Racing Report Leg #2
Day 3
November 22cd.
Teams had an 18 hour Pit Stop. For safety reasons, the production staff doesn’t allow teams to drive in hazardous conditions at night. While at the Pit Stop Drew received oxygen 4 times to combat altitude sickness.
Teams leave the Pit Stop, at Mirador in the Cotopaxi National Park in the order they arrived.
1: Rob & Amber 7:42am
2: Danny & Oswald 7:53am
3: Teri & Ian 8:17am
4: Eric & Danielle 8:24am
5: Joe & Bill 8:25am
6: Dustin & Kandice 8:34am
7: Uchenna & Joyce 8:35am
8: Charla & Mirna 8:50am
9: David & Mary 8:51am
10: Kevin & Drew 8:54am
Teams are provided $487.00 (I swear that's what I heard both from Oswald and David), but damn that's a lot.
Teams are directed to travel by air over 2400 miles to
Santiago, Chile. When they land they will travel 12 miles by taxi to the
corporate headquarters of Codelco , the world’s largest cooper mining company.
Over the rough terrain, Charla & Mirna get stuck, and David & Mary tow them free.
Kevin & Drew still have the same vehicle without a tire on its front passenger side. They get immediately stuck, and try for several minutes to free themselves. They end up getting the vehicle so stuck that it isn’t feasible to change the tire.
It appears in interviews after the race that Kevin & Drew were given a penalty for causing damage to their vehicle. And they had to make an honest attempt to use it before they could switch to another vehicle and took a 15 minute penalty.
Which is fair in my book. Choosing to drive on a rim for 5 miles, is unacceptable when one could try and change the tire first. And I think that means that John Vito & Jill were at least slightly more then 15 minutes behind Kevin and Drew.
Teams arrive at the Quito International airport in the following order:
1. Rob & Amber
2: Eric & Danielle
3: Teri & Ian
4: Dustin & Kandice
5: Uchenna & Joyce
6: Oswald & Danny
7: Charla & Mirna
8: David & Mary
9: Kevin & Drew
10: Joe & Bill
Oswald & Danny and Joe & Bill are late getting to the airport since the stopped in town and actually booked tickets at a local travel agency.
Rob & Amber book tickets from Quito to Guayaquil, Ecuador on Aero Gal departing at 12:45.
Guayaquil to Lima, Peru on Lan.
Lima to Santiago, Chile arriving at 1:50 am on the 23rd.
Danny & Oswald book tickets from Quito to Guayaquil, Ecuador on Icaro departing at 3:00pm.
Guayaquil to Lima, Peru on LAN.
Lima to Santiago, Chile arriving at 1:50am on the 23rd.
All other teams have tickets on TACA from Quito to Lima, Peru.
Flight 028 leaving at 6:00pm
Lima to Santiago Chile with an arrival time of 2:30am.
Flight 133 leaving at 9:05pm
Eric & Danielle during the layover in Lima use the internet to get the address of the Codelco Corporation. They share it with Ian & Teri (who are behind them) and later with Uchenna & Joyce.
Teams get out of the Santiago airport in the following order:
1. Eric & Danielle
2. Uchenna & Joyce
3. Kevin & Drew
4. Dustin & Kandice
5. Joe & Bill
6. Teri & Ian
7. David & Mary
8. Charla & mary
9. Rob & Amber
10. Oswald & Danny
Teams travel 12 miles by taxi to the
Codelco Headquarters where they find their next clue box. Teams get the clue in the following Order:
1. Uchenna & Joyce
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Dustin & Kandice
4. Joe & Bill
5. Kevin & Drew
6. Teri & Ian
7. Charla & Mirna
8. David & Mary
9. Rob & Amber
10. Oswald & Danny
Roadblock: “Who has an eye for detail?”
Roadblock-Pay a visit to the boardroom on the ground floor. There are details in the room that will lead you to the “answer” you will need. When you think you have the “answer”, write it down and show it to the security guard in the lobby-if you are correct e will hand you your next clue.
In this roadblock, that person must go the building’s ground floor, and search the boardroom for letters of the alphabet that are on display. What teams must figure out is that the majority of these letters when unscrambled will spell out one of the ten destinations inscribed on the plaques hanging on the wall. Then once they think they have solved the puzzle, they must show their answer to the security guard. If they are correct he will hand them their next clue.
