No more guesswork: Zwift adds live draft bar and fitness dashboard

No more guesswork: Zwift adds live draft bar and fitness dashboard

Zwift’s final major update of 2025 delivers a long-awaited visual draft indicator and a new Progress Report, pulling racing tactics and long-term fitness tracking into clearer focus for indoor riders.

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Zwift has rolled out its final major game update of 2025, introducing a real-time drafting indicator and a revamped Progress Report screen that aims to tie in-game performance more closely to long-term fitness.

The version 1.104 update, which began phased release on 16 December, answers one of the platform’s most common racing requests with a new Draft Indicator sitting at the bottom of the heads-up display. The visual bar grows as a rider sits deeper in the slipstream, giving immediate feedback on how much aerodynamic shelter they are enjoying.

According to Zwift’s release notes and early tester feedback on the Zwift forums, the feature replaces the old “Close The Gap” text prompt and is available when the Draft Power-up is active in standard drafting situations.

Progress Report brings fitness into focus

The update also overhauls the post-ride experience. A new Progress Report screen replaces the Streaks page and pulls three strands of information into one dashboard: career progress, performance, and fitness trends.

Riders now see their current level and experience points alongside one-year power bests, functional threshold power and Zwift Racing Score. A dedicated fitness section highlights Training Score – Zwift’s chronic training load-style metric – plus Training Status, weekly goals and streaks.

All of this syncs to the Zwift Companion app, extending the same metrics into longer-term graphs and including outdoor rides recorded on Garmin or Wahoo devices. For racers and structured-training fans, it means both in-race positioning and season-long form are now easier to read from inside the game itself.

Peter

Peter is the editor of Velora and oversees Velora’s editorial strategy and content standards, bringing nearly 20 years of cycling journalism to the site. He was editor of Cyclingnews from 2022, introducing its digital membership strategy and expanding its content pillars. Before that he was digital editor at Rouleur and Cyclist, having joined Cyclist in 2012 after freelance work for titles including The Times and The Telegraph. He has reported from Grand Tours and WorldTour races, and previously represented Great Britain as a rower.

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