Mark Hughes
speaker
2,818 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2016
last heard 10 Sep
Mark Hughes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Race F1 Podcast · F1 Rewind: When a young Ayrton Senna drove F1's elite crazy · 10 Sep 2026
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Um and it was it was it was always obvious and the when he came into Formula One when he was so
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sensational.
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It didn't seem sensational to those of us who'd understood what they were looking at in in the junior categories.
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It was exactly what we expected.
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Um but it seemed a general perception at the time that um he was quite promising, you know, r rather than no, he's he's he's sensational.
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He's he's a bit more than that.
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Um so yeah, I think um by the time we get to eighty seven, f for me he's the
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by far comfortably the best driver in on on the F one grid.
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I'd seen him in eighty five and eighty seven at Silverstone, the British Grand Prix.
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Um it's a eighty seven, I mean, it was it was unbelievable because he got lapped um by the Williams, uh the two Williams.
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That was the famous race where Mansell um passed in in into st Piquet into Stowe um with the dummy uh when he was on the newer tyres.
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Um and Senna was third.
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That day, but a lapped third with the same engine.
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So that just told you everything you needed to know.
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That's that's that's where that's where Lotus was at an eighty seven and with the same engine.
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Um they had uh the active suspension that yeah, the the Lotus did.
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Um but I think at that time the computing technology couldn't really exploit it, and all it really did was make the car a bit bully.
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gear and a bit heavier.
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Um it did it did give certain advantages on bumpy tracks.
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It it it looked after the tires better than a conventional and he did use that.
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