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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:
- Stage 1 (September 7-13)
- ZRacing: Croissant, 2 laps (21.8km, 122m) Aero + Draft powerups
- Crit Club: The Bell Lap, 9 laps (17.8km, 152m) Draft + Aero powerups
- Epic: Big Foot Hills (69.9km, 714m)
- TT: Hot Laps (23.5km, 149m)
- Stage 2 (September 14-20)
- ZRacing: Ocean Lava Cliffside Loop (19.2km, 156m) Feather + Anvil powerups
- Crit Club: Mech Isle Loop, 4 laps (16.2km, 156m) Feather + Anvil powerups
- Epic: Makuri Pretzel (78.7km, 623m)
- TT: Neokyo All-Nighter (24.5km, 168m)
- Stage 3 (September 21-27)
- ZRacing: Electric Break (19.6km, 204m) Feather + Aero powerups
- Crit Club: Glasgow Crit Six (18.3km, 199m) Feather + Aero powerups
- Epic: Navig8 (66.1km, 423m)
- TT: Bologna Time Trial Lap (8km, 236m)
- Stage 4 (September 28-October 4)
- ZRacing: Loop de Loop, 2 laps (25km, 289m) Feather + Anvil powerups
- Crit Club: The Fan Flats, 3 laps (19.4km, 80m) Aero + Draft powerups
- Epic: London Pretzel (56.2km, 576m)
- TT: R.G.V. (24.9km, 133m)
See Women-Only ZRacing events >
See Range 1 ZRacing events >
See Range 2 ZRacing events >
See Advanced ZRacing events >
See Crit events >
See Epic Racing events >
See TT 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 to encourage “Fairer, more competitive racing for everyone.”
Questions or comments?
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Am I understanding the XP’s correctly? There’s up to 2000 XP’s available for completing one race in each of the four stages, but you’ll only get experience points for completing one race in each stage? You don’t get any additional XP’s (except for mileage) for completing more than one race in a stage?
Correct, XP is awarded on a per stage basis, not per race.
So I did hot laps+ a few extra km. I thought I would get around 2100XP. The 1000 plus mileage and the route XP since I had not done Hot Laps. Ended up with only about 1640 XP. Was there supposed to be a route badge and XP for Hot Laps?
It seems like the prizes are only for Netherlands, Germany, and France. Is that a form failure or ?
You can change the country when confirming the registration
We’ve asked Shimano to look into this for us.
Should now be sorted, sorry!
What happens if you ride a halo bike or the tron? Every other bike is forced in a shimano wheel.
James B said it had no impact on you.
I have a level 5 Spec Project 74. Does that mean I have even a bigger advantage because rest of field can’t pick the fastest wheels and are forced to ride on the Shimano?
I did one of the races this morning and got the bonus XP, but have not seen any notifications regarding entering the drawing. I am subscribed to emails from Zwift
Hello. I cant see any event for the Epic routes. Is this because there are no races and you must do it on your own? Or am I wrong? Thanks in advance.
I see lots of events here: https://www.zwift.com/events/tag/zwiftepicsep2026
opt in for mail but haven’t got any registration for prizes after the event.
I did a 2nd race (first was the crit – second was the ~21km route – Croissant I think) – didn’t get it on the first, but did on the second
Did the croissant one today. Still no mail. I have contacted support.
TT Club, to this point, had been structured with the shorter TT’s early in the series so there was still suspense and movement at the top as the series progressed to longer distances.
Too bad they are straying from that now. You can’t make up as much time toward the end of the series when the courses are shorter.
TT club has used this format since May. Aiming around 10 mile per stage.
They need to do something with the time for the other races in the series (Crit and TT). They are every four hours, and the same time everyday. Would be nice if each day they were an hour sooner than the previous day.
So for me, Crit and TT are 6:20 and 6:40PM. Would be nice if the next day they were at 5:20 and 5:40pm, then 4:20 and 4:40pm, or something to give a bit more flexibility in the schedule … I believe they did this previously when they had more than one race in a series.
I get the feedback, but I think consistency is also important and it also becomes a scheduling nightmare for something that already takes me a considerable amount of time (I think I put about 100 hours into the September series in total)
100 hours for one month of events?? That’s crazy. There needs to be a script or tool (even if it’s internal only) that automates 90% of it for you.
If you do the 4 scratch races will you get the advertised XP, or do you have to do one each of scratch, tt, epic and crit?