With season eight of CBS’s Emmy winning reality TV hit, “The Amazing Race,” reportedly in production, the show’s producers are hosting an open casting call at Jack Taylor’s Alexandria Toyota (3750 Jefferson Davis Highway) for the ninth season on July 10 at noon. The show’s website contains the application form and a lengthy list of procedures and requirements for potential contestants.

Teams of two (or, in the case of the upcoming eighth season, four) race around the world for a chance to win $1 million — subject, of course, to all applicable federal, state, and local tax laws. In a series of legs, teams hopscotch across continents, performing a series of challenges along the way, with the last team to arrive at the end of each leg usually “eliminated” by host, Phil Keoghan.

D.C.-area teams have acquitted themselves fairly well in previous seasons of the Race. Season seven’s “oldsters,” Gretchen and Meredith Smith, residents of Easton, Md., finished fourth — the highest finish thus far for a team over 50. Father/daughter team Gus and Hera McLeod, from Gaithersburg, finished seventh in season 6, after Hera was hit in the head by a swing-arm gate in a mad rush to enter a task. An in the fifth season, Baltimore-area cousins Charla Faddoul and Mirna Hindoyan gutted out some tough tasks, including carrying a side of beef and eating two pounds of caviar, to finish in sixth place.