Monday, October 04, 2004
The Stig is dead? Long live the Stig
I am not a great fan of cars, but I have enjoyed Top Gear on Prime. If you are a fan, you might be wondering about the supposed death of test driver The Stig, as a result of running his car over the edge of a British aircraft carrier.
Apart from the fact that the whole thing looked so staged, and even a crocodile would have been ashamed of the tears(!) shed by Clarkson and co, weep not, gentle viewer. A quick trawl around the web shows that The Stig (probably racing driver Perry McLaren) was finding it too hard to keep up his commitments to the Top Gear programme, so they staged the stunt to get him out. (Just like they killed off poor Hector in Monarch of the Glen, so Richard Briers could get a life back.) Apart from the absurd proposition that there was no rescue team on hand in case of an emergency, alert viewers spotted that the empty car was catapaulted by the carrier's steam catapault (used to give aircraft an extra boost for the short runway).
The new Stig, incidentally, is thought to be British racing driver Damon Hill.
I am not a great fan of cars, but I have enjoyed Top Gear on Prime. If you are a fan, you might be wondering about the supposed death of test driver The Stig, as a result of running his car over the edge of a British aircraft carrier.
Apart from the fact that the whole thing looked so staged, and even a crocodile would have been ashamed of the tears(!) shed by Clarkson and co, weep not, gentle viewer. A quick trawl around the web shows that The Stig (probably racing driver Perry McLaren) was finding it too hard to keep up his commitments to the Top Gear programme, so they staged the stunt to get him out. (Just like they killed off poor Hector in Monarch of the Glen, so Richard Briers could get a life back.) Apart from the absurd proposition that there was no rescue team on hand in case of an emergency, alert viewers spotted that the empty car was catapaulted by the carrier's steam catapault (used to give aircraft an extra boost for the short runway).
The new Stig, incidentally, is thought to be British racing driver Damon Hill.
