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The Stig's true identity has never been revealed on the show. In order to maintain the secrecy, all shots show him wearing full
Alpinestars racing
overalls bearing a small Grand Prix Racewear (a motorsport retailer) logo and matching
Simpson racing
helmet (originally a Speedway RX model, in later series a Diamondback model).
[5][32] All that can be seen from the gap between his helmet and jumpsuit is that he is a white male with dark hair. It is also known that he wears Size 10 racing boots as discovered by the
Sunday Times[33] and a well-timed camera flash managed to show The Stig's eyes by
Auto Trader.
[34] Although The Stig does talk with celebrities while preparing them for their "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" lap times, he is almost never shown talking on screen, and in both the programme and
Top Gear magazine articles he is portrayed as being unable or unwilling to talk.
[35][36] Clarkson has written that The Stig is not permitted to talk on screen because "any opinion he might voice on cars would be rubbish",
[7][37] though he has been caught speaking on camera.
The identity of Black Stig was revealed to be
Perry McCarthy when his book
Flat Out, Flat Broke was published in 2002. McCarthy is a former
Formula One driver for
Andrea Moda. He was also the test driver for the
Benetton,
Arrows, and
Williams teams and also tested for
BMW F1.
[4][5]
The identity of White Stig has not been officially revealed and is regarded as a carefully guarded secret by the
BBC.
[3][38] Racing drivers ranging from
Julian Bailey,
[3][39] Ben Collins,
[2][3][40][41][42] Chris Goodwin,
[3] Damon Hill,
[43][44][45] Heikki Kovalainen,
[3] Tim Schrick,
[46][47][48],
Michael Schumacher,
[45][49][50] and
Russ Swift[3][41][43] have been speculated as being The Stig at one point or another by the press, other racing drivers, and fans of the show.
Perry McCarthy,
[4] Russ Swift,
[43] and an unnamed former Stig
[3] have claimed that there is more than one driver who plays the role of The Stig. James May claims that there is a clause in The Stig's contract that should his identity be exposed, either through his own willingness or via a member of the
Top Gear staff (including the hosts of
Top Gear), he has to be fired. Black Stig was supposedly let go via this clause; the same clause would apply also to White Stig under the same circumstances.
[51] In August 2010, the BBC was reportedly attempting to block
HarperCollins from publishing an unauthorised book that reveals the identity of the White Stig
[52]; this led to the Sunday Times to declare Ben Collins as The Stig via information from Ben Collin's financial reports from his firm, Collins Autosport. In one report from December of 2003, a financial report noted the firm providing "driving services provided for the BBC, mainly in the Top Gear programme"; around the same time, White Stig was introduced onto the show. A BBC spokesman downplayed the idea, noting Collins driving in a
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution as an example of the services Collin's firm provides the show.
[53][54]
Specialist drivers and stuntmen have also been hinted at playing the role of The Stig; Stuntmen Terry Grant and Russ Swift have been hinted as donning The Stig's trademark racing suit.
[3] The
Winter Olympics special episode of
Top Gear showed The Stig doing a
ski jump using a
snowmobile; the driver performing the ski jump stunt was claimed to be Dan Lang, a Swedish snowmobile cross driver.
[3][55] "Rig Stig" seen in Series 12 Episode 1 drove British
Truck racing champion
Stuart Oliver's truck on the show, indicating a truck racing driver was used in the segment .
[56]
There has been some criticism of efforts to identify The Stig.
[3][57] The Times criticised the outing of Ben Collins by the
Daily Telegraph in an article which asserted that the "identity of the white-suited Stig ... has been an
open secret within the motoring world for some years, with newspapers refraining from publishing his name, to uphold the spirit of the programme."
[2]
The BBC and
Top Gear have varied their responses to The Stig's true identity. One official BBC response to such speculation is, "We never comment on speculation as to who or what The Stig is."
[3] However, comical and joke responses to Stig's true identity are sometimes presented as well.
[58][59][60][61] In one example, after The Stig drove an all-black
Ferrari FXX[62] around the
Top Gear Test Track, he was brought into the studio, and ostensibly revealed as
Michael Schumacher.
[63] Clarkson then stated at the end of the show "I'm not sure if Michael Schumacher is The Stig" after showing a comedy clip of Schumacher (dressed up as The Stig) supposedly struggling to drive the
Suzuki Liana, and getting lost around the test track.
[64] Top Gear would only confirm Schumacher as playing the Stig in that particular episode.
[65]
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