http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2 ... e-is-ours/

Presumably he was gonna walk from the show anyway?

Also, Andy there doesn't seem to know if he's angry at Stiggy, HarperCollins, or both, if I'm reading it right...

Also:

Stig wrangle continues in private

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11139252

I completely agree with their point of view.

If you didn't want to stick to an agreement, you shouldn't have signed it. Harpercollins are not journalists - they're publishers out for the dough.

It is their intellectual property it would be like announcing who Micky Mouse is at EuroDisney

Apparently the guy was pushing his kids along the local park when a guy came up to him to ask if he was Stig.

He replied, "I cannot say as I have a confidentiality agreement".

LOL

Genius!

There is not much difference between a costumed Mickey Mouse and The Stig. Both are characters owned by a company, and are portrayed anonymously by a person. The identity of The Stig is of little importance here anyway - what is of importance is the confidentiality agreement signed by the driver concerned.

If the book is published, he’ll be relieved of his driving duties and a new Stig introduced.

I don't think there is "a" Stig, anyway. I think there's a main one for the stunts and teaching stars about the reasonably priced car, but I reckon car makers supply their own tame driver for the fast laps on occasion.

That's certainly been the case for things like the Renault F1 car, when Renault used their F1 test driver. If memory serves, that non road legal Ferrari they had on a while back was driven by Schumacher, as it was his own car.

Not sure if it was his own car but I doubt Ferrarri would have let anyone else drive it.

You are right though, it was Schumi behind the wheel.

Thats exactly how I see it.

There is no way these supercar manufacturers will trust their pride and joy, or prototype in some cases, to someone unknown to them.

The BBC has lost the court case:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11151777

The driver is named in the article, just to give a spoiler warning.

And in other news a vacancy for a Stig has appeared in the Guildford job centre. A racing drivers license is the only requirement.

So, let's see if I have this straight...

The Stig was really a Pakistani bowler called Tony Blair?

Yep and you know what? Nobody will give a toss. The guy can have his 15 minutes of fame but the point is now everyone knows he was the Stig but (given he's just tossed the confidentiality agreement he signed out the window) he certainly isn't now. So the Stig's identity as it currently stands is still a mystery. We know who the Stig was, but what does that really mean?

I suspect a lot of Top Gear fans will treat him like the kind of bloke who goes around telling children there is no father christmas, so whatever financial gain he expected to make from the revelation won't actually materialize. Plus, does anyone actually want to read the book because of this? 'I was the Stig. I drove lots of fast cars round the same track, on my own, over and over and over again'. He's not exactly Fangio, is he? Just about the dullest racing driver memoir ever, in fact.

Jon

I have no interest in the book whatsoever.

I wonder what colour the next stig will be?

Or species? It could be Lrrr from the planet Omicron Persied 8