Workshop mod · Project Zomboid

Death Rally — Hot Lap

Released 2025

Any stretch of road becomes a timed race track — lap timing, leaderboards and race logging across Knoxx County.

A red sports car crossing the start/finish line of a barrier-lined circuit, lap 22 on the clock — Crossing the line at the circuit — lap 22, 00:44.061 on the clock.

Once you've survived the harshest winters and fixed that vehicle to perfection — what else do you do? Death Rally — Hot Lap is a Project Zomboid multiplayer mod that turns any stretch of road into a timed race track. It watches for a vehicle crossing a start/finish line, times the lap with checkpoint splits, and records it — driver, vehicle, condition, fuel, and the weather at the time.

The record book

An in-game panel shows each driver their recent laps and the server's all-time fastest times per track — and the timing is server-authoritative, so a hot lap is a hot lap, not a claim.

The Hot Laps panel — fastest lap and recent laps for the Redstone track, with splits, condition, fuel and a weather line per lap — The Hot Laps panel — every lap with its splits, vehicle, condition, fuel, and the weather it was set in.

Every lap is logged with its real-world timestamp, in-game date and time, driver, lap number, sector splits, total time, vehicle model, condition and fuel, plus a weather snapshot — to per-track and per-driver logs. Drivers are recorded by character name: no Steam IDs, no IP addresses.

The server's fastest laps by track, seen from another driver's panel — The server's fastest laps by track — the times to beat.

From circuits to the whole county

Tracks are simple to define — a start/finish line, checkpoints, a name — so a course can be a purpose-built circuit, a dirt oval, a forest rally stage… or the whole map.

Four purpose-built courses seen from above — a grand prix circuit, a dirt course, an oval and a rally maze — Purpose-built — tarmac, dirt, oval, maze

Two rally cars on a dirt stage between autumn trees — …or a rally stage through the trees

The whole Knoxx County map with a single race route drawn across it — One race, the whole county — a single route drawn across the entire map.

Free on the Steam Workshop. GPL-3.0.