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19-01-2009, 12:01 PM
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The Stig
Ben Collins
For years the identity of The Stig has been a closely guarded secret, but Collins – who has previously competed in Formula Three, Le Mans, GT and NASCAR – has apparently outed himself to staff at a Bristol gallery.
The 33-year-old let his secret slip when he asked them to help him produce a limited-edition print of The Stig in action.
Gallery owner Simon Whitehead, 27, said: "I was absolutely amazed when he said he was The Stig, it was quite a big thing in a weird way."
Builder Jason Goody, 21, also discovered The Stig's identity when he did some work at Collins' home and found the famous white suit and gloves on display in a cabinet.
Other fans of Top Gear, presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, have been closing in on Collins in recent months. One YouTube clip shows The Stig, in full disguise, talking with a Bristol accent to a foreign TV crew – and then cuts to Collins sounding very similar.
Collins, from Bristol, has always denied being The Stig and could face the sack if he admitted it. The first Stig, stunt driver Perry McCarthy, lost the job after outing himself in his book Flat Out, Flat Broke, published in 2002.
He was known as The Black Stig and always wore a black suit and helmet before he was "killed off" during the third series in 2003. Collins has since become The White Stig, and wears an all white helmet and suit.
Collins started his motorsport career in 1994, competing in Formula First and Formula Vauxhall Junior on his way to International Formula 3.
He has appeared on BBC's Top Gear as himself on various occasions to perform some dramatic stunts.
The Health & Safety Executive report into Hammond's accident in September 2006 recorded that Collins had "worked closely with Top Gear as a high performance driver and consultant" and had prepared a briefing for the presenter.
Collins also recently spent three months working as a precision driver on the latest James Bond movie The Quantum of Solace.
He was the double for Daniel Craig and drove the Aston Martin DBS in some of the most challenging driving sequences.
Collins said of the experience: "It was a bit like a dream come true to work on a Bond film. On the first day filming I had to pinch myself as I was sitting there in Bond's pin stripe suit with an Omega Watch. I felt totally at home in the Aston Martin DBS, which is just an awesome car and it was a lot of fun hammering it around the Alps.
"There were sheer drops of a thousand feet on some of the roads we using. I think a highlight was sliding the DBS up the mountain road between two giant rocks, then onto the pass with nothing but a hand rail to stop the car falling off a cliff."
The Stig's name derives from Clarkson's days at Repton School where, he said, new students were always called "Stig".
The identity of White Stig has not been officially revealed and is regarded as a carefully guarded secret by the BBC.
However, it has not stopped people from trying to identify him and names such as Julian Bailey, Damon Hill, Tim Schrick, and Russ Swift have all been suggested.
A Top Gear spokesman said: "We never comment on speculation as to who or what The Stig is."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4286...he-answer.html
Might be old news, but I didn't know who it was
For years the identity of The Stig has been a closely guarded secret, but Collins – who has previously competed in Formula Three, Le Mans, GT and NASCAR – has apparently outed himself to staff at a Bristol gallery.
The 33-year-old let his secret slip when he asked them to help him produce a limited-edition print of The Stig in action.
Gallery owner Simon Whitehead, 27, said: "I was absolutely amazed when he said he was The Stig, it was quite a big thing in a weird way."
Builder Jason Goody, 21, also discovered The Stig's identity when he did some work at Collins' home and found the famous white suit and gloves on display in a cabinet.
Other fans of Top Gear, presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, have been closing in on Collins in recent months. One YouTube clip shows The Stig, in full disguise, talking with a Bristol accent to a foreign TV crew – and then cuts to Collins sounding very similar.
Collins, from Bristol, has always denied being The Stig and could face the sack if he admitted it. The first Stig, stunt driver Perry McCarthy, lost the job after outing himself in his book Flat Out, Flat Broke, published in 2002.
He was known as The Black Stig and always wore a black suit and helmet before he was "killed off" during the third series in 2003. Collins has since become The White Stig, and wears an all white helmet and suit.
Collins started his motorsport career in 1994, competing in Formula First and Formula Vauxhall Junior on his way to International Formula 3.
He has appeared on BBC's Top Gear as himself on various occasions to perform some dramatic stunts.
The Health & Safety Executive report into Hammond's accident in September 2006 recorded that Collins had "worked closely with Top Gear as a high performance driver and consultant" and had prepared a briefing for the presenter.
Collins also recently spent three months working as a precision driver on the latest James Bond movie The Quantum of Solace.
He was the double for Daniel Craig and drove the Aston Martin DBS in some of the most challenging driving sequences.
