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Didn't assume you hadn't -- just providing links to the places I was pulling info from.
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However, SoCalGirl mentioned that her father works with Joyce's brother. I wouldn't be surprised if Joyce's brother is more accurate than the CBS site.
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No offense intended to SoCalGirl, but I wouldn't be too surprised either way. I played "Gossip"/"Pass-it-Along" enough as a kid to know how quickly and unintentionally information can get garbled.
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When you take into consideration the number of teams and that filming takes about a month, it seems more realistic that the rest period takes more than 12 hours. Maybe not 3 days, but definitely more than 12 hours.
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Actually, I think that length of filming makes 12 hours quite realistic.
The All-Stars season filmed from November 20 - December 17, 2006. That's 27 days, which seems to be consistent with recent seasons.
Each race has about 12 legs, at least recently. One 12-hour pit stop after 11 legs of a 12-leg race eats up 5 1/2 days, which would bring the time actually spent racing down to 21 1/2 days. That's an average of less than 2 days per leg, which seems likely to be accurate given that while some legs involve just driving to different areas in one country, others involve flights, nights spent waiting for a venue to open, and the like. Shoot, last night's episode covered 2 1/2 days alone.