I am in the GMan camp on this. It seems likely at this point, that the race has in fact started somewhere and is taking a "run silent, run deep" course. It is now 11 weeks from the probable television debut of AR15. With editing starting at pit stops, World Race Productions has found ways to shorten the length of the production/editing cycle, but do you really think that they would wait until less than 8 weeks before debut to finish the actual AR15? I don't. I think Bertam van Munster has grown tired of spoiling and devised ways to minimize it. Consider that we knew nothing when AR14 teams went to Siberia. There are other such places around the globe. The key to invisibility is to stay off the major airlines. Maybe World Race Productions is now using a fleet of 2 or 3 jets to move the teams from place to place when air travel is required.