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Recently on the British Top Gear episode Stig removed his helmet revealing the former F1 champ Michael Shumacher.
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Michael Schumacher has tried to pass himself off as The Stig in a British episode of Top Gear.
In the latest of a series of stunts designed to cover the fact that another Stig – race and stunt driver Ben Collins — has blown his cover, Jeremy Clarkson introduced the Stig and had him remove his helmet, revealing the former F1 champ underneath.
However those who have seen the footage of the show says the Schumacher Stig drove erratically, stalled the Reasonably Priced Car, and nearly crashed into the camera crew.
Earlier this year, Collins was outed as the current Stig, after ordering a print run of posters showing the mysterious ‘tame test driver’.
His stint as The Stig follows that of former F1 driver Perry McCarthy – the black Stig – who outed himself and then supposedly disappeared into the ocean after a stunt drive off an aircraft carrier .
A video on Youtube earlier this year showing a Black Stig reappearing from the sea off Britain suggested that the black firesuit may return.
It seems likely that the Schumacher ‘outing’ is a typical Top Gear stunt — highly unlikely to be true – concocted by the show’s producers and probably seen by Schumacher as a fun way to fill in an idle hour.
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