The Stig

You could be forgiven for thinking The Stig flies to overseas Top Gear Live events like the presenters and crew, but you’d be wrong. He doesn’t have a passport! Official secrecy prevents us from revealing exactly how he’ll get to Amsterdam, Sydney and every other destination on the ‘09/’10 Tour, but we’re permitted to narrow it down to three theories to give you a sense of how complex it is to ship a Stig abroad:

[a] He is fast-frozen to exactly -26 degrees Celsius and packed in ice in a polystyrene crate – like north Atlantic cod – and then defrosted in a man-sized microwave oven on arrival

[b] He is converted into a high quality digital image and stored on a laptop until the technical boys get to the hotel. They then resize him in Photoshop and he’s ready to go

[c] He swims there...but only when it’s dark.