The Stig reveals what REALLY HAPPENED in the Top Gear 24-hour race | Le Mans road trip

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0:00 Coming up
0:15 Where’s Ben?
0:47 Eurotunnel
1:50 Ben’s racing career
3:30 Let the road trip begin
5:45 Driving the Le Mans track
13:04 Driving the Dodge
13:37 The Top Gear 24-hour race
16:11 Ben’s gift to Mike
17:08 The Le Mans Classic
22:17 Gift shopping
22:37 Back home

The DriveTribe Dodge Charger has always deserved a good European road trip, so Mike invited ex-Stig Ben Collins to accompany him to the Le Mans Classic. And while on their journey, Mike gets the gossip on Ben’s Le Mans career, as well as the infamous Top Gear 24 hour race… What really happened?

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26 thoughts on “The Stig reveals what REALLY HAPPENED in the Top Gear 24-hour race | Le Mans road trip”

  2. Great video. Driving normally and editing in real race footage was pretty amazing. I can almost feel Ken Miles and Steve McQueen at the starting line.
    Being extremely partial my favorite car was the blue #52 Capri in the background. I'm just sayin'.
    Please let us know how James is doing!

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  12. you two plus harris would make an amazing trio for the next generation of top gear. You'd get the knowledge of genuine racing drivers combined with limitless energy from Mike. Imagine the road trips with you lot. It'd be hilarious.

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  18. I remember when I brought a old second hand BMW 330 diesel and it was still one of the best cars I ever had. 175bhp which doesn’t sound a lot but because it had s#*t loads out torque it went like the clappers. It was a part exchange, needed new brake pads and the dash lit up with fault lights. But I took my chances, brought it, got new brake pads and disks fitted, got some sensors that needed changing which cleared the faults cost me about £300 and it turned out to be a brilliant car. Giving it some I could even get it to wheel spin in 3rd gear, and driven normally it was really economical, especially for a 3 litre diesel. I paid £1800 cash kept it for 3 years and never let me down once, and yes I did have a few little races in it, keeping the revs up as you do in a diesel to get full power and torque it was a beast car. I sold the car to a local guy for £1400 that guy had it for another 3/4 years after me and he said it was probably the best car he’d ever had🙂👍🏻

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  19. Used to do Britcar with my fam & Funny you mentioned the crash with the Mosler… Hammond was definitely at fault, my dad actually worked for the team he hit called Chad racing… they wanted to smash his head in 🤣🤣 & I think Ben may have even driven for them on an occasion or two.. back then i was lucky enough to know who he actually was on the hush

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