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RACING driver Ben Collins, unmasked yesterday as Top Gear mystery man The Stig, is a former member of the SAS.
Ben trained SAS heroes in daring "escape and evade" driving skills while serving with the regiment, The Sun can reveal.
Millions of viewers have seen the race ace coaching celebrities on how to achieve the fastest time around a TV circuit in Top Gear's reasonably-priced car.
But sources close to the special forces unit - motto Who Dares Wins - last night told how he also passed on his expertise to British troops.
And they revealed they had known his secret identity as The Stig ever since he landed the job on the BBC's flagship motoring show in 2003 - even though fans were in the dark.
Collins, 35, whose face was hidden from viewers by his race helmet's tinted visor, trained in hand-to-hand combat with the SAS before passing on his driving skills.
He was axed from his TV role last night after winning a legal bid to reveal his identity by publishing his memoirs.
Beeb bosses had claimed the stunt driver was bound by a confidentiality agreement and that revealing The Stig's true identity would ruin viewers' fun.
But after a two-day private hearing at London's High Court, Mr Justice Morgan refused to grant an injunction which would stop publishers HarperCollins releasing The Man In The White Suit in two weeks.
Insiders said sports car ace Collins, from Bristol, would be given the push when the series returns for its 16th series later this year.
One said: "Bosses are livid. There's no way they'll welcome him back.
"He's not a full-time employee, just contracted on a per-series basis, so it'll be easy not to renew his deal.
Producers are still deciding whether to axe The Stig entirely or bring him back as someone else."
Collins, who replaced black-clad Stig Perry McCarthy, rushed from court at one point to visit wife Georgina who had just given birth to their third child Cassius.
And with his TV identity finally made public last night, The Sun can detail his proud military past.
Collins served as a member of the renowned 23 SAS, the regiment of highly-trained reservists.
There, chiefs quickly began using him to pass on his driving skills.
One fellow SAS member said: "We've known he was The Stig all along - it has been a standing joke within the regiment. He worked as a course instructor in Hereford.
"On the driving tracks he helped pass on his knowledge of high-speed escape and evade tactics."
people knew it was Ben a long time now, the news is that he has won the right to announce it and has been axed from BBCRooki3 wrote:i knew it was ben
that is like comparing Road & Track to Import Tuner - it's apples to orangesRooki3 wrote:i personally think top gear is boring, esp when you compare it to the likes of best motoring!!
vrampersad14 wrote:i like German stick
pioneer wrote:ru$$ell wrote:maserati would have been pissed
Well clearly he saw this coming
nareshseep wrote:correctedvrampersad14 wrote:i like German stick
vinceshamwow wrote:you know the germans always make good product
M_2NR wrote::(
new stig FTW
zcarz wrote:So what will be the new introduction line?
Some say he's Ben Collins and that he's Ben Collins, all we know is he's called Ben Collins.
sharkman121 wrote:sigh so be it....i guess
honestly for me it didnt matter that much who it was...as long as it wasnt made public.
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