Top Gear Lap with The Stig

rex-16v · 15-11-2008, 18:16

its at times like this i wish i was rich i bet this goes for one hell of alot of money, but who is the stig or will the winner get to find out :shock:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl_Top_Gear_Lap_with_The_Stigl

vxlgsi · 15-11-2008, 18:34

the stig is called Ben something, hi races in formula 3 last time i looked

**Gordon Livsey** · 15-11-2008, 18:38

Ben Collins is supposed to be the stig

Adam · 15-11-2008, 18:38

hmmm im dubious lol

**Gordon Livsey** · 15-11-2008, 18:41

12 grands a bit steep just for a lap with a mysterious racing driver, for 12 grand i would be wanting to do the lap myself with him in the passenger seat

Adam · 15-11-2008, 18:41

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yeQwi-8bCEA

cambridge · 15-11-2008, 20:34

For about £200 you can goto Plans Motorsport and have some driver training and actually drive the TG lap to add into their stiggy challenge.... nice and cheap

Big Col · 15-11-2008, 20:41

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so please assume that the car will not be a high performance car

wtf....... so it could be that slug they use for the 'celebrities'?

a late night taxi ride, driven by a foreigner in a Skoda Superb will be more exhilarating.

**Gordon Livsey** · 15-11-2008, 21:06

12 grand for a shot of a suzuki liana

feck that. i know its for a good cause etc but its a bit of an anti-climax that turning up expecting a passenger ride in a koenegseg (sp) and been hit with a normal day to day family shopping car

ad4mb1nns · 15-11-2008, 23:38

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Originally Posted by Gordon Livsey

Ben Collins is supposed to be the stig

Is it not Steve Lindquist? Heard so on the radio anyways...

**Gordon Livsey** · 15-11-2008, 23:51

no point in arguing who the stig is. we probably wont ever find out who he is

well not untill they stop producing top gear anyway

OHC · 15-11-2008, 23:54

if i had 12 grand even though this is for a good cause, i would spend it wisely, like modifying my nova and buying something useful, a safe garage to keep it in maybe.

Beenie · 16-11-2008, 00:31

love the way all they say is "a lap round the track with the stig" in what exactly? does it mean you could go for a sensible drive round the track in a fiat panda? with someone you "think" is the stig. sounds a bit shady to me.

l337 calibra · 16-11-2008, 01:31

12k for something that you will never know if you got the real deal? I thought we were in a credit crunch

Should see the other crap that is on sale, 21k for Daniel Craigs old watch, it says on the listing the watch costs 6k new. A 15k hike just because some poxy celebrity has worn it?

PFFFT.

Rysee_sri_130 · 16-11-2008, 02:07

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Originally Posted by Gordon Livsey

no point in arguing who the stig is. we probably wont ever find out who he is

well not untill they stop producing top gear anyway

there isnt just 1 stig though is there? i heard it was 3 or 4 depending on what they're doing. i.e star in a resonably priced car is 1, lap time stig is another, stunt and challenges stig is another.

if it is a f3000 driver it would make sence to have atleast 1 backup stig because of race/ filming schedueling

Beenie · 16-11-2008, 02:57

there are quite a few "stigs" as some of the manufacters will only let their own test drivers drive their cars.

Vectra Dave · 16-11-2008, 07:58

These Children in Needs "stuff money cant buy" auctions can piss right off as far as I am concerned. yeah, yeah good cause blah blah blah, but its just an excuse for people with more money than taste to show exactly how rich they are to everyone else. Paying significantly over the odds for any of these auction is just rubbing the normal populations faces in the dirt.
If these people are concerned enough to make such large donations to charity, they should have the discretion to do it quietly, not as some kind of attention-grabbing stunt.

Woolleyman · 16-11-2008, 16:01

My girlfriend works at porsh and they have triaining day when they get taken out and shows what they can do and apprently one of the guys that takes them out is one of the stig(they reckon there is more then 1). They didnt say which instructor was the stig but there all ex racing drivers from diffrent fields. Ill ask my g/f for names as one of them goes in to her place of work regular.

**Gordon Livsey** · 16-11-2008, 16:04

i know that colin mcrae was one of the stigs