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TAR 34 Maps

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Maanca:
Missed you, Neobie! Happy to see your full leg maps again.

Neobie:
The drive from the Detour to the Pit Stop is filled with literal and figurative twists and turns, and requires a full slideshow to explain. I fully empathise with the teams!

Marcus/Michael explain in Racers Podcast that they jumped ahead going from the Roadblock to the Detour by taking the smaller D46 instead of the larger D704, which got others stuck in city traffic.

The part where Derek/Claire and Molly/Emily turn around going to the Pit Stop are actually from much closer to the Detour, and aren't covered here. (They were going the right way, and didn't need to turn around.)

Slowhatch:
Leg 8
Start at the Domme viewpoint. RB and DDP; The bricklaying was approx. here, between the bridge and the Ferris wheel and the poetry was here. The pitstop boat was parked approx. here.

Neobie:
There's some dishonest editing this episode. We're shown that the best way from Domme to Toulouse is on the A20, while Quinton/Mattie took the (smaller) "D49... [staying] on it the whole time". But neither the D49 in Dordogne nor the D49 in Lot (the next department over) lead to Toulouse. In fact, when they're shown later in the episode navigating small villages, the footage is really just them getting out of Domme.

Quinton/Mattie must have been on the D49 for just a short while trying to get to the A20. I wonder what put them that far behind then?

Edit: Actually, neither D49 is on the way of where they want to go. How did they end up on either D49?!
https://routes.fandom.com/wiki/Route_d%C3%A9partementale_fran%C3%A7aise_D49_(24)
https://routes.fandom.com/wiki/Route_d%C3%A9partementale_fran%C3%A7aise_D49_(46)


For Marcus/Michael, part of the confusion entering Toulouse is that there are overlapping highway designations at that point. While the highway sign only shows "E80 / E9 / Périphérique intérieur" going left and "E72 / Périphérique extérieur" going right; maps would more prominently show A62 going left (which Marcus later says he doesn't want), and A620 going right instead.

If teams understood French / the French highway system, they would also have found that "Périphérique intérieur" refers to "Ring road, going clockwise" and "Ring road, going anti-clockwise", which would have been much clearer when matching where they are to their maps.

Neobie:
Slightly clearer maps for Episode 7, taking into account what we learn from the racers' interviews and podcasts.

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