BBC bid to halt Top Gear Stig book

[Realist]

BBC bid to halt Top Gear Stig book




The BBC is fighting to keep The Stig from revealing his identity



The BBC is fighting to keep Top Gear's mystery driver The Stig from revealing his identity.
The corporation has launched a legal bid to stop the faceless show favourite - who speeds around a race track with a blackened visor - writing his autobiography.
BBC lawyers claim he is subject to a confidentiality agreement and unmasking himself would spoil viewers' enjoyment of the BBC Two programme, which is one of the channel's most popular.
The Stig famously takes to the track in an assortment of cars, as well as training celebrities to set lap times in Top Gear's popular "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" segment.
According to the BBC, his autobiography breaches "agreed contractual and confidentiality obligations" relating to the programme".
Clad in race overalls and a helmet, the driver's identity has long been a closely-guarded show secret, spawning T-shirts emblazoned with slogans like "My Dad is The Stig".
Only a handful of executives and Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are said to know who he is.
Several racing drivers have been linked to the role, including former Formula One world champions Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher.
Clarkson and his fellow presenters have all enjoyed spin-off success from Top Gear, such as books and other TV work.
The current Stig is the show's second. The original, Perry McCarthy, was dropped after his identity was discovered.

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[raelmadrid]

source please

[Little John]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukp...qP6m7MGoNENlDg

[Mr 250]

Hasn't it been proven that the Stig's Ben Collins anyway ?

[tiggerbiker]

Hasn't it been proven that the Stig's Ben Collins anyway ?

yes,
he was named in the HSE's report on hammonds dragster crash (not as in named as the stig but it was worded in such a way that it's pretty obvious)

[tigger3]

who cares?

Tig3

[Little John]

First episode of the season bomb proof testing of military vehicles first up the landrover Stig to be the test pilot

[Omgporn]

It's not Schumacher?

ZOMG

[raelmadrid]

also depending on the car manufacturer its actually the test driver from the company (or so I have heard)

[Kushty]

I'd be annoyed if he was different only because it would affect the consistency of the lap times table.

[raelmadrid]

Besides, Clarkson running in jokes of... "Some say he's Margeret Thatcher are getting a little tedious now..."

funnily enough thats 1 of the few bits I enjoy on Top Gear nowadays

[Mule]

The Stigs a 21st century Shakespeare, a symbol, I'd put a tenner on it being as realmadrid said, different people all the time... and it just so happened that Ben Collins was The Stig that week or something... Besides, Clarkson running in jokes of... "Some say he's Margeret Thatcher are getting a little tedious now..."

So the book is a collaborative work?

[evilsatan]

I always thought the idea was there is mystery so they can have any driver if one wasn't available one week. Tbh I couldn't care less if he wears a mask or not.

[Realist]

They will never hide who the stig is, it will always get out.

[Realist]

Sorry dude.

My source link: http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.a...ntid=154438956

Regards

source please

[neo2810]

Tbh I couldn't care less if he wears a mask or not.

I'll bet you say that to all your weekenders

[super mike]

I'd be annoyed if he was different only because it would affect the consistency of the lap times table.

It really isn't scientific in any way.

[DJ OD]

I do think they have had a couple of "stigs" over the years. All ex race drivers.

Ben Collins is definitely the latest one, but I'm sure I read that in the past Damon Hill may have done the job.


DJ OD

[Over Carl]

Ain't there a wiki page that tells all? Would look it up to post but I've only already done it here a few million times.

[evilsatan]

There was definitely a Stig reveal before hammonds accident because it was posted on here years ago. Although it could have been a fake.