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TAR15 EP1505 : "I’m Like Ricky Bobby" (Dubai)
gator27:
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--- Quote from: puddin on October 15, 2009, 09:40:14 PM ---about the same as the web promo but better
;D
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Odd how the racing part is displayed backwards (inverted 5 on the wall). Are they trying to throw off the spoilers?
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The lettering on his helmet is correct, though. The numbers must actually be inverted for some reason.
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--- Quote from: theschnauzers on October 16, 2009, 05:20:54 PM ---The inverted numbers might require a mirror looking behind.
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Thanks guys. :tup: Good use of observational powers. Racers need to know what turn they just left and they would be using their mirrors.
redskevin88:
--- Quote from: Chateau d If on October 16, 2009, 01:48:47 AM ---Well, we know that they buggered the departure times for this leg of the race :groan:
Here they are in noontime sunshine when we know they finished the previous leg around 4:30 pm.
(:;)
It's probably just to preclude the teams from ever catching the flight through Kuwait:
Thai Airways TG 519 leaving Bangkok at 1:00 pm and arriving in Kuwait at 4:35 pm.
Then they take Emirates EK 858 leaving at 6:05 pm and arriving in Dubai at 8:40 pm.
To get that flight they needed to be at Phnom Penh's airport in time to catch this flight to BKK (from Apskip):
PG932 0937 (actual 7/26) 1046 (actual 7/26)
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It gets pretty hot in the evenings too... I know because I lived in Cambodia and have visited all the race locations except for the temple.
ImANewUser:
--- Quote from: Hooky on October 16, 2009, 03:42:31 PM ---Teams milling about in the photo/promos: Maria & Tiffany, Sam & Dan, and Meghan & Cheyne. Just to clarify because someone thought it was Mika & Canaan. :tup:
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That'd be me. :funny: Looking at it again, the woman looked like Meghan to me, but the guy looked like Canaan, then I remembered he wasn't wearing blue that leg. :funny:
Chateau d If:
--- Quote from: apskip on October 16, 2009, 09:53:20 AM ---Chateau,
I think there is a relatively simple possible explanation that only uses a practice from a prior episode. In Japan teams arrived aroudn 430pm (admittedly in Narita maybe 2 hours from Tokyo Tower) but they did not start their tasks on July 19. They were delayed until July 20 by what I call a pseudo-pit-stop break. I think the same thing happens in Dubai on arrival on July 27, although it appears to me that teams do go that evening to Burj Dubai to sign up for their task there on the morning of July 28. That is a way to reward teams for high performance despite Bunching.
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I think the simple possible explanation that uses a practice from prior episodes is called "time buggering" ! That's when Phil does not say
"Sam & Dan who arrived at 4:25 pm will depart at 4:25 am"
but instead says something like:
"Sam & Dan who are the first team to complete the previous leg of the race will depart at 11:25 am"
It shows that they did not have a standard 12-hour Pit Stop.
puddin:
Zev and Justin where on the Early Show and they showed a clip for this episode .. I'll work on some screencaps soon
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