The Stig

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The Stig is the "mystery driver" of the popular BBC car-show Top Gear. All shots of him show the same racing overall (originally black, later white) and a helmet (with matching colours), never revealing his true identity. His job on the show is to drive various supercars around the Top Gear test track. The times he sets with those cars are kept on a scoreboard, which acts of a list of the hottest cars of the moment.

The music he listens to in the car acts as a source of amusement and fun for the main presenters.

While the Stig obviously has a racing background, his true identity has been kept hidden for a while. But once his book, Flat Out, Flat Broke, was published it became clear that the Stig is really Perry Macarthy, a former Formula 1 test driver for the Benetton, Arrows and Williams Formula 1 teams.

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Perry is no longer the Stig, the change in helmet came after they "killed off" the first stig.

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