Well suprise suprise...Stig news
 

Well it appears that Ben 'The Ex-Stig' Collins will now be entertaining us on Fith gear. Oh joy, and i bet they are going to rub it in like you cant believe. So we are going to have 4 'Race drives' on one show...oh the Ego's.

Tiff is still a legend. I will never forget him doing a full 360 degree spin in a Lotus 340 whilst talking to camera :)

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Sorry I can't divulge. Sworn to secrecy and all that. Sure you understand. lol

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While TALKING in that really annoying and disjointed WAY that he always DOES where he just rambles ON and on putting far TOO MUCH emphasis on random words in each SENTENCE.

Just drive, it's what you're good at.

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Can't STAND Tiff Needell! Its the "Look how Great I AM Show"!

Whist the top gear crew come over as always having a good time, the do it in a way where you know the show comes first.


In 5th gear it seems that the "having a good time" comes first. Tiff "Just wait till I finish this power slide so everyone thinks I'm fantastic and then I'll get back to you with the presenting" Needell.

... and he ALWAYS has that smug grin you just want to slap.

He's the kind of guy where you are just WILLING with all your might that he crashes. :)

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They can't go too far with it or TG will just respond with something along the lines of "proof that it's a 2nd rate show as they use our cast-offs" !!

BTW Tiff may be a legend in your opinion, but he's a complete pillock in mine ! I'll never forget him dropping a brand spanking new Gixxer 1000 on some gravel whilst filming a promo at the Suzuki Day at Brands Hatch a few years ago - then throwing a complete hissy fit and demanding that the film (yes, it was when they still used film !!) must be removed immediately and destroyed before any re-shoot took place.

To top it all off he then turned to all of us watching and 'ordered' us to stop laughing or he'd have us thrown out (we didn't - he didn't) !

AFAIK they never did get to film that segment that day - for some strange reason everyhere Tiff & the film crew went to attempt it, a crowd turned up and started chanting something about him being into 'self-abuse' !

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He's a pretty boring looking chap and his real voice might be like Wurzel Gummidge (he is from the West Country). The character is the excitement, TG will be looking for even a hint of copying of that and will rip their legal borrocks off.

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Saw a report about this in the paper on sunday, it said that he would be appearing with and without the helmet, can't see the beeb taking too kindly if he appears as 'the stig' or similar.

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Its always the bit I whizz past, I don't give a stuff how fast a car can go round a circuit.

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I had the pleasure of meeting Tiff last year in a non-motoring context (party). Seemed like a nice chap, I've always liked him on the telly anyway.

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I would love to meet Tiff, I drive fast cars for a living and do ok, if I do say so myself, but Tiff is just so smooth and experienced.

I'd love to be able to drive like him.

HOWEVER, 5th gear will always be 2nd rate to Top Gear.

If VBH squeals in this new series, I swear, I'll find her and - well, do something worse than tickle her that's for sure! Remember her taking her mother on a track in a supercar?

"Mummy, mummy, faster, ooooohhhhhhhhh" etc.

Brick, head; head, brick...

Pete ;)