Jumping into a World Rally Championship car, even the passenger seat, requires a lot of courage. Professional drivers only ever want their car to have more power so they can race over tarmac, sand and snow at furious speeds. For Paul Eastman, taking notes from the passenger seat during vehicle shakedowns as a student was when he decided that engineering rather than driving rally cars was what he wanted to do. Now he's Prodrive's head of rally engineering. "When you sit beside a professional driver and see what they're doing you quickly learn your own limits. There was no way that I was going to be able to do driving any justice," he says. But even though Eastman was honest about his limitations, his love affair with rallying didn't dissipate. Driving is only one aspect of the sport, after all.
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