Mark Hughes

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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 podcast

So straight away he was he was arriving not only at McLaren um in and sort of interrupting uh Prost's um you know, his his whole little environment, but um he was he was bringing voice-verified

in with him this uh this uh engine manufacturer which was new to Prost and which uh he was already well embedded with. voice-verified

So yeah very interesting already even before before the first race that that situation of Prost as the reputation as the world's number one. voice-verified

Senna absolutely convinced he can blow Prost away absolutely intends to show it voice-verified

And he's bringing with him the new engine supplier. voice-verified

So a very, very interesting uh dynamic and what was expected already um to be you know the the the class of the field in terms of uh the quality of the car. voice-verified

So yeah, on the on the verge of that season. voice-verified

It was just uh a very, very exciting time for uh for those of uh that were following Senna's career. voice-verified

And he could have gone anywhere at that point. voice-verified

Absolutely, yeah. voice-verified

It was um it was the future. voice-verified

d not just new factories but new facilities, just just the scale uh of of the whole operation. voice-verified

I mean Steve Hallam, um, who is Senna's race engineer at Lotus, he made the move to McLaren at the same time in a different role at McLaren but yeah, he s he had it had the same effect on him when he when he went to look around what Ron Dennis had traded in in in McLaren he realised he thought, Oh god, I thought voice-verified

We were a top team at Lotus. voice-verified

We were nowhere near. voice-verified

God, I I suddenly realised why we'd why we'd not um been winning as often as we'd expected. voice-verified

We were just a different different league. voice-verified

Um he moved Ron Dennis moved on. voice-verified

th what the scale of a team was, a top Formula One one team was, and everybody had to scramble to keep up. voice-verified

And not everybody did. voice-verified

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