Hi everyone,

First of all, thank you for the continued support and turnout for our endurance events in Le Mans Ultimate. Our recent 38-car 4, 6 and 8 hour races have been running consistently well, and we’re really pleased with how those events have performed.

However, as we continue to gear up for much larger team races, we’ve identified some unacceptable service issues when running events with 130+ clients connected to servers - which is expected for longer races and 62 car grids like Le Mans. These issues don’t show up in smaller races but become critical at this scale.

Because of this, we’ve made the decision to change how our larger team races will run going forward.

In our automated testing after completing some work to prepare for the upcoming test race, we found some anomalies with the network traffic within containers on these high-load servers. This led us to need to explore new options to handle this type of event. However, it won’t be possible to run the level of testing required to give us enough confidence to run several 24 hour races concurrently next weekend.

We know many of you have set aside that weekend for racing and already made plans, so to try and make sure you still get track time the test will still go ahead but with following changes,

To properly validate the new setup, we will now run a test race initially on Friday 27th February only:

• 12-hour race with full day/night cycle (2x time scale)

• 62 car grid

• Le Mans

• Single timeslot with start time: 10:00 UTC (Friday 27th February)

This limited time slot will allow our community and development team the ability to monitor closely the behaviour in “the wild”.

• If Friday’s test goes well, we’ll proceed with another race with the same format on Saturday 28th February - we will communicate this around the finish of the Friday race.

• Once the test races are reviewed, we will pragmatically analyse them and schedule any follow-up tests if required before committing to the next 24 hour test race.

We know changes like this aren’t ideal and will be disappointing for some, but our priority is to deliver stable, enjoyable racing, rather than push ahead and potentially cause the community the disappointment in losing time towards testing if we are not as confident as we could be with more time.

Thank you everyone for your understanding, flexibility, and continued passion and we will share further updates as soon as we’ve reviewed the results from the Friday test.

Until then enjoy getting those liveries ready and let the practice laps begin!

See you on track 🏁

• Updated Hypercar Tyres

Co-op

• Fixed a free pit stop exploit by handover and then reassigning to yourself

Engine & Tech

• Fixed a rare server crash

• Fixed an intermittent hang when server changes sessions from qualifying to race

Gameplay

• Fixed being teleported to the pits at Race Start will show you in first for a full lap

• Fixed unserved stop go penalties in qualifying resulting in a 0 second pitstop during the race

Limited Tyre Rules

• Fixed pit menu current tyre change selection not updating after becoming invalid due to a change in tyre allocation usage

• Improved game logic around replacement of tyres when picking up damage

• Prevented damaged and detached tyres from being reusable

Physics

• Improved auto blip model which to correct excessive rear locking, especially on LMDh cars

RaceControl

• Fixed missing message when there are no weekly/special events scheduled

Race Starts

• Fixed AI spacing out very unevenly during fast rolling starts

• Fixed circumstances of jump starts receiving no penalty

• Fixed exploit allowing burnout/speeding up and slowing down penalization

Replay

• Fixed a crash when loading a replay from the burger menu whilst in the Co-Op screen.

• Fixed being unable to change HUD options in Instant Replay mode

• Fixed lap count showing as 0

Telemetry

• Fixed last 10 seconds of telemetry not saving to file

Track Limits

• Fixed illegal pass monitoring not removing cars in the pit lane correctly

• Fixed track limits strictness occasionally changing after a pit stop

• Updated track limits to penalize time gain after rejoining track more harshly

User Interface

• Fixed layout formatting in race results

• Fixed SR label styling issues in daily race cards

Sebring  

• Fixed Pit Entry Track Limits on full circuit layout

Bahrain  

• Fixed missing collisions on the armco at the end of the pit wall

Silverstone  

• Added Goodyear arches in fanzone & near BRDC

• Added rally handling center

• Fixed leaving the last pit box before pit exit giving the user a track limits violation.

Paul Ricard  

• Added reinforcement secondary barriers behind armco in various locations

• Added various minor props around circuit

• Fixed some curbs being noticeably darker than others

• Fixed various minor gaps in terrain

• Increased grip by 2% on curbs

• Optimized run off road mesh topology

• Tweaked bollards materials and positioning

• Various asset material tweaks

• Adjusted Hypercar brake heating parameters

• Adjusted Hypercar traction control maps to better suit updated tyres

• FFB equalisation pass on Hypercars

• Fixed electric motor power output inconsistencies

• Fixed Hypercar soft tyres showing as extremely shiny when travelling at faster than 24kph

• Hypercar Damage Tweaks. Stronger Rear Wing, stronger suspension, weaker engine.

• Initial version of new Hypercar BOP for updated tyres

• Minor GT3 Bop Review

• Reviewed track limits target lap times on all cars

Peugeot 9X8 LMH  

• Adjusted naming of aero component from 'front diffuser' to 'front wing'

Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh  

• Adjusted Cadillac vertical seat movement limits

• Fixed rims being see through on lowest LOD

Oreca 07 LMP2  

• AI performance correlation tweaks (primarily Spa)

• Corrected rims being see through on lower LODs

BMW M4 LMGT3  

• Re-built interior LODs to improve quality

Porsche 911 LMGT3 R  

• Fixed object poking through rear of body

Chevrolet Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R  

• Fixed grill disappearing when car was far from camera

Alpine A424 LMDh  

• Update Alpine HUD for 2025

Lamborghini SC63 LMDh  

• Corrected SC63 template

Peugeot 9X8 LMH (w/Wing)  

• Corrected issue with top edge of inside windshield

McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo  

• Fixed missing tow strap on highest LOD

Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3  

• Corrected UV issue on main body LODs

Aston Martin Valkyrie LMH  

• Adjusted naming of aero component from 'front diffuser' to 'front wing'

• Adjustments to aerodynamics, spring rates and skid block

Ligier JS P325 LMP3   

• Corrected rear wing damage settings