Archive for March 14th, 2007

Who is the Stig?

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Viewers of Top Gear are very familiar with The Stig. He is the masked, secret super driver that tests every car for the show on a race track. The current Stig’s identity has never been revealed, but in a recent video clip of a Top Gear interview, we get to hear him speak, and he sounds an awful lot like former F1 champion Damon Hill.

Check out the video, he speaks at the 2min 10sec mark.


F1: McLaren Q&A

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With a little over 24 hours to go before first practice, key members of Team McLaren answered questions for the media.

Fernando Alonso:

Outline your feelings as we head into the Australian Grand Prix and the start of the new season.
“I’m optimistic and confident that we can have a good result. But the first race is always different, anything can happen in Australia. We normally see some surprising results, so you never know; you definitely cannot make any predictions. We need to be calm, we need to do a good job and hopefully finish in the points.”

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