V1.4, 28th July - release notes

Headlines - Game

• Improved protest system, with reports to come directly from event replays.

  • Each player has 3 protests per month, with protest credits returned on a successful protest

  • Protest cooldown removed

• Replaced TCP game connections with Reliable UDP for more reliable network connectivity

• Added new start driving in the pit lane feature when leaving garages and implemented fast lane logic

• Added VR FOV resolution scaling via OpenXR

• Overhauled brake system with more accurate brake thermals and brake pad performance curves

• Added minimum drive time requirements for team events. If lineups do not meet this they will not gain DR/Champ Points but they can still lose DR.

  • Previous use of this exploit by players will see their DR amended

Headlines - Content

• Added Cadillac V-Series.R Evo

• Added Alpine A424 joker updates

• Added Daytona as part of US Track Pack 1 DLC

• Added Laguna Seca as part of US Track Pack 1 DLC

• Significant update to Le Mans to match 2026 event

Game Updates

Championships - Online

• Fixed online championship rank breakdown points update clipping

Co-op

• Fixed car icons appearing stretched in menus

Custom Liveries

• Fixed an occasional crash downloading custom liveries

• Fixed back button is visible after hiding the UI in Showroom

• Fixed custom liveries appear as carbon fibre and "custom Team" on online leaderboards

• Updated region map conversion format to reduce artifacting

Driver Badges

• Custom badges are now only allowed for trusted drivers

Driver Swaps - Engineer

• Fixed damage not appearing on engineer menu until the driver changes an option on the MFD

Driving Standards

• Added HUD notification of incoming penalisation for being stopped on track

• Added server penalisation for cars stationary on the racing line

Engine & Tech

• Fixed a rare crash on startup when enumerating audio devices

• Fixes to resolve various in gameplay stalls

Gameplay

• Added logic for the game to hold the player in the garage if their pit box is blocked

• Added penalties and warnings for driving in other team's pit areas of the pitlane

• Disabled collisions when a car is spawned in the pit lane during the take control phase

• Implemented safe to exit garage checks before placing a driver in the pit lane

• When leaving pit boxes, cars are now always angled to avoid cars driving over other peoples pit boxes

Graphics

• Added AMD FSR 1.0 Support

• Minor optimisation to occlusion culling

• Various minor PostFX adjustments around exposure and warmth of image

Hosted Servers

• Fixed some cars receiving a disqualification after having a time penalty applied on hosted servers

Input

• Fixed numerous issues with controller steering rates

• Fixed some devices not working when DirectInput Fallback is left at it's default setting of false.

• Improvements to gamepad rumble

Limited Tyre Rules

• Fixed damaged tyres showing as available after returning to garage in non race sessions.

Netcode

• Fixed clients who can not see other cars due to latency or similar issues causing collisions for other people

• Improved netcode robustness by allowing the use of a flexible port range

Online

• Updates to ensure car damaged state is correctly restored when rejoining a race after a disconnection

• Added Event Jokers for all players - removing DR / SR impact from single driver events. It will take 10 races to earn your first, 20 for your second and 30 for your third

Physics

• Added look up tables for brake pad friction vs temperature curves

• Added physically modelled punctures

• Brake disc thermal physics simulation overhaul focusing on core temperatures and emissivity

• Improvements to brake rim heat calculation when wet

• Improvements to tyre damping to increase rolling resistance at low load and decrease rolling resistance at high load

Protests

• Change protest toast to notification toast

RaceControl Pro/Pro+

• Added Pro Subscription only Practice Servers

Race Watch Screen

• Redesigned stint page on watch screen

Race Weekend

• Fixed event time displaying as NaN Mins if no sessions are selected

Replay

• Fixed not all damage displaying in replays

• Fixed throttle and brake spam when the game is running at a low tick rate

Teams - RaceControl

• Fixed an extremely long error message when registering a line up where drivers have a Bronze 0 SR.

