I’m hoping to see a velodrome peek when the next ‘Coming Zoon’ video is released for the 2025 Fall/Winter preview.
What else do we want?
If I were responsible for product direction, I would take what Zwift is best at and do more of that. It’s not exactly a visionary approach 
Zwift is best at the social stuff and it keeps a lot of people coming back regularly. Although I love new roads, I would gladly take a couple kms of pretty roads rather than the velodrome. But for the social side, a good area of focus would be the long neglected clubs features and features that community organizers need to manage events without contacting support. Far more worthwhile than a velodrome IMO.
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Id like to see a velodrome as it could genuinely be something different but it brings with it a host of problems that zwift dont have the ability or want to fix..Current pack dynamics & collision logic would be interesting on the velodrome and then the important one, different race types and native in-game scoring for those races as it kind of pointless (no pun intended) without in game live scoring.
And I think @Paul_Southworth is right, providing a solid Clubs offering would keep more people on the platform than any of the Fitness gimmicks & Halo bikes than they have just ploughed effort into, why this has been left to rot is anyone’s guess. Just a lack of understanding of what the customers want and a scatter gun approach.
That doesnt have a nice ring to it I guess and wont sell good on the socials.
Yes it is something we all benefit from, but also something that only a few will use, so it wont affect 98% of Zwifters since they wont use it directly and I guess a lot will think why spend money, time and resourses on that when you can also build a few new roads we can ride on.
That’s the one thing I’ve never understood about how Zwift support operates. Support should be for resolving issues, not dealing with managing events.
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The idea of a Velodrome, is pretty exciting (IRL). I think most people would like to try it. A totally different skillset needed. Fixed gear, high walls etc, etc. But I think on Zwift, a Velodrome would be stupid.
There is no skill involved, you don’t have to learn anything. Why would I want to ride round and round. I have a real hard time thinking 2% would find that entertaining in any way. I totally agree with Paul. Give me new roads. Don’t waste resources, creating a Velodrome
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If you were a track rider, you would understand. Riding on a track is like racing down a huge mountain, like a 20 km downhill but pedaling like a madman. I first roller bladed at a velodrome. It gave me the thrill of racing. The track is like a rollercoaster, with all of the g force. It is amazing.
We have hundreds of km to ride on Zwift. We even have a running track. Trainer Road and Bkool have great velodromes. Eric Min even gave the project a thumbs up a year ago. Let’s go team! Bring it on.
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I’m not disagreeing with you. Like I said. I think it would be great fun in Real Life. But it isn’t. I don’t see how Zwift could give you that sense of realism. It wouldn’t be fun. Round and round we go.
As for the running track. A totally different kettle of fish. It is flat, and can be helpful for easily knowing your sprint distances etc.
I guess I don’t understand how you could make a Velodrome realistic in any way. 
I’d like a velodrome if it is the kick zwift needs to start properly supporting points races and other track race formats, which could be used on other courses too.
Putting a velodrome into zwift as it currently is would add no value.
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I was a track racer, for many years. And that experience is what makes me feel that a velodrome in Zwift would be a waste of time. Without riding on a fixed gear, and without lightning fast steering (that doesn’t just move you from ‘lane to lane’), riding/racing on a velodrome is just pointless.
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You are right, I also have track racing experience.
To make it work you really need the whole fixed gear experience with single gear, no brakes and must keep turning the cranks or you crash. The steering behaviour at the moment is also very poor, you basically don’t steer, you just get aimed about by the automatic steering with no real control.
The whole fixed gear thing, there isn’t currently a way to do that. I don’t think a velodrome is worth it at the moment until the other parts and pieces are solved.
My local track was the Sydney 2000 Olympics velodrome.
I would really like an elimination race format. But that can really just as well be done on The Bell Lap, Downtown Dolphin, Glasgow Crit and Glasgow Reverse.
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By the way every second week of June Zwift releases something new last year it was the Ride and 2023 the Zwift Play will Zwift release V2 plays or something new ? BTW It has been discounted for a long time
Or ten laps of the Watopia Pretzel. 
I totally disagree. A running track is flat. I’m wearing running shoes. Which is no different from running on a road or trail.
How is Zwift going to simulate a track bike, amongst other things. As I stated before.
A totally different Kettle of fish.
I don’t think you’ll get an answer.
A velodrome really has no point unless you want to use it for people wanting to ride flat out for an hour or more on a perfectly flat track (which it is, if you ride along the measuring line).
You can have points races already if someone wants to track the winners of each lap on a sufficiently short course.
Also with a proposed velodrome you need all the rules that go with it about overtaking and all that. I don’t know if people will find that fun. I was a track commissaire as well FYI.
Velodrome and only Velodrome! We need to diversify the trip! Of course, add new roads everywhere - after all, we pay for it!
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I wish I didn’t have to say I told you so, but here we are.
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I didn’t tell you they would deliver it 
But a new release should be right around the corner so hope springs eternal right?
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