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Zwift + Pas Normal Studios are partnering for a race series April 6 to May 3, and it’s going to be a gravel blowout! The series features three new gravel-focused routes and is timed to line up with new gravel frames and wheelsets in Zwift’s Drop Shop. And on top of all that, we’ve got a kit unlock on offer as well!
These races will be popular for several reasons, including prominence on the calendar as they effectively replace Zwift’s regular ZRacing events for four weeks. Read about the series below…
Route Details and Schedule
UPDATE April 7, 2026: Zwift informed us today that they’re pulling the new Gravel Mountain routes from the Pas Normal Racing series due to user feedback after the first day of racing. (You can read some of that feedback in the comments on this page, as well as Zwift forum topics like this.)
Stage 1 has been changed to Watopia’s Jungle Circuit, and stage 4 is now on Watopia’s Serpentine 8.
A decision has not yet been made on how the GC will be handled for the series, since it wouldn’t make sense to count riders’ times for two different routes. We will update this post once we know more.
Here are the details of what we’ll be racing in the Pas Normal Racing series:
- Stage 1 (Apr 6-12):
Red Rock Loops (Gravel Mountain)Jungle Circuit (Watopia)- 1 lap (13.5km, 91m elevation)
- Powerups: Steamroller
- Stage 2 (Apr 13-19): Handful of Gravel (Watopia)
- 2 laps (16.3km, 169m elevation)
- Powerups: Steamroller
- Stage 3 (Apr 20-26): Yumezi Grit (Makuri Islands)
- 2 laps (19.1km, 235m elevation)
- Powerups: Steamroller
- Stage 4 (Apr 27-May 3):
Red Rock Loop Reverse (Gravel Mountain)Serpentine 8 (Watopia)- 1 lap (26.9km, 239m elevation)
- Powerups: Steamroller
See all upcoming series events >
New Gravel Frames+Wheels
Zwift is using this series as an opportunity to refresh the Drop Shop’s gravel offerings more than ever before, with 5 frames arriving along with 2 wheelsets! Some of these are already in game and available for purchase, and we’ve completed and published our performance tests. Others will arrive in Zwift’s next game update, which is scheduled to roll out April 7.
New Bikes
- Canyon Grail SLX (read performance test results)
- Cannondale SuperX LAB71 (read performance test results)
- Specialized Diverge 4 (launches April 7)
- Pinarello Dogma GR (read performance test results)
- Cervelo Aspero 5 (read performance test results)
New Wheels
- ZIPP 303 XPLR SW (read performance test results)
- Roval Terra Aero CLX (launches April 7)
Pas Normal Kit Unlock
Finish any stage of this series and unlock the in-game Pas Normal Racing kit.
XP Bonuses
Like Zwift’s regular ZRacing series, this race series includes XP bonuses for stage completion! A total of 2000 XP is available:
- 1 stage: 1000 XP
- 2 stages: +500 XP
- 3 stages: +300 XP
- 4 stages: +200 XP
GC Leaderboards
Zwift’s web-based leaderboards are used to track the monthly GC competition in ZRacing and similar series. Unlike past years, no ZwiftPower registration or use is necessary.
Access the ZRacing leaderboards at zwift.com/racing/leagues/pasracing2026 >
Your GC ranking is based on your best finishing time for each stage, and you can race each stage more than once to try for a better time.
Category Options
For their monthly series, Zwift typically schedules three different categorization schemes to encourage “Fairer, more competitive racing for everyone.” The different racing score ranges are titled Advanced, Range 1, and Range 2:
See upcoming Range 1 events >
See upcoming Range 2 events >
See upcoming Advanced events >
See ALL upcoming events >
Questions or Comments?
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Exciting! However also disappointing that the Enve Mog and Melee still have not been added 😕
Agreed, we need ENVE frames! Word is we may see them in Zwift before the year is out…
Are there gonna come any new road bikes with the next update?
No new road bikes in the next update, but for sure new road bikes this year! Zwift is adding ~15 bikes this year… I assume most will be road.
Thanks for the information Eric 🙏
I like the idea of kicking off the new gravel mountain world with a racing series. However, given that there wasn’t much gravel racing previously, it would be more enticing to me if equipment was neutralized for these events to give everyone time to get / upgrade gravel bikes.
As someone who put in a lot of time to specifically upgrade his Specialized Crux to level 5 (on the way to get the Project 74) for the 2-3 races a year I do where it matters, I would love to get the advantage out of it before it is superseded by the new gravel frames and I have to start the upgrade grind all over again (I tend to just do lots of Z2 1-2 pace partners down from my usual rather than trying to find gravel rides to do it).
As it is, I still have 5-ish months before I’m going to get the Project 74 fully upgrades, so I’m not looking forward to doing more upgrades.
I mostly rode Pace Partners as well – it took a LONG time didn’t it.
I’ve upgraded the three Specialized bikes now but haven’t pulled the trigger on buying the P74 – 10million drops is a lot to commit.
See you on Gravel Mountain!
