With over 6100 riders and 810 teams taking part, the DIRT Racing Series has grown quickly over the last four seasons. As we head into “indoor season”, Team DIRT Racing has announced the launch of DIRT Racing Series, Season 5, which runs from September 12-October 17.
Here’s how they describe it:
Get ready to be part of the most competitive Team Racing on Zwift, open for ALL Zwift racers. In DRS EVERYONE contributes to their team with our well-balanced points structure, small categories and multiple individual and team leaderboards.
DRS Basics
Here are some key things we spotted that make the DIRT Racing Series special:
- Unique category structure based on zwiftracing.app Race Rankings
- Team racing: open to teams of up to 8 riders (no rider minimum), best 4 riders per stage contribute their points to the team
- Three racing formats: iTT, Team Time Race (TTR), and Points Races
- 7 stages, final two stages are back-to-back
- Individual and Team leaderboards
- Balanced points allocation so more racers contribute (see Rules & Scoring page)
- No powerups, just pure old leg power
Series Schedule
The 7-stage series is held on Tuesdays in four different time slots:
- Atlantic US: 05:45 EDT / 9:45 UTC
- EMEA C: 19:15 CEST / 17:15 UTC
- EMEA W: 20:15 CEST / 18:15 UTC
- US W: 18:30 PST / 01:30 UTC (+1 day)
The series includes an individual time trial, a Team Time Race, and five points races:
- Prologue – Sep 12 – Points Race: London 8 Reverse (1 lap, 20.5km, 256m)
- Stage 1 – Sep 19 – Points Race: Harrogate Circuit Reverse (2 laps, 27.6km, 480m)
- Stage 2 – Sep 26 – TTR: Cobbled Climbs Reverse (3 laps, 27.7km, 396m)
- Stage 3 – Oct 3 – Points Race: Flatland Loop (2.5 laps, ~31km, 210m)
- Stage 4 – Oct 10 – Points Race: Three Little Sisters (1 lap, 38.1km, 401m)
- Stage 5 – Oct 17 – iTT: LaGuardia Loop (3 laps, 10km, 86mm)
- Stage 6 – Oct 17 – Points Race: Electric Loop (2 laps, 17.8km, 58m)
Registration and More Info
Visit dirtracingseries.com for more information on the DIRT Racing Series.
Ready to sign up? Register your team at dirtracingseries.com/register-now
Oh Dear, the dates are in direct conflict with ZRL!! 😮
Yeah, they’re taking ZRL on head to head this time around!
I’ve enjoyed racing in the DIRT racing series the last couple of rounds, however I’m not sure if it’s a smart move by them to go “head to head” with ZRL. Results processing has been too slow, and the rules – although they exist to make the racing more compelling – are too complicated to that the riders get lost in them.
I think it is a great premise – just doesn’t have the scale of timezones to make it work for me with the narrow window I have for riding (essentially between 7am and 9.30am in the UK). Only thing stopping me jumping over from ZRL which feels like it will be ‘try to hang with the pack until I can’t’ every week.