Reply to: Was that really the Stig

[Menelaus]

Ladies and Gents - Herr Stig isn't Schumacher, surely. It's Ben Collins.

[Churchill]

New Stig has been on the programme for a lot longer than Schumacher has been retired. He'd never have had the time to be The Stig whilst racing, even if Ferrari had let him, and even if he felt the need to work for The BBC whilst earning £26m per year elsewhere (it was something like that).

Apparently you could see Schumacher's private jet parked in the background.

Even Schumacher's agent has a private jet!

[VectraMan]

For a second i think maybe, he is retired and perhaps top gear him pay well.

Then i remember the guy is already a $billionaire...

New Stig has been on the programme for a lot longer than Schumacher has been retired. He'd never have had the time to be The Stig whilst racing, even if Ferrari had let him, and even if he felt the need to work for The BBC whilst earning £26m per year elsewhere (it was something like that).

Apparently you could see Schumacher's private jet parked in the background.

[Iron Condor]

For a second i think maybe, he is retired and perhaps top gear him pay well.

Then i remember the guy is already a $billionaire...

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Ferrari wouldn't let the stig drive the car, so they sent schumacher.

That's why the stig made schumacher look rubbish in the reasonably priced car at the end. He was pi$$ed.

And they say drink driving's dangerous?

[dang65]

I used to like Top Gear, but it's tedious now.

Time for them all to retire.

I think there's a fairly long list of programmes which should be ditched long before Top Gear, isn't there?

[ASB]

If you search for the HSE report on Hamonds accident I suspect it's no coincidence that Ben Collins has his name plastered all over it.

Though sometimes people do send their own drivers.

[DimPrawn]

I used to like Top Gear, but it's tedious now.

Time for them all to retire.

[DaveB]

Funniest bit was the state Clarkson was in at the end of the race. Collapsed in a heap in the hotel bar covered in muck and coal dust

[Menelaus]

Nah, the James May documentary on the Apollo moon landings, just afterwards, was better.

Top Gear is puerile tosh. That's why I like it.

WHS. Good to see:

(a) James May winning a race
(b) Clarkson looking like a member of Kiss

[NotAllThere]

It was a stunt. A very good one though. Thoroughly enjoyable show. Best thing on TV all week.

Nah, the James May documentary on the Apollo moon landings, just afterwards, was better.

Top Gear is puerile tosh. That's why I like it.

[ThomasSoerensen]

That car is the only all-black Ferrari FXX and it was made as an extra to the already existing 29 FXX's for Michael Schumacher by Ferrari when hre retired from driving F1.

He drove it because it is his car.

But it should not count as it is not a legal road car.

It was a good season opener anyway.

[Mr.Whippy]

Ferrari wouldn't let the stig drive the car, so they sent schumacher.

That's why the stig made schumacher look rubbish in the reasonably priced car at the end. He was pi$$ed.

That was Schumacher's own FXX, given to him by Ferrari when he retired from F1.... I expect it was him that didn't want The Stig driving it not Ferrari

[FSM with Cheddar]

Ferrari wouldn't let the stig drive the car, so they sent schumacher.

That's why the stig made schumacher look rubbish in the reasonably priced car at the end. He was pi$$ed.

[gingerjedi]

Geza on the Lotus Evora: "It corners like a water-boatman in a kettle".