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RachelLeVega:
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--- Quote from: Marionete on January 04, 2016, 05:00:44 AM ---Aren't all teams required to obey traffic rules? :cmas31:
I always wondered that about self-driving legs. Can they go faster than allowed, thus probably surpassing other teams?
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From what I know, teams can incur a 30-minute penalty for speeding. But recently, teams who were overspeeding at TAR22's Leg 7 had to pay the fine before resuming with their race. :cmas5
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I think the circumstance that was different in Maun, Botswana were teams going out of their way to the police office to pay the fine. That might have supplemented for the 30-min penalty. In season 13, I remember when Terence & Sarah were caught speeding on the way to the Auckland Airport. I believe they paid the fine on the spot instead of driving elsewhere.
G.B.:
--- Quote from: Platrium on January 04, 2016, 06:48:14 AM ---
--- Quote from: Marionete on January 04, 2016, 05:00:44 AM ---Aren't all teams required to obey traffic rules? :cmas31:
I always wondered that about self-driving legs. Can they go faster than allowed, thus probably surpassing other teams?
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From what I know, teams can incur a 30-minute penalty for speeding. But recently, teams who were overspeeding at TAR22's Leg 7 had to pay the fine before resuming with their race. :cmas5
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That was due entirely to Botswanan law.
scruffs:
I've been watching past seasons of International Versions of TAR and then I wonder, when a team checks-in are they required to bring their bags with them (except the fanny pack which I know they should always bring). I'm thinking the big, bulky, backpacks. I remember seeing teams leaving their bags when running to the mat and there are some that won't drop it even if it's a footrace. And in one leg of TAR: Australia Season 1, it was a footrace for first place, and the team members scrambled to get their backpacks on their pick-up trucks before they ran.
So what is the rule on this?
maf:
--- Quote from: scruffs on January 10, 2016, 07:37:27 PM ---I've been watching past seasons of International Versions of TAR and then I wonder, when a team checks-in are they required to bring their bags with them
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As far as I understand it they are free to drop their bags as soon as they are within sight of the pit stop. Actually they are of course free to drop their bags anytime they want, but they will not be allowed to go back and collect them unless it is within sight of the pit stop (until after the race that is).
Exceptions apply, one some legs you notice that team are instructed to leave their bags in specific places and they may or may not be reunited with their bags later that leg.
There has also been at least one instance where a team forgot to bring their bags from one challenge so they had to race on without bags. After they were eliminated in the following leg they learned that production had taken care of their forgotten bags and they were reunited.
Platrium:
--- Quote from: maf on January 11, 2016, 09:16:58 AM ---
--- Quote from: scruffs on January 10, 2016, 07:37:27 PM ---I've been watching past seasons of International Versions of TAR and then I wonder, when a team checks-in are they required to bring their bags with them
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As far as I understand it they are free to drop their bags as soon as they are within sight of the pit stop. Actually they are of course free to drop their bags anytime they want, but they will not be allowed to go back and collect them unless it is within sight of the pit stop (until after the race that is).
Exceptions apply, one some legs you notice that team are instructed to leave their bags in specific places and they may or may not be reunited with their bags later that leg.
There has also been at least one instance where a team forgot to bring their bags from one challenge so they had to race on without bags. After they were eliminated in the following leg they learned that production had taken care of their forgotten bags and they were reunited.
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Steve & Allie from TAR16 forgot their bags after a task that involved feeding a turtle in Seychelles. They had their travel documents with them so they raced without their bags.
There was a post-race interview quote from Steve talking about production giving them back their bags after the race.
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