Top Gear Season 13!

[Berch]

WOOT!

Cannot wait! Top Gear Season 13 due to be back on our screens tomorrow with more awesome challenges and speeds tests going to be awesome I hope specially their challenges their great and always a good thing to pass Sunday afternoon.

Everyone looking forward to it or maybe not for whatever reason!?!

Moved by preposterous (Forum Moderator) - Thread moved from 'Reality TV' as its more appropriate here.

[Hecktix]

Ahh finally ! :)

[Blinger1]

i enjoy top gear. Can't wait for this.

[ecstasy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi1S_VgkVTI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVCUXnk3SSo

they actually look like them :P

anyway, cant wait for it

[Berch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi1S_VgkVTI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVCUXnk3SSo

they actually look like them :P

anyway, cant wait for it

Lmao! Those trailers are great James and Richard kids really looked like them.

That episode where James has some bird with big erm.. things in the car looks awesome I wonder what that's all about! Looks like it's going to be a good season.

[Wahey]

Kind of looking forward to it

My bro is in one of the eps cuz he was there when they filmed an ep and he got in loads of cam shots lol
Kind of dissapointed that my bro found out all their arguments are scripted
Btw the race between the train, bike and car
the loser is

motorbike

the winner is
train

bro saw it:)

[CJW93]

Used to love the show but since we haven't had a new episode since Vietnam in December I have lost interest. But hopefully after watching tomorrow I will get back into it

[ecstasy]

Used to love the show but since we haven't had a new episode since Vietnam in December I have lost interest. But hopefully after watching tomorrow I will get back into it

of course you have, theres been nothing to watch :S

[Stephen!]

By the way, Jerermy is going to officially reveal the Stig tonight. Probably because his real identity was leaked.

[GommeInc]

By the way, Jerermy is going to officially reveal the Stig tonight. Probably because his real identity was leaked.
.... How pointless. The stig has had so many identities that revealing this one probably means he's retiring from being a stig and a new one who will be unknown takes his place :P

I love the trailors though, they're so adorable :P

[Hecktix]

By the way, Jerermy is going to officially reveal the Stig tonight. Probably because his real identity was leaked.

The stig isnt one person:rolleyes:
that's why he's got the disguise.

Basically when companies give Top Gear the cars they aren't keen on letting Top Gear drivers race the cars around the track, so they often loan a test driver with the car.

Heikki Kovalinen was the Stig once when they had a Renault on the show :)

[LuketheDuke]

The stig isnt one person:rolleyes:
that's why he's got the disguise.

Basically when companies give Top Gear the cars they aren't keen on letting Top Gear drivers race the cars around the track, so they often loan a test driver with the car.

Heikki Kovalinen was the Stig once when they had a Renault on the show :)


You think, after all they dont do that for Fifth gear. Although that program is truly awful.

I think Jezza's statement will be true but something silly will happen when the stig unmasks himself; like it'll be some ridiculously slow celeb whos bottom of the reasonably priced car list or itl be a helmet underneath a helmet.

[Wahey]

Wasn't the current stig called Ben (forgot his second name)

[Hecktix]

You think, after all they dont do that for Fifth gear. Although that program is truly awful.

I think Jezza's statement will be true but something silly will happen when the stig unmasks himself; like it'll be some ridiculously slow celeb whos bottom of the reasonably priced car list or itl be a helmet underneath a helmet.

they dont race cars round tracks do they in fifth gear?

[TonyBest]

The Stig is Michael Schumacher

[Misawa]

The Stig is Michael Schumacher

But not before today's show ;)

Anyone who thinks Schumacher was "The Stig" for 13 seasons is pretty naive.

[Wahey]

I need proof of this
Apparently it used to be someone called Ben summin
Dunno if it's true

[syko2006]

I need proof of this
Apparently it used to be someone called Ben summin
Dunno if it's true

Ben Collins.
I was quite surprised to find out it was Michael Schumacher.
And what a result from the Ferrari FXX! Or FFX or whatever it was. Lol. :)

[Wahey]

I mixed up the car with train :\

[dbgtz]

Excuses ^.^

[Wahey]

Nah my bro was there when it happened and he told me who won and i forgot and i tried asking him who it was but he wouldn't tell
But i thought he said train lol
I knew Motorbike lost cuz it broke down and that

[Mikey]

lmao at the end ;)

[Dusty-09]

At the end jeremy said I dont think Michael is the stig...

Apparently it is Ben Collins the stunt man for james bond..

