Race Reports & Analysis

Daniel Ricciardo – this is the man who takes half chances and converts them into victory gold. So a trifling little loss of 160bhp with 50 laps to go wasn’t…

All it takes is a tricky combination of temperature, track surface and thinner-gauge rubber, and the competitive picture changes completely. We saw it from Melbourne to the contrasting Bahrain/China/Baku run…

The Red Bull drivers cost Sebastian Vettel victory and seemed to have handed it to Valtteri Bottas. But that’s not what fate had in store and Lewis Hamilton’s Melbourne ill…

Mark Hughes provides his comprehensive take on Ricciardo's Chinese Grand Prix win

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…

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…

So they sprayed the rosewater on the podium – Valtteri Bottas on the top step, Lewis Hamilton below him – in front of the traditional F1 logo. However, those bottles featured the…

The comprehensive Brazilian Grand Prix report from Mark Hughes Sebastian Vettel bounced into the pre-podium green room with a lightness of being, of knowing he’d made the difference on this…

Mark Hughes' in-depth report on the 2017 Mexican Grand Prix Max Verstappen stood in even thinner air than everyone else atop the podium – as a championship celebration played out around…

Mark Hughes provides his comprehensive take on the 2017 United States Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel fought briefly after the latter had won the drag race to Turn…

Mark Hughes reports from the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, as Hamilton puts one hand on the F1 title Was that the last ember of the title-fight fire being extinguished…

Mark Hughes reports from Formula 1's final visit to Malaysia and Sepang There was no way Ferrari was going to lose this race. Except it did. The SF70-H was by…

So, in a split-second the championship might have just turned. Sebastian Vettel suffered a 25-point loss to the man he could least afford it to, Lewis Hamilton. By his own…

Mark Hughes reports from Monza, as Hamilton takes championship charge Lewis Hamilton took perhaps his most straightforward victory of the season to put himself into the lead of this championship…

The title battle is turned up a notch at Spa-Francorchamps It was a beautifully poised game of cat and mouse between Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel as the race approached…

Mark Hughes reports on the Hungarian Grand Prix A tense day on the Ferrari and Mercedes pit walls as Sebastian Vettel formed a race-leading but pace-compromised bottleneck, with team-mate Kimi Räikkönen…

Lewis Hamilton matches Jim Clark and Alain Prost with a controlled fifth British Grand Prix win On the surface it was a Lewis Hamilton show in front of his home crowd,…