REPORT: The Stig is to be unmasked unhelmeted on tonight's Top Gear!
Jeremy Clarkson has written that some time after the new season of Top Gear begins tonight at 8 p.m. on British televisions, "Stig barges into the studio and in an atmosphere that you could cut with a knife removes his helmet."
Ostensibly, that means we'll finally learn the identity of the white-suited mystery man of motorsports. Of course, "removes his helmet" is a long way from actually finding out who The Stig is. And coming from TG's Master of Shenanigans – and after the last time The Stig was "revealed" – well, let's just say we're not ready to fall for the ol' banana in the tailpipe trick just yet. Hat tip to everyone and their fathers.
[Sources: The Daily Mail UK; BBC | Photo Credit: Jalopnik]
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rljones 1:38PM (6/21/2009)
I bet he is wearing a white racing hood under the helmet, so all that might be seen is his eyes. unless he is also wearing sunglasses, which he probably will be.
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hashiryu 1:48PM (6/21/2009)
Yeah. I bet he will have on the full balaclava and we won't see anything more than his eyes.
Yaroukh 1:55PM (6/21/2009)
I wouldn't be surprised. With these guys nothing means what it seems or suonds like...
adrian 3:51PM (6/21/2009)
It's Schumacher. But just for that drive I reckon.
Yaroukh 4:00PM (6/21/2009)
@adrian: That just does not make sense. Why would they pay him all the years to make the laps with his helmet on? He is far from being "the best available non-open-wheeler driver", not speaking about how expensive his time is.
If the guy takes his helmet off and it will be MS I just won't believe that it was MS all the years playing crazy tunes or language lessons while setting lap-records. That doesn't make any sense.
adrian 4:40PM (6/21/2009)
@Yaroukh
That's what I mean. MS was there for that one off drive in that Ferrari, I don't belive he's the regular Stig.
Yaroukh 5:24PM (6/21/2009)
@adrian: oh, i'm sorry
Kn1ves 1:53PM (6/21/2009)
He's actually Richard Hammond
↓↑report
Truth.
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larry a 1:54PM (6/21/2009)
I'd rather not know
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Mark 2:00PM (6/21/2009)
It's Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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tankd0g 2:01PM (6/21/2009)
$20 says he has no head.
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z-man 2:01PM (6/21/2009)
It's really James May.....
I swear to you, when that helmet is taken off, you will see Captain Slow.
(Ok, maybe not, but that would still be awesome beyond belief)
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eurodud91 2:04PM (6/21/2009)
i bet when he (it?) takes his (its) helmet off, there will be another helmet underneath.
either that, or 5 more stigs will stand up in the audience , confusing us all!
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Yaroukh 2:35PM (6/21/2009)
That's what crossed my mind while looking at the picture above.
paul34 2:47PM (6/21/2009)
If the Stig could speak, what you described sounds like the "I'm Spartacus" scene
nrb 2:10PM (6/21/2009)
Yawn...
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Weaksauce 2:30PM (6/21/2009)
I thought this was discussed. Obviously now confirmed, that someone in the crowd from the taping mentioned Michael Schumacher being The Stig. I wouldn't be suprised, though.
If it is, however, how did he fit in the Gumpert Apollo? Hammond mentioned you couldn't adjust the seat. ''Gumpert is sick of people messing with their perfect weight distribution....''
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Yaroukh 2:34PM (6/21/2009)
As for MS being the Stig - I don't think it is possible.
"C'mon Michael, instead of sitting all day at home bored, how about being our Stig without being seen for couple of years?"
That would be just too expensive person with near-zero effect.
mundotaku 9:12PM (6/21/2009)
For some picutres while they where recording the new season, All we really know that he as male boobs and he is the stig.
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Jsams4131 2:29PM (6/21/2009)
Wasn't half the fun NOT knowing who that man in white was listening to those god awful classical music tracks? Leave the Stig in his suit....ratings must be on a decline.
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