Marcus Simmons is the deputy editor of Autosport magazine. As a child he was a regular on the chalk banks of Thruxton, before becoming an MSA timekeeper at the age of 17. Shortly afterwards, he started reporting for Motoring News and joined the staff in 1990.

After abandoning a parallel Formula First career – which had been as incident-packed as his childhood equestrian exploits – he moved to Autosport in 1996. Since then he has had two stints as a freelancer and a brief spell as editor of Motor Sport magazine, during which the revered green cover was revived, before he rejoined Autosport in 2008. He lives in Teddington with his fiancee, stepson, cat and guitars, and he has two daughters.

Edd Straw is a former Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Autosport, who has now returned to covering the Formula 1 circus full-time.

Originally from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, he joined Autosport in 2002 having graduated from Warwick University. He went on to cover a wide range of categories from club motorsport to the World Touring Car Championship and sportscars to Formula 3, before switching to F1 full-time at the 2008 French Grand Prix. He then became Autosport Magazine Editor in November 2014.

After subsequent spells as Autosport Editor-in-Chief and then as Motorsport Network's Digital Content Manager, he returned to his favourite role of Grand Prix Editor in 2018.

He is also the host of The Autosport Podcast, a judge for the Autosport Williams Engineer of the Future Award, and was formerly a club racer whose abilities did not match his enthusiasm in a variety of categories ranging from Stock Hatch to the European Ferrari Challenge.