Everyone’s had loads of time to upgrade bikes (says the person with the Level 5 Crux – not that I expect it to make much difference to my results 😂)
I’m a bit confused on what set-up to use for these races.I currently don’t have a gravel set-up, only a fully upgraded road set-up. I don’t think there is enough time to prepare a fully upgraded gravel set-up in one week. Also hard to find information and see what’s the best set-up on ZwifterBikes at the moment, not all routes and bikes are released yet. Any advice? Should I use my road set-up or start working on a gravel set-up?
Buy and use a gravel setup. The new Cannondale frame and Zipp wheels are the best available.
And upgrade it as quickly as possible!
Ehhhh….. given that there’s a s-works in that upcoming list, it’s a guarantee that it will be the new top dog. We all know how specialized bikes have to be the best in every category because they funded zwift. Better off waiting till the 7th and likely upgrading that.
And if you have a fully upgraded gravel bike that was previously the best, it’s probably faster than a stage 3 upgrade of one of the newer bikes still.
Do you already know the performance of the other gravel bikes being released, hence your comment about the Cannondale?
I don’t. Testing in the next few days.
Rhe double speed graphics made me dizzy. Helicopter view was best.
Hi Eric
Is it worth getting the SuperX Lab71 now and working on the upgrade or will one the unreleased frames be a better long term choice?
I don’t know until I test the new frames! Hopefully this week.
The Cervelo Aspero should be at least as fast as the Cannondale, if not faster. Hoping…
We need the PROPAIN Gravel (Terrel CF) in the Game!
No makeup week for this?
Nope. Just like ZRacing.
Will there on demand events as well? I only have a level 0 Aspero and don’t want to get destroyed in these races.
No on demand events. These are races that effectively replace Zwift’s ZRacing series.
An absolute masterpiece of bugs, glitches, and unfinished business. Mario Kart with epilepsy. It’s so bad that’s becomes good. My congratulations to everyone who took part in this.
I didn’t get the 1000xp either. Was fun in a mad sort of way though
I also missed out on the xp. No idea as to why, as I got the jersey and went to 19km. Not my sort of race, so don’t fancy doing it again!
Same for XP and jersey. Trying to close the last 1,5 levels before cap moves, but not going to try this again
Same here – glitches and no XP bonus. Finished 13th out of 40 according to the rider list on the right of the screen. However, my cycling shorts and the CA app showed 17th. Zwift, you can do much better than that 😡
I am in the same boats as you all. I did get the kit! Yesterday I did range 2 and noticed that it doesn’t/didn’t count as I have 0/4…that should count as all the ranges and advanced count. I sent my comment on this website in hopes Eric and Zwift read it. Hopefully Zwift will look into it and make sure we all get what we should be getting (credit and bonus XP).
that was zany! and no 1000xp for me either… oh well. I’ll do the other 3 races as I need my fix of jumpy/kooky/wild graphics to start my day.
That was definitely the worst Zwift racing experience I’ve had. I’m assuming they wanted it to feel fast and exciting, but it just felt choppy and out of control. Kept kicking me out of the draft and any type of speed differential just caused surging. Only worse Zwift race I can think of is when we were forced to be dinosaurs on Aprils Fools last year and we couldn’t see anything in our Ladder league race.
Ooh, I remember that. Dinosaurs being so big that I couldn’t see gaps in front of me (or if someone 3 riders up had attacked) was the absolute worst.
Any tips for how to make the most out of the powerups for these races?
The feeling of speed was actually nice. Going back to a regular road bike on pavement in zwift felt soooo slow after. But they don’t seem to have actually worked through the details here, it seems they just doubled the game clock speed, so the bumps on the road make other riders look like they are jittering around. The camera swings wildly around S-turns, although this might be kind of fun. The speeded up timeline really shows that the pack dynamics need work, very wonky and jumping around, never seeming to stay in the draft well and unnatural.
The equation on gravel is totally shifted, what works and what doesn’t as a break away is totally different with it seemingly being easier to chase down. This was refreshing for a change.
If they can work out the kinks this could be a fun format for racing for a change up of things that feel the same in every zwift race.
I noticed that my race does not count. I did the range 2 as I thought those count. I also received the kit, which means it should have counted (I still have 0/4). Please advise. Thank you.
Yeah same for me.. I’m gonna contact support
It looks like all the stages have been revised. I just finished another stage 1, which is the Jungle Circuit. I was able to make this count by getting the 1000xp bonus and completing it ✅️. And I raised my racing score by 5 points!
Good luck getting stage 1 (official one) done!
So GRAVEL MOUNTAIN doesn’t feature a mountain?
So how much faster are the gravel bikes? I’m upgrading my aero bike so stuck with that. People seemed to be going past ridiculously fast for same w/kg as me.
The difference in rolling resistance is worth 63 watts for a 75kg rider at 40km/h.
