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.
At the heart of Spa-Francorchamps sits Eau Rouge - one of motor sport's most infamous corner sequences. But, amid growing safety concerns, even Mark Hughes is wrestling with whether it, or even Spa itself, should be cut from F1 entirely
Max Verstappen’s victory at the Hungaroring last Sunday secured – as you will doubtless have been told many times already – the 12th consecutive grand prix win for Red Bull,…
The gold-standard driver and team of the F1 grid broke one of the championship's most significant records in Hungary, as the battle for 'best of the rest' rages on
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F1 Retro
Chris Amon was one of the most naturally gifted drivers F1 has ever seen – Mark Hughes remembers a man who deserved much more, but never looked back in bitterness
Daniel Ricciardo's F1 plan is clear: impress at AlphaTauri and claim back the Red Bull seat he gave up five years ago. But even Mark Hughes can't predict how it will actually turn out
F1 Retro
Silverstone marked the arrival of Williams as an F1 grand prix winner, writes Mark Hughes. It witnessed dominant victories in the constructor's glory days and, last weekend, it saw a (temporarily) resurgent team celebrating its imminent 800th GP.
Silverstone's crowd roared their approval as Lando Norris took the lead at the start of the 2023 British Grand Prix. Mark Hughes examines what made McLaren suddenly competitive, and why Ferrari's pace disappeared in the F1 race
Red Bull has called for changes to F1's 2026 power unit regulations, warning that the new hybrid systems will detract from racing. Many saw the complaints as a sign the team was behind in development, but Mark Hughes isn't so sure
F1 Retro
It was the first glimpse of Verstappen, Red Bull and Honda's future iron grip on F1: they were behind in 2019 but, as Mark Hughes recalls, mistakes from rivals at the Austrian GP showed that the key ingredients were in place
Officials could have engraved the Austrian GP trophy in advance, so comfortable was Max Verstappen's win, but behind him saw the grid jumbled up again and a morass of track limit penalties, as Mark Hughes examines
The unique Red Bull Ring has a reputation for shaking up the F1 order, with several factors pointing to the chance of a shock Max Verstappen defeat, writes Mark Hughes, who is keeping a close watch on Ferrari
In this season of Verstappen dominance, the most intriguing competition is that between the three teams directly behind - Aston Martin, Mercedes and Ferrari – where the initiative has swung…