Some say his blood sort is 110 octane and that his bed room wall is plastered with posters of scantly clad V12 engines. Others say that his voice matches the timbre of a contemporary Method One automotive. All we all know is he is Ben Collins, the person behind the Stig on High Gear.
A part of the working gag on High Gear was that the Stig was a tame however silent racecar driver. He by no means spoke and by no means eliminated his helmet, though he appeared to point his contempt for individuals’s lack of driving abilities. He additionally had an eclectic style in music, listening to all the pieces from opera to progressive rock and nation whereas setting quick laps round a makeshift monitor at Dunsfold Aerodrome.
As for Ben Collins, he isn’t silent however an enticing particular person with a formidable resume as a race automotive driver and stunt coordinator for the Daniel Craig-era James Bond movies. Collins additionally has his personal YouTube channel, “Ben Collins Drives,” the place he pilots quite a lot of supercars and race automobiles, together with Ferraris and Aston Martins, and Porsches.
On this video, he drives certainly one of his all-time hero automobiles, a Group C Porsche 962. It is the automotive he had a poster of on his bed room wall as a child. As an evolution of the Porsche 956, a automotive that received Le Mans 4 instances, it was the top of 1980s engineering. The 962 proved a formidable race automotive properly into the 1990s and even spawned a road-legal model of the automotive.
The Rothmans Porsche 962 is a very iconic automotive. Painted the unmistakable blue and white livery with crimson and gold stripes, it is certainly one of three Rothmans-backed works automobiles from the mid-1980s. This automotive was pushed by Jackie Ickx and Jochen Mass and set the pole at Le Mans in 1987. It seems to be large however barely weighs 900 kilograms, or about 2,000 kilos. The two.6-liter flat-six places out 600 horsepower and, like most turbocharged Porsches of that period, has a little bit of a lag earlier than the facility kicks in.
The Porsche 962 was adopted by the WSC-95, which received Le Mans in 1996 and 1997. It shared the identical primary Kind-935 flat-six engine because the 962, bumped as much as 3.2 liters of displacement. The LMP1 briefly changed the WSC-95 till Porsche took a hiatus from endurance racing, returning in 2005 with the RS Spider.