Top Gear’s top secret racing driver is in fact the chairman of crisis-hit Royal Bank of Scotland, The Mole may have overheard someone say at some point yesterday.
Angry shareholders are now said to be demanding an immediate enquiry into the conduct of RBS boss Sir Tom McKillop, saying his moonlighting work as the man in the white mask might have been responsible for the bank’s record losses.
“No wonder we’re £80 trillion in debt,” stormed an angry shareholder, apparently.
“If you spend every Wednesday on the limit at the Top Gear track in a Gumpert Apollo, you’re going to drop the ball with your day job sooner or later.”
Sir Tom’s secret identity was revealed when he moved all important board meetings from their usual time of Wednesday morning to Thursday morning. It’s now believed he did this to free up time to set laps down at the TG track, as Wednesday is the day they record the show.
“He came up with some convoluted story about shifting the time to suit the Asian markets, but now we know that’s all bollocks,” a spokesperson allegedly said.
I hope that they will have a new stig then
And that the old stig will have a nice “death”
And he would have got away with it too,if it wasn’t for them pesky kid’s!!!!
i think u should get rid of ben collins for his mouthy unveiling of himself as the stig and get someone whos actually a decent driver, james thompson, gabriele tarquini or the likes !!!
If they do eventually find out, and he’s ‘killed’, what will the new Stig’s outfit be? Blue?
Why Jeremy can’t do that how hard ken it be?
or hamond bot realy please not a James May.
sorry about speling skils
Too bad, another dream down the toilet!!!
You can ask Valentino Rossi to be the next STIG, he’s used to keep big secrets, knows how to pilot a car (rallye and F1) and… a bike.
Anyhow, some say that if you reveal The STIG,… your bodyparts should be sent to the 4 corners of the globe.
Thank you, Top Gear. Your way of dealing with issues is amusing and it’s certainly refreshing to see them handled in typical TG style.
the photo is a fake and anyone who thinks that tom McKillop is the stig should be shot
Stop stop stop stop wait!
You can’t kill the 2nd stig!
He’s like santaclaus, It’s fantasy symbol of cocking about cars, he’s done all the fast laps, children loves it. I now that you can put every race driver in that suite and it will be the same, but if you had more than 6 year you understand that there is a man behind that helmet (with full size tattoo of his face on his face)and it won’t be the same thing, cause you’re affectionate to this one. It’s almost a year or two that the name goes around in forums and comments on you(aren’t suppose to see this programme)tube, but i never cared.
If you wanna do something you can make a fake death of the stig in wich he saves his life, then while presenting the blue stig the old one can come out and eat it! This would be hilarious.
“The 3rd is dead and the white is immortal. Now white stig go to eat some cheese in your kennel and stop to pretend you have an identity”
This is all crap. How can an executive Businessman be a racing driver and be faster than F1 drivers! It’s all rubbish. If the BBC are going to reveal the identity at least do it interestingly.
I liked the Damon Hill story though. i don’t know about you but i’m quite sick of banks and their stories.
The Stig is definatly Ken Livingstone.
WHO CARES?! what do you gain from knowing who it is?!
I dont care who the stig is. Jeremy is still God!
I hope that they will have a new stig
Why do people always want to know the secrets behind things?? The fun of The Stig was that no one knows who he is, but now it isn’t fun anymore…. Don’t spoil the fun people!!!
I don’t think he’s the stig. But it looks like him
It’s obvious that Barack Hussein Obama is the Stig. Or will be the next elected Stig anyway.
load of bollocks!!!!!!
NOOOOOO!!!
STIGGYYYY!!!
Now they’re going to have to kill you! Why did you have to go and do something like going to a photographic studio to commission a series of prints of yourself in action and tell the owners you were some guy named ben collins?!
I’m going to be so lost without you..
Why not SABINE,the german racing women?
Give her a nice stig outfit
I know who Ben Collins is.
hey, will u restart the power laps list with a new stig?
OK, if the stig really has been outed, then please let him bite the dust in a Dacia related incident!
The only way to dispell this rumour is to get Ben Collins and The Stig side by side. You couldn’t do that with Clark Kent and Superman!!
Awwwww, I hope you keep White Stig. You can’t keep killing Stigs! They may be an endangered species now for all that we know. It would be a shame to remove White Stig from his natural habitat.
Poor Stiggy:(
it all makes perfect sense this explains sir stigs attitude to human beings
Awwwww, I hope you keep White Stig. You can’t keep killing Stigs! They may be an endangered species now for all that we know. It would be a shame to remove White Stig from his natural habitat.
Poor Stiggy
(Can we get a Rainbow Stig, please?
rubbish!
i am the stig
That’s not me
im sorry but that is just not the stig
Some say that the Stig misplaced “his bank of money” credit card and that Ben Collins has stolen his identity? All we know is…… actually not much
tats not the stig the stig is ben collins
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT KILL OFF WHITE STIG.
white stig is not just sum geezer who drives fast cars. he is a national treasure who is adored by all. + if you replace the stig the whole power lap board is invalid and will need redoing all over again.
