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Mark Hughes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
696 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

And how was it when you were there compared to your dad's era and compared to now?

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

Because you're sort of in the middle of those points in time.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

Had to go on strike, get in a bus, go to a hotel, blockade themselves in.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

It was as radical as that.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

So they have this enormous...

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

power as a group, but they're highly individualistic people.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

In fact, they're probably the last bastion of the age of the individual that we've lived through, in the West anyway.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

But it's not used.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

And I think probably they've been tamed by the safety

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

and the money.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

But certainly, even though they were a fairly radical bunch of pirates and chancers in the 60s, they had enormous power there and it was used.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

It was used mainly by Jackie Stewart with support from your dad and Jochen Rindt and people like that.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

And they had enormous opposition to the changes that they wanted to make.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

But their lives were literally on the line and they were fighting literally for their lives.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

So it can be done.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

But I think they're probably a little bit too comfortable to now to go against that individualistic approach.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

tendencies.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

So all we've got at the minute is Max saying, I might stop because I don't really like these cars.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

That's as radical as it's got.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

Really?