Starting in Santa Clarita, California, racers traveled through China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, England, and Wales before returning to the United States and finishing in Las Vegas.
Filming for the season began on November 16, 2013, at Cougar Stadium at the College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California, with the returning teams spotted at Los Angeles International Airport later in the day.
[9] One month prior to the start of filming, while the casting process was still ongoing, seven out of the eleven teams that appeared on this season were leaked through Twitter.
[17] Not long after this season aired, Natalie & Nadiya Anderson competed on Survivor: San Juan del Sur.
[20] Natalie competed on the thirty-sixth season of the MTV reality show The Challenge, but withdrew in the fifth episode after learning that she was pregnant.
[21][22] On May 25, 2016, Leo & Jamal, Flight Time & Big Easy, and Bopper & Mark appeared on an Amazing Race-themed primetime special episode of The Price Is Right.
The casting choices for this season were largely maligned with Andy Dehnart of reality blurred saying that "I couldn’t believe that these people were favorites, and collective reaction seemed to validate that.
"[34] Reece Forward of Screen Rant wrote that this season had "a sloppy all stars cast with lackluster tasks.
[36] Conversely, Richard Gorelick, Chris Waldmann, and Melissa Wilson of The Baltimore Sun wrote "All in all, it was a pretty good season, with some impressively staged tasks.