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(Part of) Our story so far: Widow Weaver and her three children are racing for a million dollars in part to assuage the grief they’ve been living with since Feb. 8, 2004, when Dad Weaver was tragically killed on the Daytona International Speedway. He worked there as a crew supervisor, and was run down by a racecar while clearing debris from the track. (Here’s a story on the aftermath.) Everybody who caught the previews for this week’s show knows where the Amazing Race is taking them this week - to Talledaga. That’s right, a racetrack eerily similar to Daytona. One can only imagine which came first, casting the family or creating the challenge, but TAR producers are being second-guessed all over the Web for this seemingly cruel and heartbreaking stop. Other, cooler heads are wont to remind us that TAR is all about emotional upheaval that leads to cathartic breakthrough (or something like that) and the show certainly wouldn’t set a grieving family up for a grieving breakdown. Here’s hoping that Talledaga provides some healing closure for a family that, last week, almost left a Waffle House wrapped in straightjackets.
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By jgeier
October 18, 2005 10:48 AM | Link to this
I was under the assumption that all tasks and destinations were pre-planned. Personally, I don’t believe that the producers set this up specifically to “test” the Weaver family, but I could be wrong. They have been doing very well together as a family and I think they will pull through this event as well. Although, the daughter that keeps screaming is really getting on my nerves. We will have to tune in tonight to see what happens.