I know who the STIG is

My two cents : Martin Brundle or Mark Blundell...
Based on what i've heard from people in broadcasting.
Seems plausible, but hey, i think it's a wild guess, just as all the rest.
 
I didn't read all the post. Just turned to the end of it. I couldn't believe that you still don't know who he is. Ok, i don't know if it's true but i opend google and typed down the first thing that came in my mind. I got results, opened the first link that google gave me. It was

http://www.crash.net/feature_view.asp?cid=26&id=6611

It took me a few seconds. Maybe i misunderstood something but if it is (was) the real Stig, then it was easy to find. He says - "Anyway there is a new Stiggy now!".

In other topic i found that the new stig is Ben Collins. I do not know who he is, cause i'm not from England.


Sorry if i misunderstood or gave you old information (didn't read the whole topic). Sorry for my bad english (English is not my native language).
 
perry mccarthy was black stig

new stig, has, according to the times this morning "straight brown hair, blue eyes" and is white.

well... that's narrowed it down a bit.
 
Hitchcock said:
In other topic i found that the new stig is Ben Collins. I do not know who he is, cause i'm not from England.

Yeah Ben Collins, from what i have heard is the stig, He drives for Embassy racing and is also involved with a race driver training course.

I've never actually seen him race but he must be quite good given that both Toyota and Renault have both let him behind the wheel of their formula one cars.
 
DILLIGAF said:
I think Damon Hill is the Stig
Well, his breath does smell like magnesium....but he almost is elegible for a buspass.

Plus the fact he hasn't done anything remotely linked to highspeed driving since he quit F1.
 
LP640 said:
I've never actually seen him race but he must be quite good given that both Toyota and Renault have both let him behind the wheel of their formula one cars.

Heikki Kovalainen (he's the test F1 race driver for Renault and race in GP2 ) was behind the wheel of the Renault F1
 
mm I wonder... if on the police records.. in the Us there is the stigs real name.. since he was arrested in the desert?!@!!!
 
Ffrom the Times Online:
n a determined effort to uncover the face behind the mirrored visor, the Sunday Times photographer and I make a dash for base, only to arrive just at the moment the Stig, helmet already firmly in place, is sliding into the driver?s seat of a Vauxhall Astra police car. We follow, in hot pursuit, back to the trackside to find the Stig chatting to Clarkson, visor up. I can just make out white skin, straight brown hair, and are those blueish eyes? But then Clarkson spots our plot and snaps the visor shut. Foiled again.

From then on the Stig (Stig was the name Clarkson and Wilman gave to any new boy who arrived at school) remains silent for fear of giving away his identity. ?He?s not a very talkative chap,? goads Clarkson. Most of the crew don?t appear to know who he is. One camera assistant tells me that last time she was on set he ate his lunch in the back of an ambulance ?so no one would see him?.

The Daily Express claimed earlier this year that it had identified the Stig as Julian Bailey, 44, a former Formula One racing driver, but the Stig I saw looked younger. A snoop around the Stig?s dressing room yields few clues, although I can confirm that he wears size 10 racing shoes and appears to enjoy a game of Scalextric.
 
Yayox said:
mm I wonder... if on the police records.. in the Us there is the stigs real name.. since he was arrested in the desert?!@!!!

In the article Clarkson says that "a lorry full of soldiers rocked up and arrested him".
So maby there isn't a record of the incident, or maby it's been classified...

Perhaps The Stig is an alien on loan from the US, and when he was wandering in the desert they thought he was another one who had escaped. Wouldn't want that on record would you?
 
^^

Maybe if we get a transcript of the passenger list from their latest voyage to the US.

Also, if the stig does the driving for USA America, we could do something similar.

(I think Ben Collins could be the stig: in the EVOVII bit agaisn the skateboarder, i can easily picture a helmet over Bens head)
 
3 words: freedom of information.

allyou need is the places anddates that things happned and you can request the records of anything not classified from american government departments.

or somyunderstanding of the law goes.

if people can find the dates that top gear arrived / left the states, stig got arrested, requests to the police to close roads or supervise high speed road tests or whatever you could very likely find names. Cross reference these withyour educated guesses on who he isand failing that FIA or some other racing body.

