The Amazing Race 3
| The Amazing Race 3 | |
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| Season Run | October 2 – December 18, 2002 |
| Filming dates | August 9 – September 7, 2002 |
| No. of Episodes | 11 |
| Winning team | Flo Pesenti & Zach Behr |
| All-Stars | Teri & Ian Pollack, John Vito Pietanza & Jill Aquilino |
| Season Stats | |
| Continents visited | 4 |
| Countries visited | 12 |
| Cities visited | 40 |
| No. of legs | 13 |
| Distance traveled | 41,000 mi (66,000 km) |
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The Amazing Race 3 is the third installment of the US reality television show, The Amazing Race. This season featured 12 teams of two people with a pre-existing relationship in a race around the world, making it the first season to have 12 teams as opposed to the usual 11. It premiered on October 2, 2002 and ended on December 18, 2002.
Friends Flo Pesenti and Zach Behr were the winners of this Race, with Flo becoming the first female winner in the race's history.
The third season of The Amazing Race spanned a total of 41,000 miles (66,000 km) across four continents and 12 countries. Unlike previous seasons, all of the twelve countries were newly visited to the show (one of the new countries, Spain, was not featured on television this season but would be visited again in The Amazing Race 10 ). Filming began on August 9, 2002 and finished on September 7, 2002.
During Leg 3, Dennis and Andrew (the first father/son team on the series) won the Fast Forward, yet were eliminated on the same leg—a first in the show's history. This would not happen again until Leg 10 of The Amazing Race 20, 17 seasons later. This team received headlines before the season began due to Dennis being a conservative Southern Baptist and Andrew an openly gay cheerleader. Andrew later returned to blog on CBS.com's Return of the Racers for seasons 9, 10, and 11.
During Leg 4, Heather and Eve were the first team to arrive at the Pit Stop in Portugal, but they misread a clue that told them to walk to the Pit Stop rather than take a taxi. They proceeded to walk the rest of the way, but received a seven-minute time penalty for the advantage gained (the second team arrived seven minutes later), plus an additional 30 minutes. Since all of the other teams arrived at the Pit Stop less than 37 minutes afterward, Heather and Eve became the first team ever to arrive first at a Pit Stop yet still be eliminated. Heather and Eve later stated in interviews that one of the production crew traveling with them told them it was OK to take the cab, though production has stated that this is not true, and would be irrelevant in any case because the clues are not open to subjective directions.
During Leg 5, teams were required to drive marked vehicles more than 100 miles from Portugal to the port in Algeciras, Spain. Four of the eight teams incorrectly fueled their cars using unleaded gasoline instead of diesel, causing the cars to become inoperable. The four stricken teams handled the situation very differently: Teri and Ian recovered almost immediately when Ian borrowed a siphoning line from a gas station, drained the tank, and refilled with diesel; Flo and Zach oddly found an open repair shop in the middle of the night that fixed their vehicle; Aaron and Arianne called for a tow truck and were taken to a different repair place after a very long delay; and Kathy and Michael had the car brought back to the station, left it overnight, and became the last team to get underway with a fixed car (which contributed to their eventual elimination).
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