WHITE STIG IS A GOD…..no other stig could ever live up to him.
who could ever replace lord stigy
How about a racing green stig??
Schumacher is retired now, I’m sure he has some time on his hands…
IT’S ALL RUBBISH. I’VE SEEN A GLIMPSE OF THE STIG’S NECK AND IT’S YOUNGER SKIN THAN HIS!!!
If anybody in power is reading this at Auntie PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEE! DON’T change the Stig. He has developed such a likeable character and is a DRIVING GOD round the top gear track. I really feel strongly for the AR£% &(le who printed the story. He/She should be put in the stocks for a few months. It was like telling me the tooth fairy didn’t exist.
Yes the Stig is Ben Collins, i knew this a long time ago…
They will probably keep White Stig, unless it becomes obvious and probable to everyone that he is Ben Collins…
If they do replace him, it will probably be someone british, as the star in the reasonably priced car would be suspicious if he was German (Schumacher) or Italian (Rossi) or another nationality…
I’m thinking David Coulthard?
I am the stig,
yes yes i no that fat man off of benidorm and the pg tips advert who drives a people carrier is really the stig.
my dad is a great driver he is well good
i think the stig should get chucked out and my dad should take his plase :]
i love top gear
Stop stop stop stop wait!
You can’t kill the 2nd stig!
He’s like santaclaus, It’s fantasy symbol of cocking about cars, he’s done all the fast laps, children loves it. I now that you can put every race driver in that suite and it will be the same, but if you had more than 6 year you understand that there is a man behind that helmet (with full size tattoo of his face on his face)and it won’t be the same thing, cause you’re affectionate to this one. It’s almost a year or two that the name goes around in forums and comments on you(aren’t suppose to see this programme)tube, but i never cared.:)
If you wanna do something you can make a fake death of the stig in wich he saves his life, then while presenting the blue stig the old one can come out and eat it! This would be hilarious.
“The 3rd is dead and the white is immortal. Now white stig go to eat some cheese in your kennel and stop to pretend you have an identity”
dont kill the stig pleeeeaaase
he is my all time favourite hero
he is the best
who is going to turn blackpool’s lights on now
i hope we keep the stig we got now i dont want a new one
hehehe
Some say he is the Doctor and may regenerate himself at any time.
Maybe the next one might be all in red or blue….
I know. The Stig is the bloke from sniffpetrol (or his alter ego Troy Queef) and he’s writing these posts to throw us off, he he.
What are the people in comments #9, #11 and #39 smoking? Of course this guy is not the stig, it’s a joke! Some say you have been lobotomised, I’d agree.
Does not “Besatta Av Vitt Dag” mean “Obsessed By White Day”, not “Man Of White Day”?
(Im Norwegian, not Swedish, so forgive me if im wrong.)
I hoep he’s better at driving than he is at managing money
Is waiting in the wings. I know, I am Stig 007. As for the ‘mole’, he/she has been redeployed to 10 Downing Street.
I’ve never seen Barak Obama and Lewis Hamilton standing next to each other….But I still thing the Stig is 4 people. Jeremy, James, Richards and the producers mothers! Colin is only a wannabe
If you look at the photo carefully, you can tell is fake and his head is the wrong size.
Hold on, the stug, one of tghe best racing drivers. IS A BANK MANAGER???!!! HOW THE HECK DOES THJAT WORK???
If you look at the picture carefully you can tell the picture is fake
wow.. real truth u r an expert at dis!
Personally I think the Stig is more likely to be Fred ‘The Shred’ Goodwin, after all he’s more likely to be making a quick getaway when his former colleagues catch up with him….
Stig’s identity should never been revelead… The first Stig made that crucial and fatal mistake and wind up dead. Death suited him just fine.
Stop being all like women, all curious about someone’s identity.
Stig is what he is because of the mistery. No mystery, no Stig… Real TG fan’s won’t care about who really is Stig, we just want him to lap the track while listening to some rubbish and being announced by Almighty Clarkson.
If the Stig needs replacement after being discovered his pseudo-identity, the story from comment 10 should be use. Stig doesn’t have and identity, he’s stole many to use in times like this, to trick simple-minded people.
So if you try to discover Stig’s identity, you’ll only get to know a name, not Stig itself (yes, it’s a it not a he because the lack of identity).
Stig will reign in white, Hammond with his “huuuuge” heigt, May with his “astounishing” speed and Clarkson almighty as ever.
Long live Top Gear. \o/\o/\o/ _O_ -> The trio & Stig not bothering
Why do people care who he is?
