The Masthead
Contributors
ROAD & MOTOR is written by a small masthead of contributing editors, each covering the automobile from a distinct vantage point: the industry, design, the road, the auction room, the engineering office, the circuit and the culture surrounding it all.
Julian Ashcombe
Julian Ashcombe is the Editor-in-Chief of ROAD & MOTOR. He writes about flagship automobiles and the industry behind them: how the great marques make decisions, what a new flagship really signifies, and where the luxury car business is heading. His perspective is that an automobile is never just a machine; it is the outcome of capital, culture and conviction.
Beat: Flagship automobiles, the industry, the business of the luxury car
Camille Desforges
Camille Desforges is ROAD & MOTOR's Design Editor. She covers automotive design as a discipline: proportion, surfacing, interiors, and the studios and coachbuilders shaping what the next decade will look like. She believes the driving position is the most important piece of industrial design most people will ever sit in.
Beat: Automotive design, coachbuilding, concept cars, interiors
Marco Bellandi
Marco Bellandi is ROAD & MOTOR's Motoring Correspondent, writing from Modena. He covers driving as it is actually done: great roads, long distances, and the Italian marques that treat the grand tourer as a philosophy rather than a segment. His rule is simple: a car is only understood at speed, over distance, with the windows down.
Beat: Driving stories, Italian marques, road culture, grand touring
Elena Vasquez
Elena Vasquez is ROAD & MOTOR's Collecting Editor. She covers the collector car market with a documentarian's discipline: what sold, for what, and why, distinguishing estimate from hammer from all-in price, and treating provenance as the story it is. She writes about collecting as stewardship, not speculation.
Beat: Auctions, provenance, restoration, the collector market
Theo Lindqvist
Theo Lindqvist is ROAD & MOTOR's Engineering Correspondent. He writes about what is under the skin: engines, hybrid systems, chassis, aerodynamics, and the engineering decisions that separate the significant from the merely fast. He reads homologation documents the way others read novels.
Beat: Powertrains, chassis engineering, technical deep dives
James Okonkwo
James Okonkwo is ROAD & MOTOR's Motorsport Analyst. He covers racing selectively and analytically: regulation changes, engineering stories, and the races that actually matter to the culture of the automobile. He is interested in why things happen on track, not just in what happened.
Beat: Formula 1, endurance racing, historic motorsport
Sofia Marchetti
Sofia Marchetti is ROAD & MOTOR's Culture Editor. She writes about the automobile's place in culture: the concours, the custodians, the great collections, and the people for whom cars are a life's work rather than a purchase. Her subject is devotion, documented precisely.
Beat: Automotive culture, concours, custodians, collections, objects
Petra Novak
Petra Novak is ROAD & MOTOR's Classic Cars Editor. She covers historic automobiles with an archivist's patience: what the record actually shows, which cars mattered and why, and how the great anniversaries should be marked. She believes a classic car is a primary document, and reads it that way.
Beat: Classic cars, historic automobiles, anniversaries, preservation
Gabriel Santos
Gabriel Santos is ROAD & MOTOR's Motorsport Correspondent, reporting from Sao Paulo. He covers racing as a technical and human enterprise: the engineering inside the regulations, the economics that decide who races, and the drivers who carry the sport's history forward. He is suspicious of paddock mythology and insists on the timing sheet.
Beat: Formula 1, endurance racing, rally-raid, the business of racing
Emma Blackwood
Emma Blackwood is ROAD & MOTOR's Design Writer. She covers the details other coverage walks past: lighting signatures, surfacing decisions, materials, the millimetres that separate a resolved design from a merely expensive one. Her conviction is that design is decided in details, and details can be checked.
Beat: Automotive design detail, materials, lighting, interiors
Richard Fox
Richard Fox is ROAD & MOTOR's Technical Editor. He covers the technology under the skin and the claims made about it: hybrid architectures, testing standards, measured performance, and the gap between a press release and a dynamometer. He treats every figure as a question until the methodology is stated.
Beat: Vehicle technology, hybrid systems, testing standards, measured claims
Aisha Bello
Aisha Bello is ROAD & MOTOR's Audience Director. She writes the pieces that start from the reader: how to plan a drive, how to read a market, how to look at a car the way an editor does. Her beat is the space between the publication and the people it serves, and she guards it fiercely.
Beat: Reader-focused features, driving craft, the reader's road