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...ALL I KNOW IS THAT SHE IS CALLED THE STIGETTE??
Is the new Stig a woman? Speculation about identity of the race ace as Top Gear's new series debuts
The latest incarnation of Britain's most famous television racing driver emerged in the new series of Top Gear last night - and fans reckon the figure behind the wheel may well be female.
The new Stig was hired in utmost secrecy with even show host Jeremy Clarkson claiming that he doesn't know who it is - regardless of gender.
But the helmeted one is rumoured to be German racing driver Sabine Schmitz.
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TOP GEAR'S NEW STIG IS REALLY A WOMAN, SOME SAY
BRITAIN’S most famous television racing driver returned to our screens last night as Top Gear unveiled its new Stig.
The new motor ace was hired in top secret. Even the Top Gear's main host Jeremy Clarkson claims that he does not know who he or she is. Although the presenters referred to the short, helmeted Stig as a “he” fans reckon it might be a woman.
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Top Gear: is the new Stig a woman?
Top Gear last night unveiled the latest incarnation of its anonymous driver, The Stig, amid rumours that this time it could be a woman.
for The Telegraph 1:00PM GMT 24 Jan 2011
The new driver is small and slight, prompting immediate speculation that it could be a female racing expert.
Jeremy Clarkson, one of the BBC show’s presenters, claimed to have no idea who it was, but acknowledged that the driver was of small build.
He said: “People are always asking me who The Stig is and now, for once, I can honestly say, ‘I don’t know’.
“The Stig comes up to my legs and makes Richard Hammond look like a giant. All the good racing drivers these days are very small.”
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By Jody Thompson for The Daily Mail
Last updated at 2:16 PM on 24th January 2011
The latest incarnation of Britain's most famous television racing driver emerged in the new series of Top Gear last night - and fans reckon the figure behind the wheel may well be female.
The new Stig was hired in utmost secrecy with even show host Jeremy Clarkson claiming that he doesn't know who it is - regardless of gender.
But the helmeted one is rumoured to be German racing driver Sabine Schmitz.
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TOP GEAR'S NEW STIG IS REALLY A WOMAN, SOME SAY
24th January, 2011
By Gemma Wheatley for The Daily Star
BRITAIN’S most famous television racing driver returned to our screens last night as Top Gear unveiled its new Stig.
The new motor ace was hired in top secret. Even the Top Gear's main host Jeremy Clarkson claims that he does not know who he or she is. Although the presenters referred to the short, helmeted Stig as a “he” fans reckon it might be a woman.
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Top Gear: is the new Stig a woman?
Top Gear last night unveiled the latest incarnation of its anonymous driver, The Stig, amid rumours that this time it could be a woman.
for The Telegraph 1:00PM GMT 24 Jan 2011
The new driver is small and slight, prompting immediate speculation that it could be a female racing expert.
Jeremy Clarkson, one of the BBC show’s presenters, claimed to have no idea who it was, but acknowledged that the driver was of small build.
He said: “People are always asking me who The Stig is and now, for once, I can honestly say, ‘I don’t know’.
“The Stig comes up to my legs and makes Richard Hammond look like a giant. All the good racing drivers these days are very small.”
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18 enero 2011
14 enero 2011
LA MUERTE EN BICICLETA parte 4
Y probablemente en el momento más emotivo de toda la travesía, a mitad del camino de vuelta hacia La Cumbre, el guía hace parar a la camioneta en la que hoy se conoce como "The Top Gear Corner".
¿...qué era lo que todos mirábamos? Esto:
¿...y por qué se llama el Top Gear Corner? Por esto:
¿...qué era lo que todos mirábamos? Esto:
¿...y por qué se llama el Top Gear Corner? Por esto:
02 enero 2011
"SOME SAY...
...that he has a life size tattoo of his face... on his face. All I know is that he is called The Stig!"
The white-suited, white-helmeted figure had been an ever-present mystery on the programme (Top Gear) since its relaunch in its current format in 2002 – but the enigma was abruptly shattered this autumn when the Stig was revealed to be Ben Collins, a Formula 1 test driver. The BBC spent around £38,000 appealing a court’s decision to let Collins publish an autobiography.
Since then, there has been fervent speculation about the Stig’s future, with fans wondering whether the BBC will resuscitate the character with a new driver, do without him or even introduce a brand new figure. In an interview earlier this month, Clarkson said that the Stig would not feature in the two Christmas specials, and that the decision would be taken in advance of a new series starting in January.