Collins said of the experience: "It was a bit like a dream come true to work on a Bond film. On the first day filming I had to pinch myself as I was sitting there in Bond's pin stripe suit with an Omega Watch. I felt totally at home in the Aston Martin DBS, which is just an awesome car and it was a lot of fun hammering it around the Alps.
"There were sheer drops of a thousand feet on some of the roads we using. I think a highlight was sliding the DBS up the mountain road between two giant rocks, then onto the pass with nothing but a hand rail to stop the car falling off a cliff."
The Stig's name derives from Clarkson's days at Repton School where, he said, new students were always called "Stig".
The identity of White Stig has not been officially revealed and is regarded as a carefully guarded secret by the BBC.
However, it has not stopped people from trying to identify him and names such as Julian Bailey, Damon Hill, Tim Schrick, and Russ Swift have all been suggested.
A Top Gear spokesman said: "We never comment on speculation as to who or what The Stig is."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4286...he-answer.html
Might be old news, but I didn't know who it was
19-01-2009, 12:16 PM
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i was told this aswell when i bumped into the top gear production team in a club in birmingham. they also said there was another guy that done some of "the stig" driving. apparently it wasnt only ben collins who drives in the white suit. he mention a f1 test driver?
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it was obvious if you ask me, especially when they are doing the aygo and fox challenges, every person in the cars were some kind of champion except some apparant randomer called Ben collins
Wonder how they'll kill him off?
Will it be a red stig next? Hmmm
Wonder how they'll kill him off?
Will it be a red stig next? Hmmm
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19-01-2009, 03:18 PM
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Yep very old news since Hammonds crash documented it
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=1&gl=uk
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=1&gl=uk
19-01-2009, 03:45 PM
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Yep very old news since Hammonds crash documented it
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=1&gl=uk
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=1&gl=uk
19-01-2009, 04:45 PM
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nope as mentioned is several drivers which is why there height changes if you notice.
think about it if they have just on driver he might not always be available
think about it if they have just on driver he might not always be available
19-01-2009, 04:49 PM
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also im watching the top gear special atm with the skiing mini on dave, there about to get stig to jump the ski slope on a ski doo... do you realy think ben colins could do that? i dont...
beside why do people want to know who he is.. as everyone knows top gear is set up from the second they roll the credits, its a entertainment show accept it for what it is imo
beside why do people want to know who he is.. as everyone knows top gear is set up from the second they roll the credits, its a entertainment show accept it for what it is imo
19-01-2009, 05:02 PM
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• Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves...
• Some say he’s wanted by the CIA, and that he sleeps upside down like a bat...
• Some say he appears on high value stamps in Sweden, and that he can catch fish with his tongue...
• Some say he is illegal in 17 US states, and he blinks horizontally...
• Some say that his breath smells of magnesium, and that he’s scared of bells...
• Some say he naturally faces magnetic north, and that all his legs are hydraulic...
• Some say that he lives in a tree, and that his sweat can be used to clean precious metals...
• Some say that his heart ticks like a watch, and that he’s confused by stairs...
• Some say that his voice can only be heard by cats, and that he has two sets of knees...
• Some say that he’s terrified of ducks, and that there’s an airport in Russia named after him...
• Some say his skin has the texture of a dolphin’s, and that wherever you are in the world if you tune your radio to 88.4 you can actually hear his thoughts...
• Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his earwax tastes like Turkish Delight...
• Some say that his politics are terrifying, and that he once punched a horse to the ground...
• Some say that his tears are adhesive, and that if he caught fire he’d burn for a thousand days...
• Some say he can swim seven lengths underwater, and he has webbed buttocks...
• Some say that his heart is in upside down, and that his teeth glow in the dark...
• Some say that his ears aren’t exactly where you’d expect them to be, and that once, preposterously, he had an affair with John Prescott...
• Some say he has a digital face, and that if he felt like it, he could fire Alan Sugar...
• Some say that his genitals are on upside down, and that if he could be bothered he could crack the Da Vinci code in 43 seconds...
• Some say his ears have a paisley lining, and he’s been banned from the Chelsea Flower Show...
• Some say that the outline of his left nipple is exactly the same shape as the Nurburg ring, and that if you give him a really important job to do, he’ll skive off and play croquet...
• Some say he invented Branston Pickle, and that if you insult his mother he will headbutt you in the chest...
• Some say that on really warm days he sheds his skin like a snake, and that for some reason he’s allergic to the Dutch...
