Here are the details on this week’s events and rewards. Share tips along with your tuning setup codes.
The season starts at 7:30am Pacific on August 21 and ends Thursday, August 28, 2025 2:30 PM
This is the second season of the returning Summer Party series.
PLAYLIST POINTS
Points are accumulated across all four seasons. Each event in the Festival Playlist has a number of points to earn noted in the bottom left corner of the event tile. Accumulate points with any combination of completed events to earn the first reward car, and continue earning points from remaining events to earn the second reward car. Cars noted as Seasonal Exclusive are not available in the Autoshow, so grab them while you can! But don’t worry if you miss them, these cars may come back again for future Festival Playlists, or you can use a Backstage Pass to select from the available options.
Two cars are added with the change of each season and voting for the next week beings. See details on Horizon Backstage voting, car selection, and passes here.
FORZATHON SHOP
550 FP Car
1933 Napier Napier-Railton
200 FP Car
2019 Ferrari 488 Pista
75 FP Clothing
Orange Suit
75 FP Car Horn
Air Guitar
1000 FP Backstage Pass
1 Pass
60 FP / 150 FP
Wheelspin & Super Wheelspin
FORZATHON EVENTS
Completing these events earn seasonal points plus Forzathon Points (FP) which can be used in the Forzathon Shop.
Forzathon Weekly Challenge (5 pts)
(5 pts) These four challenges must be completed in sequence.
Summer Shelby
Chapter 1: Colourful Contender
Own and drive the 2013 Ford Shelby GT500
Chapter 2: Unmatched
Win a Road Race in the GT500
Chapter 3: Shelby Speeding Through
Earn 5 Awesome Speed Skills in the GT500
Chapter 4: Cut a Dash
Paint the car body of the GT500
Forzathon Daily Challenges
(1 pt each) Each new challenge starts daily at 7:30am PT and is open for 7 days.
Summer Fiesta
Visit the Summer Party at the Stadium in any Ford Fiesta
Big Cat, Big Leap
Earn 3 Stars from any Danger Sign in any Jaguar
Hummer Lovin’
Drive 5.0 mi in any HUMMER
Hot Tropic
Equip a pair of sunglasses in the Character Customiser
Tune to Sing To
Spend 15,000 CR upgrading any Modern Sports Car
Talk of the Town
Win a Street Race Event
Snowstopper
Bank 100,000 Skill Score at the Stadium Summer Party
Toggle the menu to show the rewards and restrictions for each event - if you complete the event in a car outside the restrictions or fail to meet the target, you won’t get the reward and points from completion. You must have unlocked the Hall of Fame with Accolade points to enter the Trial. Access to Rally Adventure events require defeating the three team champions. Access to Hot Wheels events requires the Hot Wheels Expansion DLC; users without the DLC will still be able to gold the season and unlock the “Min, Meet Max” Achievement without these event points.
Pts
Event
Name
Requirement
Route
10
The Trial
Sun & Summer
(A800) 1990s
Street Racing (Wetland Charge)
5
EventLab
Sherwood Forest Raceway
(B700) Modern Rally
5
EventLab
Mulegé Grand Prix
(A800) Modern Sports Cars
2
Speed Trap
Gran Puente
(S2 998) Anything Goes - 240 mph (387 kph)
2
Speed Zone
Watersplash
(S2 998) Anything Goes - 100 mph (160 kph)
2
Trail Blazer
Puerta Petrea
(S2 998) Anything Goes - 28 seconds
5
Championship
Show Off
(A800) Open Top Cars
Road Racing (Playa Azul Circuit)
5
Championship
Rocks and Roll
(B700) Pickups & 4x4s
Cross Country Racing (Urban Cross CC)
5
Championship
Trailing Dirt
(S1 900) Rally Monsters
Dirt Racing (Baja California Trail)
2
Photo Challenge
#StoneColdAudi
Photograph any Audi at Cascada de Agua Azul
3
Collectibles
Treats and Tribulations
Smash 10 Ice Cream Cones on the Playa Azul beach
2
RA Danger Sign
La Cantera
(S2 998) Anything Goes - 1313 feet (400m)
5
RA Championship
Light Up the Night
(B700) Unlimited Buggies
Joya Marron
2
HW Drift Zone
Turbo Knot
(S2 998) Anything Goes - 210,000 points
5
HW Championship
It’s Snow Joke
(S1 900) Sweden
Snow Fields Hazard Circuit
MONTHLY RIVALS
The total point value of Monthly events is divided by four when applied to individual seasons; completing both Rivals events will apply 2 points to each season in this series. Post a clean lap to complete Rivals events. Monthly Rivals cars are stock and provided as free rentals for the event, allowing you to test drive the car before collecting it from seasonal points.
