page_title: The Amazing Race 13
section_title: Development and filming
hierarchical_section_title: The Amazing Race 13 / Production / Development and filming
caption_attribution_description: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Entrance), 3911 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, California
context_page_description: The Amazing Race 13 is the thirteenth installment of the American reality television show The Amazing Race. This season featured 11 teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world.
  The 13th season was part of the fall lineup for the 2008–09 season. It aired Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT from September 28, 2008 until the season finale on December 7, 2008.
  Siblings Nicholas "Nick" and Emily "Starr" Spangler were the winners of this Race. Excluding the Family Edition of Season 8, "Starr" remains the youngest person ever to win The Amazing Race, at age 21. Nick & Starr are also the first team of siblings to win the competition, with the exception of the winners of the Family Edition.
  A DVD for this season was released on April 8, 2014, through Amazon's CreateSpace program.
context_section_description: The Amazing Race 13 spanned 40,000 miles (64,000 km) in 23 days and visited eight different countries. This included the series' first visits to Bolivia, Cambodia, and Kazakhstan, and return visits to Brazil, New Zealand, India, and Russia, with the Finish Line in Portland, Oregon. CBS had originally planned to only air one installment of The Amazing Race (Season 12) in the 2007–08 season, but due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, CBS ordered a 13th installment as a replacement for programs affected by the strike. CBS greenlit the 13th installment on December 9, 2007. Race locations were scouted in January 2008 and filming took place between April and May 2008.
  This is the second season with a course that circumnavigated the world westward (The Amazing Race 10 was the first and would be followed by later seasons).
  The show also featured John Keoghan, the father of host Phil Keoghan, as the local greeter at Te Puke in Keoghan's native New Zealand.
  This was the first season in which an eliminated team was absent from the Finish Line, where teams normally cheer on the finalists, as Dallas Imbimbo (of Toni & Dallas) had misplaced his passport and the team's money in Russia on the penultimate leg. This had been hinted at in promotional materials aired before the Race began, where CBS revealed that one team made "an unprecedented mistake that ultimately prohibit[ed] them from joining their fellow Racers at the Finish Line." In a post-race interview, Dallas revealed that the loss of the passport and money was partly caused by the changing of a microphone battery by production. The passport was eventually turned in at the U.S. Embassy in Russia, but it was still too late for Dallas and his mother to join their fellow racers at the Finish Line. Emily "Starr" Spangler revealed in a post-race interview that Toni and Dallas joined the other racers in Portland, Oregon at a party the night following the end of the Race.
  Andrew Lappitt and Daniel "Dan" Honig (of Andrew & Dan) stated in a post-show interview that the second U-Turn was available on Leg 9 but it was not used by any teams, thus it was not aired in the show. This was the first season in which racers did not use an available U-Turn (a Race feature introduced in the previous season). In addition, while the editing of the finale strongly suggested that Andrew & Dan were so far behind that they were simply sent directly to the Finish Line after Nick & Starr won the Race, it was later confirmed that they did finish the tasks on the leg before arriving 3rd, coming in around 20 minutes after Ken & Tina finished 2nd.
caption: The Race's Starting Line was at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the neighborhood of University Park in Los Angeles.
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