News
06-May-2026, 17:00
Season 11 Feedback
Thanks to everyone who took part in the DRS Season 11 feedback survey. With more than 420 responses from riders and captains across the community, the results painted a really positive picture of where DRS is right now — and where we can still improve.
The headline numbers were hugely encouraging. The survey results would produce an estimated Net Promoter Score of +90.
That is an exceptionally high score by almost any benchmark and reflects the overwhelmingly positive sentiment toward DRS within the community. Out of 416 responses, 381 riders selected the top score, while only 6 respondents fell into the detractor category. And 5 of the detractors said they’d come back for Season 12, so thank-you for trusting us to listen and evolve!
What stood out most in the feedback was the appreciation for competitive and balanced racing. Riders repeatedly highlighted the close racing, strong organisation, category structure, and the sense of team community that DRS creates each week. Comments such as “Closest team racing on the planet” and “DRS is the most competitive series on Zwift” summed up the general feeling from many participants.
There was also valuable constructive feedback.
More than 2/3 of you wanted the TTR course to be punchier or with more material climbs. We’re trying to balance this with wanting it to be a course our rouleurs can do well in, but we’ve definitely taken that on board with the selection for Season 12. Fingers crossed that it is just like baby bear’s porridge for you all! (not too hot or too cold)
Powerups was a lot more split. Actually half of you liked powerups at every banner … but that still leaves half who wanted 1 or none. So we’ve decided to go with one powerup in the Pen for Season 12, and we’ll review again. We certainly are happy to go back to powerups at all the banners if that’s what the majority of you racers prefer, but its good to try things out too.
Only 25% of you wanted to reduce or remove the 35-point limit above category for improving riders, so we’ll leave that as-is for now.
When we looked into those of you who didn’t have a great time in DRS, or felt that you were categorised too high, there was a clear correlation between that feedback and being in one of the “double-categories” that are predominantly in our US timezones. We’re really sorry that we couldn’t change that for Season 12, but being May we knew that the signup numbers there wouldn’t be able to justify it. But we are definitely up for looking to split out into single categories for more timezones that can justify it for Season 13.
Overall, we’re really proud of the feedback we received, and very grateful to all of you for your support. I write this (late as usual…sorry!) as Season 12 has commenced and we’re over the moon to have nearly 1,500 racers still wanting to race with us in May. We hope you have a fantastic series.
🧡Team DIRT Racing 🧡
17-Apr-2026, 17:00
A DIRTy Dozen
@everyone - we are GO for Season 12! More than 70% of our survey respondees said that they were up for it despite the weather getting better ... so here we go!
We'll run for 5 Tuesdays from May 5th and we'll plan to repeat timezones and categories as per Season 11. We're about to get cracking with the route selections and setups - but in the meantime PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can you get ticking a box on the website so we know you're coming along.
Go to https://www.dirtracingseries.com/account/ and scroll down to tick to box if you are going to be riding.
You should plan for us to close registration for race 1 on April 31st - so you've got 2 weeks to finalise/shuffle/coerce your riders/captains into racing. 😆
And please don't think we have forgotten about the survey results themselves, I'll try and write something up for you all in the coming weeks, but we will certainly be taking it into account for the Season 12 planning!
🕕 Team DIRT Racing 🕕
28-Feb-2026, 11:37
WE'RE BACK
Which you already know because over 2000 of you have accepted team registration.
Firstly - apologies for the lack of notifications - this is totally on me. Work has been kicking my ass and I'm afraid I dropped @RC - Doug right in it with being literally no help whatsoever over the last few weeks.
Luckily for all of us who are looking forwards to next week, he is a BEAST and has monstered a huge amount of work that goes into setting up a series like this on a completely new website and platform. Thank-you mate!
And also luckily for all of us is the fact that we have our amazing @us-rc team still here and supporting us, alongside the awesome new @emea-rc - and we should all be very grateful for their willingness to help. This series wouldn't happen without them!
@everyone - please do remember this when you engage with them or us. Politeness and kindness are expected here, and if you haven't before, then please do have a read of our community rules.
With so many registrations, we will be creating multiple leagues for some categories in both EMEA C and EMEA W. To allow us to do this most accurately and get good rider counts in all leagues: Please can all @emea-team-captains ensure that all their riders are accepted into a team by Sunday, 1 March 2026 at 18:00
(magic time that will show for your actual timezone).
Whilst we are currently working on the process for the website, you should assume that you will not be able to register new teams or riders for race 1 after this time.
So whilst @US-team-captains can see their passes already - we might not be able to release EMEA race passes until Monday morning. I promise to pop a notification here when they are to save your F5 key!
Team DIRT Racing
16-Dec-2025, 15:26
Hey @everyone - just a quick note as promised to update on our plans for next year.
We're working towards running a 5-week/6-race series on Tuesdays from March 3rd to March 31st.
@RC - Doug has been hard at work and built a whole new infrastructure that we hope will help reduce the overhead of running the series. But we've still got some bits to sort over the coming weeks, but things are looking good for that timeframe.
We also thought that date range would work well for you all as it is in the ZRL spring break. This means we can run DRS on Tuesdays, and we're planning to cover the same time-zones as before - Atlantic, EMEA C & W, US E & W.
So we wish you all an absolutely awesome Christmas / Holiday Season - and we hope to be racing again with you all in the new year.