When a Renault F1 car lapped the Top Gear test track in less than a minute

Writing by walking leaf on Friday, 30 of March , 2007 at 3:52 pm

Even though we didn’t see Richard Hammond a.k.a. the Hamster driving a Formula One racing car in the last series of Top Gear, here’s a classic video clip of the Stig driving the championship-winning Renault around the Top Gear test track.

The Stig* recorded an impressive lap time (under 60 seconds). No other car, not even a race-spec Aston Martin DBR9 can beat it.

Relive the moment with these two fantastic clips, shown below.

* The Stig driving the 2004 Renault F1 racing car turned out to be the then test driver, Heikki Kovalainen. The true identity of the ‘white suited’ Stig remains unknown, but I have a funny feeling its sports car racer Ben Collins…

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On-board with the Stig

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