Mark Hughes

The podium represented three stunning drives: Daniel Ricciardo two wins from the last five in a 2014 Red Bull, Fernando Alonso coming within an ace of winning with a 2014…

Considering this was a start-to-finish demonstration of unstressed perfection for Nico Rosberg’s Mercedes, Hockenheim actually served up a great race. In its short circuit existence it may no longer be…

Front and rear interconnected suspension (FRICS) suddenly swept into the F1 headlines last week after the FIA’s technical delegate Charlie Whiting wrote to all the teams, advising them that in…

When considering the pre-requisites to make the grade in motor racing, few have been dealt a stronger hand than Elio de Angelis, Grand Prix driver from 1979 to his needless…

With Lewis Hamilton’s victory the Silverstone crowd got what it came – and expected – to see. Kimi Rӓikkӧnen’s first lap accident made them wait for an extra hour or…

Even within what is a densely technical new formula, this was an intensely technical race. To the watching 100,000-plus fans gathered at Spielberg after the race’s 11-year absence here, it…

After an 11-year absence we’re back at Spielberg; the old A1-Ring has been renamed the Red Bull Ring and the press room has been moved to the opposite side of…

So the Mercs finally broke – and emerging from the desperate dog fight to pick up the pieces was the remarkable Daniel Ricciardo; the first time in his short Red…

Jenson Button was asked in Montreal about progress towards a new McLaren deal, given that his current contract expires at the end of this season. “No,” he replied. “No more…

This one had naked ambition written all over it, pretty appropriate given the venue. On his own doorstep Nico Rosberg showed what he was prepared to do to in his…

  Sir Jack Brabham OBE, who passed away peacefully on Sunday evening UK time, was more than just one of the great drivers and a triple world champion. As he…

“No more feedback please,” said Lewis Hamilton to his engineer Pete Bonnington as he went into the last couple of laps, team-mate Nico Rosberg hard on his tail and on…

McLaren’s apparent competitiveness in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix has turned out to be a false dawn. Now that we’ve been to a couple more aerodynamically demanding tracks than Albert Park it’s…

You may have watched the BBC’s Panorama programme on Monday evening, the subject of which was Bernie Ecclestone and how he allegedly avoided a potential £1.2 billion tax bill to Her Majesty’s…

Three consecutive Lewis Hamilton victories to tie him with Jim Clark and Niki Lauda in the all-time winners list, the third consecutive Mercedes 1-2, but as a contest, the Chinese…

The upholding of Daniel Ricciardo’s disqualification from second place in the Australian Grand Prix at the FIA Court of Appeal was not wholly surprising. On other matters of technical nicety…

So, with a good old-fashioned gloves-off scrap of a race, Formula 1 gave a timely rebuff to the notion that the fuel flow era is a ‘taxi-drivers’ contest. Even before…