of Daniel Ricciardo’s disqualification from second place in the Australian Grand Prix at the FIA Court of Appeal was not wholly surprising. On other matters of technical nicety…

So, with a good old-fashioned gloves-off scrap of a race, Formula 1 gave a timely rebuff to the notion that the fuel flow era is a ‘taxi-drivers’ contest. Even before…

There’s a hot rumour doing the rounds at the moment that Bernie Ecclestone is trying to put together a consortium to buy a significant chunk of F1 – and that…

Excellence compounds itself in Formula 1 2014. It’s why aero grip equals good tyre temperature, which gives efficient harvesting, giving more electrical stored power, giving greater fuel savings, giving access…

Daniel Ricciardo’s disqualification from second place in Melbourne was still the talk of the paddock as the F1 teams re-converged in the equatorial heat of Kuala Lumpur. The whole argument…

Valtteri Bottas was mad at himself in Australia for the small error that prevented a much stronger result than his eventual fifth place in the new Williams-Merc. But for glancing…

The crowd’s hero Daniel Ricciardo took his new Red Bull past the chequer in a terrific second place and the cheers drowned out the engines – though that’s not so…

Some of the mist of close-season F1 testing cleared after the first day of running at Melbourne. The new hybrid formula’s personality and the revised competitive order began to emerge.…