I just want to know why he lives in a dump?
i agree with dutchie lets get Sabine please but i think her suit she be very small !!
We don’t need a new Stig. It would be nice to hear his comments on cars and listen to his instructions to celebrities as they learn how to lap.
The “joke” of an anonymouse Stig has worn thin; we all admire his skills and it would be nice to put a face to the talent.We all remember Tiff Needell and the programme was none the worst for that. No; we don’t want VBH back!!
if they put another one in what colour will the suit be? we have had black and white (propably racist) wat now…PURPLE?? and now im gonna have to change my PGR4 suit from the stig to something else..BUMMER
I can clearly see Stig’s uncanny resemblance to his American and African cousins (oh, and “Rig Stig” as well).
It all makes sense now.
have any of you watched Jeremy’s last 2 DVDs? (Last 2 including thriller) in those DVDs he actually blows the stig up!!!! so you can’t really blame him for revealing himself and/or wanting to leave… i mean seriously would you want to get blown up every DVD?
P.S i prefer the rumour that it’s graham hill as both he and his sonare legends in F1
Stig revealed again. This time he does not have a moustache!
I was expecting much more messages than that! this is a big deal! I think, speaking for the magority of the public, that another stig would not be welcome and may see a bit same-old-same-old. Plus, agreeing with message 67, they would a real struggly picking the right colour: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink. there’s too much to from.
Good job STIG. Just wondering though, how old are you?
ok no more stig, the power board is dead you’ll just have to get all those nice cars back to set another lap. What a shame
I have heard that Stig wasnt man enough to handle the super/hyper cars and that the manufacturers supplied their own drivers for the really quick power laps!
Some say he his helmet has been surgically removed….
the stig can be anyone of that height wearing a white suit. lewis hamilton could even have done some laps/ races.
this rbs boss might have been seen but maybe it was a fake media thingy
Sorry, who’s this Ben Collins guy you lot keep talking about?
The first I heard Ben Collins’ name mentioned re the Stig was during highlights of the 24hr Britcar race they took part in. The highlights were shown on Motors TV….
he was mentioned as being the ‘high speed driving’ consultant that the BBC used when hammond stuffed that drag car
Hey I’m the stig! I bought a T-shirt that confirms it!
If Jodie Kidd becomes the new STIG do we need overalls?
I really can’t see what the problem is,i had my suspicions that mr collins might have been the stig for over three years.I found it a little suspicious when a racing driver was required for a top gear challenge,in stepped mr collins.I think it happend three times,which brought a wry smile to my face,ai ai i thought.Even with my suspicions of the stigs true idendity,it had no effect on my viewing pleasure and love of the stig.And even with the recent revalations virtually confirming ben as the great one,its his alter ego we love, stigy.No need for a replacement,the stig should remain unchanged if you please.
For me, it was always clear that he is not human. He is actually a Timelord, stranded on this little planet. Bored with his Tardis, he moved on to testing supercars and the likes. Now, that the secret is out, he has no choice but to regenerate.
i’m stig and so’s my wife
It’s stupid how some people spend there time trying to figure out who the stig is. Now they have found out who he is, he now has to get a new job and Top Gear has to find another Stig.
I reckon he’s actually Kevin Rudd, it would explain why the knucklehead is never at home.
1/ I think they need to regenerate “The Stig” publicly. Dr Who need not be the only Timelord that vists earth.
2/ Sabine needs to be next Stig. Who else could drive a van like that
3/ Stop trying to find out who The Stig is. It’s the mystery that keeps this working (I know I contradicted myself but we don’t have to know who it is when they regenerate him/her)
it took them long enough did’nt it!!!!!!!!!!
We all have to go figure again… or do we?
About this not buying news papers on FEBRUARY 1ST!!!
that is actually quite funny, but i do infact know who the stig is from an insider (sort of) but I cann’t say muahaha
I am the stig. (In Greece… In a different dimension!)
i think they should drop a caravan on the stig and bring back tiff nedell to top gear
THE STIG IS DAMON HILL
EITHER WAY THE STIG RULES. END OF.
….. TIFF IS A GOOD JOCK NO DOUBT BUT NO MATCH FOR THE STIG.
Guys the stig is very improtant, do not kill him I know this may sounds childish but there are Kids who are amazed by the Stig driving skills. Putting him away would be like putting away a milk bottle from a baby and not letting him have it. So JC or Andy if you read this do not kill the stig, because he have stayed with us for a very long time. He is already an icon in Top Gear, if he goes I do not know what is going to happen to us.
The Stig is more than one man or the Identity behind a tinted visor. The stig is an appointment of noble office, just as “The King” is the next heir with Royal blood; the Stig too is the next rightful heir of the Oil bloodline. And he shall rule the TopGear test track until such a day as the next rightful heir steps up with coolant in his veins and a heart that ticks like a watch. Some say that the outline of his left nipple is exactly the same shape as the Nurburg ring… worship him, his royal highness “the Stig”
The Stig is Samual Terrence Inacio Giggle from Barnoldwich and Ballsover.
