Formula 1 Mark Hughes: Perez facing an immediate test of his title mettle Circumstances made Miami GP practice a little trickier to read than usual but not by so much that there wasn’t still an obvious F1 frontrunner – and that’s potentially problematic for Sergio Perez and his title chances
Formula 1 New Ferrari floor among F1 upgrades at Miami GP Five of the 10 Formula 1 teams have brought upgrades to the Miami Grand Prix
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: The real reasons Verstappen was second-best in Baku The safety car compromised Max Verstappen’s Azerbaijan GP but it was a red herring. Here’s why he wasn’t quite on Sergio Perez’s level
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: The hints about Mercedes’ upgrade and 2024 F1 car Returning Mercedes technical director James Allison’s comments about the team’s priorities for its troubled Formula 1 car hint at what its Imola upgrade will look like and what it wants to emulate from the Red Bull – plus a decision it has to make very soon about its 2024 design
Formula 1 Corner-by-corner: How Leclerc defied the Red Bull juggernaut It took a typically-enthralling lap from Charles Leclerc to end Red Bull’s early-2023 pole run. Mark Hughes takes a closer look at how Leclerc and Max Verstappen compared – and the implications for the races
Formula 1 Revised McLaren, new Alpine floor and more: Baku F1 upgrade list It’s not just McLaren – most F1 teams have some sort of overall performance-oriented new features on display in Baku
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: Naive firing causing Ferrari’s exodus of talent Laurent Mekies’ departure to AlphaTauri is the latest in an “exodus of talent” from Ferrari – one partly prompted by a management oversight as Mark Hughes explains
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: Allison’s rescue mission is really about 2024 Reinstating James Allison as tech director won’t change Mercedes’ 2023. It’s all about doing better with its next F1 car
Formula 1 ‘Crashgate’ cost Ferrari that F1 title. So did a familiar fault Singapore 2008 was the undoing of Felipe Massa and Ferrari’s F1 title bid. But that was avoidable – even in the manipulated race
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: Red flags hid Verstappen’s Melbourne margin The timing of the Australian Grand Prix stoppages didn’t just bring the field back together, it also turned the main part of the race into a stalemate that meant Max Verstappen was only doing just enough to ensure victory. And that means George Russell’s hope that Mercedes might’ve had winning pace
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: Why Red Bull’s usual 2023 F1 cushion disappeared Red Bull might have ended up with pole in Australia, but its 2023 advantage was much reduced. This wasn’t a case of everyone catching up – it was just a variable that brought it into touching distance
Formula 1 Alonso suggests Mercedes overplayed car deficit. Did it? Fernando Alonso wasn’t surprised by a two-three for Mercedes in Australian Gran Prix qualifying – he thinks the team has exaggerated how bad its 2023 Formula 1 car is
Formula 1 Red Bull and Mercedes changes among Australian GP upgrades Seven of the 10 Formula 1 teams have brought upgrades to the third round of the 2023 Formula 1 season at the Australian Grand Prix
Formula 1 Perez now feels like a title contender, not an afterthought Sergio Perez has made very clear he sees himself as a 2023 Formula 1 title contender and is sure Red Bull will give him equal support to Max Verstappen in that quest
Formula 1 Can Perez do to Verstappen what Rosberg did to Hamilton? How realistic is it that Sergio Perez could be a threat to Max Verstappen taking a third successive F1 title? When a car’s as good as the RB19 is the chances of the ‘second’ driver scoring a shock become exponentially better, as Mark Hughes explains
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: Red Bull’s driver face-off exposed its fragility Max Verstappen’s defiance of orders from his Red Bull team set up a fascinating all-Red Bull time trial at the front of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Their duel exposed just how fragile this year’s RB19 could be – even though it’s been devastatingly supreme so far
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: The comparison Alonso’s win bid may depend on Can Fernando Alonso trouble polesitter Sergio Perez in Formula 1’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix? Mark Hughes compares their fastest qualifying efforts and explains where Perez and Red Bull have the advantage over Alonso and the Aston
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: Bleak picture emerging for Mercedes and Ferrari There might have been hopes of Mercedes and Ferrari staging revivals, but Friday at the Saudi Arabian GP only confirmed the picture from Bahrain – that Red Bull is the obvious 2023 Formula 1 leader with Aston Martin a clear second
Formula 1 The updates each F1 team has brought to Saudi Arabian GP Every Formula 1 team has listed updates for the second round of the 2023 F1 season at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
Formula 1 The discord unfolding behind Red Bull’s dominant F1 start Red Bull is absolutely nailing it on track in F1, but Helmut Marko’s blunt latest comments suggest some turmoil to be navigated off-track