personally I think the stig is a collage of poeple, just as they use specialised drivers for the f1 cars who is to say that all the loan cars dontcome with test drivers. Many times test drivers are provided for demo's, with top gearbeing such a large important PR machine why wouldnt any large company send a driver to dress up in white and go nuts in he car they are familiar with. They have no other conficting interests other than to go as fast as they can,they are going to be fairly adjusted to the car and so forth.

it's easy to say that you couldnt keep that many people quiet BUT these are are test drivers who regularly keep trade secrets about the cars they drive secret for years, a simple non disclosure agreement could keep tier mouths shut. Even if a couple of themdid saqy they were the stig, who would believe them? they werent thgere when xyz car was there anyway...

even if it werent one driver for one car and there were just a couple of drivers it would fit in with what reports are known about "the new stig" in that there are varying reports on age wieght and apperance. there is absolutely nothing to suggest that it is a single person except the way he is spoken about on the show, where the obviously overwieght f1 driver was reffered to as the stig without any qualm.

atill unvieling the, or one of the idenities of the stig throughpolice records is a good start. Asmuch as I like what clarkson and top gear do I refuse to believe that those few people can outsmart the hundreds ofpeople here obsessed with the question.

anyone here gotmore experience with FI requests? if not I might do somereaserch so anyone who can provide more accurate dates and times would be helping alot. IKfnot I might have to put on my social engineering hat and make somecalls to england, hmmm american police officer with a follow up call or australian documentory journalist looking for an interview with the man who has a gripe with america almost as big as mine.....decisions decisions...
 
phrenzy said:
3 words: freedom of information.

allyou need is the places anddates that things happned and you can request the records of anything not classified from american government departments.

or somyunderstanding of the law goes.

if people can find the dates that top gear arrived / left the states, stig got arrested, requests to the police to close roads or supervise high speed road tests or whatever you could very likely find names. Cross reference these withyour educated guesses on who he isand failing that FIA or some other racing body.

personally I think the stig is a collage of poeple, just as they use specialised drivers for the f1 cars who is to say that all the loan cars dontcome with test drivers. Many times test drivers are provided for demo's, with top gearbeing such a large important PR machine why wouldnt any large company send a driver to dress up in white and go nuts in he car they are familiar with. They have no other conficting interests other than to go as fast as they can,they are going to be fairly adjusted to the car and so forth.

it's easy to say that you couldnt keep that many people quiet BUT these are are test drivers who regularly keep trade secrets about the cars they drive secret for years, a simple non disclosure agreement could keep tier mouths shut. Even if a couple of themdid saqy they were the stig, who would believe them? they werent thgere when xyz car was there anyway...

even if it werent one driver for one car and there were just a couple of drivers it would fit in with what reports are known about "the new stig" in that there are varying reports on age wieght and apperance. there is absolutely nothing to suggest that it is a single person except the way he is spoken about on the show, where the obviously overwieght f1 driver was reffered to as the stig without any qualm.

atill unvieling the, or one of the idenities of the stig throughpolice records is a good start. Asmuch as I like what clarkson and top gear do I refuse to believe that those few people can outsmart the hundreds ofpeople here obsessed with the question.

anyone here gotmore experience with FI requests? if not I might do somereaserch so anyone who can provide more accurate dates and times would be helping alot. IKfnot I might have to put on my social engineering hat and make somecalls to england, hmmm american police officer with a follow up call or australian documentory journalist looking for an interview with the man who has a gripe with america almost as big as mine.....decisions decisions...

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I do appologise, I have a broken (ish) space bar and also broken shoulders (well recently dislocated to be fair) and as a result it is hard to type accurately (the painkillers dont help, well they do :) but not the typing).

Still I have a new keyboard now, so hopefully the quality of my posts will improve from here on out.

sorry again.

by the by I have done some reaserch into what is required to use the freedom of information act and if anyone can supply more exact details on when and where the stig was arested I might hopefully be able to get the ball rolling.
 
alokharidas said:
Ffrom the Times Online:
The Daily Express claimed earlier this year that it had identified the Stig as Julian Bailey, 44, a former Formula One racing driver, but the Stig I saw looked younger. A snoop around the Stig’s dressing room yields few clues, although I can confirm that he wears size 10 racing shoes and appears to enjoy a game of Scalextric.

You can all stop searching for the Stig now.
It's Captain Slow. :)
 
After all these posts still no conclusion....someone should just camp out when Top Gear is filming and maybe just maybe....they can catch a glimpse of him, he needs that suit off sometime!!
 
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