In an interview with the Telegraph, James May said, repeating an official line from the BBC legal team: “Anything can happen in Stigland – you’ll just have to wait and see”. Prior to that, the BBC had released a short trailer showing a “Stig Farm”, in which infant Stigs were apparently being raised to maturity.
For the Christmas specials, former Top Gear presenter Tiff Needell (who is now working on Channel 5’s Fifth Gear) returns to fill the Stig’s boots and teach Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle how to race a "reasonably priced car".
Some say he’s a crucial part of a popular programme. Others point out that he’s just a bloke in a helmet. The only thing we can say for sure is that he’s an immaculate marketing tool, and it seems unlikely we’ve heard the last of him.
The white-suited, white-helmeted figure had been an ever-present mystery on the programme (Top Gear) since its relaunch in its current format in 2002 – but the enigma was abruptly shattered this autumn when the Stig was revealed to be Ben Collins, a Formula 1 test driver. The BBC spent around £38,000 appealing a court’s decision to let Collins publish an autobiography.
Since then, there has been fervent speculation about the Stig’s future, with fans wondering whether the BBC will resuscitate the character with a new driver, do without him or even introduce a brand new figure. In an interview earlier this month, Clarkson said that the Stig would not feature in the two Christmas specials, and that the decision would be taken in advance of a new series starting in January.
In an interview with the Telegraph, James May said, repeating an official line from the BBC legal team: “Anything can happen in Stigland – you’ll just have to wait and see”. Prior to that, the BBC had released a short trailer showing a “Stig Farm”, in which infant Stigs were apparently being raised to maturity.
For the Christmas specials, former Top Gear presenter Tiff Needell (who is now working on Channel 5’s Fifth Gear) returns to fill the Stig’s boots and teach Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle how to race a "reasonably priced car".
Some say he’s a crucial part of a popular programme. Others point out that he’s just a bloke in a helmet. The only thing we can say for sure is that he’s an immaculate marketing tool, and it seems unlikely we’ve heard the last of him.
29 diciembre 2010
PPUUAAAAJJJJJJJ.....!!! (Los gringos arruinan todo lo bueno del resto del mundo)
Top Gear USA: Will it work without Jeremy Clarkson?
By Rajini Vaidyanathan
BBC News, Washington DC
Will the US version of the British TV motoring show Top Gear be as successful as the Emmy-winning original?
It is the latest in a long line of British shows to try crossing the Atlantic, some of which have become big hits. The success of American Idol and America's Got Talent have made judges Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan into household names.
But Top Gear has been reincarnated in the US without any of its British presenters - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May - whose laddish antics and irreverent humour are such a big part of its appeal.
"For this to be Jeremy's love child and for us to get the opportunity to present the show is amazing," says Rutledge Wood, one of the trio of US presenters.
"It's like we're dating his sister."
When Wood and co-presenters Adam Ferrara and Tanner Foust got a letter from the sharp-tongued Clarkson - who has said American focus groups "just don't get" the programme - they were understandably nervous.
Luckily the letter was positive: "He watched it with Hammond and May, and said well done to all concerned - it was really nice," says Adam.
Helicopter race
After a handful of episodes, much discussion of the show centres on whether the US presenters have got what it takes. The British version of Top Gear, shown on BBC America, has a cult following in the US already, and some think the homegrown team is disappointing.
"I tried to watch it and sadly this show does not have the spark," writes one viewer on the official Top Gear website.
Another says: "This copy of the UK program is inferior and unworthy of the name Top Gear. Maybe Bottom Gear would be a better name!"
The US trio say they're not trying to emulate Clarkson and co. But another section of the audience argues for the show, and its presenters, to be given time to find their feet.
Many of the stunts appear to have gone down well. In three of the first four episodes, cars were raced against a Cobra attack helicopter, downhill skiers and a high altitude parachutist.
The hosts have competed against each other - and against a blind man - at "drifting" (making a car skid and spin). They have also undertaken challenges in cars bought for less than $1,000 (£647).
Guest drivers, in a segment named Big Star, Small Car (instead of Star in a Reasonably Priced Car) have included retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the slowest round the test circuit, and skateboard star Tony Hawk.
And of course, there is the Stig - the anonymous, permanently helmeted racing driver - who races cars around the programme's own test circuit.
Americanisation
Creating a US version of Top Gear made sense because there was a gap in the market for a smart and fun show focused on the US car industry, says Dave McKillick, a senior vice-president at the History Channel, on which the show is being screened.
"It's about satisfying the obsession Americans have with cars," he says.
For his part, executive producer John Hesling says he chose the presenters because they were "representative of different car cultures in the United States".
Adam Ferrara is a comedian and actor from New York.
