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.
Mark Hughes evaluates the Mercedes W09 on its release Mercedes has stayed resolutely with its pre-existing technical concept with its 2018 W09 model. It features an identical wheelbase and a…
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The death and injury toll in the 1903 Paris-Madrid event was so severe that it was stopped early, and brought about a road racing ban in France and Spain. Among the grim list of casualties was Marcel Renault: one of the co-founders of the car-making empire
Mark Hughes looks at the key points of the Alfa Romeo Sauber C37 Like Red Bull, Sauber has opted not to take up the full permitted width of the sidepods, implying…
After Red Bull's 2017 F1 troubles, the manufacturer's RB14 is a significant step away from the RB13 Red Bull’s relatively early car launch is very much against…
Mark Hughes investigates where it's all gone wrong for Williams, and explains how the cracks have been papered over Williams rescued itself from two different sorts of oblivion five years…
New Haas: taking inspiration from 2017's Ferrari F1 car The Haas VF-18 is the first 2018 F1 car to be revealed, albeit only on screen. At first…
With Lando Norris in the background, Stoffel Vandoorne’s seat at McLaren isn’t set in stone McLaren chief Zak Brown said he was very excited to have a competitive engine partner…
Grand Prix editor Mark Hughes weighs up the 2018 Formula 1 season's team-mate battles, and how certain drivers may fare As Mario Andretti observes in a forthcoming magazine piece, Formula…
Though turbos were stripped back by Formula 1 regulations in the late '80s, McLaren and Honda still managed to squeeze the most out of them. The latest installment of '80s…
A first look at the design approaches Mercedes and Ferrari will take with their 2018 Formula 1 cars With the new car launch season rapidly approaching, the real intrigue is…
Can numbers decide the battle of Formula 1 superiority between Alonso, Hamilton and Vettel? Here is a summary of the numbers used in our recent mini-series looking at the team-mate…
In the third and final part of this mini-series, we look at the team-mate comparisons of Fernando Alonso In 2017 he was the dominant force within McLaren against the highly…
