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 yeah, this this was uh sort of the prototype really s center uh in that sense. voice-verified

So yeah, um I think uh voice-verified

the really special ones can come in at a level where they can compete out of the front pretty much straight away. voice-verified

Not necessarily fully rounded, but can compete. voice-verified

Yeah, he he went as the fully formed product by the time he went there. voice-verified

He probably probably felt he was probably a year or two years um you know, overcooked in fact, just just waiting. voice-verified

He probably probably felt he was ready two years earlier than that. voice-verified

But um he was certainly it was you know, everything was he was ready to go straight out of the traps in eighty eight and uh yeah, press soon realized what he was up against. voice-verified

Yeah, yeah, that's right. voice-verified

And it was uh it was a nice little postscript, but that's all it was. voice-verified

You know, it was it was within a a picture of general decline. voice-verified

And uh yeah, it was too uh ridden by uh external problems as you referenced earlier on, with to do with the car company and and Chapman's dealings earlier on. voice-verified

So that was really yeah, that that that was the voice-verified

it it was quite clear by then that Lotus was not gonna be the Lotus that we'd known in the sixties and seventies as, you know, the one of the absolute elite teams, it was no longer that. voice-verified

that's probably true, isn't it? voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

It would the it would be the equivalent now of um I don't know, uh a racing bulls or something like that, wouldn't it? voice-verified

Trying to trying to win races with that. voice-verified

Um Yeah. voice-verified

It's just that's just how it was at that time. voice-verified

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