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.
Charles Leclerc couldn’t believe his beautiful day could be coming to such a brutal conclusion as the Ferrari lost power 27 laps into a race which he’d dominated from pole.…
Ferrari is gambling with a heavy F1 upgrade package that could see it regain the advantage over Red Bull — or make its car worse. But it has no choice writes Mark Hughes
For the benefit of those readers not resident in the UK, Question Time is a current affairs TV programme in which members of the British public put questions of concern…
Red Bull struggled with reliability issues early on in the weekend, but come Sunday the RB18's Pirelli preservation – and more – gave Verstappen advantage over Leclerc
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess was very open last week in his YouTube interview with the citizens of Wolfsburg (home of VW) following the official confirmation that the company’s brands Porsche…
Ex-F1 drivers – with Nico Rosberg and Ralf Schumacher amongst the vociferous – have criticised Hamilton's 2022 campaign, but does the evidence back up the opinions?
Red Bull hit back hard after its disappointing performance in Melbourne – with Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez delivering a resounding 1-2 in Ferrari’s backyard of Imola. A disastrous weekend…
Mark Hughes explains how Ferrari's early development work is paying dividends, whilst Red Bull is having to take risks to keep up
VW's entry with both Porsche and Audi looks like all but a done deal: will the two-pronged attack circumvent cost cap rules though?
Charles Leclerc’s impressive domination of the Australian Grand Prix – he achieved the grand chelem of pole, start-to-finish in the lead and fastest lap – and Max Verstappen’s retirement from…
Amid the general shock and disbelief that Mercedes, constructors' champions of the last eight years, is not even competitive at the moment, heads have turned towards its power unit. The…
It hardly needs to be said that there is a lot of very intense work going on at Mercedes trying to understand and rectify its porpoising problem. Until that is…
