ben collins contact details`

[CraigW]

could anyone put me in touch?

much appreciated,

Craig
Vmax

[stevesingo]

No1 Selfish tt Road I believe

[Roop]

[e-mail]

[CampDavid]

Roop said:

[e-mail]

st me, I could pull a better website out of my arse

[CraigW]

stevesingo said:

No1 Selfish tt Road I believe

dont sit on the fence

[zeb]

stevesingo said:

No1 Selfish tt Road I believe

Having now read some of his side of the story i'm not entirely sure he was.

I mean , everyone else seems to have made some decent wedge out of this..why not him?

[IainT]

Not [e-mail] then?

[Conian]

zeb said:

stevesingo said:

No1 Selfish tt Road I believe

Having now read some of his side of the story i'm not entirely sure he was.

I mean , everyone else seems to have made some decent wedge out of this..why not him?

not taking either side here, but he made plenty of money for not a lot of work, and not a lot of risk

[Racefan_uk]

Conian said:

zeb said:

stevesingo said:

No1 Selfish tt Road I believe

Having now read some of his side of the story i'm not entirely sure he was.

I mean , everyone else seems to have made some decent wedge out of this..why not him?

not taking either side here, but he made plenty of money for not a lot of work, and not a lot of risk

Not really, compared to the obscene amount Clarksole makes out of the show for even less risk and almost as little input... In the grand scheme of things.

[zeb]

Racefan_uk said:

Conian said:

zeb said:

stevesingo said:

No1 Selfish tt Road I believe

Having now read some of his side of the story i'm not entirely sure he was.

I mean , everyone else seems to have made some decent wedge out of this..why not him?

not taking either side here, but he made plenty of money for not a lot of work, and not a lot of risk

Not really, compared to the obscene amount Clarksole makes out of the show for even less risk and almost as little input... In the grand scheme of things.

which is what I was thinking too.....

[Muzzer]

zeb said:

stevesingo said:

No1 Selfish tt Road I believe

Having now read some of his side of the story i'm not entirely sure he was.

I mean , everyone else seems to have made some decent wedge out of this..why not him?

Because he signed a contract agreeing to anonymity as the Stig and has now decided that, because they've earned a few quid out of the Stig image (which isn't even always him) he'll just forget that contract and sell his story to a publisher/various newspapers?

[LY99]

zeb said:

Racefan_uk said:

Conian said:

zeb said:

stevesingo said:

No1 Selfish tt Road I believe

Having now read some of his side of the story i'm not entirely sure he was.

I mean , everyone else seems to have made some decent wedge out of this..why not him?

not taking either side here, but he made plenty of money for not a lot of work, and not a lot of risk

Not really, compared to the obscene amount Clarksole makes out of the show for even less risk and almost as little input... In the grand scheme of things.

which is what I was thinking too.....

Clarkson's made the money because between him and Andy Wilman (the Producer) came up the the concept for Top Gear, in a similar way to Simon Cowell and the X factor. Ben Collins knew the situation with regards to his identity in his contract, if he didn't like it he, shouldnt have signed.

Also BC doesnt bring anything unique to the show, there are plenty of other racing drivers/tutors that could do just as good a job as him. I bet some of the Palmersport guys would jump at the chance.

[Animal]

LY99 said:

Also BC doesnt bring anything unique to the show

Not even being the only Stig

[Racefan_uk]

Animal said:

LY99 said:

Also BC doesnt bring anything unique to the show

Not even being the only Stig

No, because he hasn't been the only Stig. There have been several on different occasions, he's just been the main one. The Renault F1 test for instance wasn't him. Neither was the Ferrari FXX.

[Mazda Baiter]

LY99 said:

Also BC doesnt bring anything unique to the show, there are plenty of other racing drivers/tutors that could do just as good a job as him. I bet some of the Palmersport guys would jump at the chance.

2 of them that I know are "Stigs".

[MondeoMan1981]

Have you tried [e-mail]

[Animal]

Racefan_uk said:

Animal said:

LY99 said:

Also BC doesnt bring anything unique to the show

Not even being the only Stig

No, because he hasn't been the only Stig. There have been several on different occasions, he's just been the main one. The Renault F1 test for instance wasn't him. Neither was the Ferrari FXX.

Sorry, that's what I meant! I wonder how many times Raffaele de Simone, Max Venturi, etc have Stigged up for the Beeb?

[snorkel sucker]

getting in on some of the ludicrous cash that top gear generates is hardly the crime of the century, particularly if, as the BBC are so adamant to state, The Stig is such a large part of the show.

For those happy to slate Ben, you may be better placed to comment if you have met him personally

[GingerWizard]

snorkel sucker said:

getting in on some of the ludicrous cash that top gear generates is hardly the crime of the century, particularly if, as the BBC are so adamant to state, The Stig is such a large part of the show.

For those happy to slate Ben, you may be better placed to comment if you have met him personally

+1. Nice guy, thats been treated with indifference. A shame.

[Scuffers]

he may well be a nice guy, but all I can imagine is that he has been very badly advised over this whole thing.

the Stig as a TV character is not Ben Collins, it's a creation of Willman and Clarkson, and let's be blunt here, just about any half-compendant club racer could have filled the suit in just the same way, he is no more than an anonymous bit-part actor in a TV show.

to then blatantly try to cash in on this with no regard for slaughtering the concept for the Stig either shows very poor judgment, or a very selfish streak.