The Stig is who?

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 20th January 2009, 07:35 AM

Top Gear's Stig Revealed!

by Dan Roth on Jan 19th 2009 at 9:27AM

Fans of Top Gear might want to prepare themselves for another Stig death soon. When "Black Stig" Perry McCarthy revealed himself, Clarkson, Hammond and May offed him. Now, according to the UK's Telegraph, the "White Stig" has apparently ended the mystery, revealing himself as 33 year-old Ben Collins. Collins has raced professionally in everything from NASCAR to LeMans, and most recently served as Agent 007's double for sequences of Quantum of Solace that required fancy wheel work. It's been such a secret for so long, how did the veil of silence come to be broken? Collins himself apparently revealed his day job to the owner of an art gallery in Bristol, England when asking for help producing a limited-edition print of The Stig plying his trade.

A builder had also come across the famed white suit and gloves on display in a cabinet while doing work at Collins' home, and there has been conjecture in the past that Collins is The Stig. Now that the cat is out of the bag, we wonder if there's much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the halls of Top Gear's offices. Secret identity or no, Collins has proven himself as a fantastic driver as The Stig, and with this latest revelation, he potentially faces "The Sack" as they say in Merry Old.

No confirmation yet from Clarkson, Hammond or May on this revelation, and the only word out of Top Gear is that they "...never comment on speculation as to who or what The Stig is." Hmm. In any case, we are left to wonder... what color will a new Stig be? Red? Gold? Blue? Thanks for the tip, Richard!

**Phoenix** · 20th January 2009, 07:49 AM

Old news !!

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 20th January 2009, 07:50 AM

how old?

**Phoenix** · 20th January 2009, 08:19 AM

dunno, I saw something about it about a month ago, but obviously nothing confirmed.

The sun did an article about it a week or so back, but did not reveal his identity.

**Grover-98** · 20th January 2009, 10:14 AM

I don't want to know who he/it is ruins the fun!

**SteveT** · 20th January 2009, 10:23 AM

Old news???? when asked how old your reply
"dunno, I saw something about it about a month ago, but obviously nothing confirmed.

The sun did an article about it a week or so back, but did not reveal his identity."

well thats not old news because you "dunno and nothing was confirmed"

**Phoenix** · 20th January 2009, 10:29 AM

Yeah, I know, but i've read on fan sites for a while that is the stig's identity, and this article still doesn't confirm it.

I doubt they will boot him as he isn't the one making the song and noise about it being him, unlike the last stig.

**hoadie72** · 20th January 2009, 10:34 AM

He was named in Richard Hammond's crash investigation so it is old news.

**Phoenix** · 20th January 2009, 02:43 PM

I believe a F1 commentator let it slip on a live broadcast once as well.

mcrover · 20th January 2009, 03:03 PM

There is also a clip of him on Youtube with the stig helmet off and under his arm but it's from the side but then they cut to similar shots of Collins and it looks like the same bloke.

They had their chance on the last episode......they could have put Nitros on that van thing they were trying to make go as fast as an Evo Lancer and blown him up

They did mention that that was what they did and it killed the last stig

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