This made me laugh till I had tears running

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    Sabine Schmitz, wow can she drive, in fact some say.........:)
     
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      That she is in fact the legendary Stig? I've heard that theory, and would not be too quick to discount it.
       
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        Well we all know who the previous Stig was but with the new Stig, I have often wondered.
        Sabine could certainly be and so could Tiff.
        We will get the new series soon (we get the episodes delayed by a week or two on BBC Entertainment).
         
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          Well we don't really. We know who claimed to be the Stig, but that could just as easily be a BBC stunt to keep up the interest.

          Lets not forget that some of the Stig's incidents are far from plausible in real life. One that springs to mind is when the Stig 'died'. It was in the 'accident' where the car he was driving flew off the end of an aircraft carrier into the sea. Then there was the incident where the coppers pulled him over for speeding so he just shut down, not moving, and of course, never speaking. Personally I think 'The Stig' is actually several different people. Whoever is available at the time, and best suited to the particular stunt they want doing. As for regular Stig doing the weekly car test, I wouldn't rule out that it is just Richard Hammond, unless someone who is lucky enough to have actually watched the filming live can tell us that Hammond was watching while the Stig did 'his' run.

           
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            That is true that it could just be a BBC publicity stunt but it would have to be a very well planned one with the book being published and all.
            Surely someone close to him would have spilled the beans by now.

            Interesting and very plausible point you make about the Stig actually being different people although they would have to be similar in stature and height and for that reason I would discount Hammond immediately.
            There are often shots of the Stig getting into a car and if it was Hammond, it simply would be out of "scale" unless of course for those shots, they used another driver.

            Either way, the whole secret Stig thing is a very clever tactic on the part of the producers.
             
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