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Spoiler: The Stig unveiled?

Spoiler: The identity of The Stig has apparently been pieced together, and this time he's named.

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The identity of Top Gear‘s Stig is again a hot talking point after another leak has supposedly revealed who is behind the helmeted driver.

This time a name has been attached.

International racer and Quantum of Solace stunt driver Ben Collins has been named after reportedly admitting his secret identity while commissioning a series of photographic portraits, the Daily Telegraph reports.

Simon Whitehead, co-owner of Gallery 2C in the English seaside town of Bristol, said a man who worked on Top Gear and held copyright over images of The Stig dropped the bombshell after discussing the proposed job.

“I was absolutely amazed when he said he was The Stig, it was quite a big thing in a weird way,” he was quoted by thisisbristol.co.uk as saying.

Collins, 33, has raced in F3, Le Mans, NASCAR and the GT series as well as reportedly coming close to an F1 drive but it was while arranging a set of signed limited edition prints of The Stig to be marketed to car dealerships that the cat was let out of the bag.

While Whitehead refused to identify Collins by name, the UK press was able to piece together other clues to confirm it was Collins behind the famous white helmet with mirrored visor. It has been previously established that The Stig speaks with a Bristol accent — like Collins — and that Collins works as a high performance driver and consultant to Top Gear after he was named in the accident report for presenter Richard Hammond’s near-fatal crash.

A builder also reported coming across The Stig’s outfit while working on Collins’s home.

Earlier this month the News of the World said the man behind The Stig is “married, lives quietly in a comfortable £300,000 home and was once terrified of driving.”

Source: NineMSN

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  3. I love the way they introduce him on Top Gear…
    some say he sleeps inside out….
    some say his tears are adhesive…
    some say that he has no understanding of clouds…
    some say if he’d been the video ref in the World Cup Rugby Final he would’ve seen that it was of course a try you blind Australian half-wit…

  5. After the previous Stig post all it took was a quick Google and I came to the same conclusion.
    So we know the identity of The Stig (or one of many). Who cares? He’s still a great driver, and a funny and mysterious character on the show.

  6. This is just poor form.
    what next ? revealing the secret identities of Batman, Spiderman,Robin or The Green Hornet.
    Hang on, maybe some good could out of this – who is the puppeteer pulling strings of George W Bush (tell me it is Stan Smith or Bart)

  9. There’s “test track” Stig, there’s “public appearance” Stig, there’s all the “international” Stigs, there’s “temporary replacement while proper Stig is otherwise busy” Stig.

    Not that it matters to most of us who he is, it’s not like we care.

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