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

Totally dominant. voice-verified

It was um something like a minute clear of second place. voice-verified

Um just an extraordinary demonstration of just who he was. voice-verified

That's that's the level of driver that you'd you'd you're dealing with, and that's where voice-verified

when I suppose uh you could say it was properly apparent. voice-verified

You know putting a uh p punching above his weight in a a less than fully competitive car which he'd been doing in eighty four. voice-verified

This was okay, here's a car that is capable of winning, watch watch this. voice-verified

And uh yeah, extraordinary. voice-verified

And uh yeah, helped of course by the conditions. voice-verified

The car wasn't as competitive voice-verified

of as Senna was making it look. voice-verified

Um so i but in the wet, uh that that wasn't so much I think um voice-verified

Generally the the the perception of the the the the cars at that time of of of the the lotuses in particular was that in eighty five and eighty six it that it was a good chassis with uh a Renault engine that wasn't quite as good as the Honda and that was exactly the wrong way around. voice-verified

Um and we later had this confirmed when Mansell went from Renault Power in eighty four lotus to Honda. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And he said this poor voice-verified

You know, Williams are really stalled to hear, said this is nowhere near you are nowhere near on power to what Renault had in eighty four and Manslow was subsequently said it was to took till really the tail end of eighty five of really hard Honda development before they got even to where Renault had been in eighty four. voice-verified

So th the Renault engine was very, very potent, but the Lotus Chassis was way down on downforce to the Williams and voice-verified

And the McLaren. voice-verified

Um and when event and it was basically the same car that had been introduced mid season eighty three, aerodynamically. voice-verified

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