The Man in the White Suit: The Stig, Le Mans, The Fast Lane and Me Audiobook
The Man in the White Suit: The Stig, Le Mans, The Fast Lane and Me Audiobook
- Ben Collins
- HarperCollins Publishers UK
- 2011-04-28
- 10 h 40 min
Summary:
The Stig gets his kit off and reveals how he came to be Top Gear’s iconic racing driver and so a lot more – including what it’s prefer to thrash an Aston Martin DBS, train for the Army and face the terror of Jeremy Clarkson’s underwear…
When the Black Stig disappeared off the end of an airplane carrier in 2003, we were released towards the White Stig. Faster. Stranger. Harder to maintain clean. And ever since, thousands possess wondered – who’s THE PERSON in the White Suit? They’re about to find about THE PERSON in the White Suit: The Stig, Le Mans, The Fast Lane and Me out.
Ben Collins caught the car the bug young, kicking his dad’s employer in the balls for not really giving him a business Jag. This is the attitude that ultimately led him to spend seven years writing a cabin with Jeremy Clarkson’s underwear, James May’s PhD thesis and Richard Hammond’s hairspray. Because he’s The Stig.
Now he tells all about life in the iconic white helmet. What it’s prefer to instruction a blind ex-RAF officer around the Top Gear track; pit a drug dealer’s Mitsubishi Evo against a Trojan tank; set a Vauxhall Monara against Chloe the dancing Ninja; and competition double-decker Routemasters against bendy buses. Not to mention all of the inside stuff on how the show’s amazing driving sequences are made.
He also reveals how he got to be there – environment
a Dunsfold lap period faster than Michael Schumacher’s. Breaking information with the very best of the best at Daytona and Le Mans.
It’s an awesome story, told by an amazing man.