IT’S STIG OF THE BUMP
SOME SAY.. HE’S FASTEST IN WORLD Top Gear speedster grabs dodgem record
IF YOU’RE at the fair and spot a bloke in a white racing suit and crash helmet having a shot on the dodgems, don’t get on until he’s finished.
You’ve got no chance against The Stig. He’s just set the bumper car world land speed record.
He’s better known for road-testing the planet’s fastest motors and teaching stars to drive reasonably priced cars.
But to get their new series off with a bang, Top Gear bosses put him in a dodgem in a bid to get into the Guinness Book of Records.
And he soon had it hurtling across the track at 100.336mph.
To be fair, the dodgem had been ever so slightly souped up. Stuntman and YouTube star Colin Furze stuck a 600cc Honda motorbike engine in it before The Stig did his stuff.
Colin said: “Stig’s at his happiest when he’s making the slow, fast.
“So what better way to celebrate the new series than by taking a rusty old bumper car and converting it into the ultimate fairground speed machine?”
The Stig set the record at Bentwaters Airfield in Suffolk last week, watched by official Guinness adjudicator Lucia Sinigagliesi.
She confirmed the record and said: “It was surreal, but hugely impressive, to see The Stig hurtle past in a classic bumper car at 100mph.
“Colin’s engineering expertise is equally impressive.”
Top Gear is on BBC2 on Sundays at 8pm. The new series continues this week when Matt LeBlanc becomes the first person to test the new Ford GT supercar.