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UPDATE: The Stig NOT revealed... in Belgium?
UPDATE: Thanks to a handful of readers, we received the image above showing Schrick and the Stig embodied in separate meat vessels. That means one of two things: Schrick is NOT the Stig or Top Gear employs several Stigs.
Certain mysteries aren't meant to be solved, and when it comes to the Stig, ignorance is bliss. But when we got a tip about Top Gear's top test driver caught walking around without his trademark white helmet, we were simultaneously skeptical and intrigued.
The Top Gear crew was caught on one of its legendary crap can races, this time with stripped-out compacts strapped to the roof, when someone wielding a video camera outside of the racetrack caught a glimpse of an unmasked driver wearing what is assumed to be the Stig's white racing suit and carrying a matching white helmet. The blurry shots appeared on Autoblog.nl (no relation) and the speculative efforts of the Dutch enthusiast community pegged the man behind the mask as ace test driver Tim Schrick.Schrick has had his fair share of publicity, primarily doing reviews for a few German television shows (we've posted a video of him caning the Porsche Carrera GT after the jump), and although the screen captures above doesn't give us a clear view of Schrick (we think he looks a bit older), it's the most plausible theory available.
The question that always pops into our minds when we hear about another spotting of the Stig is whether Top Gear employs different drivers for different segments of the show. Jeremy, May and Hammond were on the set, so it's conceivable that Schrick is the "real" Stig, but unless other evidence is offered, we remain comfortable assuming that the Stig is part man, part machine and all bad-ass. Thanks for the tip, Laurens!
[Source: Autoblog.nl]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
F1Mikal 4:46PM (5/22/2008)
I think he looks like two people:
Rene Arnoux
and
Jacques Lafitte
hmmm
f1Mikal
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Smeagle 7:14PM (5/22/2008)
A frenchman on the top gear team? Not over Clarksons dead body.
BigMcLargeHuge 4:42PM (5/22/2008)
Dammit Belgium! I don't want to know!
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xpolarx 7:00PM (5/22/2008)
Don't worry...this is total crap. I saw a "spy" video a while back where you could hear the stig talking and he definitely had a british accent. I suppose there could be multiples...but there was a brit in the suit at some point.
letstakeawalk 7:17PM (5/22/2008)
Some people say that he emits a constant "reality distortion cloud" (some of which he loans out to Steve Jobs) and cannot be photographed with conventional optics.
KA 8:50PM (5/22/2008)
Actually, that "interview" is almost certainly not with the real Stig. A lot of people (myself included) believe it was Richard Hammond trying to throw the interviewers off, and if you listen closely, it definitely sounds like Hammond trying to hide his "on air" voice.
Aprime 11:13PM (5/22/2008)
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/3203/1211505640676ef1.jpg
Mythbusted, yo.
Call Me George 2:00PM (5/23/2008)
@Aprime:
You have become a hero in my mind for that pic. I was about to blast Autoblog for "no Goddamn spolier alert" You have fixed everything. Thank you.
Seanross 6:59AM (5/23/2008)
It has been said that the Stig only knows two facts about ducks, and they're both wrong.
Thanks for the mythbuster BTW, I almost cried... I dont want to see the Stigs face! he must remain mysterious...
Leaf 11:40AM (5/23/2008)
Well I knew it wasn't the Stig... That man removed his helmet from his head... Some say the Stig's helmet IS his head...
Berto 4:44PM (5/22/2008)
Damn! I did not want to know that. I feel like a kid that just got told Santa Claus doesn't exist.
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Aprime 11:15PM (5/22/2008)
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/3203/1211505640676ef1.jpg
Santa Claus exists, congrats on still not knowing who the stig is (although I do know who it is, there's a video clearly matching a former indy champion's voice and the stigs, the couple of time's he's talked).
Berto 7:06AM (5/23/2008)
@Aprime: Thank you so much for making my life better!! So glad that's not the stig. YES!!!
EskimoPie 4:44PM (5/22/2008)
And now the deluge of posters who are convinced that the know who the Stig is and this isn't it.
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Farris 4:47PM (5/22/2008)
I agree on the "multiple Stigs" idea. I'm pretty sure they use different Stigs for different segments, and possibly cars, too... Then again, I don't work for the show, so I have absolutely no idea.
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Ben 4:53PM (5/22/2008)
You just ruined the only good thing left in this world. Thanks for nothing......jerks.
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Aprime 11:16PM (5/22/2008)
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/3203/1211505640676ef1.jpg
Did not.
Ubizzle 4:55PM (5/22/2008)
He is a german journalist who is clearly involved in the "War with Germany" TG talked about on their website. Tim Schrick or somethin, his name is.
Besides, the Stig wears an AlpineStars suit. Either way, certainly not Stiggy.
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Aprime 11:17PM (5/22/2008)
^
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/3203/1211505640676ef1.jpg
Chris 4:56PM (5/22/2008)
Did you mean Autojunk.nl?
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