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Top Gear is one of my favorite shows on TV.  On it they closely guard the identity of “the Stig” – the man in the white suite who test drives all of the cars they feature around their track.  Today’s issue of The Telegraph has revealed the Stig is a man called “Collins” (they don’t reveal his first name). According to The Telegraph

The 33-year-old let his secret slip when he asked [staff at a Bristol gallery] to help him produce a limited-edition print of The Stig in action…Collins, from Bristol, has always denied being The Stig and could face the sack if he admitted it. The first Stig, stunt driver Perry McCarthy, lost the job after outing himself in his book Flat Out, Flat Broke, published in 2002…The identity of White Stig has not been officially revealed and is regarded as a carefully guarded secret by the BBC.

The Telegraph also cites a youtube video where the Stig speaks with a Bristol accent (dialect of UK English).  Collins is from that area.  And autotrader.co.uk also has an editorial where they claimed to have unmasked the Stig (picture below), in which a flash of light reveals man with blue eyes behind an otherwise blackened visor.  Collins has blue eyes.

I think they’ve got him (thank you Jauder Ho for alerting me to this).