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 automobile. All we all know is he is Ben Collins, the person behind the Stig on Prime Gear.
A part of the working gag on Prime 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 every little thing from opera to progressive rock and nation whereas setting quick laps round a makeshift observe at Dunsfold Aerodrome.
As for Ben Collins, he isn’t silent however an enticing individual with a powerful resume as a race automobile 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 a wide range of supercars and race automobiles, together with Ferraris and Aston Martins, and Porsches.
On this video, he drives one among his all-time hero automobiles, a Group C Porsche 962. It is the automobile he had a poster of on his bed room wall as a child. As an evolution of the Porsche 956, a automobile that gained Le Mans 4 instances, it was the head of Nineteen Eighties engineering. The 962 proved a formidable race automobile properly into the Nineteen Nineties and even spawned a road-legal model of the automobile.
The Rothmans Porsche 962 is a very iconic automobile. Painted the unmistakable blue and white livery with purple and gold stripes, it is one among three Rothmans-backed works automobiles from the mid-Nineteen Eighties. This automobile was pushed by Jackie Ickx and Jochen Mass and set the pole at Le Mans in 1987. It seems huge 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 ability kicks in.
The Porsche 962 was adopted by the WSC-95, which gained Le Mans in 1996 and 1997. It shared the identical primary Sort-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.