Tanner Foust, a professional stunt driver, is from the West coast and loves foreign cars.
Rutledge Wood is from the South and is obsessed with Nascar (stock car racing).
And unlike the British show, which visits America occasionally, Top Gear USA is on the ground all the time. The test circuit is in Irvine, California. The challenges have taken place across the country, on different terrains, from Alaska to North Carolina.
Another big difference is that the original Top Gear is wholly funded by the BBC, whereas Top Gear USA relies predominantly on advertising - from the motor industry.
It's one reason that the comedian and TV presenter Jay Leno turned down an offer to front an earlier pilot for the NBC channel.
That was also a concern felt by actor and racing driver Bruno Massel, who ended up fronting the earlier NBC pilot. "You didn't want to insult anybody or put a product down, there was a concern about alienating the companies," he said.
Mr Hesling denies that this issue is causing any punches to be pulled on a show that he insists will remain "honest and credible".
"Every show has to have good things and bad things," he says. One reason it ended up on the cable channel, History, he explains, was because executives there agreed this was an important part of the show's character.
Humour
Another reason a US version of the show was considered important, is the difference between British and American humour.
According to TV critic Brian Lowry from Variety magazine, humour is "probably the most culturally specific genre", and makes a show like Top Gear tougher to export to the US than reality TV or a talent show.
John Hesling, who is British-born, says British humour is "unique".
Cliches about Skodas and Volvo drivers that you'll hear on the British Top Gear are replaced with references that mean more to American viewers.
"They'll say a Mini Cooper will only be driven by a middle-aged man with an over controlling wife, or that a BMW 3 series is only driven by rich teenage girls," he says.
The British version of Top Gear also enjoys the odd joke at America's expense - for example, by travelling across Alabama in vehicles sprayed with slogans designed to test the patience of the locals, such as "Country and Western is Rubbish" and "Man Love Rules OK". This, and Clarkson's general mockery of American cars, probably isn't the best way to maximise viewing figures in the US.
Rutledge Wood, meanwhile, has already succeeded in getting in some jabs at Brits. In episode two of Top Gear USA he tested two Aston Martins, neither of which could reach the fastest speed indicated on the speedometer. "Liars, all of these Brits are liars!" he joked.
That is one luxury of having two different versions of the show. Audiences on both sides of the Atlantic get the chance to feel superior.
By Rajini Vaidyanathan
BBC News, Washington DC
The Top Gear phenomenon
- Started out on BBC Midlands in 1977
- Was axed in 2001, then relaunched in 2002.
- Previous hosts include Noel Edmonds and Angela Rippon
- The show has had the same theme tune throughout - "Jessica" by The Allman Brothers
- There are also Australian and Russian versions of the show
- UK version is watched in 170 countries by 350 million people
- First episode of US version watched by two million viewers
- "My great fear in America is that, for instance, if Kia was our sponsor this week, we'd have to say the car was fantastic," he wrote in the Sunday Times.
Richard Hammond tempted residents of Alabama to shoot, with this pink slogan "Regional differences, the class system - they enable you to make jokes within jokes," he says.
Fuente BBC News
26 diciembre 2010
HOY A LAS 20:00 - PARTE 2 del ESPECIAL DE NAVIDAD de TOP GEAR - por BBC Two
Top Gear in Iraq: bullets, The Stig and 'a few wars’
James May on the show’s Christmas specials - and shooting at Jeremy Clarkson’s car.
Ah, the joys of being a Top Gear producer. Every TV special, there’s a fresh challenge: how to corral James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond into new realms of mortal terror, without ever quite killing them, or breaking the BBC health and safety regulations. It’s a balancing act of finesse and delicacy, and this year’s Boxing Day spectacular is no exception.
Perhaps you’ve already seen the teaser clip. It starts like this: a cargo plane, arriving at a mysterious desert airport. Our heroes contemplating where they might have landed. “Well!” says Clarkson cheerfully. “We’re here! Wherever here is, we’ve arrived.” Cut to rear of plane. Clarkson looks at the producer’s instruction letter. His jowls droop. “Oh God,” he says, then reads aloud: “You have landed in Iraq…”
The terrors actually begin before touchdown when, with the rear door wide open, the pilot aborts his landing, prompting much screaming inside.
“We had this fantastic, tilting view of the world receding through the back of the aeroplane, which was especially alarming for Hammond, because he was right next to the door,” says May, who knew only that they would be heading somewhere in the Middle East when he boarded the plane. And his reaction on discovering their location? “Slightly stunned - considering how ninny-ish they’ve become about what we’re allowed to do. I thought, ‘Crikey, have they gone too far with this one? I mean, they even gave us bullet-proof jackets.’”
