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.
In this enforced pause in F1 on-track activity, it’s as good as time as any to reflect on the first six years of the turbo hybrid formula from a competitive…
Project Pitlane – F1’s response to the call to arms by the British government for technology to alleviate the coronavirus pandemic – has had its first significant success. A breathing…
The concerns of F1 are insignificant in this unprecedented time, but with Baku expected later today to be the eighth 2020 grand prix either cancelled or postponed, we should probably…
You’re reading this in place of what would normally be the Australian Grand Prix race analysis, but turns out there wasn’t much track action in Melbourne. For one reason or…
Grand Prix racing could have been designed to spread a virus worldwide, says Mark Hughes. So should Formula 1 postpone more races until coronavirus subsides?
A quite extraordinary and unexpected press release from the FIA last Friday stated: “The FIA announces that, after thorough technical investigations, it has concluded its analysis of the operation of…
So the numbers are in from six days of pre-season testing. When analysing them, using the methods outlined here, to attempt to establish a performance order, we can apply several…
So ahead of the second and final week of pre-season testing, we have one unsurprising, nailed-on super-fast Mercedes. Then we have an enigmatic Red Bull that looks far better on…
It comes that time of year when we get the first slivers of information about the competitive shape of the season ahead, where we sift through the lap times from…
As we approach F1’s car launch week and ponder again if anyone can finally break Mercedes’ monopoly of the hybrid formula as it goes into its seventh season, it’s timely…
Does Honda’s apparent vetoing of Fernando Alonso’s planned Indy 500 deal this year with Andretti Autosport have any impact upon his hoped-for return to F1 in 2021? And realistically, what…
Mercedes has won the drivers’ and constructors’ championship for the last six years, a clean sweep of the hybrid era. As we wait for the new season to see if…
It was Michael Schumacher at his peak for the first few years of the new…
Formula 1 has always existed in a bubble, sealed from most of the concerns of…
It’s Strange times as Formula 1 grinds to a coronavirus-induced halt along with the rest…
The 2020 generation of Formula 1 cars are likely to be the fastest the championship…
Renault special advisor Alain Prost was in brutally honest form as he spoke at the…
Max Verstappen’s signature on a Red Bull contract extension to the end of 2023 has…
Pat Symonds recently dropped the bombshell that Formula 1 is seriously looking at two-strokes for…
What you need to know about Lewis Hamilton is that protecting a sensitive inner soul…
2018 Hamilton’s best title would have been that as a rookie in 2007 – except,…
An acknowledgement of Hamilton’s extraordinary ability as a driver is an essential component of understanding…
Lewis Hamilton is more famous than any racing driver has ever been. Yet the world…
In axing Maurizio Arrivabene as Scuderia Ferrari’s team principal and replacing him with Mattia Binotto,…