The show's first Stig wore an all-black outfit and was portrayed by Perry McCarthy, who would have two jobs to drive fast cars around the Top Gear test track and to teach the guests stars how to drive the Suzuki Liana for their laps in the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car segments. Jeremy Clarkson introducing The Stig in Series 1, Episode 1. Um, its job is simply to go out there and drive fast." " Now we call this thing The Stig, okay, we don't know its name, we really don't know its name, no-one knows its name and we don't want to know because it's a racing driver and racing drivers have tiny little brains and therefore worthless opinions and they're very dull doctors actually call it Mansell Syndrome. There have been three official Stigs on the show, while various other "Stigs" have made cameo appearances.
A proposed name for the Stig was originally "The Gimp", and would wear a racing outfit patterned after a leather bondage suit until protests from Perry McCarthy nixed the idea. The Stig's name derived from presenter Jeremy Clarkson's days at Repton School where, according to Clarkson, new students were always called "Stig". The second was a more familiar White Stig, and was portrayed by racing driver Ben Collins from 2003 until 2010, leaving the show after rising tensions between himself and the production crew of the show eventually resulted in the publishing of his autobiography, The Man in the White Suit, which revealed his identity to the world. There were two versions of The Stig prior to this incarnation the first, known as The Black Stig, was killed off in Series 3, Episode 1 after ex-Formula 1 driver Perry McCarthy was revealed to have violated non-disclosure agreements upon the publishing of his book, Flat Out, Flat Broke: Formula 1 the Hard Way!, which revealed his identity. Currently, The Stig is in its third iteration, "born" in a similar location and means to Jesus Christ at the end of the Middle East Special where thereafter it quickly grew into an adult version of itself.
The Stig is an anonymous race car driver created by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman, who has featured in the British television series Top Gear since its relaunch in 2002.
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