Their mission was to retrace the journey of the Three Wise Men in a BMW, a Fiat and a Mazda, picking up gold, frankincense and myrrh on their way to the Holy Land. Bethlehem was a mere 1,200 miles away but, as the instructions helpfully pointed out, “between here and there, there are a few wars” – a fact not entirely lost on May.
“We were in Kurdistan, which is relatively safe, but we weren’t that far from Mosul, which is one of the most dangerous bits of Iraq,” he says. “I found myself thinking, ‘We could get shot at, or kidnapped.’”
Iran refused them entry: the BBC is banned there. South-east Turkey was dicey because of the war with Kurdish separatists. They took the precaution of shooting at Clarkson’s MX5 to see if it could withstand gunfire, though he wasn’t behind the wheel at the time (“It was tempting, but the paperwork would have been enormous”).
May can’t divulge many details about the next series, but says it will involve Hammond in “a ridiculous race against a man falling out of an aeroplane, or something” and a trip in Nasa’s new Lunar Rover. Following the legal spat over the identity of The Stig, it may or may not also feature a Stig Mark II. “I have an official response on this from the BBC lawyers,” he says. “I am to say to you: ‘Anything can happen in Stigland – you’ll just have to wait and see.’ It’s the answer to pretty much anything you can ask me. Ask me another question about The Stig.” Will the new Stig appear in episode one? “Well, anything can happen in Stigland…”
With two Top Gear series and a possible Toy Stories special planned for 2011, May is now looking forward to a Christmas break. Hammond, touchingly, was responsible for giving May his beloved cat Fusker some years ago, but the Top Gear stars generally avoid exchanging presents (“We’re far too cynical and cool for that”). At home, May and his girlfriend, dance critic Sarah Frater, have imposed a £5 limit on gifts to each other. But that doesn’t stop him splashing out when the mood takes him; last Christmas, he bought himself a Ferrari F430.
One imagines that Clarkson might be rather Grinchy about Christmas. “No, I don’t think he is, actually,” says May. “I don’t know about the spiritual side of it, but I think he’s quite into the parties and fun and community. He won’t be buying me a present, though; I’m fairly confident of that. And if he is, it’s not going to be something I want.”
There are two Christmas episodes of Top Gear, next Tuesday and Boxing Day respectively, on BBC Two at 8.00pm. You can read James May’s motoring column in The Daily Telegraph every Saturday
James May on the show’s Christmas specials - and shooting at Jeremy Clarkson’s car.
Ah, the joys of being a Top Gear producer. Every TV special, there’s a fresh challenge: how to corral James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond into new realms of mortal terror, without ever quite killing them, or breaking the BBC health and safety regulations. It’s a balancing act of finesse and delicacy, and this year’s Boxing Day spectacular is no exception.
Perhaps you’ve already seen the teaser clip. It starts like this: a cargo plane, arriving at a mysterious desert airport. Our heroes contemplating where they might have landed. “Well!” says Clarkson cheerfully. “We’re here! Wherever here is, we’ve arrived.” Cut to rear of plane. Clarkson looks at the producer’s instruction letter. His jowls droop. “Oh God,” he says, then reads aloud: “You have landed in Iraq…”
The terrors actually begin before touchdown when, with the rear door wide open, the pilot aborts his landing, prompting much screaming inside.
“We had this fantastic, tilting view of the world receding through the back of the aeroplane, which was especially alarming for Hammond, because he was right next to the door,” says May, who knew only that they would be heading somewhere in the Middle East when he boarded the plane. And his reaction on discovering their location? “Slightly stunned - considering how ninny-ish they’ve become about what we’re allowed to do. I thought, ‘Crikey, have they gone too far with this one? I mean, they even gave us bullet-proof jackets.’”
Their mission was to retrace the journey of the Three Wise Men in a BMW, a Fiat and a Mazda, picking up gold, frankincense and myrrh on their way to the Holy Land. Bethlehem was a mere 1,200 miles away but, as the instructions helpfully pointed out, “between here and there, there are a few wars” – a fact not entirely lost on May.
“We were in Kurdistan, which is relatively safe, but we weren’t that far from Mosul, which is one of the most dangerous bits of Iraq,” he says. “I found myself thinking, ‘We could get shot at, or kidnapped.’”
Iran refused them entry: the BBC is banned there. South-east Turkey was dicey because of the war with Kurdish separatists. They took the precaution of shooting at Clarkson’s MX5 to see if it could withstand gunfire, though he wasn’t behind the wheel at the time (“It was tempting, but the paperwork would have been enormous”).
