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The Stig, Unmasked!!!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    ?

    Where are you seeing this? I thought he was some rally driver

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4286448/Who-is-the-Stig-The-answer.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,234 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    phasers wrote: »
    (You know he isn't really right?)


    [/QUOTE
    of course, he's really the stunt guy

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 6,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭silvervixen84


    If it's true, big catch for them!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,174 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    Max Power1 wrote: »
    ?

    Where are you seeing this? I thought he was some rally driver

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4286448/Who-is-the-Stig-The-answer.html
    Eh on the Top Gear show that it is on right now on BBC2!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    He's not the stig, he may well have driven the FXX instead of the usual Stig, just like the Renault Test Driver drove the Renault F1 car around.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Christ, people really don't get things sometimes.

    He's not the Stig, he may have driven the FXX instead of the usual Stig, but that would be it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    It's a great thread title especially for anyone who isn't watching Top Gear right now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭flyswatter


    No, I don't think he is the actual Stig, just for this episode probably.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    It's a great thread title especially for anyone who isn't watching Top Gear right now.

    Exactly, use some cop on when typing in a thread title.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,244 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    How much of the 7 seconds do we reckon is down to Schumi being the driver and how much is the FXX just better than the rest?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 575 ✭✭✭IrishKev


    Are you sure The Stig isn't Michael Schumacher? How do ye know?
    EDIT: Woops, never read the link!! Pity though.... would have liked it if he was


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,234 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    It's a great thread title especially for anyone who isn't watching Top Gear right now.

    sorry, wasn't thinkin of that.

    please edit the title mods or merge it with the other thread or whatever

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Naos


    Nod to him not being The Stig at the end there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,174 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    amacachi wrote: »
    Christ, people really don't get things sometimes.

    He's not the Stig, he may have driven the FXX instead of the usual Stig, but that would be it.
    Relax a bit would ya!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    He's not the Stig.

    But that was frickin' awesome all the same!!!

    I knew they were going to just do a red herring/pisstake. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    kmart6 wrote: »
    Relax a bit would ya!!!

    I was perfectly relaxed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭Wacko


    I can't believe people are getting worked up thinking 'the stig' is one person, over the series there have probably been a load of different drivers in that suit. Who cares.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Beekay


    Was probably Schumi's Fxx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    Beekay wrote: »
    Was probably Schumi's Fxx

    Your right,
    Heck, I'd say the only reason he was on the show tonight was so they could get the FXX on the track and as a laugh they put him in the Stig racing suit. But as stated The Stig has been many people over the years, except Black Stig who was one person.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,009 ✭✭✭rabbitinlights


    Yup, that Fxx is Schumacher's, it's only one without the stripe.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,470 ✭✭✭positron


    The clever lads at TopGear want to make as much as news as possible for the first session of the new season, and they did it in style!

    Ferrari probably paid TG for putting the FXX around the TopGear track and of course they couldn't afford to have anyone from TG drive and wreck it, including the real Stig, and not to mention the chance of doing a mediocre lap with it. So they naturally would have insisted Shumy to drive it, and then the TG team thought up of this whole stunt...

    Ferrari is happy to put hat time on TG board for FXX, Schumy does his job as Ferrari promoter, TG gets to interview Schumy, TG gets a whole pile of publicity, and fun for viewers too!! Win-win situation! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 575 ✭✭✭IrishKev


    For those of you who didn't see the "unveiling" last night... here's some pics!
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    © of IrishKev :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭Baldie


    Your right,
    Heck, I'd say the only reason he was on the show tonight was so they could get the FXX on the track and as a laugh they put him in the Stig racing suit. But as stated The Stig has been many people over the years, except Black Stig who was one person.

    Brilliance....

    It was brillaint TV though.... "OFF, OFF, OFF, OFF, OFF, OFF, OFF!!!" :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    Whatever about the Stig, geez that was some lap in the FXX.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,423 ✭✭✭pburns


    Wacko wrote: »
    I can't believe people are getting worked up thinking 'the stig' is one person, over the series there have probably been a load of different drivers in that suit. Who cares.

    +1

    I can't believe anyone could think a megastar like Schumacher could be the Stig:rolleyes:...

    Just goes to show the type of people watching TG these days haven't got a flippin' clue...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,873 ✭✭✭v10


    IrishKev wrote: »
    © of IrishKev
    really ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭stevensi


    I just won twenty quid of a buddy of mine. I had always said that Schumi was the Stig. I was really only guessing but i can't believe i was right....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭Baldie




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭Baldie


    stevensi wrote: »
    I just won twenty quid of a buddy of mine. I had always said that Schumi was the Stig. I was really only guessing but i can't believe i was right....

    He's not the stig. It was a piece down for Ferrari... Give the money back, you lost! :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I really doubt Shumi has the time to be the stig full time but it would explain why the stig never talks in that you'd know it was him straight away.


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