Race Reports & Analysis

Lap 26-30: this was Sebastian Vettel’s crucial time as he stayed out there on his harder tyres, trying to put right what had gone wrong in the rain of qualifying.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Daniel Ricciardo – this is the man who takes half chances and converts them into victory gold. So a trifling little loss of 160bhp with 50 laps to go wasn’t…

All it takes is a tricky combination of temperature, track surface and thinner-gauge rubber, and the competitive picture changes completely. We saw it from Melbourne to the contrasting Bahrain/China/Baku run…

The Red Bull drivers cost Sebastian Vettel victory and seemed to have handed it to Valtteri Bottas. But that’s not what fate had in store and Lewis Hamilton’s Melbourne ill…

Mark Hughes provides his comprehensive take on Ricciardo's Chinese Grand Prix win

Pace and stealth zig-zagged their way through this race, each vying for the primary route to victory. Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari ultimately had both covered – but Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas…

Mark Hughes reports on the Formula 1 season-opener at Melbourne The race turned on a confluence of flukes, a repaying of karmic debt owed to Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari from…

So they sprayed the rosewater on the podium – Valtteri Bottas on the top step, Lewis Hamilton below him – in front of the traditional F1 logo. However, those bottles featured the…

The comprehensive Brazilian Grand Prix report from Mark Hughes Sebastian Vettel bounced into the pre-podium green room with a lightness of being, of knowing he’d made the difference on this…

Mark Hughes' in-depth report on the 2017 Mexican Grand Prix Max Verstappen stood in even thinner air than everyone else atop the podium – as a championship celebration played out around…

Mark Hughes provides his comprehensive take on the 2017 United States Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel fought briefly after the latter had won the drag race to Turn…

Mark Hughes reports from the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, as Hamilton puts one hand on the F1 title Was that the last ember of the title-fight fire being extinguished…