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Zwift’s “ZRacing” is the platform’s most popular ongoing race series, and July’s races have us jumping on the Tour Fever train with five TdF-themed stages in France.
New this month: a “Cool Down” feature that extends the race experience past the finish line. Read on for details about this month’s race routes and more!
July’s Routes
Here are the routes we’ll be racing in July:
- Stage 1 (Jun 30-Jul 6): Croissant
- 2 laps (21.78km, 122m)
- Powerups: Draft, Steamroller
- Stage 2 (Jul 7-13): Gentil 8
- 1 lap (25.78km, 258m elevation)
- Powerups: Feather, Steamroller
- Stage 3 (Jul 14-20): Champs-Élysées
- 2 laps (16.42km, 92m)
- Powerups: Feather, Draft
- Stage 4 (Jul 21-27): R.G.V.
- 1 lap (24.78km, 133m)
- Powerups: Draft, Aero
- Stage 5 (Jul 28-Aug 3): Hell of the North
- 1 lap (20.16km, 241m)
- Powerups: Feather, Steamroller
See upcoming Range 1 events >
See upcoming Range 2 events >
See upcoming Advanced events >
See ALL upcoming events >
New “Cool Down” Feature
Zwift is debuting a new “cool down” feature in July’s ZRacing events. After each race, riders will stay in the event for 10 minutes instead of automatically returning to the open world, giving you a chance to warm down with the people you just raced against.
Each rider’s finishing position will be on the back of their kit, and you can click to view race results in the HUD whenever you’d like.
GC Leaderboards
Zwift debuted new web-based leaderboards at zwift.com for tracking the Zwift Games 2025 GC, and an upgraded version of those leaderboards is now being put to work for the monthly ZRacing series.
Access July’s leaderboard at zwift.com/racing/leagues/zracingjul2025 >
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.
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Choose Your Category
Zwift schedules three different flavors of ZRacing events in order to encourage “Fairer, more competitive racing for everyone.” They each use different racing score ranges for categorization and are titled Advanced, Range 1, and Range 2. Click banners below to see upcoming events for each:
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Get the Badge
Each month’s ZRacing series has a unique achievement badge, which you can unlock by finishing every stage for the month. There are no makeup events, so if you miss a stage, you miss out on the badge and competing in the GC.
One and Done
Zwift has planned these events to deliver a solid 1-hour workout, so each race should only take around 1 hour to complete, including your warmup and cooldown.
Questions or Comments?
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The new “cool down” feature sounds like a “cool” ideia! I always felt a bit like an abrupt transition to the “real world” after racing.
Agreed!
Very nice. Will I get a ‘coffee break’ after the race?
I always thought they could do a virtual podium with your avatar. Or on the tv screens in game like on Champs add the actual screen finish.
zwift has now become the same race all week platform! ….oh the days when we had a choice of 50 different races throught EACH DAY!
Agree 100%. If the course doesnt suit you basically youre stuffed for a whole week.
Very cool about the cool down! I love the idea.
I hope the cool down part does not decrease our average wattage!
Pretty sure it will. There really isn’t another way to do it, unless Zwift was to auto save the race as soon as it ends and start a fresh cool down activity. But that comes with its own problems…
Liking the cool down feature, hopefully it triggers an auto-lap as soon as you cross the finish line. Sometimes I’d be too gassed to remember to do it myself.
I really like the idea of placing the finishing position on the back of each rider at the end of the race! I wonder what the ratio of positive chat to negative chat in this cool down period will be…? I highly doubt the word “sandbag” will ever be used.
also add DQ for the guys in A/B that dont have a HRM and strike them from the standings.
Surely I cannot be the only Zwifter who would like to see the ZwiftHQ monthly races introduce and regularly feature custom finish points, rather than always completing a set number of laps of a route?
A custom finish, often short of doing one lap, might convince an awful lot of racers to stick around after the finish to complete the lap at a more leisurely pace… Especially if they haven’t got the route badge.
The “cool down” feature would be great in group rides. Hopefully they’ll allow community organizers to enable it in their events in the future.
I’m particularly imagining a group ride up AdZ where pacers are trying to make their goal time but still want to be able to encourage riders who are behind the pace. Currently they need to jump through hoops by putting the event finish line past the KOM banner and stop riding before crossing the event line.
Zwift is for sure going to make it available for community events, once they’re sure the feature is working as expected and folks like it. I bet we’ll see it being used by community organizers within a few weeks.
I was on a group event/ride this week with this enabled! It was a nice feature!
i like the cool down feature, but sometimes I’m on a tight schedule and will if we exit before the 10 min window is done will we forfeit the race/event/badge?
For sure no! Cool down is entirely optional. It’s just a way to help Zwifters be more social after an event ends. To sign off at their leisure instead of everything just ending abruptly.
The new cooldown feature has a “groin score” feature.
Get your leaderboard position stuck to your avatar’s groin.
Although, unfortunately the leaderboard position and the groin position don’t always agree with where you finished.
Range 1 and 2 have overlapping racing scores. Can I race in both ranges? Does it matter which I chose? My racing score is 298
Doesn’t matter. Obviously the higher range is likely to be more challenging. As a sprinter I’m thinking I’ll race this twice: once in my lower bracket where I stand a good chance of winning, and once in my higher bracket where a win is a long shot, but would do wonders for my ranking.
Cheers. I am going to enter the lower amd see hiw that goes.
I just did stage one but I do not see a Qllez Allez Allez progress like 1/4 as is normally shown.
I guess you’ll have to do it again after you’ve registered
Thanks Xavier. I always register but for the Allez Allez I can’t find where to register…
Tonight at 6pm GMT+2 I had both new challenges on my home screen, Allez³ and the climb portal. Maybe support can credit you the 1st stage.
I hust checked and I also have rhem on my homescreen now and it shows stage 1 credit. Ride on!
Just completed Stage 1 race in Range 1, Cat 160-270, and as I crossed the finish line Zwift crashed. As I went back in it let me re-enter the activity but has saved it as ‘France’ – not recognising it was an event, giving me a finish position, or updating my Racing Score. Has this happened to anyone else or just me?
Never happened before for me so wondering if it’s a bug related to the new Cooldown.
The same thing happened to me just now, my race results are lost.
Happened to me too. Queried with Zwift who acknowledged I’d finished the race, but still just shows up as ‘France’.
What happens if you upgrade or downgrade during series. If upgrade you’d have to enter higher cat next race but what happens to prev times. If downgrade should you race in new cat or the higher one you are no longer strictly in?
Categories no longer matter with the way Zwift manages the leaderboards in this series.
Boo for no makeup days