Perry McCarthy
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Perry McCarthy (born 3 March 1961) is a British racing driver who started racing for the Andrea Moda team in 1992 but then didn't make it into a championship before heading to sports, including competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans five times from 1996 to 2003. In the first two seasons of BBC motoring show Top Gear, McCarthy also played The Stig.
Career
McCarthy, a native of Stepney, East London, grew up to work for his father's business, which was servicing North Sea oil rigs. McCarthy did not start racing in karts, unlike most Formula One racers. He fought his way into junior motor sport in Europe, such as Formula Ford, Formula 3, the F3000 and several touring and sports car races in the United States, including Spice Engineering's drive.
McCarthy was chosen to test for the Footwork Formula One team in 1991. Despite his admiration for the team, his release did not come until the 1992 Formula One season, when Andrea Sassetti's independent Andrea Moda team ruled that entering Formula One would be a good way to advertise his shoe company. The team was unorganized, disorganized, and poorly managed, and after a lengthy struggle to gain an FIA Super Licence, the season came to an end. Because Sassetti was unable to release McCarthy for Enrico Bertaggia, who had left the team before and returned with the promise of more funding, McCarthy was given unfair treatment by the owner, who had to wait for more laps in which to prepare, causing him not to qualify for any Grand Prix. In pre-qualifying, his Grand Prix debut in Spain lasted eighteen meters down the pit lane before the engine failed. He was sent out with wet tyres on a dry track in the British Grand Prix. He was only allowed to leave the pits 45 seconds before the end of the pre-qualifying session, effectively ending his chances of posting a lap time even if he had a faster car. McCarthy was forced to leave his car during the qualifying session with a missing steering part that had been disconnected from teammate Roberto Moreno's car, resulting in a violent crash on the Raidillon track if McCarthy had failed to regain control of the vehicle. On an appearance on award-winning motoring podcast Fuelling Around, he relived this thrilling tale and discussed his brief stint around the F1 paddock. McCarthy was left homeless by the time the season came to an end, and the team was forced to leave early. McCarthy argued that this period in his career had contributed to his being named the world's worst racing driver, saying, "Dick Dastardly had more luck than me" during a July 2004 interview with The Times.
McCarthy did not compete in Formula One until 1992, but he did work for both Williams and Benetton teams during the 1990s. He was refused a permanent test driver at Benetton because he was covering for their normal test driver, Alessandro Zanardi, who was unwell. He had no success at Williams because he didn't have eye to eye with the engineers, and the job was then given to David Coulthard.
McCarthy returned to sports car racing after a brief hibery, appearing at Le Mans and other sporting events in 2002 and 2003. In 2002, he published Flat Out, Flat Broke, a masked, anonymous racing driver who evaluated the latest high-performance cars. McCarthy, the first, black-suited Stig, who died after the first two series. In 2009, he gave F1 racing coverage for the BBC. McCarthy now serves as a corporate ambassador and after-dinner speaker for multinational companies around the world.