Mark Hughes

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2,818 appearances 14 recordings 2 series first heard Oct 2016 last heard 10 Sep

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The Race F1 Podcast · F1 Rewind: When a young Ayrton Senna drove F1's elite crazy · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

Yeah, I think um his McLaren years are rightly celebrated. voice-verified

Uh that's where the championships were and that's where the big head big headlines were made. voice-verified

But yeah, the formation was very much those three years at Lotus, so begin with this sophomore season in F one of eighty five. voice-verified

And it's um i w the benefit of doing something like this is the hindsight knowledge that we have and voice-verified

with that hindsight knowledge we can get a a revised view of those years uh uh d slightly different to how it was portrayed at the time, um with a a bit more of a a realistic take and uh a fascinating fascinating little chapter of uh motor racing history and of his uh career in particular. voice-verified

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Yeah, absolutely. voice-verified

And that rookie season of F one was really just a continuation of his sensational form in the the junior categories. voice-verified

And even in the junior categories there was a bit of a buzz about him and a bit of a rush to to a bit of a competition between the teams to sign him. voice-verified

And Ron Dennis even offered to pay for his F three season if he would commit to McLaren long term. voice-verified

Senna turned it down, he didn't want to voice-verified

um have someone else controlling his destiny. voice-verified

He wanted to you know he was confident enough that he would be able to make his own choices in time. voice-verified

Williams had tested him um famously at Donington and he'd been super quick then. voice-verified

He was in the Brabham uh tail end of uh eighty eighty three the end of his Formula three season so there was there was a lot of interest even before he got in the Tolman and the Tolman I mean it's voice-verified

a good handling car, um, but it wasn't an outright front running car. voice-verified

It was down on power. voice-verified

Uh began the season on Pirelli tires. voice-verified

Uh Pirelli then withdrew and so they scrambled about and they got a deal to run last year's spec Michelin tires so it was always a year behind on on the tyres. voice-verified

Except uh Monaco were w in the in the wet because they didn't have any of last year's wet tires. voice-verified

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