Toyota Soarer (TGM) - 2:32.703
Toyota Supra '92 (TGM ‘FG 2:25.846’) - 2:33.504
Ford Mustang '95 (TGM) - 2:33.637
Ferrari F355 (ziperrPL) - 2:33.729
Nissan Silvia '98 (Izzumnizzum) - 2:33.804
Nissan GT-R LM (PTW Subzero) - 2:34.547
Toyota Supra '98 (TGM ‘Trial rec auto’) - 2:34.663
Toyota Chaser (TGM) - 2:34.822
Ferrari 512 TR (Mustuff124) - 2:35.172
Toyota Sera (Al Tearyice) - 2:35.722
Lexus SC300 (Izzumnizzum) - 2:36.023
Merc CLK-GTR (ShaggyScroll660, drags) - 2:36.348
Merc 500 E (TGM) - 2:36.365
Dodge Viper '99 (TGM) - 2:36.482
I’d like to say my Soarer’s so much quicker than the rest but it isn’t, I just got lucky on the roundabout cut with it, from that to the ‘98 Silvia any of them could have finished fastest if I’d done the same, I’m sure there’s people who can perfect the line through the roundabout consistently but I’m not one of them, Wetland’s never been a course I particularly like so never been interested enough to get stuck into finding the most precise lines on there.
Tried to keep the list interesting and without an obvious winner from the start so left out the NSX as it’s walked every A class test I’ve used it in in the past, there’s also a load of MC required cars/builds that will be able to go quite a bit faster than my Soarer did that there’s no point in me testing in auto, Alfa 155, GMC Syclone, Nissan Stagea, R33 Skyline etc along with the ‘98 Silvia and Supra powerbuilds that are all common in A class, as well as a couple of standard RWD cars that aren’t powerbuilds but MC is still essential.
I’ll share my Soarer on Thursday, the one I have shared already is a no aero build specifically for Marathon so all that would be good for on Wetland is getting a close-up look at the trees
Enjoyed driving every car here but my favourite was that little Sera, so I took it on the 2nd course which is Bosque Del Sur….
The trial was carnage for me. I made 2 attempts at completing it but on both occasions. I had lead the pack quite quickly but had controller drop out about half way through the events and with the exception of 2 other players in each, both my sessions had the worst players I’ve ever seen ramming from the start and seemingly unable do anything else
The second race on the second session had an odd AI car thing where it got stuck on a tree and I passed it only for it to teleport in front of me about 10% further along the route
I got my 40 points from the other events so I’m quite happy to leave the trial behind
I had some weird AI experiences, 11th or 12th place finishing ahead of me type stuff. The AI swerved to side-swipe me repeatedly, absolutely no reason for the manoeuvres other than that, which slowed me down. Curiously the humans were well-behaved which is unusual.
I really liked the trial. Good routes, no traffic, nice selection of cars including some really strong A class choices. It had replayability (unlike stock only trials … I hate when votes for seasons with those win).
So I did it 50+ times using a variety of cars. Alfa 155s, R33s and R32s are all good ones.
I hadnt messed with A class Nissan R33s before, was saving it. Built race weight and sport weight versions of both, with race spoilers and without. V8s with centrifugal superchargers seem to be the way to go. I havent tried sport weight with a spoiler yet, but sport weight with no race aero seems like the best setup for these kind of races … so far. I wouldn’t be surprised if sport weight with a race spoiler is the actual winner.
Here’s sport weight with no aero from the last and second to last rows:
