Race the Stig is an Android app developed by BBC Worldwide (Ltd) (BBC Worldwide Limited Television Centre 101 Wood Lane London W12 7FA). Others apps created by BBC Worldwide (Ltd) are: BBC News, BBC Sport, BBC Earth: Life in VR.

Race the Stig first became available on 06 Mar 2014. It is estimated that Race the Stig has been downloaded between 1000000 and 5000000 times from the Play Store.

Race the Stig 3.5.1 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows access to the vibrator.

Allows an application to write to external storage.