Watch the Stig drive an F1 car off a crane at 300 feet

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Watch the Stig drive an F1 car off a crane at 300 feet

As far as promo videos go, this is pretty good.

Top Gear recently ran a festival in Durban, South Africa, with the usual mix of fast cars and silly stunts. But a highlight must have been this trick - when resident stuntman the Stig drove a Formula 1 car off a bungee crane at 300 feet.

There's a lot of build-up in the video production, so skip to about 1:15 for the madness itself.

The video is a Top Gear character at a Top Gear festival driving a Lotus F1 car and is, for some reason, sponsored by a deodorant. But it's still great.

It's actually the second in a series - the promotional video for this stunt featured the Stig "stealing" a Lotus car from their headquarters in Oxfordshire, UK. While it's obviously completely staged, it's still pretty humorous for any F1 fans out there.

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