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 September 11 and ends Thursday, September 18, 2025 2:30 PM
This is the first season of the returning German Automotive 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.
Series: 269 points
Series Reward: 2018 Mercedes-AMG E 63 S (Backstage/Wheelspin/Seasonal exclusive car) (80 points)
Series Reward: 1995 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 by Gunther Werks (Seasonal exclusive car) (160 points)
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
900 FP Car
2013 Audi R8 Coupe V10 plus 4.2 FSI quattro
200 FP Car
1989 Formula Drift #98 BMW 325i
75 FP Clothing
Germany Cap
75 FP Car Horn
Sea of Thieves Theme
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.
The AMG Treatment
Chapter 1: The Best or Nothing
Own and drive the 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLK 55 AMG
Chapter 2: Close Up
Take a photo of the Mercedes-Benz SLK
Chapter 3: Driving Performance
Earn 9 stars at Speed Traps in the Mercedes-Benz SLK
Chapter 4: Style & Power
Bank 100,000 skill score in the Mercedes-Benz SLK
Forzathon Daily Challenges
(1 pt each) Each new challenge starts daily at 7:30am PT and is open for 7 days.
German Engineering
Own and drive any car from Germany
Touring Masters
Win 2 Road Racing Events in any car from Germany
Drifting Hour
Earn 20 Drift or E-Drift Skills in the #98 BMW 325i
Smile!
Take a picture of any Mercedes-Benz
Peak Porsche
Earn 5 Stars at Danger Signs in the 1970 Porsche 914/6
One With the Road
Drive 10 miles (16.1 km) in the 2019 BMW Z4 Roadster
Going Overboard
Earn 3 Skillboard Skills by hitting a Billboard in any German vehicle
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
Stock Showdown: Mercedes-Benz 190E
(C579) Mercedes-Benz 190E
Road Racing (Estadio Circuit)
5
EventLab
Shipyard Autocross Battle
(B700) BMW
(Festival Drag Strip)
3
Playground Games
Down the Hatch
(B700) German Hot Hatch
El Estadio Horizon
2
Danger Sign
Launch Control
(A800) Mercedes A45 - 1050 feet (320m)
2
Speed Zone
Switchbacks
(A800) Audi TTS '15 - 95 mph (153 kph)
2
Drift Zone
Las Curvas
(S1 900) FD #98 BMW 325i - 90.000 pts
5
Championship
Meet and Street
(A800) Audi vs Porsche
Street Scene (Wetland Charge)
5
Championship
Pick Me Up
(B700) German Pick Ups & 4x4s
Cross Country (Tropico CC)
8
Horizon Tour
Co-Op Championships
Complete a Horizon Tour
3
Treasure Hunt
Power Up
It’s time to get electric in the clover zone!
2
Photo Challenge
#OnCourse
Photograph the 2010 Volkswagen Golf R at Club de Opalo de Fuego
2
Horizon Open
Open Season
Complete a Horizon Open race in any German vehicle
2
RA Speed Trap
Cascada Fuerte
(S2 998) Anything Goes - 115 mph (185 kph)
5
RA Championship
Reap the Rewards
(B700) Lancia
Palm Forest
2
HW Drift Zone
Horizon Nexus
(S2 998) Anything Goes - 138,000 points
5
HW Championship
Melting the Ice
(S1 900) Modern Muscle
Ice Loop Hazard Spring
MONTHLY RIVALS
The total point value of Monthly events is divided by four when applied to individual seasons; completing the Rival event will apply 1 point 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.
The RA SC contains the 2 tarmac courses in Grit Reapers so Rallies may be the best compromise tire compound wise over the 3 races, Offroads will obviously be best for Tierras Verdes but suffer on Palm Forest + Switchback, and vice versa for the road compounds.
1st race of the trial was awful. Started at the back but got through the first corner nicely only to be sent back to last on the next cirner by a combination of the no brakes crew, suicide drones and a drivatar that parked sideways across the whole of the track. Crawled back to the front of the players but by that time the top 3 drivatars were long gone. 2nd and third races were easy despite half the team struggling with emerald as per usual. People either get that track or they are awful and saddly the bad ones often take good players down with them.
Street championship was super straight forward and the cross country one was the usual cross country horror show with the added attractions of X-class powerbuilds folk can’t drive and stock 6x6x…
Oh and thanks to TheGillesMuller, rallys were definitely the best compromise for the RA championship.
I know it’s a rhetorical question, but it’s because there are no negative consequences for doing so. There isn’t a penalty system or safety ratings or anything else that would exist in a full-fledged racing sim, so when Horizon attempts to get “competitive” it immediately falls flat on its face. Then again, given how godawful I’ve heard the penalty system is in FM8, maybe it’s best that we don’t have any part of that here.
I tried a lot e-cars even the taycan without success. Changed cars again and took the Taycan for a last attempt. Treassure Hunt unlocked.
My only problem is that I don’t have any German cars to unlock the daily Forzathon, own and drive a German car not complete. Audi, BMW, Porsche don’t recognized as German cars
for low-level idiocy I doubt there is any penalty, it’s not really right to put on a penalty for being crap - they DO, though, issue penalties for intentionally bad driving, or at least after a report they send a message that they’ve acted on the report and occasionally I do read of people that get banned for a day - but overall it’s a very difficult, yes
Got some good A800 tunes for the Meet and Street seasonal championship this week.
Hope you like them and the bring you good success
2020 Audi RS3 Sedan.
Tune name : A800 Seasonal EZ
Share code : 657 453 079
2018 Porsche Cayman GTS : Tune name : A800 Seasonal
Share code : 128 693 713
2011 Audi RS3 Sportback : Tune name A800 Seasonal EZ
Share Code : 159 603 980
2010 Audi TT RS Coupe. Tune name : A800 Seasonal
Share code 183 349 519
1995 Porsche 911 GT2. Tune name A800 Seasonal
Share Code : 108 475 287
1993 Porsche 968 Turbo S. Tune name : A800 Seasonal
I wasn’t even thinking about the reporting system, which doesn’t really work at scale and has the potential for abuse, but about some sort of automated penalty. A hardcore sim like iRacing has a no-fault contact penalty system, and Gran Turismo employs slowdown penalties for bad driving. Both games also have a safety rating system that can affect the people you’re forced to play with. (And FM8 has…whatever nonsense is going on there.) Obviously Horizon is an arcade series at heart, so systems that in-depth wouldn’t make much sense, but that’s why it just doesn’t work when the game tries to push any sort of competitive or “hardcore” racing modes. And even then you get the collision-avoidance ghosting in Open play…but for who knows what reason that isn’t implemented in the Trial.
