Flat Over Crest

Her whole job is being believed. Four words took that away.

Ríona Faherty is a co-driver - the one in the right-hand seat, the one nobody photographs. Her work is to sit beside a man on a closed road in west Cork and read him a road he cannot see, two seconds before he arrives at it, at speeds where two seconds is ninety metres. Get it right and he is a hero. Get it wrong and you are both in a ditch, and everyone in the sport knows whose fault it was by evening.

Four years ago she got the dri...