Zwift Racing Powered By DURA-ACE Series Announced for September 2026

Zwift’s “ZRacing” is the platform’s most popular ongoing race series, and beginning in September, Zwift is placing it under the “Zwift Racing” umbrella. Moving forward, expect each monthly series to include ZRacing, Crit Club, Epic Race Club, and TT Club events.

This means each week’s offers races in four formats. Completing any of the four earns you an XP bonus and credit for the stage. Read on for details!

New This Month

DURA-ACE Features and Prize Draw

Each race of this series puts riders on one of the fast new Shimano DURA-ACE wheelsets. The C99/Disc is used for all the time trials, while the C50 and C60 are used for most of the other races, with the lighter C36 featuring only in week 4’s ZRacing event.

Related: All About the New Shimano Dura-Ace Wheelsets in Zwift: C36, C50, C60, and C99/Disc >

Additionally, there’s a DURA-ACE unlock and giveaway! Complete any event of this series and you’ll also unlock the in-game DURA-ACE cycling cap. You’ll then receive an email (if you’re opted into emails from Zwift) with details on how to enter the Shimano giveaway, with the chance to win:

  • One of 100 Shimano DURA-ACE baseball caps
  • 1 set of DURA-ACE C50 wheels

Entry and prize fulfilment are administered by Shimano. Full eligibility and terms and conditions will be provided by Shimano.

Racing 101

For riders who want to get familiar with racing before jumping into an event, new Zwift Racing: Racing 101 events offer a guided introduction to the basics. Learn key racing skills in a group ride, then put them into practice when you’re ready to take on your first race.

Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/zwiftracing101 >

September’s Routes

Here are the routes we’ll be racing in this month’s series:

See Women-Only Zwift Racing events >
See Range 1 Zwift Racing events >
See Range 2 Zwift Racing events >
See Advanced Zwift Racing events >
See ALL Zwift Racing events >

Bonus XP

You’ll earn a chunk of XP for each stage you complete, including 1000 XP for your first stage! Total XP for completing all four stages is 2000 XP (1000 XP for first stage, +500 for two stages, +300 for three stages, +200 for four stages).

Post-Race Analysis

GC Leaderboard

Zwift’s web-based leaderboards track the monthly GC competition for ZRacing events. Access those leaderboards at zwift.com/racing/leagues/zracingsep2026.

Monthly GC leagues are also available for the Crit, Epic, and TT races. These can be found at ZwiftPower>Leagues.

Your GC ranking is based on your best finishing time for each stage, and you can race stages more than once to try for a better time.

Your Racing Profile

In May, Zwift launched the new “Racing Profile Page” at zwift.com, bringing all your Zwift race results together in one place so it’s easier to track performance and results etc. This page continues to be built out, including the addition of a power dashboard (see below). Sources tell me a ZRS history chart is arriving very soon!

Your profile is available at zwift.com/racing/me.

Category Options

In addition to the Crit, Epic, and TT races, Zwift now schedule four different flavors of ZRacing events in order to encourage “Fairer, more competitive racing for everyone.” Click banners below to see upcoming events for each:

Questions or comments?

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Eric Schlange
Eric Schlangehttps://zwiftinsider.com
Eric runs Zwift Insider in the spare time he finds between riding his bike and managing various business interests. He lives in Northern California with his beautiful wife Monica. Follow on Strava
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