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Why the Amazing Race has lost its magic
ImANewUser:
I went on Google Maps and it came up with this info: (might be an unreliable source, but ohwells)
Season 2 drive (from Canterbury Plains to Rotorua): around 930 km
Season 3 drive (from Cabo da Roca to Algeciras): around 680 km
Season 4 drive (from Le Mans to Marseilles): around 900 km
Season 7 drive (from Santiago to Mendoza): around 370 km (meaning the drive to Puente Viejo might be shorter)
Of course, chances are I might have missed other underestimated long drives.
apskip:
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--- Quote from: redwings8831 on November 03, 2009, 12:06:58 AM ---I'm going way back to Season 2, but the New Zealand leg (Leg 11) contained the most I've ever seen. According to maps.google, it was about 450 km from the pitstop (Canterbury Plains, South Island) to the Picton Ferry, the car Ferry to Wellington, and then another 450 km to the Maori Arts & Crafts Institute in Rotoura (North Island). About 6 to 6 and a half hours sandwiched around a three hour ferry, all which occurred within one clue.
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I think the second longest drive occurred in Season 4 (though likely I'm wrong :P), when they drove from Paris to Marseilles. :P
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You are close, Raymond. It was LeMans to Marseilles. Leg 4 of Season 4 started with a flight that I assume was Vienna to Paris or Prague to Paris (for the purposes of this calculatino it does not matter which one). Then teams had to drive 114 miles mostly west to the LeMans racetrack to do the laps there. After that they started from LeMans and drove mostly south to Marseilles, which is 410 miles. So it depends on how you look at it whether it was 410 miles or 524 miles.
The infamous Dieselgate drive through Portugal and Spain in Season 3 from Cabo de Roca to Algeciras leg was 300 miles.
For the New Zealand trip in Season 2, there are assumptions that have to be made. The distance from the sheep farm at Inverary Station, Mt. Somers on the Canterbury Plain to Rangiora is an add-on of about 60 miles to the distance from Christchurch. The distance from Christchurch to the ferry at Picton is 209 miles, then what shoudl be done about the length of the ferry crossing. Since it is not driving, I ignored it. I actually drove from Mt. Cook to Picton taking many of the same roads once far enough north on the South Island. From Wellington to Rotorua, a trip I made on a bus, the disance is another 270 miles. that gives a total of 539 miles, a little shorter than you have estimated but close enough.
apskip:
Raymond, I've got another one that could be in the running depending on the criteria for inclusion. It is the limo ride (not self-drive) that Dennis and Andrew took from Duxford Imperial War Museum near Cambridge England to Stonehaven Scotland. It is about 500 miles.
Neobie:
D'oh, how far was that drive from Phoenix to Billings? :lol:
(I see everyone has washed TAR 8 out of their heads...)
DrRox:
Mapquest says 1204 miles.
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