So it sure looks like our Jo-burg informant was true blue after all. So it is off to India next week. Where in India? Looks hot and steamy and flat; not looking like it is in the North near the Himalyays. And does this mean that we bypass London and Istanbul, even with all the tease in the opening credits. If they are going around the world then if they backtrack to London after India, they would then backtrack again past India to the Far East (Vietnam?) and if they are to make it to Jamaica where do they go in between?
So it looks like this:
April 12 - Leg 8 - India - NEL (Not Meredith and Gretchen again!)
April 19 - Leg 9 - India (?) Start 5 teams, end 4 teams
April 26 - Leg 10 - ? - Start 4 Teams - NEL - END 4 Teams
May 3 - Leg 11 - ? - Start 4 Teams - NEL - End 4 Teams
May 10 -- Leg 12 - Jamaica Start 4 teams - End 3 Teams
May 10- - Leg 13 - New York/Miami Finish - Start 3 teams End 3 Teams
Phil in the first show mentioned that the first pit stop in Lima, Peru was the first of EIGHT ELIMINATION Legs. That would mean that we would have 4 NELs in TAR7. We have had 6 elimination stops which means two more eliminations which would get us down to the final three and which means that we must have 3 more NELs. Following the pattern of TAR6 which was the first race in which the NEL carried a penalty, the producers in their wisdom did not think that the one team of the final three should compete in the final leg with no cash, so they introduced the final NEL after leg 11 and the final elimination after leg 12 leaving three teams on equal basis to race to the finish line.
