Is the new Stig a woman driver?

Is the new Stig a woman, I certainly hope so. It would be a fantastic revelation in the same week that the unreconstructed sexism of certain former Sky Sports commentators has been hitting the headlines.

There will, of course, be no revelations though. Not if Jeremy Clarkson and the Top Gear team have anything to do with it. All we need to do is remember how unsentimentally the previous Stig was treated after disclosing in his book that he was the face behind the mask.

And even if Jeremy Clarkson himself knows, he’s certainly not letting on, “People are always asking me who The Stig is and now, for once, I can honestly say, ‘I don’t know’.”

But this has not stopped the speculation; and, interestingly, much of it is that the job of the most mysterious figure in motorsport has gone to a woman.

The chief suspect is one Sabine Schmitz, a 41-year-old German former racing driver.

Perhaps if Top Gear had bought the new Stig’s woman car insurance policy with us, I might be able to tell you whether it was indeed Schmitz who has the job.

But I wouldn’t be able to tell you that though, would I…

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