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KW Studios has deployed the long-awaited Summer Update for RaceRoom Racing Experience, alongside the DTM 2026 Car Pack, bringing the latest DTM season to the racing simulator.
Alongside a good list of fixes and improvements, the latest update focuses on modernizing the sim’s infrastructure and features visually refreshed circuits, including the Nürburgring Nordschleife 2026 and the Autodromo Nazionale Monza track.
But the update has lots more to offer. Most notably, is the complete removal of RaceRoom’s legacy Flash-based HUD (used since 2013) in favor of the new COSMO UI renderer letting users move, resize, toggle elements, or hide every individual UI module. It also features a new Multi-Function Display with a clearer layout and dedicated tabs for real-time gap monitoring (relative), lap times, car telemetry, and pit strategy configurations. The Track Map now shows you multiclass color coding to make reading traffic easier.
COSMO UI HUD
Available new elements:
- MFD ( multi-function display ) carries several pages of info: a Relative page, a Laptimes page, a Vehicle page, as well as the Pit page
- Tyres has everything you want to know about tyre temperatures, pressures, wear, brake temperatures, and how much dirt you’ve picked up on each tyre.
- Standings shows your lap times in qualifying, the running order in a race, and the leaderboard in a time attack.
- Timing shows your position, current lap number, sector info as well as a reminder of your last lap and best laps.
- Instruments is the cluster: gear, speed, revs, vehicle condition, ABS and TC activity, DRS and more.
- Status Strip gathers all notifications like slowdowns, invalidated laps, etc.
- Message Log gathers multiplayer chat and system messages.
Re-implemented and enhanced elements:
- Delta is the live gap to your best lap of the session.
- Track Map shows everyone’s position around the circuit, now with multiclass colours so you can read a mixed field at a glance.
- Starting Lights is the red-light race start sequence.
- Virtual Mirror just as before, for when your real mirrors are out of FoV.
- Radar is the proximity radar for close-quarters racing.
- Input Meter traces your steering, throttle, brake, and clutch.
- FFB Graph shows your force feedback output and any clipping.
Furthermore, the development team worked hard to optimise the backend netcode to allow for substantially larger online grids, supporting reliable 50+ driver grids on dedicated servers. All of this can now be achieved without server stability drops.
Check out the full changelog below for all the details.
DTM 2026 Car Pack
The DTM 2026 Car Pack includes the new Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo, Ford Mustang GT3 Evo, Lamborghini Temerario GT3 and Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo. Also included are the latest teams and liveries from the 2026 DTM season across all seven participating manufacturers.
Alongside the new content, the update pack introduces updated mid-season Balance of Performance (BoP) adjustments matching the real-world 2026 DTM grid changes.
The DTM 2026 Car Pack is available in the RaceRoom Store for €29.99.
