Allegedly, on tonight's series opener of Top Gear, the Stig will reveal himself!!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090621/tuk-mysterious-stig-to-be-unveiled-6323e80.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8111588.stm

"Presenter Jeremy Clarkson said the pre-recorded programme will include a scene where the Stig barges into the studio and removes his helmet.

Clarkson said the Stig showed his face to the camera for the first time "in an atmosphere that you could cut with a knife".

In his column in the Sun newspaper he said the show's director, who has worked in television for 25 years, said he had never seen anything like it.

He added that "hardened, emotionless camera crews said the hair on the back of their neck prickled".

Clarkson added: "As a television moment it's up there with Neil Armstrong walking on the...corpse of JR Ewing."

He said Stig's identity would be a "staggering surprise" to viewers."

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ill be watchin it


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I thought the Stigs ID was revealed to be Ben Collins back at the start of the year...when he wrote about it in his autobiography !!

You're getting the stories mixed up a bit there The original Stig was Perry McCarthy who revealed himself in his autobiography, but the whole Ben Collins story was a newspaper "hoo-hah" back in January with neither TG or Mr Collins commenting on the issue.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/entertainment/newsid_7842000/7842682.stm

Personally, I think it's a wind up. The mystery of The Stig and the long running joke it provides is too valuable to trash. Unless they have a Stig 3 lined up??

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the Ben Collins thing is an open secret, his name also appeared on the crash records from hammonds big crash.
Tonights 'un-masking' is a little bit of TG wind up, I know what's coming but no spoilers :P

It'll probably be James May under the helmet

Rob
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i was also thinking james may!

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well i didnt expect that ppl....dont wanna say incase sum ppl aint seen it yet!!!!

nice to see him with a sense of humour

im still not convinced!

Not the Kraut?!?!

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Well we aren't buying it... he isn't the Stig.


I think it was the only way they could get that Ferrari round the track.



Time will tell tho.......




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just found this on yahoo http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090621/tuk-top-gear-s-stig-is-finally-unveiled-6323e80.html

cud be true then

The clue was in the titles...

Presenters:

Jeremy Clarkson
Richard Hammond
James May
and The Stig

Special Guest
Michael Schumacher

Clearly a very funny joke and great to see Schumy.

Ferrari built 30 FXX's and all of them have white stripes like this....



... except one. The 30th model was given to Michael Schumacher. And it's the only one that is black without the stripes.



Ergo, the reason Schumy was there was because he was driving his own FXX. What's the betting it was Michael doing the lap and not the real Stig?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_FXX

And it knocked a whole 7 secs off the best lap time!

Rob
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so me and kate were right then.... only reason he was there was to drive his own car!


Does beg the question, if Schumy was to drive the other cars would they be quicker round the track also????



He wasn't very chatty tho..... nice to see him but didn't give much away with his replys.


Do you think he's still a little bitter about not racing in F1 still???





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Bitter? Nah. Envious? Hell yes

Rob
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