Top Gear’s Tame Racing Driver Hits The Nürburgring For The First Time

Back when he was The Stig on Top Gear – working opposite Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May – Ben Collins was arguably one of the most famous expert drivers in the world. But for all that faceless, identity-less notoriety on the show, Collins had somehow never driven on the Nürburgring until very recently. But in a video that he published to YouTube yesterday, the “tame racing driver” teamed up with Misha Charoudin for his first-ever lap of the Nordschleife, piloting a 520-horsepower Volkswagen Golf R around the Green Hell (and doing a damn fine job of it at that).