Are Australians really better racers than Americans?

Are Australians really better racers than Americans?

The host for The Amazing Race Australia, Grant Bowler strongly asserted that the Australians are far better racers than the Americans.

Following the reality show’s debut Monday evening on Channel Seven, Bowler made his claims that the nature of Australians, describing them as having ‘larrikin spirit’, make them smart and therefore, ‘successful travelers, said The Courier Mail.

The series opening episode showed that the Aussie contestants had successfully and impressively made their way from the MCG’s floodlights to Indonesia and faced challenging tasks, displaying what Bowler call, “classically Australian”.

The contestants have shown strategies to edge competition including beauty queens Sam Schoers and Renae Wauhop who revealed that they ‘play[ed] the whole dumb blonde thing up a bit so people don’t get threatened”.

They represent Bowler’s description of the Australian contestants as ‘classically Australian in very very different ways’. In addition to the beauties from WA, the first season of the Australian version of The Amazing Race include the Big W employee mothers, bikies, male models and farmers.

“I think Australians are great travelers”, Bowler was quoted as saying by the Courier Mail, emphasizing that “the sense of humour and affable nature” of the Australians allow them to be far better contestants than their American counterparts.

To prove his point, Bowler cited statistics he once had gotten hold of proving what makes Australians better traveler than Americans.

"I remember reading a statistic that 93 per cent of Australian adults hold a passport while only 7 per cent of adult Americans hold a passport - so we do travel a lot,” Bowler said, according to Courier Mail.

He added: "There's a certain charm and sense of humour that the Australians have that gets them a long way. When the contestants cotton on to that, they can get a long way on very little."

The Amazing Race Australia has received positive feedback from the viewers who tuned in Monday night for the series first episode. Some have expressed plans to go back in their living rooms for the succeeding episodes until the contestants reach the final leg of the race.

Out of 40,000 applicants screened to participate in the local version of America’s longest running and most entertaining reality competition, eleven teams in two were chosen to race through 23 cities in 29 days.

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Watch the video and see how contestants conquer MCG and see for yourself if it's true the viewers' claims that the contestants indeed mirror the American contestants.