The first appearance of the U-Turn Vote on the US series. Although voting for a team to receive a U-Turn has previously featured in other countries' versions of the franchise, including The Amazing Race Israel (2009) and The Amazing Race Australia (2011), most of these versions have the voting done in secret with the team receiving the most votes and the teams who voted for them only revealed after the Detour; in the US series, the teams say who they will vote for in the presence of all of the teams.