May can’t divulge many details about the next series, but says it will involve Hammond in “a ridiculous race against a man falling out of an aeroplane, or something” and a trip in Nasa’s new Lunar Rover. Following the legal spat over the identity of The Stig, it may or may not also feature a Stig Mark II. “I have an official response on this from the BBC lawyers,” he says. “I am to say to you: ‘Anything can happen in Stigland – you’ll just have to wait and see.’ It’s the answer to pretty much anything you can ask me. Ask me another question about The Stig.” Will the new Stig appear in episode one? “Well, anything can happen in Stigland…”
With two Top Gear series and a possible Toy Stories special planned for 2011, May is now looking forward to a Christmas break. Hammond, touchingly, was responsible for giving May his beloved cat Fusker some years ago, but the Top Gear stars generally avoid exchanging presents (“We’re far too cynical and cool for that”). At home, May and his girlfriend, dance critic Sarah Frater, have imposed a £5 limit on gifts to each other. But that doesn’t stop him splashing out when the mood takes him; last Christmas, he bought himself a Ferrari F430.
One imagines that Clarkson might be rather Grinchy about Christmas. “No, I don’t think he is, actually,” says May. “I don’t know about the spiritual side of it, but I think he’s quite into the parties and fun and community. He won’t be buying me a present, though; I’m fairly confident of that. And if he is, it’s not going to be something I want.”
There are two Christmas episodes of Top Gear, next Tuesday and Boxing Day respectively, on BBC Two at 8.00pm. You can read James May’s motoring column in The Daily Telegraph every Saturday
22 diciembre 2010
HOY A LAS 20:00 - EMPIEZA TEMPORADA XVI - TOP GEAR por BBC Two
Top Gear's back: from East Coast to the Middle East
Top Gear returns to our screens on BBC Two tonight for the first of an outlandish two-pronged Christmas special.
For the past two years, the motoring show Top Gear has provided us with foreign extravaganzas as Christmas specials; in 2008 the presenters went to Vietnam, and last year they travelled across mountains and deserts in Bolivia.
As a warm-up to the Boxing Day special and the new series beginning in January, the first one-off episode sees the tyresmoke triumvirate travel to the US to compare three of the world’s top sports cars: the Mercedes SLS, the Porsche 911 GT3 RS and the Ferrari 458 Italia.
Driving up America’s east coast, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and Telegraph columnist James May undertake a series of challenges, culminating in a race to New York. Elsewhere, Danny Boyle, the acclaimed director of Trainspotting and the multi-Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car – trained, in the absence of the Stig, by former presenter Tiff Needell.
For the second programme, which will air on Boxing Day, the trio abandon Britain’s wintry climes and head off to the Middle East for a spot of winter sun – and an epic 1,200-mile Three Wise Men-themed journey to Bethlehem, following not a star but some of the most dangerous roads in the world through Kurdistan, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Israel. A perilous enough itinerary, one might think, without attempting to do it in three ropey old roadsters, and with three of the world’s most diplomatically challenged TV personalities. Utterly cringe-making at times, it’s one of the most entertaining specials yet.
Top Gear is on tonight and Boxing Day, BBC Two, 8pm
Top Gear returns to our screens on BBC Two tonight for the first of an outlandish two-pronged Christmas special.
For the past two years, the motoring show Top Gear has provided us with foreign extravaganzas as Christmas specials; in 2008 the presenters went to Vietnam, and last year they travelled across mountains and deserts in Bolivia.
As a warm-up to the Boxing Day special and the new series beginning in January, the first one-off episode sees the tyresmoke triumvirate travel to the US to compare three of the world’s top sports cars: the Mercedes SLS, the Porsche 911 GT3 RS and the Ferrari 458 Italia.
Driving up America’s east coast, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and Telegraph columnist James May undertake a series of challenges, culminating in a race to New York. Elsewhere, Danny Boyle, the acclaimed director of Trainspotting and the multi-Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car – trained, in the absence of the Stig, by former presenter Tiff Needell.
For the second programme, which will air on Boxing Day, the trio abandon Britain’s wintry climes and head off to the Middle East for a spot of winter sun – and an epic 1,200-mile Three Wise Men-themed journey to Bethlehem, following not a star but some of the most dangerous roads in the world through Kurdistan, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Israel. A perilous enough itinerary, one might think, without attempting to do it in three ropey old roadsters, and with three of the world’s most diplomatically challenged TV personalities. Utterly cringe-making at times, it’s one of the most entertaining specials yet.
Top Gear is on tonight and Boxing Day, BBC Two, 8pm
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