oh oh oh oh it starts in a couple days. What does it take to win “The Amazing Race Canada?” Well, a lot of heart, a good sense of direction, and some good luck. More specifically: 44,816 kms, 14 cities, seven provinces and 43 challenges. On July 8 at 9pm on CTV, 11 teams and one host will begin their journey across Canada until one team is crowned the winner of “The Amazing Race Canada” Season 2. Here’s what it took to get there: Gold Medals (including Jon Montgomery’s): 3 Longest relationship (Shawn and Jen): 20+ years Age of oldest competitor (Rex): 51 Age of youngest competitor (Cormac): 19 Largest age gap between competitors on the same team (Cormac and Nicole): 20 years Shortest age gap between competitors (Pierre and Michel): 15 minutes Order of Canada recipients: 1 Total kilometres travelled: 44,816 kms or 27,144,761 of the longest regulation hockey sticks placed end-to-end Total travel time: 75 hours 11 minutes or nearly the amount of time it would take to drive from St. John’s, N.L. to Victoria, B.C. (approximately 79 hours) Individual air fares: 814 Charters: 5 Ferries: 4 Most number of flights in one day: 3 Taxis used by each team (approx.): 10 Total Hotel Rooms: 2135 Total Provinces visited: 7 Total Territories visited: 1 Total Capitals visited: 5 Makes of Chevrolet vehicles driven: 6 Days of filming: 28 Number of challenges laid out for the teams: 43 Major cities visited: 14 Airports visited: 11 Longest time to complete a Roadblock: 7 hours Number of lighthouses: 2 Hours of footage shot: 1000+ (256 more hours than there are in our 14 Canadian summer weekends, including holidays) Cameras: 51 (including 28 GoPro cams) Backup cameras: 11 Cases of equipment per flight: 50 Pounds of equipment per flight: 1600 or approximately 48-50 cases of bottled Canadian beer Road crew/location (includes casting, art, camera/sound, tech, production, publicity): 60 Behind-the-scenes crew based in Toronto: 10+ Location Producers: 8 Post-production people based in Toronto: 24
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 10:25:58 +0000