Thanks
Hi,
Somehow I had not checked the garage so i used the Zwift Steel Bike. It seemed really really slow. I more or less was able to push the same watt but people just flew by me. Pushing around 290-330 watt , weighing around 79kg) I could not even hold a wheel in front of me for more that 5 seconds. I will try saturday again but know i just read the same route is cancelled. Would have been fun to see the difference on gravel bike.
Did anyone actually receive the 1000 XP bonus? I didn`t and from the comments I saw while racing and the ones here other folks also did not receive theirs. Not that it makes a huge difference (for me it currently equals 1/16th of a level upgrade) but I actually like to finally get the carrots dangling in front of my face… 🤔😉
I got the jersey but i didn’t see the normal XP bonus popup and it doesn’t appear to have counted on the PAS racing Series challenge card in the companion app or main game.. still shows 0/4.. I did do the first race that was available but the PAS racing series challenge card was not available at that time
I did and my progress card still says 1/4 complete
A lot of people are going to be really peeved, if the last three bikes (Diverge, Dogma, Aspero) are better than the Cannondale 😂
Unless those other bikes upgrade better, the Lab71 will still be best. The Aspero 5 is one second better on flat, but about 10 seconds slower on climbs at Stage 0 (means no upgrades). The Dogma GR is close to Lab71 on flats, but climbing is 4 seconds behind Lab71 at Stage 0
in ~2 minutes after start my avatar suddenly became moving from side to side,as if i had controls. fliers have gone and i decided to quit this pile of a ..race/and may be i’ll never come back
Is there a typical time that items are dropped? I do not see the items mentioned to drop on April 7th in the shop? Does anyone else see them?
I don’t see them yet either came here to see if there were any comments. Anyone know what’s up with the items that were supposed to drop 4/7?
They arrive with the version 1.111 game update that starts rolling out today: https://zwiftinsider.com/update-1-111-160391/
Can you ride this on a non gravel bike? Or is the gravel bike necessary, or required.
You can ride it on a non-gravel bike… but you’ll lose the race (fair warning) since road bikes roll slower on dirt than gravel bikes!
I know I am being thick but I am confused as to why I can’t see Stage 1 (Apr 6-12): Red Rock Loops (Gravel Mountain). But I can see Stage 1: Pas Racing: Jungle Circuit
Event Rules
The route from week 1 has been changed to Jungle Circuit
After all the issues that happened with the route, it’s not surprising (sad, but not surprising). Hopefully they will fix everything and bring it back it was a nice route when ridden solo (dropped early and often).
So I just gave everything I could on the monday prime time to be 700th in the gc due to the change of course. Pretty nice!
I do hope they bring back gravel mountain, just fix the bugs. I actually really liked that route and was disappointed when I went back to ride it today and it was gone. 😞
Fair warning, you may not get credit if you finish. I did it yesterday and it said 0/4 for the series
Showing 1 of 4 completed in the series for me and I havn’t participated in any races. Hope that doesn’t screw me out of the 1,000xp for the first race I do.
Hi, I don’t see the leaderboards for the PAS Racing series, the link provided in the article seems wrong.
Can somebody post the correct link please ?
Thanks 🙏
Hi, the PAS Racing doesn’t appear in Zracing general classification with the link provided in the article. Can somebody post the correct link please ?
thanks 🙏🏼
you can read about the GC in the article, this probably has something to do with the fact that they haven’t decided on it yet.
Actually, I found it. Here is the correct link.
https://www.zwift.com/racing/leagues/pasracing2026
Fixed!
The link works but stage 1 results are not there. Could you let people at Zwift know about this Eric?
Stage 1 was neutralized. See https://zwiftinsider.com/gravel-mountain-change/
Thank you for the update.
Just bought the new Cevelo and Royal gravel wheels and now they’ve cancelled the route. It’s a shame as I wanted to see what difference they make. Shame to waste the money as I’ve only got 25 million left 😂
Not a waste… use them on every race of this Pas series!
are you saying the gravel bikes will perform better than fully upgrated SL8 + Zipp858 on the stages 2-4?
Well my stage 5 Crux with the new Roval Terra Aero wheels easily out paced the other road bikes on the gravel esp on the descents, BUT the length of the road lead in had me working my arse off and eventually left me for dead 🙄
Stage 2, there is no Power Up given and nothing in the start pen.
Dang, fingers crossed they fix it by tomorrow when I’m doing that stage, my legs need all the help they can get, lol!
Considering “pulling the new Gravel Mountain routes from the Pas Normal Racing series due to user feedback after the first day of racing.” what bikes should we be using for stage 2: gravel or road? Btw, seemingly no power-ups at all on stage 2.
I would use a gravel bike, and be prepared to push hard at the start since it is paved for a bit as you head into the jungle.
Can i still race stage 1 and do i receive the xp bonus, even though the original period (Apr 6-12) elapsed?
Unfortunately, the answer is no and no. 😬
Thanks Eric!
Rode Stage 2 today – there were no Powerups. Otherwise really enjoyed it.
I did a Handful of Gravel race last week, but during the race I never got any Steamroller power ups during the race which I completed. Why did I not get any Steamroller power ups?
Missed Stage 2, no makeup races?