The Stig - Top Gear

 

Definately not the regular Stig, Shoemaker is several inches shorter and quite a bit chubbier. I agree with those who have said he was probably just the only one allowed to drive the FXX, is it a coincidence that he is employed by Ferrari?

Originally posted by tack'ho Speed bump test anyone?

Yes, I thought that too! I suppose the cachet of getting
Schumacher on the show makes for a bending of the rules.

Originally posted by getafix Perry Macarthy was the stig for the first 4 series, except for a couple of occasisons when it was Julian Bailey - those under 30 will now be going who? those who paid attention to motoracing in the 80's will know who these guys are - BTW Perry Macarthy's book "Flat Out/Flat Broke" is a very good read about his struggles to get into F1 and trying to be a racing driver when you don't have any dough, or unless a nice man (let's call him "Mr R Dennis" for this example) decides to sponsor you on the sly for many a year to see if you can make it one day!

There was nothing sly about Lewis's sponsorship by Mclaren.
As an avid Autosport reader back in my uni days, there were regularly articles featuring a young karter called lewis whos kart was silver and whos overalls bore a mclaren emblem. All the articles clearly identified that Ron Dennis had spotted this young star (then 12) and wanted to nurture him towards F1.

As for the stig being Schumacer, I'd agree with the rest of you. Its only because he's the only person who they would let throw it around a track outside of Modena. The normal stig is almost definately a lesser known driver, could even be Johnny Herbert!!!!

I saw there was someone dressed as The Stig at the GP I think in one of the pits.

Didn't see Top Gear so I'll have to find a repeat.

 

Originally posted by mike ellis He just happened to be there cos he's the only one who ferrari will let drive their FXX so top gear got a little bit of publicity out of it i think.

I'm with you on that one, I very much doubt he has been in the white uniform before, certainly not early on while he was still racing for Ferrari, did make great TV though, especially when Jezza asked him about bumping into Damon