How Michael Schumacher made Top Gear’s The Stig look «like an idiot»

«Britain’s least successful grand prix driver.» With that headline, running in 40-odd-point text on the right-hand side of a double-page spread, readers of the August 1992 edition of Car magazine were introduced to Perry McCarthy. On the opposite side, in a singularly ‘route one’ piece of art direction, McCarthy was photographed in his regular clothes […]