Kings of Belgium: Verstappen and Schumacher's similar Spa genius
Amid Spa’s forested valleys, echoes of the past hang in the air like the spray from the tyres. No race weekend there is ever exactly like a previous one but…
Amid Spa’s forested valleys, echoes of the past hang in the air like the spray from the tyres. No race weekend there is ever exactly like a previous one but…
The Red Bull’s pace advantage at Spa was big even by its own 2023 standards. The circuit – with its long straights but fast corners – demands aero efficiency above…
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
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