The Amazing Race Australia 2

The Amazing Race Australia (series 2)
Season Run	30 May – 15 August 2012
Filming dates	18 November – 13 December 2011
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Winning team	Shane Haw & Andrew Thoday
Season Stats
Continents visited	4
Countries visited	9
Cities visited	17
No. of legs	12
Distance traveled	65,000 km (40,000 mi)
Season chronology
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The Amazing Race Australia 2 is the second series of the Australian reality television game show The Amazing Race Australia, the Australian version of The Amazing Race. The second series featured eleven teams of two in a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world to win the grand prize of A$250,000. The show was produced by activeTV Australia.

The show premiered on Australia's Seven Network on 30 May 2012, one week after the last episode of the twentieth series of the American series aired in Australia. The show moved back to its old Monday schedule at 7:30 pm on 25 June 2012.

The series concluded with police officers Shane Haw and Andrew Thoday winning the race.

On 17 July 2011, the Seven Network announced that the show was renewed for a second series.

Filming began on 18 November 2011 at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney. The race travelled across four continents, 9 countries and 17 cities and was over 65,000 kilometres (40,000 mi) long. This series marked a first time visit by a Eurasian or Australian edition of the franchise to North America, although the first series of the Latin American version was the first, including an Amazing Race first time visit to the nation of Cuba; the United States embargo against Cuba prevents the original American edition from visiting the island but Obama's Administration is pushing for flights to Cuba. This is also the first version outside of the American edition to circumnavigate the globe.

Three new twists were introduced in this series. The Salvage Pass was awarded in Leg 1, giving the recipient team a choice between a one-hour head start or saving the last team from elimination in that leg; and new twists to the U-Turn, the U-Turn in Leg 4 required all teams to vote for the team to be U-Turned at the start of the leg (This twist was also used in the second series of the Israeli version which was also produced by ActiveTV) and the U-Turn in Leg 5 was an Anonymous U-Turn, in which the team who elected to use it will remain anonymous (This twist was also used in the 14th, 16th, 21st and 22nd series of the US Version, known as the Blind U-Turn). In Leg 6 a Yield was present and this is the first time it had been seen in the Australian version.

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