A head of the new Formula 1 season, I sat down with Motor Sport’s F1 experts Johnny Herbert and Mark Hughes to discuss the key talking points and themes of 2023. You can read the edited highlights of our conversation and both Mark and Johnny ’s brilliant insights on page 54. The full-length version is available via our website as a podcast and will hopefully leave listeners armed with all the information they need to get the most out of the first few grands prix taking place this month.
We covered a lot of ground as you might imagine but one topic lingered with me long after I’d packed away my tape recorder. In the context of discussing the growing popularity of F1 and in particular the new series of Drive to Sur vive (reviewed in Matters of Moment, page 10) and the new Las Vegas Grand Prix, Mark made the following point which is worth repeating in full.