And his name is....

























Ben Collins!

Who the bloody hell is Ben Collins! Apparently he is a former American Speedway driver and stuntman who doubled for Daniel Craig in the latest James Bond.

I really thought it would have been someone else. 

yes when Betty told me i said the same thing, well what did  expect some sort of Hunk oh well.

Quote from: Jukie on January 22, 2009, 09:04:17 PM
yes when Betty told me i said the same thing, well what did  expect some sort of Hunk oh well.

Jukie how could i be here and there at the same time 

well vince you are such a talented person i know you can do both, you are suck a hunkie spunkie guy

Yeh I read that in the paper today.

My suspicions were aroused when Richard Hammond had his crash, reports were going around saying Ben Collins was one of the first to the scene of the accident and he worked closely with the Top Gear team and crew.

He was also a Formula 3 driver.

Last time the black stig's identity was revealed he was killed off the show.. so I wonder what's going to happen 

i wonder if he did the formala 1 tests as well, cause rumour has it there's more than one stig.
i really thought damon hill was the stig, oh well.


paul.

wonder why he 'outed' himself....maybe didn't see many years left of the show? after all the secrecy it was obviously a decision to let it be known....

wonder if he's gone....followed by...the red stig

or maybe

THE SPIDER STIG !!!!

(except I can't drive!)

go SPIDER go the red stig

I thought it would be some sort of a A1 driver or something 

You guys are all too brief, which paper and on what day??






                                Mmick (gotta get out more)

It was mentioned in the Drive section of today's Herald ... just a snippet really.

Quote from: Spider on January 22, 2009, 11:32:06 PM
wonder why he 'outed' himself....maybe didn't see many years left of the show? after all the secrecy it was obviously a decision to let it be known....


(except I can't drive!)

according to the snippet in the herald today, it was widely known within the motoring journalist community who the stig really was but they kept their mouth's shut because the mystery of the stig was such a big part of the show.
the only reason he was 'outed' was because photographers were around to take some promo shots of him for the show and he revealed his identity to them... then it somehow snow balled etc etc.
this isn't verbatim, so please correct me if i'm wrong.

apparently TG allowed a german tv crew to interview him as the stig, some articles suggest he told a builder he was the stig cause he had a white race suit and helmet in a display cabinet. there's a heap of different scenarios about how or why he did it but i haven't seen anything from TG or ben collins himself yet.


paul.

Seems like the Stig's identity has been an open secret for a while. I read somwhere that TG are "furious" that the media have outed him. Can't find the article again, but here is what is out there locally

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,24936982-10229,00.html

http://www.smh.com.au/news/motoring/news/fast-lane/2009/01/22/1232471482983.html