Top Gear’s The Stig is new mystery of Loch Ness

The arrival of Google Street View in Inverness has thrown up a new mystery.

For standing at the roadside of the A82, along the shore of Loch Ness is The Stig, the famously anonymous racing driver from the hit TV series Top Gear.

The Google cameras roamed the streets around Inverness and along by Loch Ness in 2008, and we reported yesterday that the service had gone live in the Highland capital. (Inverness goes live on Google Street View)

A Middlesborough man spotted the mystery driver, who is always dressed in white overalls wearing a tinted full face helmet, when he was browsing the hundreds of miles of roads which have been added to search giant’s database.

Mystery has always surrounded The Stig’s identity. Last year, he was listed as the UK’s number one unsolved puzzle, ahead of Nessie, the disappearance of Shergar and Lord Lucan. He puts cars through their paces on the drivers’ show and it has often rumoured that he, or indeed she, may be several people uner the smoky visor. In June, Top Gear revealed the driver as Michael Schumacher on the show, but the revelation has not convinced fans.

Have you spotted any oddities on Google Street View? Let us know.

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