BBC puts the skids on Stig’s bid to write autobiography

THE BBC is fighting to keep Top Gear’s mystery driver The Stig from revealing his identity.

The corporation has launched a legal bid to stop the faceless show favourite — who speeds around a race track with a blackened visor — writing his autobiography.

BBC lawyers claim he is subject to a confidentiality agreement and unmasking himself would spoil viewers’ enjoyment of the BBC2 programme, which is one of the channel’s most popular.