Team members that do the roadblock are: Joyce, Eric, Kandice, Bill, Kevin, Ian, Charla, Mary, Amber and Oswald.
The word they need to unscramble and find is Chuquicamata a cooper mine.
Teams complete the detour in the following Order:
1. Dustin & Kandice (and according to Video’s in about 2 minutes time)
2. Joe & Bill (both these teams finish before Teri & Ian arrive).
3. David & Mary
4. Charla & Mirna (who Mary gave the answer to)
5. Kevin & Drew (who overheard Mary tell the guard)
6. Oswald & Danny
7. Rob & Amber
8. Eric & Danielle
9. Uchenna & Joyce
10. Teri & Ian (who Joyce gives the answer to).
Teams must travel by plane 230 miles ot the town of Calama (sp) to Chuquicamata the world’s largest open-pit cooper mine.
Teams arrive at the Santiago Airport in the following order:
1. Dustin & Kandice
2. Joe & Bill
3. Kevin & Drew
4. Charla & Mirna
5. David & Mary
6. Oswald & Danny
7. Rob & Amber
8. Eric & Danielle
9. Uchenna & Joyce
10. Teri & Ian
Teams leave the Calama Airport in the following order (only a partial list).
1. Kevin & Drew
2. Joe & Bill
3. Dustin & Kandice
4. Charla & Mirna
5. Rob & Amber
Teams arrive at the Chuquicamata mine and must don safety gear before they can proceed to the clue box.
Teams arrive to change into safety gear in the following order:
1. Dustin & Kandice
2. Kevin & Drew
3. Rob & amber
4. Charla & Mirna
5. Joe & Bill
6. Eric & Danielle
7. David & Mary
8. Oswald & Danny (Guess)
9. Uchenna & Joyce (Guess)
10. Teri & Ian (Guess)
Teams reach the clue box in the following order and receive a Detour.
1. Rob & Amber
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Dustin & Kandice
4. Oswald & Danny
5. David & Mary
6. Charla & Mirna
7. Kevin & Drew
8. Joe & Bill
9. Uchenna & Joyce
10. Teri & Ian
DETOUR--By Hand or By Machine
In By Hand: Teams must choose one of these two ton tires (yes tires), and then properly align the bolts and washers to finish securing the tire to the truck. When they are finished the foreman will give them their next clue.
In By Machine: Each team member must take a turn driving one of these huge front loaders to transfer gravel. Once a team has covered the yellow line on this stick, the foreman will give them their next clue.
Teams that Choose By Hand are: Eric & Danielle, Oswald & Danny, Uchenna & Joyce, Kevin & Drew, Dustin & Kandice, Teri & Ian, Mary & David and Charla & Mirna.
Teams that choose By Machine are: Rob & Amber and Joe & Bill.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1. Rob & Amber
2. Oswald & Danny
3. Uchenna & Joyce
4. Eric & Danielle
5. Joe & Bill
6. Teri & Ian
7. Kevin & Drew
8. Charla & Mirna
9. Dustin & Kandice
10. David & Mary
Teams must then pick one of these marked vehicles and drive themselves 71 miles to the entrance of the landscape know as the Valley of the Moon. The sharp turns and the shifting sand require that the teams drive no more then 40k/ph . Once they exit the Valley of the Moon they can return to driving 50k/ph as they search for this place--The Valley of the Dead. Which is the Pit Stop for this leg of the race.
There is a lot of driving shuffling in this final part of the episode. From Teri & Ian dropping from 6th to 8th just because they couldn’t find the marked cars.
To several teams making a wrong turn after the valley of the moon (Uchenna & Joyce, Dustin & Kandice, Charla & Mirna, David & Mary, and Kevin & Drew).
But the biggest error, was Kevin & Drew not properly reading the driving instructions and driving 40k/ph from the entrance of the Valley of the Moon until they reached the Pit Stop.
Teams arrived at the Pit Stop in the following Order:
1. Rob & Amber Who each win an off road motorcycle.
2. Oswald & Danny
3. Joe & Bill
4. Eric & Danielle
5. Uchenna & Joyce
6. Dustin & Kandice
7. Teri & Ian
8. Charla & Mirna
9. David & Mary
10. Kevin & Drew who are eliminated.