While the world was, indeed, still waiting for the seven returning teams (two pairs had to drop out during the nearly 19-month layover), in order to travel safe production got very selective with the pit stops. "A lot of fans said, 'If it's so dangerous to go around the world and travel, why don't you just do the show in the United States?'" Keoghan shared. And each time the native New Zealander gave the same response: "Well, going to certain states in the United States was more dangerous than going to some places in the world."
In fact, with their carefully curated trek through Europe, which included Switzerland, the French island of Corsica, Greece and Portugal, "If you speak to the cast, they will say, 'I felt safer being on this race in a foreign land than I have felt in my own state in America,'" said Keoghan. "And they're right."