Formula 1 The discord unfolding behind Red Bull’s dominant F1 start Red Bull is absolutely nailing it on track in F1, but Helmut Marko’s blunt latest comments suggest some turmoil to be navigated off-track
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: Hints Bahrain walkover may not be 2023 template Red Bull dominated the Bahrain GP. That might be sound ominous, but there’s reason to think the specific circumstances that allowed it to thrive won’t be anywhere near as pronounced over the rest of the 2023 Formula 1 season, as Mark Hughes explains
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: Sakhir’s new volatility means race isn’t won yet F1’s top teams haven’t been in full control of their environment – one that keeps changing – in Bahrain. Sunday will reveal who’s got the best handle on set-up, but there’s a greater chance than usual of a randomised outcome
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: Alonso really is Red Bull’s biggest Bahrain threat The Bahrain Grand Prix weekend kicked off in style with Fernando Alonso beating the Red Bulls in Friday practice – but can he really challenge them during the rest of the weekend? Mark Hughes analyses the Friday running
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: The F1 2023 car changes declared by each team The first FIA technical update of the season at the Bahrain GP details how each F1 car has changed since the end of last year – Mark Hughes explains the changes teams have (and haven’t) declared
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: What testing long runs say about F1 2023 Mark Hughes has crunched the long-run data from Formula 1’s sole 2023 pre-season test to work out a likely pecking order
Formula 1 Ranking the 10 F1 teams after 2023 pre-season testing With Formula 1’s sole 2023 pre-season test complete, here’s the pecking order heading into the Bahrain Grand Prix
Formula 1 Abba drummer, truck star, F1 points-scorer: Slim Borgudd obituary Slim Borgudd, who has died aged 76, was a Formula 1 points-scorer after getting onto the grid with help from the band Abba, and later a multiple truck racing champion
Formula 1 Mark Hughes’ take on who was actually quick on F1 test day one Red Bull was narrowly fastest ahead of Aston Martin on day one of Bahrain Formula 1 testing, but what was really going on behind the headline times? Who looked good on long runs and whose car seemed a handful? Here’s Mark Hughes’ view
Formula 1 What to watch out for in F1 pre-season testing For only the second time, Formula 1 pre-season testing is limited to just three days of running. Take a look at the themes to keep an eye on in Bahrain
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: Mercedes/Ferrari’s gamble on untapped potential Both Mercedes and Ferrari are banking on the untapped potential of their 2022 concepts to overthrow Red Bull at the top of Formula 1 in 2023. Mark Hughes explains why they’ve stayed so loyal to the ideas behind the designs that were defeated last year
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: A key change that could transform AlphaTauri What we’ve seen so far of AlphaTauri’s 2023 Formula 1 car doesn’t look too different to its 2022 design – except in one key area that Mark Hughes has spotted, and reckons might solve most of what held the team back last year
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: The Williams flaw its 2023 F1 car should fix Williams made a Mercedes-style design miscue that it couldn’t afford to fully fix mid-season with its 2022 Formula 1 car. But it can tackle it properly with the FW45 for 2023
Formula 1 Red Bull-Ford F1 plan echoes a past masterstroke The likely nature of Ford’s soon-to-be-announced Red Bull Formula 1 tie-up should give it success and exposure for a fraction of what the likes of Mercedes and Audi will spend. It’s reminiscent of the deal that meant F1’s most successful engine of all time carried Ford branding, as Mark Hughes expla
Formula 1 Mark Hughes: Red Bull prowess stems from a very different ruleset Red Bull has been on a very productive development path – helped by the lessons it learned in 2020 and how well last year’s new F1 regulations matched with the development direction the team was already heading in
Formula 1 ‘Joke’ 30bhp Ferrari gain claims highlight a sensitive F1 issue Ferrari has rubbished rumours of a 30bhp boost and says its F1 engine changes are for reliability as required – but the line there is blurred
Formula 1 Why didn’t F1 work out for new Ganassi signing Sato? Takuma Sato’s Ganassi deal gives him a great shot at a third Indianapolis 500 win. But his Formula 1 career didn’t live up to its promise. Mark Hughes looks at why, with input from Anthony Davidson
Formula 1 What Vowles’ Williams move might say about Wolff’s future George Russell went off to Williams to prove he could be Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes Formula 1 successor. Is James Vowles’ move to Williams part of another Mercedes succession plan? Here are Mark Hughes’ thoughts
Formula 1 How Red Bull unlocked Verstappen’s perfect weapon Red Bull won 17 out of 22 races without having the fastest Formula 1 car in qualifying in 2022. Mark Hughes takes a meticulous look at how the team’s development direction allowed Max Verstappen to access his devastating best
