Race Across The World returned to the BBC on Wednesday night, with a brutal new rule.
The fourth series sees five teams race 10,000 miles from Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaido, the most northerly of the four main islands of Japan to Lombok, an idyllic Indonesian island paradise.
The BBC show has strict rules with the teams of two not allowed to fly between pit stops whilst sticking to a tight budget of £1,390, the cost of the air fare.
As well as only travelling overland or by sea, they must also leave their smartphones behind and have no access to the internet or bank cards.
But a new rule has been introduced for the fourth series, and a new mode of transport banned.
Race Across The World returned to the BBC on Wednesday night, with a brutal new rule (pictured the race’s youngest competitors trainee pilot Owen and football referee Alfie from St Albans who are both 20)
Teams were told in the opening minutes of the first episode that they are not allowed to travel by Japan’s famous Shinkansen bullet trains.
Viewers were left laughing at the rule, quipping that it was ‘savage’ while another pointed out: ‘lol that Shinkansen is out of bounds for this Japan length because otherwise this episode would have been wrapped in ten minutes.’
For the fourth series five teams are competing to reach the Lombok finish line first and win £20,000.
The new teams include the race’s youngest competitors – trainee pilot Owen and football referee Alfie from St Albans who are both 20.
Retired couple Stephen, 61, and Viv, 65, from Rutland, are this year’s oldest racers embarking on a quest for one last adventure, after suffering a stroke and a heart attack between them, before they ‘dribble into old age’.
For the first time in the show there are two mother and daughter pairs, including Isabel, a trainee clinical scientist and her mum Eugenie, a teacher.
Sharon, 52, a cleaner from Kent, and her daughter Brydie, 25, a snowboarding instructor, are also competing for the prize.
Making up the competitors are brother and sister Betty, 25 and James, 21. Betty is well travelled but her sibling is more used to holidaying in Magaluf with the lads.
The fourth series sees five teams race from Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaido, the most northerly of the four main islands of Japan to Lombok, an idyllic Indonesian island paradise
A new rule has been introduced for the fourth series, and a new mode of transport banned – the Shinkansen bullet trains
Viewers were left laughing at the rule, quipping that it was ‘savage’ while another pointed out: ‘lol that Shinkansen is out of bounds for this Japan length because otherwise this episode would have been wrapped in ten minutes’
Retired couple Stephen, 61, and Viv, 65, from Rutland, are this year’s oldest racers embarking on a quest for one last thrilling adventure before they ‘dribble into old age’.
For the first time in the show there are two mother and daughter pairs, including Isabel, a trainee clinical scientist and her mum Eugenie, a teacher
Sharon, 52, a cleaner from Kent, and her daughter Brydie, 25, a snowboarding instructor, are also competing for the prize
Making up the competitors are brother and sister Betty, 25 and James, 21. Betty is well travelled but her sibling is more used to holidaying in Magaluf with the lads
Race Across The World has previously seen teams race from London to Singapore, across Canada and from Mexico City to Argentina.
Last year a celebrity spin off saw weather presenter Alex Beresford and his father Noel win the race from Marrakesh, Morocco to Tromsø, Norway.
The GMB star beat race car driver Billy Monger, McFly star Harry Judd and All Saints singer Melanie Blatt on the first celeb series.
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