CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

To hear Rob Corddry tell it, his first day of shooting Top Gear America was almost his last. As he was hustling a decommissioned Police Interceptor through an abandoned neighborhood with the Stig hot on his tail, the reality of what he signed up for truly sank in.

“Oh, God. What have I gotten myself into?” Corddry says. A year later, he can still remember the thoughts running through his head: “I’m afraid of danger. I have a low tolerance for pain. I’m not a daredevil. What am I doing? There are so many ways I could die.”

Watch this segment on Episode 5, and you see this interior monologue unfold in real time during the height of the chase. Full of fear, his eyes flick between the road and the rearview mirror—and finally glaze over in defeat as he’s jostled from behind. He was convinced the Stig had smashed into him and at