• Fixed number selection not working at team event registration

Track Limits

• Added a calculation to reduce points lost when driving off track but "on the limit"

• Fixed an issue where time ratio points are incorrectly recalculated after rejoining the track

User Interface

• Fixed driver images not showing when their names use special characters

• Fixed event history page number not being highlighted fully

• Fixed incorrect font for your team name in the standings screen

• Fixed missing nationalities on car selection menu for 2026

• Fixed the rare situation that certain users have extremely poor UI performance

• Updated Le Mans loading screen image

Virtual Reality

• Added VR support to FSR

• Added native OpenXR support

• Added VR FOV resolution scaling via OpenXR

Track Updates

Le Mans 2026 Season Update

• Add more Helicopters

• Add new tyre barriers near Maison Blanche

• Added 24h fan zone balloon

• Added armco Adecco advert at Tetre Rouge

• Added Bosch branding to tyre barrier at Mulsanne Chicane

• Added car manufacturer flags to fan areas

• Added crane at Corvette curves

• Added drones

• Added emergency helicopters

• Added extra ambulances

• Added extra assets to the Maison Blanche car park

• Added extra Goodyear on track sign at Arnage

• Added extra Michelin sign at Mulsanne chicane

• Added extra Michelin sign at Porsche curves

• Added Fan zone flags at Maison Blanche

• Added flags to the podium

• Added floodlights to Porsche curves

• Added garage number signs to pit lane garage lighting gantries

• Added karting branding to Maison Blanche pit building

• Added Le Mans Spirit Club building

• Added missing lighting on Ford Chicane

• Added missing radio tower by Ford chicane

• Added new crowd fencing at Mulsanne corner

• Added new grandstands after Goodyear bridge

• Added new grandstands and spectators at Corvette curves

• Added new Rolex TV podium

• Added new spectator area mound inside Karting corner

• Added new TV screen at Le Mans bridge

• Added new under construction building at Forest esses

• Added nightlighting at Corvette Curve and Maison Blanche fan zones

• Added Of Course branding to the pit lane and start finish straight

• Added Porsche advert shipping container at Porsche curves

• Added Porsche Raceborn branding at start finish

• Added Raceborn branding at Porsche curves

• Added radio tower at Porsche curves

• Added red and blue fencing adverts

• Added second ferris wheel at Corvette curves

• Added spectator fencing on Corvette curves spectator mound

• Added spectators at Mulsanne corner

• Added Spectators to MMA building at Pit Entry

• Added TV Screen Truck at Arnage

• Added TV screens at Corvette curves

• Added TV screens near Endurance Club

• Added various assets at Corvette curves fan zone

• Added various TSOs on hill at Porsche curves

• Adjusted gravel edge on the exit of Mulsanne

• Advertisement updates on the start finish before Podium

• Arnage apex curb: Corrected curb profile

• Arnage exit curb: Corrected curb profile

• Corrected astro turf material before entry to Indianpolis

• Corrected Crowd Strike branding colour

• Corrected goodyear ad size between Indianapolis and Arnage

• Corrected sizing of MMA advert boards on the start finish

• Corvette Curves apex curbs, significantly reducing their height

• Extended curb with painted asphalt after Dunlop chicane

• Extended tyre barrier at Arnage exit

• Fix Sizing of MMA Advert Boards at Start Finish

• Ford Chicane entry curb: Reviewed profile, reduced height of road behind curb

• Indianapolis apex curbs: Reviewed camber and type, opening up the entry into the corner.