He comes from a line of bobbin liggers and wheel tappers, His quest for speed came from a scary moment when his pram broke away from the grasp of his Mother Miggle and sped down the hill and crashed into Harry Ramsden’s Fish and Chip shop where he was battered and bruised and was accidently wrapped in the racing page of the sporting pink. The print impregnated his very soul, he experienced the rush of speed, which has never left him.
People i bring peace to your conversation for the stigs true identity is… BEN COLLINS he is a former NASCAR driver and his identity was released accidentaly at a press confrence earlier this week. Please don’t assassinate me Topgear!!
The Stig should find a lady stig and settle down and make small little stiggys. unless some say the stig bends the other way
Read the Government HSE report available on the internet into Richard Hammond’s near fatal crash and Ben Collins is mentioned there as being “Top Gear’s test and stunt driver”.
Does that indicate that Ben Collins is the Stig???
ah, the wonders of photoshop….
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…..
##**°§§!!!!!
How about George Bush???? Or even Hitler or Ahmadinejad? I’m bored with TG……..
isnt that good and bad
I’m actually more shocked at some of the comments on here from people who a) believe this is a serious story and b) insist on continuing with the “it’s actually *** *******”.
A lot of the REAL TG fans have known this for years, but know when to keep our stupid mouths shut and not spoil it for everyone else.
For all anyone knows several drivers have been Stig depending on who is available at the time, so claiming it’s just one person is unfounded.
i rly dn’t want anyone to know who or what the stig is!! it ruins it all!! And who cares cuz if everyone finds out they’ll jst get someone else otherwise they can’t make funny intros about him
Technically, if Top Gear posted this on its website, then Sir Tom McKillop can’t be The Stig, right?
I think that the stig and gordon brown should have an unarmed fight to the death, and the winner becomes the prime minster (if the stig wins) and if gordon brown wins then we make him the stig.
or we could chop the loser up and turn him into burgers.
mmm….. burgers……
whats all this about i am the stig and i live in wales
HELLOOOOO I’M HERE PLEEEAAAASE CHOOOOOSE MEEEE!!!I PROMISE I WILL BE THE BEST “STIG” YOU’D NNNEVER HAD…but as soon as i will have my driving license…well…i’m only 17 :s
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I’m the stig loool
no dont kill the 2nd stig kill james may we wont mind
kill the stig and james may
i am the stig lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
donti dont care if hes a buisness man he s fast and cool
spelt it wrong
this reports are all fake
Why don’t they use the old black overalls again. The white overalls are crap
The Stig is not Ben Collins. The Stig is not Barack Obama. The Stig is not Graham or Damon Hill. The Stig is not whoever you’re talking about HERE. The Stig is: The Thin Penguin. LOOK IT UP ON YOUTUBE FOR THE 3rd TIME!!!
Fooled you!
i like that this may/or may not have, allegedly be overheard by someone who happened to be on the track at the correct momement in time to logically link the correlation between the RBS crisis with that of the filming of a tv show that occurs on a wednesday… because when you read it like that it TOTALLY works!
the stig has an abnormally large head. Hmmmmm. i wonder if this picture is fake. hmmmmmm.
the stig is me
the stig is ben collins
I don’t think that Journalists should be trying to figure out who the stig is…does it really matter. He is a brilliant driver and just a small game in the top gear show, which deserves to be kept a secret.
I mean do people really search for the banker out of “Deal of No Deal”, its the same concept, you can’t see the banker or ever hear him, is that the reason, because it is really the same with the stig.
Lovingthehamster
the pic is fake and they are having a laugh like Stig is still anon and there is no proof of him being BEN COLLINS FGS
i saw the stig the outher day it was lewis hamilton lol
if you ask me people are making all these silly coments if your going to say who it is tell the truth.
white stig shound not be killed he shound be reborn
i think they shouldn’t kill him i like this one better than the old stig
http://www.blackstigback. com/
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They should have a Leather Stig.
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why dont you put ben ‘who they think it is’, next to the ‘real’ (fake one) stig driving so they dont think it b.collins
3.topnut! said…
i think u should get rid of ben collins for his mouthy unveiling of himself as the stig and get someone whos actually a decent driver, james thompson, gabriele tarquini or the likes !!!
Nieve pleb! LOL yeh richkid background front wheel drive knobbers, they’re are well qualified until they get oversteer lol
Give me the job Im a motorcycle racer I can drive cars as fast as any poxy car racer, unfortunately without a big wallet
I can’t belive you gimps think that pic/storey is real!! It’s supposed to be humour all be it misplaced considering this shows audience, aside from that the fckers head is too big for the Alpinestars
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