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

Um and it it was flattered in qualifying by both Senna and the engine, but you couldn't do anything about the engine in the race, just it was just too thirsty and you had to run it on low bus. voice-verified

I I think um that's a probably a fair assessment. voice-verified

I think the margin was in reality probably smaller than it appeared because I don't think the second car was always as um as well prepared or always to the latest specification or always had the same attention as uh Senna's car, but um e even if it had it done, there's no question who was coming out on top in that context. voice-verified

contest. voice-verified

Um but yeah you're right, Elio D'Angelis was uh very highly regarded, you know, comfortably a top ten Grand Prix driver, Grand Prix winner, pole setter. voice-verified

So um yeah, I think i it was just too much for for for for him to contemplate being there again and uh yeah he he made alternative arrangements and um they brought in Johnny Dumfries as a a second driver eventually. voice-verified

But uh that wasn't the first uh uh option. voice-verified

Yeah, he always had um incredible intensity of of d preparation and and detail um throughout his career. voice-verified

And I mean even even doing something as low key as a a Talbot Sunbeam race at Alton Park, where they just put, you know, local club racing drivers or Formula Four drivers together in this uh sort of manufacturer. voice-verified

promotion thing. voice-verified

He did that, he did one race there and there was a tyre guy who was, you know, getting all the tires ready and he he went and intro introduced himself to him and got him to measure the diameter so he had equal diameter tires and he got him s made sure he had the best set of tires for his car. voice-verified

Of course nobody else went to why would he you know typically why you wouldn't think that I'd go and see the tire guy for my talk but somebody raced just in case. voice-verified

case. voice-verified

But you know that's that's the the the depth 'cause it was very important to him that um everything he did he he succeeded in. voice-verified

And yeah, i that just continued th the the depth that he wanted to go to with he would talk for as long as uh as as the engineers would would listen to him really. voice-verified

And he had the thing with the engine and the chassis and how they work together uh was very important to him in that sort of th the early part of the corner and how how the car was being affected by the engine deceleration and um his later Honda engine engineer, um Ki-san, who later became head of the Honda project in voice-verified

in the uh two thousands. voice-verified

He was Senna's engine engineer in eighty seven and he talked about that throttle jabbing technique that um everybody m mentioned and initially everybody assumed it was to keep the the turbo spooled up um but he he kept doing it even when we went to normally aspirated engines and Cuci was explaining he said yeah it it initially started with voice-verified

Um the turbo, he said, but he he realised that actually you could get little step changes in the the tire slip angle at the back and get a b a better rotation earlier in the corner and that's why he kept doing it. voice-verified

That's why it that that was retained. voice-verified

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