These are the ten men and one woman we’ve suggested might be Top Gear’s Stig.
Who do you think is the Stig? Have your say below.
Damon Hill
Ellen MacArthur
Jeremy Clarkson
Russ Swift
Ben Collins
Tiff Needell
Read about the first six in Who is the Stig?
Lewis Hamilton
James May
Mark Blundell
Julian Bailey
Simon Cowell
Read about the last five in Who is the Stig? II
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I’m going to clear up all of this ridiculous speculation as it is so stupid it’s unbeleivable:
I work in the motorsport industry and know at least 2 national racing drivers who have been the White stig, one of them is Ben Collins, the other I can’t name as he told me in confidence as a friend.
The whole point of the Stig character is that Top Gear can use who is available at the time without explaining the changes.
The Stig is always just the best driver available when they need a car testing and they’re not “famous” or “celebrities” They’re genuinely talented and unknown drivers.
All of this speculation of Damon Hill, Simon Cowell, Michael Schumacher, Ellen Mcarther etc is just crazy! Clarkson, May and Hammond must be wetting themselves laughing reading these guesses.
Well you couldn’t have been more wrong!
oh come on, you really think they were being honest about schumacher? I doubt he’d be doing the ski slope..
Well I think they showed stig already in the preview for this season of Top Gear. He is a stuntdriver : Ken Block, this fellow won rally X games few years ago leaving Colin Mcrea behind.
the stig is ben collins, you can tell by his size and driving style he also has links with the show.as mark pointed out and ascari if you want another link the lastest clarkson dvd is filmed at ascari test track any how take it from me its ben thats a fact
Ben Collins is my bet
Is he Joan Collins son?
Hi guys, well on an episode of top gear (unfortunatley i can’t remember which) Jeremy Clarkson hinted it was michael shumaker. It might of been to push people to believe it when it was not true but who knows?
yeah their is that
i cant beleave nobody really knows when tiff nedell was rasing 4 storm then comintator said also known as the stig from top gear look at the hight build and driving stile thn consider that tiff went from top gear to fith gear so the bbc didn’t have the rights to him so now he’s the masked racing driver pritty obvious really
IT IS INDEED BEN COLLINS!
Pity we can`t make the font bigger too, don`t ya think?
Definitely not Mark Blundel – his physique is ‘wider’ than the Stigs and Hamilton is much smaller than the Stig.
It’s most likely more than 1 person- a racing driver wouldnt go down a ski slope on a snow machine like they did in the winter olympics special. It would have to be a professional.
But if it is 1 person I agree with Grant – its probably Plato, but that would kind of annoy Fifth Gear.
And dont rule out Perry McCarthy – that would be a bigger conspiracy than May!!!!!
What do you reckon
The Stig is Ben Collins – Ascari’s test driver!!
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Which is also why the Ascari A10 is the quickest car round the Track!!
i think the stig is ……..stig blomqvist ,rally driver from the 70/80s
Weezy
Dude Stig Blomqvist was a hero of mine in the 80s. Hes a bit to chubby to the Stig, and when he did have a go on track rather than dirt he was that good
Way too fat these days
I think that new white Stig is Johny Herbert – just look at the way he stands and holds himself when not in the car – Also he’s not that much taller than the the Hamster!!! Well its my guess anyway.
stop thinking F1 for the stig, it is a completley different style of driving to what the stig does, think more “touring car” driver which is an almost identical style of driving. my 2 cents is probably someone like “Jason Plato” as they always seem to give him a bit of on air ribbing
The stig is Michel Shuwmaker!! They just told us on top gear! Ha Haaa
Gullable fool..
no it’s not lol they managed to get michael on the show as a guest and couldnt resist making a JOKE that it was he who was the stig.
schumacer acted as stig when he drove the fxx cuz ferrari didnt trust the real stig
Really? did they tell you that when you were over there ordering your new Ferrari?
…..No, really?
Michel who?….i can honestly say i have never heard of thic man
Michel Shumaker
Ha fat chance, they almost certainly change the Stig depending on the task, because it’s unlikely one man is so good at say, touring car, snowmobile driving, etc.
agree with you on Jason Plato, but I’d expect it to be more than one guy
lol its not the first tym the stigs been in the TG studio and also when this white stig made his debut ppl say thts the day he won the spanish GP (may 9th 2004), but you have to remember TG is filmed on a wednesday so i think he is the STIG
and also you really think an F1 team like renault will let a crap driver drive thr car? and the aston martin DBR9,
and he helped make the ferrari f430 scuderia, and the ferrari FXX.
so schumacher is the STIG
Ha, Renault have 2 grap drivers driving every race so far in 2009
Ha!
lol!
etc etc
innit
THE STIG 90% OF THE TIME IS BEN COLLINS. THIS IS A FACT. IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE JUST SEE THE OLD EPISODE WITH THE CAR FOOTBALL.
Dudes I think Schumacher WAS the stig for this particular show and lap! Think about the car he drove and what Jezza said about it. there are only 30 FXX’s in existense and Ferrari wont let the owners have them,they ferry both car and owner to whichever track.So my points are
1 Ferrari would have to give there permission for an FXX owner to lend top gear a car since they hold them all in storage
2 Schumacher,as pointed out in other comments here ,is on Ferrari payroll and ,as its unlikely that a “civilian” owner would manage a super quick lap a’la the Stig, who else would they trust.
3 The lap itself. Almost SEVEN seconds faster than the Gumpert!!!!!!!!!!!!!….WOW,we all know the Stig (whoever he is) is quick but seven seconds come on. The real Stig was only 10 seconds quicker in an F1 car on the same track.
so there you go my opinion,Schuey was the Stig for this lap in this car ! Who the real one is well the argument goes on.
yAwn………………..oh yeah
/ Yawn oh ueah
BEN COLLINS
BEN COLLINS = STIG