Originally Posted by
paul0461
the fact they ever made the stig have a secret identity seems pointless anyway,
not really, for the car tests, to give a fair comparison they really need to keep the same driver, or appear to keep the same driver.
i would imagine it would be hard to tie 1 professional racer to cover every vehicle test, so having a masked man do it, if ben couldn't manage a test they could bring someone else in and the viewers would be none the wiser