Victoria MacMillan Bell – United Kingdom
Victoria's entry into the automotive world came via a stint presenting BBC Top Gear for UK Horizons.
In a career spanning 11 years to date, she has driven the most basic car to the most technically advanced and written and spoken about her thoughts for national and international press, in print and broadcast.
These include The Telegraph, the Independent, handbag.com, Condé Nast Traveller and British Vogue. She has been a regular guest on radio shows around the UK and was one of the hosts on stage at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed.
During this career, she has met a considerable amount of people who influence the way we drive and view cars from designers to chassis engineers, heads of marketing and automotive brands worldwide.
Victoria set out to address the gap for female motoring in the lifestyle press and approached editors of lifestyle and fashion magazines both in the UK and in the USA. This resulted in British Cosmopolitan running their first motoring page.
Driving in the Mille Miglia across Italy in a Jaguar XKSS, traversing the northernmost points of Australia in a pick-up and driving a Rolls-Royce Phantom from Cape Town across Namibia to the border with Angola have formed some unforgettable high points in a continually challenging and exciting life on and off road.
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