• Some say that his first name really is The, and that if he went on Celebrity Love Island they’d all be pregnant including the cameramen...
• Some say that he once threw a microwave oven at a tramp, and that long before anyone else he realised that Jade Goody was a racist pig-faced waste of blood and organs...
• Some say that he once had a vicious knife-fight with Anthea Turner, and that he is in no way implicated in the Cash-for-Honours scandal. All we know is that he's called Lord Stig
• Some say that he is a CIA experiment that went wrong, and that he only eats cheese. All new know is that he's not The Stig - he's The Stig's fat American cousin
• Some say that if you lick his chest it tastes exactly the same as Piccalilli, and that at this week’s Brit awards he was arrested for goosing Russell Brand...
• Some say that he sucks the moisture from ducks, and that his crash helmet is modelled on Britney Spears’ head...
• Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called Steve...
• Some say his scrotum has its own small gravity field...
• Some say because our producer rigged a phone vote, he now has a new name...all we know is, he's called Cuddles...
• Some say he's banned from the town of Chichester...
• Some say in a recent late night deal he bought a slightly dented white Fiat Uno from the Duke of Edinburgh...
• Some say he gets terrible ezcema on his helmet...
• Some say if he'd been the video ref in the World Cup Rugby Final he would've seen that it was of course a try you blind Australian half-wit...
• Some say to unlock him you have to run your finger down his face...
• Some say if he were getting divorced from Paul McCartney he'd keep his stupid whining mouth shut...
• Some say he thought Star Wars was a documentry...
• Some say he recently pulled out of I'm a Celebrity because he's frightened of trees....and Australia...Koo Stark...and Ant...and Dec...
• Some say he knows two facts about ducks, and both of them are wrong...
• Some say 61 years ago he accidently introduced Her Majesty, the Queen, to a Greek racialist...
• Some say when he slows down, brake lights come on in his buttocks...
• Some say if he'd been the manager of the England football squad last week he wouldn't have been a feckless-ginger-gum-chewing buffoon who ruined it for all of us...
• Some say he once lost a canoe on a beach in the northeast...
• Some say he once did some time in a prison in Canterbury because his teddy is called "The Baby Jesus"...
• Some say that after making love, he bites the head of his partner, and that he's had to give up binge-drinking now that it 's got to Ł1.18 a litre. All we know is he's called the Stig.
• Some say that each of his toenails are exactly the same as a woman's nipples. And that he thinks the credit crunch is some kind of breakfast cereal. All we know is he's called the Stig.
• Some say his droppings have been found as far north as York. And that he has a full-size tattoo of his face - on his face. All we know is he's called the Stig.
• Some say that he is not allowed by law, within a hundred yards of Lorraine Kelly. And that he's never seen an episode of Top Gear because he's a huge fan of Midsomer Murders. All we know is he's called Bergerac.
• Some say it's impossible for him to wear socks. And he can open a beer bottle with his testes. All we know is he's called the Stig. ...All we know is, he's called The Stig!
• Some say he’s wanted by the CIA, and that he sleeps upside down like a bat...
• Some say he appears on high value stamps in Sweden, and that he can catch fish with his tongue...
• Some say he is illegal in 17 US states, and he blinks horizontally...
• Some say that his breath smells of magnesium, and that he’s scared of bells...
• Some say he naturally faces magnetic north, and that all his legs are hydraulic...
• Some say that he lives in a tree, and that his sweat can be used to clean precious metals...
• Some say that his heart ticks like a watch, and that he’s confused by stairs...
• Some say that his voice can only be heard by cats, and that he has two sets of knees...
• Some say that he’s terrified of ducks, and that there’s an airport in Russia named after him...
• Some say his skin has the texture of a dolphin’s, and that wherever you are in the world if you tune your radio to 88.4 you can actually hear his thoughts...
• Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his earwax tastes like Turkish Delight...
• Some say that his politics are terrifying, and that he once punched a horse to the ground...
• Some say that his tears are adhesive, and that if he caught fire he’d burn for a thousand days...
• Some say he can swim seven lengths underwater, and he has webbed buttocks...
• Some say that his heart is in upside down, and that his teeth glow in the dark...
• Some say that his ears aren’t exactly where you’d expect them to be, and that once, preposterously, he had an affair with John Prescott...
• Some say he has a digital face, and that if he felt like it, he could fire Alan Sugar...
• Some say that his genitals are on upside down, and that if he could be bothered he could crack the Da Vinci code in 43 seconds...
• Some say his ears have a paisley lining, and he’s been banned from the Chelsea Flower Show...
