Zwift’s “ZRacing” is the platform’s most popular ongoing race series. In September the series takes on a number of punchy racing routes, and all racers will be placed on the fast new Pinarello Dogma F 2024 frame. Additionally, the series continues to test Zwift’s new Zwift Racing Score in certain events!
Read on for details about race routes, the overall monthly GC competition, and more…
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Pinarello Powered – September’s Route Schedule
Here are the routes we’ll be racing in September (click route for details):
- Stage 1 (Sep 2-8): Rolling Highlands
- 2 laps (23km, 182m elevation)
- Powerups: Feather, Anvil 🛈
- Stage 2 (Sep 9-15): Park Perimeter Loop
- 2 laps (19.9km, 254m elevation)
- Powerups: Draft, Aero 🛈
- Stage 3 (Sep 16-22): Turf N Surf
- 1 lap (24.7km, 196m)
- Powerups: Feather, Aero 🛈
- Stage 4 (Sep 23-29): Loop de Loop
- 2 laps (25km, 288m)
- Powerups: Feather, Aero 🛈
- Stage 5 (Sep 30-Oct 6): Mayan 8
- 1 lap (26.2km, 249m)
- Powerups: Feather, Steamroller 🛈
See upcoming “Pinarello Powered” events >
Pinarello Dogma 2024 Colorway Unlock
Complete all 5 stages to unlock a Zwifty color scheme for the Pinarello Dogma F 2024 frame! This new frame is possibly the top all-arounder in game (read about it), and the custom colorway (shown above) is Zwifty indeed.
FYI: if you unlock the new colorway before owning the frame, that’s alright. Once you buy the frame you’ll be able to apply the new paintjob to it.
I’ll be riding all 5 races, because after almost 9 years on Zwift, this is my chance to finally have my in-game bike match my IRL one! (Photo taken on this morning’s outdoor ride…)
Series Structure
The ZRacing series consists of monthly sets of weekly races. Each race is scheduled for seven days (Monday through Sunday) and timeslots are consistent week to week.
Races are scheduled hourly times each day at 10 minutes past the hour, so there are plenty of available times to find a race.
See upcoming events at zwift.com/events/tag/zracingsep2024
Zwift Racing Score Test Events
Zwift Racing Score will continue to be tested this month on certain ZRacing events. Zwift is keeping the adjusted scoring bands that went into effect mid-August:
July’s Bands
- 725-1000
- 575-725
- 400-575
- 225-400
- 0-225
August’s Initial Bands
- 700-1000
- 550-700
- 425-550
- 250-425
- 0-250
September’s Bands
- 650-1000
- 525-650
- 415-525
- 300-415
- 0-300
Scored events will occur at 0810, 1110, 1710, 1810, and 2210 UTC each day. These time slots will use 5 categories, except the 1710 and 1810 time slots which will use 10 categories.
See upcoming scored race events >
IMPORTANT: there is a monthly GC for the 5-category scored races, and it is separate from the monthly GC for the standard category-enforced races. (See links below for each.) The 10-category scored races are not included in any GC.
Read more about Zwift Racing Score >
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Monthly GC on ZwiftPower
Each monthly series includes a time-based GC (general classification) tracking riders’ best finishing times for each week’s race. The overall winners in each category for the month are the riders with the lowest overall time for that month’s set of races.
See September’s GC on ZwiftPower >
See September’s Zwift Labs (Racing Score) GC on ZwiftPower >
With over 150 weekly timeslots available, riders can race each week’s event multiple times and try to better their finishing time. Tip: the fastest times usually come from the largest race fields!
You must use a heart rate monitor to show up in ZwiftPower results for this series.
If you aren’t signed up for ZwiftPower, check out our post How to Sign Up for ZwiftPower (and Why Every Zwifter Should Do It).
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?
Post below!
You going to get a new paint job for your real life Pino once you get the Zwift colour paint scheme so that they match up. 👍 👍 👍
My IRL one basically matches the new paint scheme I’ll be unlocking. The iPhone color corrects things too much so you don’t get the true colors in the IRL shot…
How about they make it just black. Not sure about that color way
I don’t get a thing: will all racers have the Dogma F as bike for the race or the bike/wheel choice will still be in place?
Yes, everyone will be on the same frame, but you can choose which wheels you use.
Does the game automatically put your most recently used wheelset on the Pinarello in these events? I normally always use the Tron on tarmac routes, so I think I did the race on gravel wheels yesterday.. That would explain why I had to work super hard, had one of the highest w/kg of anyone in the top half of the results, yet only barely hanging on to the group and not participating in the final, when the realization of probably riding on inferior material kicked in. Wish I’d read this thread before.
If you’ve been on the Tron I think the game puts you on the Zwift Classic wheels. That’s what seemed to happen in my race
Do we choose the wheels or are they also preselected?
You choose.
Why won’t they add a GC component to the new racing scores??? They would get so many more pieces of data through more riders if they added that!
There has been a GC for Racing Labs Racing Score Zmonthly races for July and August, but it does not include the ten pen events at 1810 and 1910 BST, which use different pen ranges.
August’s Zmonthly racing score gc https://zwiftpower.com/league.php?id=2376
July’s https://zwiftpower.com/league.php?id=2347
Oh! Thanks. I didn’t know that. I wonder they advertise NO GC, but then have one? Very strange.
TIL there is a GC for the 5-category scored races. 😀 Updated text above!
Great. No ugly Trons in the races 👍
Good to see everyone on same frame in September, just like Tron was given to everyone for a Neokyo Zmonthly some months back, but shame we aren’t all being issued with the same wheels too in September to level the playing field.
I don’t understand all the Tron hate lately. It’s by far the hardest of the initial unlocks in the game, so why wouldn’t people use it? Silly thing to get worked up about.
