Race Across the World 2025 reached its thrilling conclusion with mother and son, Caroline and Tom, becoming the first pair to reach the final checkpoint in Kanniyakumari and claim the £20,000 prize.

Since Race Across the World season 5 launched back in April, audiences have found themselves clearing their Wednesday night schedules to sit and watch the teams make their way from checkpoint to checkpoint – and now, the winner has been crowned.

‘We’d just downsized [the] house, which I really struggled [with]. I didn’t have a horse anymore and we had our dog put down. Tom was becoming more independent and I thought, “I don’t know what life is going to offer me now.” Luckily, Race Across The World came at the right time,’ she says.