Hosted by Beau Ryan, it featured sixteen teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around Australia due to the COVID-19 pandemic to win A$250,000.

[3] Cowboys Brendon Crawley and Jackson Dening were the winners of this season, while Gold Coast friends Ashleigh Lawrence and Amanda Blanks finished in second place and Sikh friends Jaskirat Dhingra and Anurag Sobti finished in third place.

[14] In an interview on Studio 10, Beau Ryan stated that the show created COVID safety officers, contestants and crew members would be regularly tested and provided with personal protective equipment and the show would be travelling to areas with lower populations to reduce personal interactions.

[15] According to Beau Ryan, production would take place over eight to nine weeks starting in late September with a two-week quarantine before filming, and Victoria and Western Australia would be hard to include due to border and lockdown restrictions.

Following the quarantine period to medically clear the teams and production, filming started in Queensland in early October 2020.

[19][20] During filming, producer Yasmin Kara broke her vertebrae while testing a challenge that involved jumping into the water.

[27] As the number of coronavirus cases began to decline across much of the country and some states started the process of reopening borders,[28] casting resumed on 16 June 2020.

[35][36][37] Ratings data is from OzTAM and represents the viewership from the 5 largest Australian metropolitan centres (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide).

[26] In response to the criticism of the stowaway twist, Beverley McGarvey stated, "In an ideal world, would we have done things a little bit differently?