About
Victoria Scott is a former staff writer for The Drive. She began in the automotive industry as a freelancer in early 2021, fresh out of a programming job at NASA Mission Control.
Experience
Victoria has been an automotive enthusiast since the age of two, and has experience in off-road competition driving, autocross, track driving, and drift competitions; in addition, she is a professional photographer. Her proudest feature series has been The Vanscontinental Express, written for The Drive in 2021, chronicling her adventures driving through the West in a JDM Toyota van as she rediscovered herself after she began her gender transition.
Education
Victoria has a Bachelor of Science from Kent State University in Computer Science and was homeschooled previously.
Highlights
- Interests include classic JDM obscurities, drifting, scale model building, and overlanding.
- Specifically interested in the history and culture of the cars that built enthusiasm and automotive joy, and photographing them artfully.
- Previous bylines at Slashgear, Jalopnik, Motor1, AutomotiveMap, Hemmings, and Car Bibles.
