Schuey Is The Stig!

[GTR-N1]

NO, I AM SPARTICUS!!

[FrangaR33]

I knew Terry would be first one to get the Sparticus joke, most of us are probably too young to of seen that movie

[emts]

Yeah watched the ep live and it was a fake.

Basiclly one of the real stigs outed himself in the off season..so TopGear decided to have some fun outing him themselves.

[boiracer]

agreed, just watched it, it was just a clever way of having shuey as the guest for the day with his Ferrari toy.

the bit at the end with shuey messing up the lap in the daewoo (loved the smashed windscreen), and the coments that followed kinda made me suspect that more.

otherwise, i thought the power board was only for road driveable/registered cars? those ferrari's will never see the road

YAY for new UK TOPGEAR!!!!!!!!!

[ras1983]

agreed, just watched it, it was just a clever way of having shuey as the guest for the day with his Ferrari toy.

the bit at the end with shuey messing up the lap in the daewoo (loved the smashed windscreen), and the coments that followed kinda made me suspect that more.

otherwise, i thought the power board was only for road driveable/registered cars? those ferrari's will never see the road

YAY for new UK TOPGEAR!!!!!!!!!

I think the criterion to be eligible for the power board is to be able to go over a speed bump.

[boiracer]

love to see that thing try a speed bump

[mad082]

yeah that car is schumchers personal car, and they are all custom fit (seat position and pedal position) so it makes sense he be the one to drive it. it would've done thousands of kms test driving the car when it was being designed and would be able to do the lap in it faster than any other driver because he knows how the car reacts.

and he wouldn't be the first owner of a vehicle to do a lap around the track dressed as the stig.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

mc12 for eg...

[RedEmblem]

I doubt it. Absolutely MS was the driver of the fxx, but that's only because Fezza wouldn't allow anyone else to drive it. From my understanding, there are multiple stigs.

[240k convertible]

The Fxx's lap time has been disqualified as it went around the track on racing slicks not road tyres.

Ben Collins apparently outed himself to an art gallery when he wanted some prints of the stig made but I'd happily believe that shuey is the stig not Ben., although it seems unlikely that Ferrari would've let him have the time off for top gear when he was racing for them.

[skins]

Absolute hilarity when they showed the stig going around the track backwards and getting lost. You should watch the second episode on youtube it's really good.

[Mr_GaZZa]

his so not the stigg... they want you to believe that

[baron25]

it seems unlikely that Ferrari would've let him have the time off for top gear when he was racing for them.

Everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that, for 75% of the time TG's been on air, Schumacher was reigning multiple F1 world champ, and thus wouldn't have had the time to nip back to the UK for a couple of days a week to shoot a lap.

He' was there because it's his personal car, as others have pointed out - no way in hell i'd be letting anyone else drive MY unique bespoke hypercar at full pelt around a track.

There is multiple stigs, but I'd be willing to bet that the powerlap one is the same guy, so there's consistency (I know TG isn't renowned for its accurate, unbiased journalism, but it wouldn't be hard to get one guy to do the lot for consistency's sake). I think they only get ringer stigs for special occasions (eg. The stig who drove the renault F1 was Heikki Kovalienen, renault test driver at the time). Apparently there's a line in his contract that if his identity is outed by anyone (Hammond, May and Clarkson included) he gets sacked instantly, so it's in his best interests to keep it quiet.

[skins]

Wrong

I am the stig.

[Shell]

The Stig is the guy from the Chaser!