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.
The front of the 2019 F1 grid is all but sewn up, the rest? Much less so... The confirmation of Lewis Hamilton’s contract extension at Mercedes yesterday…
Which of the two leading F1 constructors had the upper hand at Silverstone – and who has the advantage going into the double-header? The battle between Ferrari and Mercedes is…
Romain Grosjean's form in his eighth Formula 1 season has been mercurial, which could sink a career that never quite took off as it should In Austria a couple of…
This was a close one, a battle royale between Ferrari and Mercedes around Silverstone’s flat-out sweeps on a scorching summer day. The two fastest Formula 1 cars of all time…
Although Mercedes was expected to lead both practice sessions on Friday of the British Formula 1 Grand Prix, Ferrari may have turned the tables A very interesting Formula 1 Grand Prix…
A beautiful day, a sea of 20,000 people dressed in orange, a 10-hour drive from Holland but they don’t care. They came all this way last year just to see…
If Fernando Alonso leaves F1 in 2019, could he be replaced by Kimi Räikkönen? Grand Prix editor Mark Hughes looks at the possibility It was mentioned almost as a throwaway…
Formula 1 went back to the 1980s at Paul Ricard last weekend and found it an uneasy fit. There was a deliciously retro European glamour to a circuit with an adjacent…
Mercedes leads practice in Formula 1's return to Paul Ricard, but Red Bull and Ferrari still have cards to play A disrupted French Grand Prix second free practice at Paul Ricard…
Now that Red Bull has secured Honda power units from 2019-20, it's up to Daniel Ricciardo to decide his next move in Formula 1 Although it won’t be news to…
After one of Honda's best race weekends since its return to Formula 1 in 2015, a perfect partnership with Red Bull seems ever closer Honda’s engine upgrade, as delivered to…
It had all looked so promising after qualifying, the top cars so closely-matched, the differing tyre choices intriguing. But it didn’t work out that way. Sebastian Vettel was unopposed into…
