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

So that was the one race voice-verified

where he was on the same spec as the top teams and you know, we you we saw what unfolded there. voice-verified

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Um qua m may well have won the race had it uh last gone the distance. voice-verified

And um I think uh last race at Portugal where he qualified the Toleman third fastest. voice-verified

Uh they stayed on to do some testing afterwards and Michelin gave him the up to date tires and the day the day after the Grand Prix. voice-verified

Pri and we said a time that would have put him on pole by a big, big chunk, um in a toolman. voice-verified

So y yeah, his level was extraordinarily high already in terms of his raw speed. voice-verified

Uh so yeah, it wasn't just uh any quick young driver, it was the quick young driver that everybody was uh trying to get a hold of. voice-verified

No, so um the the sponsor wanted a British driver in, so you know, that Mansell was the that that man and El Elliot Angelis was in the other car. voice-verified

And no, Peter Ward did r really did not like Mansell and it was mutual. voice-verified

And uh once Colin Chapman had passed away, um apparently, uh then uh Peter Ward took over and so Mansell's um foundation there was through Chapman and without. voice-verified

Chapman being there, he really was um getting second class treatment. voice-verified

And that sort of that became a bit of a a motif of lotus, a bit of a theme for lotus. voice-verified

They they they weren't quite able to run two equal cars, they weren't quite well financed enough, they weren't big enough to get all the parts produced in quickly and in in time. voice-verified

So the voice-verified

Typically one car was was a little bit better than the other one, uh a Lotus and uh that that that became a theme. voice-verified

Um so yeah, we'll get into that a little bit later 'cause it it has implications on how uh Sennus time they played out. voice-verified

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Absolutely um ruthlessly um strategic in his l planning of his career. voice-verified

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