Included in the 2026 DTM Car Pack:
- Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo (NEW)
- BMW M4 GT3 Evo
- Ford Mustang GT3 Evo (NEW)
- Lamborghini Temerario GT3 (NEW)
- McLaren 720S GT3 Evo
- Mercedes-AMG GT3
- Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo (Updated)
Summer Update Changelog:
- Download size = 7.2 GB
- Client version = 0.9.8.03
- Client BuildID = 24545523
- Dedicated Server version = 111.0.1660
- Dedicated Server BuildID = 24545792
- Content – Added the DTM 2026 car pack
- HUD – Added a new in-race HUD ( standings, relative, delta, tyres, radar, track map, virtual mirror, pit and vehicle pages, instrument pod )
- HUD – Added HUD options for maximum refresh rate and resolution scale, and a key to toggle the whole HUD
- HUD – Reworked track map markers ( class-coloured circles, player icon, flashing safety-car marker )
- Nürburgring Nordschleife – Updated to 2026 spec
- Nürburgring Nordschleife – Updated AI pace and NLS / 24h fuel estimates
- Monza – Updates to art ( 8k tarmac, kerb wear, skids, dirt, sausage-kerb scratches )
- Red Bull Ring – Removed two sausage kerbs and added a new runoff at the final corner
- Red Bull Ring – Nudged up AI pace
- Portimao – Added 8k tarmac textures and fixed track-surface issues
- Laguna Seca – Added 8k tarmac textures, 3D trees and curb wear
- Slovakia Ring – Fixed track-surface issues and added green tarmac at Turn 1
- Brands Hatch – Fixed holes in the track surface
- Zandvoort – Fixed holes in the track surface
- Imola – Fixed track-surface issues
- Twin Forest – Fixed track-surface issues
- Oschersleben – Fixed pit entry behaviour on the GP layout
- Physics – TCR – suspension rework. Centre of gravity heights recalculated, suspension travel and bump stop contact corrected, and anti-lift set to roughly 10-15% at both ends
- Physics – Suspension geometry pass on anti-lift and anti-squat across the Super Touring, WTCC 2013, WTCC TC1 and TCR fields, plus the Audi TT Cup and Audi TT RS VLN
- Physics – Super Touring – rear axles now have proper anti-lift and will squat under braking, rear bump steer increased so the axle helps turn the car rather than just follow the front, and a little front anti-lift added in place of the previous pro-lift for better traction
- Physics – GT3 aero balance dynamic behaviour updated
- Physics – Balance of Performance and setup pass across the GT3 field
- Physics – Updated the DTM 2013-2016 cars [ leaderboards reset ]
- Physics – DTM 1992 – BMW M3 Sport Evolution drag and drivetrain friction corrected, steering lock range widened [ leaderboards reset ]
- Physics – Formula RaceRoom US – downforce reduced by about 25% [ leaderboards reset ]
- Physics – Tyre dirt and marble pickup now takes about 3 times longer to clean off
- Physics – Added a regen-braking guard so hybrids do not regen with the engine off
- Physics – Added a sequential stick shifter gearbox type, with its own clutch, blip and dogbox behaviour. 35 cars now use it, including the Super Touring, WTCC, TC1 and TCR fields, the GTR1 and GTR2 cars and the Mazda MX-5 Cup
- Physics – Shift times reduced across the GT3 field
- Physics – Undertray feelers stiffened on all cars so floors no longer sink through the ground, and slammed cars bounce less
- Physics – Default engine map is now the highest one on the P1, P2, GrC, GrA, GTE and FR-90 cars
- Physics – Max steering lock ranges corrected on 25 cars across WTCC 2013, WTCC TC1, DTM 1992, Touring Classics, Audi TT cup, GTR2 and P2
- Physics – Gear ratio and final drive options respaced, and track-specific ratios added for Vallelunga, Spa 2025 and Adria
- Physics – Mazda MX-5 – Reduced suspension travel so the wheels no longer poke through the bodywork
- Cameras – Adjusted onboard cameras on several cars ( Audi 90 quattro GTO, BMW M4 DTM, Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM, Nissan GT-R GT1 )
- AI – Bunched up the GT3 AI field for closer racing
- Traction Control – Fixed TC Override only working below 9 m/s ( it now works at all speeds )
- Controllers – Lowered the maximum steering deadzone to 30% and removed a hardcoded centre notch
- Controllers – Fixed a gamepad staying disconnected after being unplugged, replugged, or moved to another USB port
- Multiplayer – Network optimizations to the dedicated server
- Multiplayer – Fixed a race-results scoring bug that could classify a finisher as a non-starter
- Fixed – Login could hang silently on start-up; login now times out and offers a working Retry
About RaceRoom
First released back in February 2013, out of the ashes of a well-regarded racing game developer, SimBin Studios, the core RaceRoom Racing Experience racing simulator is Free-To-Play and can be installed from this Steam link, with commercial add-ons available via the RaceRoom Store.
Official Webpages – game.raceroom.com
