Confirmed: this game is ALL about navigational math.

You have XX minutes to travel XX km, at a speed of XX km/h, and a penalty is given for coming in sooner OR later than the alloted time.

D=distance S=speed T=time

D=S x T
T=D/S
S= D/T

And know how I keep saying I hope we learn more about it? Found out why we don’t.

My teacher Robert told me, “that’s like giving you a lesson on the transmission, or how your engine works”… as in… you should know this coming in, and that’s what separates competitors.

Here’s the formula:

(photo from BBC.uk)

We also learned that past winners have performed all this math using only an egg timer, and figure it can’t be that hard then.