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MPH: Mark Hughes on...

...Derek Daly's champion's pyramid, and how F1's current crop measures up

Derek Daly will tell you he did it all wrong as a driver once he'd got to F1. He'll rationalise how he didn't build on his basic talent, didn't a) acknowledge his weaknesses and b) turn them into strengths, weaknesses that included mental, communication and technical skills.

Trying to reassemble himself in the wake of the near-fatal Big One at Michigan's Champ Car race in 1984 led him down a path of discovery that had two parts: the first was the slow realisation that he no longer had the raw desire to compete with the necessary intensity. This led him to media work where he came to wonder why it was some drivers seemed to have better access to their potential than others.