Amazing Race: Past Seasons

Speed Bump

In Season 12, the penalty for coming in last on Non-Elimination Legs was changed. Those teams were required to complete an additional task called a "Speed Bump". This task occurs somewhere in the leg after the Non-Elimination Leg. The Speed Bump task is marked with a sign similar to the Yield or U-Turn placed just before a route marker in the leg it occurs on, and has a picture of the team that must complete the task on the sign as the other teams are racing. The team must retrieve both the normal marker clue and the Speed Bump clue, and then must proceed to complete the Speed Bump task first before they can continue racing.

There was said to be a Speed Bump on leg 7 of Season 17 for Nick & Vicki but the judge of one of the Detour options on the previous leg made an error of judgement that caused Nick & Vicki to spend more time at the task then needed causing them to fall behind. In the final production, the Speed Bump in leg 7 was waived and the team placings were equalised before the detour of this leg to also make up for production errors.

Speed Bumps

Season	Leg	Team	Speed Bump Leg Placing	Speed Bump Task
12	8	Kynt & Vyxsin	5th (eliminated)	Perform Yoga
12	10	TK & Rachel	2nd (Out of 4th)	Run Through Fire Works
13	7	Ken & Tina	4th (Out of 6th)	Serve Holy Water
13	10	Andrew & Dan	2nd (Out of 4th)	Russian Dance
14	7	Christie & Jodi	7th (eliminated)	Painting Elephants
14	9	Mark & Michael	5th (eliminated)	Become A Hair Stylist
15	2	Maria & Tiffany	7th (Out of 11th)	Serve Traditional Soup (Pho)
15	9	Gary & Matt	5th (eliminated)	Take a sauna on a bus
15	11	Brian & Ericka	3rd (Out of 4th)	Prepare and drink absinthe
16	5	Jordan & Jeff	7th (Out of 8th)	Repare part of a trench
16	8	Jet & Cord	1st (Out of 6th)	Serve Tea
16	11	Louie & Michael	4th (eliminated)	Coin Toss
17	4	Michael & Kevin	4th (Out of 9th)	Sit on Ice Chairs
17	11	Nick & Vicki	4th (eliminated)	Clean a Tank
18	9	Gary & Mallory	4th (Out of 6th)	Measure Gas
19	2	Bill & Cathi	7th (Out of 11th)	Untangle a Rope
19	5	Liz & Marie	8th (eliminated)	Wash the Elephant
19	7	Amani & Marcus	4th(Out of 7th)	Solve Flag Puzzle

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