The Grid Is Open

Seven rounds. Two classes. 38 cars. Entries close 21 October 2026.

It is ten past four in the morning at Daytona. This is your third stint of the night. For the last twenty minutes you have stopped thinking about your lap time, because you are simply driving now. The banking, the transition, the dip into the infield. Again and again. Clean, smooth, and faster than you were at midnight.

Your team-mate is asleep in a chair. Your engineer is talking to you about fuel. Somewhere ahead in the dark, two Hypercars are fighting for the class lead. Behind you is a GT3 you have kept behind since the last pit stop.

That is the feeling. That is why you do this.

But you know the other feeling too. You did the setup work. You practised. You rehearsed your driver swaps until they were down to eight seconds. You gave up your whole weekend. And then, four hours in, someone dives into a corner they were never going to make, takes you out, and nothing happens about it.

The Digital Endurance Championship exists because of that second feeling.

We are not just putting on races. We are building a competition that is worth the thing you are about to give it: your time.

Entries for the first DEC season, 2026/2027, are open right now.

What you are signing up to

A grid where nobody is above the rules. No VIP places. No reserved spots. No quiet exceptions for a big name or a big stream. A new team on a single monitor and a well-known esports organisation go through the same process, race under the same rules, and get the same treatment from Race Control. If that sounds obvious to you, you have not raced in enough championships.

Racing that is hard, not careful. We are not building a nervous competition where everyone brakes early because they are afraid of a penalty. We want close, wheel-to-wheel, multi-class racing. Our rules are strict for one reason only: so the driver next to you at Eau Rouge is held to the same standard you hold yourself to. Strict rules do not stop you from racing. They are the reason you can commit to a move.

Stewarding you can actually see. We publish every decision, together with the reasons behind it. The same decision is made in Round 6 as in Round 1, whoever is involved and whatever is at stake. And you will always be told why. No quiet changes, no decisions that are never explained, and no wondering whether the answer would have been different for someone else.

The calendar

Seven rounds. Seven months. Two full 24-hour races. We start at Monza and finish where an endurance season should finish.

Start times depend on the length of the race. All races start in the afternoon, European time. You can find the exact times for each event in the app.

The Monza Prologue does not give championship points. It is our shakedown race: the first time the full grid, the servers, Race Control and the stewards all work together under real pressure. Use it. It is the cheapest way to find out what your team still needs to fix before Fuji, and it is the only race all season where a mistake costs you nothing.

After Monza, the points start, and they do not stop until Le Mans.

The cars

Two classes, on track at the same time, all season. Traffic is not a problem we are trying to remove. It is part of the challenge.

HYPERCAR

• Alpine A424
• Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR LMH
• BMW M Hybrid V8 Evo
• Cadillac V-Series.R Evo
• Ferrari 499P
• Genesis GMR-001 LMDh
• Lamborghini SC63
• Peugeot 9X8 (2024)
• Porsche 963
• Toyota TR010 Hybrid

LMGT3

• Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3 Evo
• BMW M4 LMGT3 Evo
• Chevrolet Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R
• Ferrari 296 LMGT3 Evo
• Ford Mustang LMGT3 Evo
• Lamborghini Huracán LMGT3 Evo 2
• Lexus RC F LMGT3
• McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo
• Mercedes-AMG LMGT3
• Porsche 911 LMGT3 R (992) 2026

Pick your class. Pick your car. Pick your number. That is who you are for the next seven months.

38 cars. One grid. That is all.

The Season 1 grid is limited to 38 entries, across both classes together. We will not open a second split.

This is not because we do not want more teams. It is because we want to earn them first.

Season 1 is the season where we test our systems, our stewarding process and our race procedures under real pressure, over real distance, with real consequences — and find every problem in them. Start small. Fix what needs fixing. Then grow. Opening three splits before we have proved that we can run one properly is exactly the kind of mistake we built this organisation to avoid.

So there is one grid, one entry list, one set of results and one title. When the 38th car is confirmed, that is it. Full is full.

Places are given in the order that entries are completed and paid. That is the only rule, and it applies to everyone.

Interested? Don't wait too long, or your spot might be taken by the time you're ready to sign up.

Entry fee

€45 per car. Full season.

One payment. All seven rounds. Both 24-hour races. There are no per-race fees, no licence fees, and no paid tier that gives you any advantage on track.

The fee pays for the race servers, the voice servers, and the running of the championship. It does not buy influence, and it does not buy a softer penalty.

How to get on the grid

1. Create your account at digitalendurance.app and link your Discord and Steam accounts.
2. Create your team — name, logo, and up to five preferred car numbers.
3. Invite your drivers with your team link. Your line-up does not have to be final when you sign up.
4. Enter your car — choose your class, your model, and a number nobody else has taken.
5. Pay the entry fee. Your place on the grid is confirmed as soon as the payment goes through.

When you create your account, you also get an invite to the official DEC Discord. That is where Race Control, your fellow competitors and everything that happens between the races can be found.

Do you want to run more than one car? Enter as many as you have drivers for.

Entries close on 21 October

Three days later, we go racing at Monza.

We know exactly what we are asking of you. Seven races, two of them a full day long, over seven months. That is a serious part of your life, and you should only give it to an organisation that will treat it properly.

So make us prove it first. Read the Sporting Regulations before you enter — all of them. Look at how our stewarding works and who is responsible for it. Join the DEC Discord and ask us the difficult questions before you pay anything. We would rather have 38 teams who chose us knowing exactly what we are, than 38 teams who signed up without reading a word.

Then get your line-up together, pick your number, and take one of the 38 places on the grid.

Sign your team up.