Mark Hughes: Why Newey chose Aston over Ferrari and Williams
Adrian Newey will move from Red Bull to Aston Martin next year – in this month’s magazine, Mark Hughes analyses why F1’s greatest designer has picked ‘Team Silverstone’
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In 2003, Matt Bishop travelled to Sardinia to cover a Euro Formula 3000 race held on Cagliari roads – an intriguing event which added to the chequered history of Italian street circuits
Born in the seaside town of Zandvoort, not far from the famous circuit, Jan Lammers has done so much to raise the profile of Dutch racing drivers, long before the…
After an off-season that saw the entire 2023 Formula 1 entry list transferred to 2024 unchanged there has been a lot more driver market activity over the course of this…
Amid the inevitable noise around the impending arrival of Andrea Kimi Antonelli on the Formula 1 grid his fellow 2025 rookie Jack Doohan landed an Alpine seat – replacing Esteban…
Adrian Newey could have gone anywhere – but he’s gone to Aston Martin, the Silverstone-based outfit which started life as Jordan Grand Prix 33 years ago. Part of the team…
COTA This is one of the most interesting layouts out of the wave of modern tracks that have joined the F1 calendar in the past 15 years. The designers have…
Two grands prix in the same country, separated by a month, different time zones and 1200 miles. Yet for what they represent in Formula 1, the Circuit of the Americas…
GOOD MONTH Old dog, Newey tricks Adrian Newey has jumped ship to Aston for an eye-watering £30m-a-year and shares in the team, potentially making him F1’s first billionaire engineer.…
Adrian Newey will move from Red Bull to Aston Martin next year – in this month’s magazine, Mark Hughes analyses why F1’s greatest designer has picked ‘Team Silverstone’
In 2003, Matt Bishop travelled to Sardinia to cover a Euro Formula 3000 race held on Cagliari roads – an intriguing event which added to the chequered history of Italian street circuits
Born in the seaside town of Zandvoort, not far from the famous circuit, Jan Lammers has done so much to raise the profile of Dutch racing drivers, long before the…
After an off-season that saw the entire 2023 Formula 1 entry list transferred to 2024 unchanged there has been a lot more driver market activity over the course of this…
Amid the inevitable noise around the impending arrival of Andrea Kimi Antonelli on the Formula 1 grid his fellow 2025 rookie Jack Doohan landed an Alpine seat – replacing Esteban…
Adrian Newey could have gone anywhere – but he’s gone to Aston Martin, the Silverstone-based outfit which started life as Jordan Grand Prix 33 years ago. Part of the team…
COTA This is one of the most interesting layouts out of the wave of modern tracks that have joined the F1 calendar in the past 15 years. The designers have…
Two grands prix in the same country, separated by a month, different time zones and 1200 miles. Yet for what they represent in Formula 1, the Circuit of the Americas…
GOOD MONTH Old dog, Newey tricks Adrian Newey has jumped ship to Aston for an eye-watering £30m-a-year and shares in the team, potentially making him F1’s first billionaire engineer.…
As George Russell takes F1 sprint pole in China, Mark Hughes wonders whether Mercedes has a bigger advantage than we’re seeing, and if Red Bull finally has a solution to a long-standing problem
Outspoken drivers say that F1’s new rules are an accident waiting to happen — and there are signs that they are being listened to. Mark Hughes examines the
unrest beneath the Australian GP spectacle
The 2026 Formula 1 season roared into life with a whirlwind of overtaking at the front. But, in the excitement of the lead battle between George Russell and Charles Leclerc, one key element looks to have been lost
IDEC Sport Silverstone 4 Hours 14/9/25 A home win for Jamie Chadwick capped a happy return for contemporary Le Mans Prototype racing to the UK, as the European Le Mans…
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
Two team principals with history, a minority stake, multiple bidders, and a governance question without a proper answer – here’s what the race for the future of the Alpine Formula 1 team actually looks like
Fernando Alonso has seen enough difficult F1 seasons to know there are no shortcuts for Aston Martin, but he hasn’t lost hope
it’s leading more and more to the idea that we need to have more power from the internal combustion engine
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