Man Makes Paper Car, Hired By Red Bull Racing

Paul Bischof is a student in mechanical engineering at the Graz University of Technology in Austria. Since the age of eight, Paul has been building model planes out of paperboard. In 2004 he fell in love with Formula 1 racing and in October 2011 he decided to undertake the massive project of building a race car out of paper. Now, some three years later, he has finished the project. Paul's model of the Red Bull RB7 has around 6,500 parts, including a fully-detailed engine, suspension, and cockpit. You'd be hard pressed to tell any of it was made from paper. In fact, the model was so good that it didn't just impress a lot of people on the Internet, but also the top brass at Infiniti Red Bull Racing. Paul was offered a job in the team's engineering department, where he's now working on the 2014 RB10 car. While Paul has traded paper and scissors for carbon fiber and modeling software, he views both as two facets of the same pursuit: designing objects in two dimensions, and making them in three dimensions. "It's basically my hobby," Paul said of his job at Red Bull. Talk about doing what you love.