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By Tom Latchem, 11/01/2009
SOME say he was built from a stolen Ferrari blueprint, others that he’s an alien from the Planet Speed. But they’re all wrong —because the News of the World knows the real identity of The Stig. We’ve finally run to ground Jeremy Clarkson’s anonymous Top Gear hero . And we can tell you he’s MARRIED, lives quietly in a comfortable £300,000 home and was once TERRIFIED of driving. We can also report that when he’s not screaming around the show’s famous Gambon corner at breakneck speed in his white suit and black-visored helmet, the racetrack ace likes pootling around in a £15,000 car that would even bore James May. And his NAME is . . . OK, Jeremy, stop tearing up the paper and keep your hair on . . . we have no intention of wrecking the great mystery for Top Gear’s millions of fans. All we’ll reveal is his eyes behind the trademark white helmet and a few other clues. ![]() The true identity of the superdriver who tests new models and coaches stars in the Reasonably Priced Car feature has always been kept a closely-guarded BBC secret. “Who is the Stig?” is one of the most popular questions on search engines. But last week we found a leak in the Top Gearbox—and a senior BBC source last night confirmed: “Yes **** ******** IS the Stig but don’t tell anyone I’ve told you.” Some say the Stig drinks petrol and uses a V8 engine to power his Philishave, but we’ve discovered he found his first track outing as a youngster “terrifying”. Yet that didn’t stop him growing up to learn his trade in Formula First, GT Racing and Stock Cars . . . and almost make the grade as a Formula One driver. Now in his 30s, he earns around £150,000 a year combining his Top Gear job—showing presenters Jeremy, James and Richard Hammond how it should be done— with some stunt and test driving. And that’s as much as we dare tell you. We only know that this Stig has no intention of going the way of his predecessor, Perry McCarthy. Perry did the job for 22 Top Gears until he revealed his secret and was “killed off” . . . by being shot off the end of aircraft carrier HMS Invincible in a rocket-powered vehicle. Former Formula One and Le Mans racer Perry, 47, still speaks warmly about his time. “It was great fun—and I’m still a big fan,” he told us. Meanwhile the Beeb are determined the present Stig keeps his visor firmly down. “This is the best-kept secret in motor racing and we want to keep it that way,” said our source. “No one will ever officially confirm his identity.” http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news...-unmasked.html
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I've heard ppl talk that it might be someone called Ben Collins but I don't know much about him.
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And all this time, I thought i was "The Stig"
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What a gay article.
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I am surprised this wasn't in Woman's Day on the front page.
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Ben Collins raced in each of those categories. He was also a test driver on another UK motoring show, Vroom Vroom. |
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Judging by the eyes, and the ***'s it's probably mark blundell - ex F1 and Indycar driver.
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It would ruin the show to some degree knowing who he is, i like it being secret!
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lol. News of The World. is a well respected news paper. rofl
Picture looks chopped to me, face has more light on it than the racesuit.
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were do you guys download all top gear episodes from?
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are we talking about real stig or aussie fake stig?
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Actually those look like Ben Collins' eyes. The Stig also sounds like Ben.
But really, does it matter? It's about the cars...
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The last thing true fans of Top Gear want to know, is who the Stig is, it would ruin the show if he was revealed, and odds are that it is probably somebody nobody hear has ever heard of.
Really just a stupid article, purely written to flog papers, and I can bet my car that on the front cover of that paper, there was a big banner: Inside, we reveal the Stigs identity, or similar, what a load of garbage, and i bet it gets everyone reading, personally I couldn't care, and I don't really want to know.
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Anyone who has seen the soccer game with the Toyota Aygo's, when James and Richard pick drivers for their teams by calling their names out, Ben Collins is called out into one of the teams. So he has appeared on the show without his racing suit and helmet. |
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I would have to agree that knowing who the stig is would spoil it, I always thought the "stig" was many people with varying skills allowing the producers to choose the best "stig" for the current task, or replace him with a "stunt stig" I hope I am making sense
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"Collins has appeared on the popular BBC television programme Top Gear. In 2004, Ben Collins made an appearance during the fourth season of BBC Top Gear, alongside skydiving parachutist Tim Carter. The stunt involved Carter and an aerial cameraman jumping out of a Cessna light aircraft then landing in the open-topped Mercedes car being driven at speed by Collins. In 2005, the driver featured during series five, driving a Lancer Evo VII and then a Bowler Wildcat vehicle in a rally race against mountain boarding world champion Tom Kirkman. At the start of series six, Collins appeared with other British Touring Car Championship racing and stunt drivers for a Five-a-side football game using a fleet of Toyota Aygo cars. Collins played in a team captained by Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond. The other drivers were Paul Swift, Tim Harvey and Tom Chilton (blue); playing against James May, Russ Swift, Matt Neal, Dan Eaves and Rob Huff (red). On a separate occasion, following an accident involving Richard Hammond in September 2006, the Health & Safety Executive report into the event recorded that Collins had "worked closely with Top Gear as a high performance driver and consultant" and had prepared a briefing for Richard Hammond preceding the event." Possibility then??????
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No no no no......you got it all wrong.
I found him on another forum! ![]()
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Damon Hill is another rumored to be the stig
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