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Pretty obvious when they had an FXX being pushed around the track then a bloke in a white suit, 6 inches shorter than the regular Stig walks in.
 
Bar the Bull said:
It was actually on the headlines slot of the Newstalk (Irish radio station) business show this morning.

I don't even know what a stig is.
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The Stig's name derives from presenter Jeremy Clarkson's days at Repton School, where according to Clarkson, new students were always called "Stig" apparently. Not quite sure how that relates to a tame racing driver, but Clarkson's the boss so probably doesn't matter.
 
Pointless show - only good bit is when they try and get accross the Arctic on a lilo or through Vietnam in a Ford Fiesta.
 
Nothing to do with Ferrari having a high performance expensive car on the test track that day (very protective of them, prob said it had to be a professional driver employed by Ferrari) and it being the British Grand Prix this weekend (show is filmed the Wednesday before).

I like the show but it doesn't half churn some guff out.

Would have much preferred Schumacher to just drive the Ferrari then do a proper lap in the R.P Car instead.
 
Shadow Leader said:
The current Stig, that'll be. There have been/are a few of them.
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Spot on.

Schumacher has too many obligations to be flying in from Monte Carlo every week to spend a day driving round an Oxfordshire airfield. Ben Collins does most of them, and Eddie Irvine has done a couple apparently. Ben Collins is the name that appears on the HSE report into the Hammond crash and is named as a "high performance driver and consultant employed by Top Gear". If you want to dig the report out its been on the 'net' for ages. If memory serves me right its on page 9
 
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