It used to be Perry McCarthy but he got fiad

[Josh-H]

I don't think Michael has always been the Stig tbh. He wouldn't do that. I reckon they have a variety of different drivers.

[Jordy]

Ferrari FFX isn't road legal as far as I'm aware so there's no way it should be considered in the leaderboard otherwise they may as well open it up to Le Mans and F1 cars.

I imagine the only way they could get Michael Schumacher on the show is if they agreed to certain things. For example he helped enormously with the design of the Ferrari FFX and is one of the people who mainly backs it. He also advertised Fiat quite a bit during his interview which I imagine he also intended on doing and he also advertised Bacardi which is unusual for the BBC and Top Gear.

I personally believe there's just the one stig who is Ben Collins, although it is crystal clear that Michael Schumacher was the driver of the Ferrari FFX.

[N!ck]

Schuey isn't The Stig lol. The Stig is several different people. The main guy who is The Stig I'm 90% sure (and the internet is pretty sure) is a guy called Ben Collins who is an ex racing driver and a precision/stund driver.

Maybe Michael has been The Stig a few times, but is definately not "The Stig" so to speak.

[TonyBest]

But not before today's show ;)

Anyone who thinks Schumacher was "The Stig" for 13 seasons is pretty naive.

I posted that right before i saw the lap he done and after seeing the lap he clearly isnt the stig, although it was funny :P

[Pazza]

Kind of looking forward to it

My bro is in one of the eps cuz he was there when they filmed an ep and he got in loads of cam shots lol
Kind of dissapointed that my bro found out all their arguments are scripted
Btw the race between the train, bike and car
the loser is

motorbike

the winner is
train

bro saw it:)


The car won you fool xD

[Mint]

It was awesome, Michael Shumaker drove the Ferrari around the track, that is why he beat the real stigs fastest time in the gumpert by 7 seconds!!!

[Wahey]

I hate my brother for not telling me after i forgot. :(

[xPrecedent]

The black FXX is the only one ever to be made that isn't red with a white stripe, it's owned by Schumacher and was given to him by Ferrari when he retired. Technically he was the stig for that episode, so therefore he is the latest current Stig, but like Nick said it's played by a number of different people and Ben Collins was revealed when Hammond had the crash in 2006. But Schumacher isn't the Stig, the BBC have had to cut the budget this year as it is.. how can they afford to pay Schumacher to record each week?

Besides, when you buy an FXX you only get permission to drive it on Ferraris say so. So by getting Schumacher to drive it (by Ferraris permission) BBC snapped up an interview and had a bit of a joke with the whole stig identity, and at the end Clarkson did say "maybe Michael isn't the stig after all" and he was credited as Special Guest, not The Stig

[N!ck]

The black FXX is the only one ever to be made that isn't red with a white stripe, it's owned by Schumacher and was given to him by Ferrari when he retired. Technically he was the stig for that episode, so therefore he is the latest current Stig, but like Nick said it's played by a number of different people and Ben Collins was revealed when Hammond had the crash in 2006. But Schumacher isn't the Stig, the BBC have had to cut the budget this year as it is.. how can they afford to pay Schumacher to record each week?

Besides, when you buy an FXX you only get permission to drive it on Ferraris say so. So by getting Schumacher to drive it (by Ferraris permission) BBC snapped up an interview and had a bit of a joke with the whole stig identity, and at the end Clarkson did say "maybe Michael isn't the stig after all" and he was credited as Special Guest, not The Stig

Summed up perfectly ;).

[Jordy]

The black FXX is the only one ever to be made that isn't red with a white stripe, it's owned by Schumacher and was given to him by Ferrari when he retired. Technically he was the stig for that episode, so therefore he is the latest current Stig, but like Nick said it's played by a number of different people and Ben Collins was revealed when Hammond had the crash in 2006. But Schumacher isn't the Stig, the BBC have had to cut the budget this year as it is.. how can they afford to pay Schumacher to record each week?

Besides, when you buy an FXX you only get permission to drive it on Ferraris say so. So by getting Schumacher to drive it (by Ferraris permission) BBC snapped up an interview and had a bit of a joke with the whole stig identity, and at the end Clarkson did say "maybe Michael isn't the stig after all" and he was credited as Special Guest, not The StigI agree with N!CK, good post. However I saw a blue FXX with a white stripe at Goodwood 2006, how come?

(Photo I took)
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/3386/gwood0626.jpg

[Oleh]

Thats a FXX Evoluzione