• Indianapolis entry curb: Reviewed profile, reduced height of road behind curb

• Minor barrier and fence updates at Corvette curves

• Mulsanne Corner apex curb: Updated curb profile

• Mulsanne Corner Building Update

• Mulsanne Corner exit curb: Corrected curb typee

• Mulsanne Corner Inner Curb Update

• New Glass Shader on Main Buildings

• Porsche curves apex curb: Increased height of curbs

• Raccordament apex curb: Updated textures

• Raccordament exit curb: Corrected curb type

• Recoloured Peugeot building

• Remove white markers from track

• Removed building outside Mulsanne corner that doesn't exist anymore

• Removed traffic sign at Porsche curves

• Reviewed Armco material brightness

• Reviewed density of foliage in dense woodland areas

• Reviewed foliage material colour balance

• Revised emissive lighting on Pit BUilding

• Revised nightlighting colour temperature and brightness

• Revised nightlighting on Michelin grandstand

• Tweaked settings for advertisement materials

• Updated advertising on buildings at Indianapolis corner

• Updated barriers at rejoin from Bugatti circuit

• Updated BMW clubhouse at Ford chicane

• Updated buildings inside Arnage corner

• Updated Cadillac branding at Corvette curves

• Updated crane position at Ford chicane

• Updated Crowdstrike ads at Arnage

• Updated curb paint pattern frequencies

• Updated DHL branding at Mulsanne

• Updated emissive lighting on Rolex assets in pit lane

• Updated Goodyear branding colour balance

• Updated house colours outside Arnage

• Updated Le Mans bridge advertising to match real life

• Updated marshall positioning at Ford chicane

• Updated marshalls at Corvette curves

• Updated material of safer barrier at Porsche curves

• Updated Michelin branding colours

• Updated MMA sign positions near Maison Blanche

• Updated Motul on track advert positioning at Ford chicane

• Updated nightlighting on Endurance club

• Updated nightlighting on Goodyear grandstand

• Updated nightlighting on pit lane rolex gantries

• Updated nightlighting on start finish gantry

• Updated nightlighting on village assets

• Updated Of Course advertising on Pit Building

• Updated on track Cadillac signs at Corvette curve

• Updated pit in and pit out Rolex gantries

• Updated Pit Wall Glass Materials

• Updated road lines at Mulsanne chicanes

• Updated rooftop tent at Maison Blanche

• Updated secondary TSOs outside Raccordement

• Updated spectators at Ford chicane

• Updated spectators at Indianapolis

• Updated spectators at Maison Blanche

• Updated start finish tower emissive

• Updated Toyota Building at Ford Chicane

• Updated track surface materials where road has been resurfaced

• Updated truck and tent assets on Porsche circuit

• Updated tyre barrier colours at Ford chicane

• Updated wall and branding at Mulsanne corner

• Various branding updates to the pit wall

• Various updates to buildings at Ford chicane

• Various updates to buildings at Maison Blanche

• Virage du pont exit curbs: Reviewed profile flattening end curbs

Monza

• Fixed occasional occurrence of track limits not applying at T1

Portimao

• Fixed some minor issues with track limits corridors at Portimao

Silverstone

• Added ear of corn to Silverstone WEC full rolling start

• Reviewed multiclass behaviour into Copse corner 

Car Updates

• Add Le Mans livery hypercars to 2026 season opponent options

• Adjusted Hypercar cold tyre grip to better match 2026 real-life compounds

BOP: Weight reduction to GT3s at Le Mans, improved LMH vs. LMDh acceleration balance, re-balanced Ford GT3 acceleration on some tracks. Full changelog on https://guide.lemansultimate.com

• Improved accuracy of which undertray points can produce sparks

• Improvements to dynamic diameter of Hypercar tyres for more accurate engine RPM at car speed

• Reduced rear tyre wear on Hypercars

• Updated CDA setups

• Updated Le Mans atmosphere conditions to match 2026 real-life event

• Updated Le Mans default setup of all Hypercars

• Updates to damage on all cars, removing randomness and making damage more predictable

Adess AD25 LMP3

• Fixed "Lap" text on display

• Fixed missing normal map on roll cage welds

Aston Martin Valkyrie LMH

• Added numbers to inside of rear wing

• Added track map to cockpit

• Updated Le Mans gear ratios

BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh

• Fixed issues on pre-Le Mans 2024 HUD

• Fixed various issues with HUD

BMW M4 LMGT3

• Added missing rear latch

• Updated differential to newer spec and opened preload adjustability

Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh

• Added track map and additional sticker to cockpit

• New wear, rain, and damage for EVO

• Updated Custom Livery 2026 team to use EVO. All existing 2026 Cadillac Custom Liveries will be removed.

Ferrari 296 LMGT3

• Added pit lights

• Corrected Vista AF Corse team names

• Fixed outside window wiper streaks not matching the actual wiper

• Updated gear ratios to 2026 spec

Ferrari 499P LMH

• Added more decals to cockpit

Ford Mustang LMGT3

• Corrected headlights and pit lights

• Fixed 2024 mirrors showing on the 2026 EVO at Le Mans

• Fixed squished numbers on 2026 teams

Genesis GMR-001 LMDh

• Added missing pit lights

• Various model updates to latest spec of the car

Lexus RCF LMGT3

• Corrected issues with headlights and brake lights

Mercedes AMG LMGT3

• Added dashboard logo to 2026 teams

• Added pit lights

• Updated gear ratios

Oreca 07 LMP2

• Adjustments to tyre heating to stop tyre pressures endlessly increasing after some lock-ups

• Increased car weight (+7kg) to match latest minimum driver weight requirements

• Limited gear ratio set to "Le Mans" only at Le Mans as per latest technical regulations

Oreca 07 LMP2+ (ELMS Spec)

• Adjustments to tyre heating to stop tyre pressures endlessly increasing after some lock-ups

Peugeot 9X8 LMH (w/Wing)

• HUD updates

Porsche 911 LMGT3 R

• Adjusted seat movement limits to fix clipping when using a high fov

• Fixed issue with chassis LOD