Are the teams allowed to try to gain money while on the race?
Sure, if they want to. We have seen teams begging for money at points all around the world. However, begging for money is no longer allowed in any US airport. Presumably, they can sell things in their backpacks. OK, I’m confused about the rules for booking airplane tickets. Yeah, so are we! The first basic rule is that teams do not and may not use the team’s money to buy airplane tickets; they use the production crew’s credit card. The second rule seems to be that they cannot buy and use tickets that are more expensive than coach: no first class or business class. (This is presumably to keep production costs down.) So, the team can fly first class or business class if the airline offers to sell them these tickets at coach-class price. In the past, teams have been allowed to buy first/business class tickets to gain entrance to a limited access airport as long as they later trade those tickets in for coach classwith the appropriate discount, presumably. It appears that this rule has been
