Top gear Returned - Series 13

Top Gear returned to our TV screens this week amid claims the Stig would be revealed and with claims of budget cuts. Andy Wilman (head Producer of Top Gear) had gone on record saying the cuts would be blatantly noticable to the average viewer.

With this in mind i wondered what to expect when i sat down to watch on Sunday evening and i have to say i didn't notice the cuts, maybe they will be more noticable in the next 6 episodes but they were, not to me anyway, not noticable.

There was a race in Top Gear style with the difference this time Jeremy (Clarkson) wasn't in the car, he was in the UK's most modern train, a Tornado steam locomotive , James (May) wheel of a vintage Jaguar XK120 and Richard (Hammond) astride a 1949 Vincent Black Shadow motorbike. I wont spoil the result in case you havn't watched it, i'm sure its still around on BBC i Player.

One thing i'm sure wont have escaped anyone is the Revelation that the Stig is none other than Michael Schumacher, I for one am pretty sure this isn't the case. Suer the lap of the track in the FXX was Schumacher at the wheel as it was his own car, i know this because apparently the only Black one made was the one given to Schumacher so no wonder he was so fast in it.

The only thing i thought was missing, apart from an update to the cool wall but i'm sure that will come in the next few episodes, was to see how really fast Schumacher was in the Reasonably priced car, who knows maybe thats saved for later too.