Understudies to the fore

Before this month, both Pierre Gasly and Alex Albon stood firmly in Max Verstappen's Red Bull shadow. But Mark Hughes watched the tide begin to turn across three dramatic races

Kimi Raikkonen Pierre Gasly and Romain Grosjean collide at Mugello during the 2020 F1 Tuscan Grand Prix

From glory to grazes: Pierre Gasly is caught in a Räikkönen-Grosjean sandwich during F1’s turbulent trip to Mugello

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Mark Hughes
September 23, 2020

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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