I agree , I started Zwift in late Dec . A pro triathlete who I have met and talked really good person , great biker , always uses the Tron. So that inspired me to work and get. Because first few rides I had no idea about the Tron . And once I realized what it took, put my head down and 48 days later got it. But the level of fitness I got never made me stop climbing. I was not good at climbing, now i’m . Tron is a symbol of work .
Because everyone and their dog rides a Tron now. I just got mine a little over a month ago amd I think I’ve ridden four or five times. Most days it just sits in the garage and collects dust.
peter cant unlock it – hence the hate.
Does anyone know if normalized power is factored in to the racing score?
Seems to me that a lot of people who live on the podium of zwift races have higher NPs and variability in the red on zwiftpower.
It is not, as far as I know.
That’s because the race winners are also typically the strongest sprinters. And strong sprints will generate higher NPs and thus variability.
That’s not true. A 15 second sprint will not drive your variability and NP up for a 30+ minute race. That math doesn’t math.
Repeated attacks of 1-2 minutws over the course of the race will change the NP and variability but still keep 10 minute and 30 second power from getting too high.
I’ve never understood NP or how it works. All I know is yesterday’s race shows me with an BP of 124% in the red. Of xourse, I was sick as a dog and it took me over six hours to cimplete Snowman. What did Kermit say? “It’s not easy being green.”
If a rider upgrades to a higher ZRS band, how will did affect his/her GC? Thx
Same as if they upgraded pace category… you’re basically out of luck in the GC. So if you think you may get upgraded, it may be smart to race up a category.
Or simply throw a towel and not to race at all until Zwift stops making fun of us with this ZRS half-baked comedy.
If near the top of a category you can sign up for all of that months races early and still enter the lower category if your racing score goes over!
Do the test events count for the monthly badge?
Yes!
What are test events? I’m going to be away on holiday for the last stage and would like to get the badge and the frame.
Test events are the Zwift Racing Score events mentioned above.
You don’t unlock a frame by doing all 5 races. Just a paintjob. You gotta buy the frame still!
I “bought” the frame as soon as it came out-really fancy that paintjob but don’t think I shall be able to access a smartbike in Crete!
Do you need to own the frame before completion to get the paintjob? Or would it be available AFTER completion if I dont own the bike yet?
The latter.
So I did this one yesterday, interesting that I went into the pens 10 mins early, realised I had some time so jumped into another route to warm up, got into that route and got the notification for the paint job unlock….the event hadnt even started and I had it! I still completed it, but I’ve noticed these kind of unlocks happening at the start of events, not the end!
And what happens if you get the new paint job before you have bought the bike?
Do you just get a tin of paint added to your garage shelves..
I was wondering the same thing… I want the frame, but need to save drops for the CADEX TT frame first. If I do all 5, and then buy the frame later this winter, do I still get custom paint?
If you unlock a paint job but don’t own the bike, the paint job basically sits invisibly in your garage, waiting for you to purchase the bike. Once you buy it, you can use the cool paintjob.
September’s bands… 650 to 1000.
Good luck there then!
650 to 1000 is far too wide.
who is actually over 900? a current pro perhaps
There are already a handful of people up there. Look at top performers in the a grade tiny races, you’ll find some there
I am totally doing this for the paint job now that I saw it was an option. I hope it’s something cool as the blue is a bit boring after the SparkleBike (Aeroad 2024) that came out last month and was briefly the fastest.
I’m doing the ZA too, solely for the paint job for the Aeroad.
New paint jobs suck me in every time. Just so sad I missed out on that legendary Team 7/eleven colorway that was apparently unlockable if you did one specific group ride with team alums 7-8 years ago.
I just did the new Myan 8 that’s the last stage of this event. I did the whole thing on my large chain ring, I’m a “D” class (1.7) so it wasn’t too bad. A lot of climbing and the HUD was really helpful
What happens if I complete the rest of the stage without completing stage 1? Will stage 1 come out again after stage 5 period?
Wondering this myself and have searched for an answer with no luck, Are there make up races for ones missed?
No make up races on ZRacing
Same question here. Stage 2 was supposed to be active and just found it is not. Anyway to make up for that race???
What is going on with the racing bands? For the first two Pinarello Powered races there was a bracket that ranged from 200 to 275 or 300. Now I am in a new bracket at 265-350. I was hoping that the racing bands would remain constant throughout a series.
Is there a make up event?
No make ups for ZRacing.
WTH? I went to ride stage 4 today, 29th, because I haven’t been able to before and it has already switched to Stage 5. I thought I would have until midnight on the 29th?
The changeover happens at midnight in London. Everyone else needs to adjust accordingly. It’s always been this way.
So by all accounts I should have had 2 more hours when I logged on at 1600 central time as that would make it 2200 in London on the same day, not yet the 30th. Or is my reasoning incorrect?
That sounds right. If my conversions are right there should have been stage 4 at 1610 and 1710 CDT. But the 1710 would have been under the Zwift Labs banner testing the new racing score, so you may have missed it or had it filtered out.
The changeover happened at the usual time this week.
Thanks Tom, I’m just miffed that I missed the frame color slider by one stage!🙁
I’m sad there are no make-up events. Now that the weather around here is getting worse, I’m on zwift more and last night I did stages 4 and 5. Just learned about this paint job and would totally do stages 1, 2, and 3 this weekend if there were make-ups. Ah well.
What if you missed one or two rides ?
any chance to do them later ?
Nope. No makeups for ZRacing.
@Eric Schlange do you know if Zwift ever re-runs events that give skin unlocks like this? Or is it always a one time thing? Wondering what my chances are of being able to get this unlock if I missed this event