On Top Gear, the show’s semi-tame racing driver usually favoured language instruction tapes, piobaireachd or Shamanic chanting as his in-car entertainment. Ben Collins, who spent eight years as The Stig, has some surprising revelations about his real-life listening including the shattering impact of one of his choices, The Beastie Boys, in his new book How To Drive: The Ultimate Guide
You can read our review of it here. To get a flavour of Ben – who has competed at every level of motor sport and been a stunt driver for both the Bond and Fast and Furious films – in action, have a look at this:
The Stig’s Top Ten Driving Songs
- Space Shanty Leftfield
- Open Up Leftfield
- Poison The Prodigy
- Sabotage Beastie Boys
- Hey Now London Grammar
- Song to the Siren Chemical Brothers
- Radioactive Imagine Dragons
- Dog Days are over Florence and the Machine
- Miles and Miles Mint Royale
- God moving over the face of the waters Moby
