Stig No. 2 Identified

[mutley]

Well here you go folks,

looks like BBC will be looking for a new Stig.

http://www.asylum.co.uk/2009/01/20/has-the-stig-been-revealed/

Jim

[Hagasan]

Ben Collins was named as the Stig in the H&S report into the Hamsters rocket car accident.....It surprising people didn't know....it was in the papers over a year ago....


Edit. OK he wasn't actually named as the Stig but reading between the lines....

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B2RNFA_enGB311&q=richard+hammond+h%26S+report click on top link.....



Visit by Ben Collins (BC) to PTLE
37. The preliminary arrangements for the event had been made at arm’s length, with the result that, as the date of the Elvington shoot approached, no-one from Top Gear had actually met PTLE’s principals or seen their jet cars. The jet car feature was considered to be sufficiently unusual and hazardous for GW to ask BC, who worked closely with Top Gear as a high performance driver and consultant, to go and see PTLE and Vampire, and to prepare a briefing for RH. It was felt that, with his extensive motor sport experience, he would be able to confirm PTLE’s competence and the quality of their equipment, and be able to see through them if they were not genuine. (This was a significant step because Top Gear had not used BC in this way before.)

[TheSebringOne]

Its his fault, should have been more careful! Lets hope the next Stig last a bit longer. Wander if TG will have the old the one flying off the air craft carrier in that old Jag like the first Stig!

[AR]

Why does it need to be a secret?

I just don't get it.

Cheers,

AR

[simonprelude]

Why does it need to be a secret?

I just don't get it.

Cheers,

AR

It was thought that if it was a secret there could be no outside influences put on the driver ;)

[NSXGB]

....There's not only one Stig, there are 4 or more apparently....

[Silver Surfer]

....There's not only one Stig, there are 4 or more apparently....

There was a fat one who drove a truck, an American one....

SS

[NSXGB]

I think to be fair, sometimes a manufacturer won't want the TG guys ragging their cars round the track and abusing them and send their own test drivers who can be easily disguised in a Stig outfit....

[TheSebringOne]

There was the African version too, sounds far fetched but I thought it might be LH, but was far too slim/tall?

[mutley]

There was the African version too, sounds far fetched but I thought it might be LH, but was far too slim/tall?

I think that was just for that part of the show and not necessarily a racing driver!!!!

[mutley]

As we thought, multiple stigs


http://cars.aol.co.uk/top-gears-the-stig-played-by/article/20090128094309990001