The Stig takes his helmet off....

[04 Venom]

Watched tonight's episode of Top Gear. The Stig took his helmet off and he is.................................. Michael Schmacher.

[Gene]

Old news. :)

The "New Season" on BBCA is actually last season from the BBC that aired about six months ago. For some reason we don't get the show in real time, which is kind of stupid since a large percentage of American Top Gear junkies already watched it on Bittorent a few hours after it originally aired in the UK.

That being said, tonight's episode is great, and I'm still DVRing it because I want to watch it in HD. :)

[quik lx]

I have it DVR'd, cant wait to watch!!!!!

[Carl]

Yeah, sucks being caught up to 'real time'...

[INSANEBA]

Holy Shit! I havent seen that show in quite a while, but always wondered who that bad ass drivin masked man was... That explains alot...

[Evil_Capri]

I purposely try to avoid current (on BBC) episodes/segments on youtube.com (most of the time!) and finalgear.com to watch the "new" Top Gear seasons on BBC America HD.

And Mr. Schumacher isn't the only Stig! Different drivers seem to morph into The Stig every so often!

[rush88GT]

I purposely try to avoid current (on BBC) episodes/segments on youtube.com (most of the time!) and finalgear.com to watch the "new" Top Gear seasons on BBC America HD.

And Mr. Schumacher isn't the only Stig! Different drivers seem to morph into The Stig every so often!

I was waiting for someone else to walk in dressed as the Stig

[Stangman]

Thats pretty cool though... always wondered.

[Aweasel]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/jun/22/stig-michael-schumacher


"It was a tongue-in-cheek piece which wasn't meant to be taken seriously," one source said. "The Stig is merely a character."

According to sources, there is no one person who is the Stig, but up to six drivers who take it in turns.

[chadomac]

thought you were going to say it was beefcake:lol:

[04 Venom]

Beef would never fit in that driving suit. :D

[Evil_Capri]

Stig has many relatives . . . . including American Stig . .


The Stig's American cousin. He's known in our family as "Big Stig".
http://the-stig.info/1_images/The-Stigs-American-Cousin-Big-Stig.jpg

I also like 'Rig Stig' with his sun-tanned arm . . .
http://the-stig.info/1_images/Rig-Stig.jpg

[bbfstanger]

i think thats about the best auto related shows out there.
there was another stig before schumaker i believe,think he was an old rally driver.
i love those exoctics like the zonda's ,looks like theyre goin 200 sittin still.

[Aweasel]

a guy named Stig Blomqvist is an actual rally driver, back from the old group b days when they were nuts, cars that would out accelerate F1 cars from the time.....on gravel

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Group B was probably some of the gnarliest racing the world has ever seen. Too bad so many people got killed back then.

I've always been of the opinion that it was several people. The whole purpose of having a masked driver is so they can't say "well this driver isn't as good as this driver and that's why this lap was slower".