• Some say that the outline of his left nipple is exactly the same shape as the Nurburg ring, and that if you give him a really important job to do, he’ll skive off and play croquet...
• Some say he invented Branston Pickle, and that if you insult his mother he will headbutt you in the chest...
• Some say that on really warm days he sheds his skin like a snake, and that for some reason he’s allergic to the Dutch...
• Some say that his first name really is The, and that if he went on Celebrity Love Island they’d all be pregnant including the cameramen...
• Some say that he once threw a microwave oven at a tramp, and that long before anyone else he realised that Jade Goody was a racist pig-faced waste of blood and organs...
• Some say that he once had a vicious knife-fight with Anthea Turner, and that he is in no way implicated in the Cash-for-Honours scandal. All we know is that he's called Lord Stig
• Some say that he is a CIA experiment that went wrong, and that he only eats cheese. All new know is that he's not The Stig - he's The Stig's fat American cousin
• Some say that if you lick his chest it tastes exactly the same as Piccalilli, and that at this week’s Brit awards he was arrested for goosing Russell Brand...
• Some say that he sucks the moisture from ducks, and that his crash helmet is modelled on Britney Spears’ head...
• Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called Steve...
• Some say his scrotum has its own small gravity field...
• Some say because our producer rigged a phone vote, he now has a new name...all we know is, he's called Cuddles...
• Some say he's banned from the town of Chichester...
• Some say in a recent late night deal he bought a slightly dented white Fiat Uno from the Duke of Edinburgh...
• Some say he gets terrible ezcema on his helmet...
• Some say if he'd been the video ref in the World Cup Rugby Final he would've seen that it was of course a try you blind Australian half-wit...
• Some say to unlock him you have to run your finger down his face...
• Some say if he were getting divorced from Paul McCartney he'd keep his stupid whining mouth shut...
• Some say he thought Star Wars was a documentry...
• Some say he recently pulled out of I'm a Celebrity because he's frightened of trees....and Australia...Koo Stark...and Ant...and Dec...
• Some say he knows two facts about ducks, and both of them are wrong...
• Some say 61 years ago he accidently introduced Her Majesty, the Queen, to a Greek racialist...
• Some say when he slows down, brake lights come on in his buttocks...
• Some say if he'd been the manager of the England football squad last week he wouldn't have been a feckless-ginger-gum-chewing buffoon who ruined it for all of us...
• Some say he once lost a canoe on a beach in the northeast...
• Some say he once did some time in a prison in Canterbury because his teddy is called "The Baby Jesus"...
• Some say that after making love, he bites the head of his partner, and that he's had to give up binge-drinking now that it 's got to Ł1.18 a litre. All we know is he's called the Stig.
• Some say that each of his toenails are exactly the same as a woman's nipples. And that he thinks the credit crunch is some kind of breakfast cereal. All we know is he's called the Stig.
• Some say his droppings have been found as far north as York. And that he has a full-size tattoo of his face - on his face. All we know is he's called the Stig.
• Some say that he is not allowed by law, within a hundred yards of Lorraine Kelly. And that he's never seen an episode of Top Gear because he's a huge fan of Midsomer Murders. All we know is he's called Bergerac.
• Some say it's impossible for him to wear socks. And he can open a beer bottle with his testes. All we know is he's called the Stig. ...All we know is, he's called The Stig!
19-01-2009, 07:02 PM
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Well Elvington, where Hammond crashed, is in Yorkshire, but Dunsfold Park (where TG is filmed) was in Surrey last time I looked 
The whole place is set for demolition too!!
http://www.dunsfoldpark.com/masterplan/
The whole place is set for demolition too!!
http://www.dunsfoldpark.com/masterplan/
19-01-2009, 07:04 PM
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Well Elvington, where Hammond crashed, is in Yorkshire, but Dunsfold Park (where TG is filmed) was in Surrey last time I looked
The whole place is set for demolition too!!
http://www.dunsfoldpark.com/masterplan/
The whole place is set for demolition too!!
http://www.dunsfoldpark.com/masterplan/
19-01-2009, 07:08 PM
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(severe young ones moment)
what do you know about the beans
for the people thats never heard of the young ones
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dlUtJWBoQ6Q
what do you know about the beans
for the people thats never heard of the young ones
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dlUtJWBoQ6Q
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19-01-2009, 08:40 PM
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Which andyescos / andy escos you talking about Dude? as highlander says there can be only one!lol. (Look above Dan, there's 2 of us on here, and as you know even Jack Bauer aint gonna make me talk!)