The Crew Motorfest is about to get much smaller, at least from the driver's seat. Ubisoft's live racing game adds RC Frenzy on May 6, a premium playlist that swaps full-size cars for remote-controlled machines, new handling and top-down events across its Hawaiian festival map.
PlayStation published the official RC Frenzy launch trailer on Tuesday, one day before the playlist goes live. Ubisoft's Season 9 content overview confirms RC Frenzy is included in the Year 3 Pass and can also be bought standalone through first-party stores.
RC racing changes the scale of Motorfest
The pitch is not just that The Crew Motorfest has a few toy cars. RC Frenzy is built around a different sense of scale. Ubisoft describes curbs as cliffs, vents as tunnels and rooftops as possible racetracks, which is exactly the kind of perspective shift an open-world racer needs if it wants a late-season playlist to feel fresh.
That is the useful part for returning players. Motorfest already has a wide vehicle roster, a live event structure and enough branded car culture to keep the festival identity moving. RC Frenzy gives Ubisoft Ivory Tower a way to reuse familiar spaces without making them feel identical, because a tiny vehicle changes what counts as a jump, shortcut or obstacle.
The playlist brings 10 main events, 25 challenges, eight feats, five photo ops and 11 rivals. Ubisoft also says it includes top-down view events, which should immediately separate it from the normal chase-camera flow of most Motorfest racing. The reward car is the PHAZR RC Rust Bucket 2026, with the PHAZR RC Trickshot 2026 listed as the vehicle constraint and the PHAZR RC Coyote 2026 as the rivals reward.
Season 9 has become Motorfest's experimental year
RC Frenzy lands as the second major playlist in Season 9, after the NASCAR Motorfest Tour arrived in March. That season also added TrackForge, a race creator that lets players build and share tracks, plus a new Kaho'olawe playground island with a NASCAR stadium and more stunt-focused spaces.
Taken together, the season is less about simply adding more licensed cars and more about stretching what The Crew Motorfest can contain. NASCAR gives the game a clearer motorsport lane. TrackForge hands some of the long-term workload to the community. RC Frenzy aims for the opposite mood, a playful handling shift that treats the Hawaiian map as a miniature playground.
That matters in a crowded live-racing space. Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport can own the serious simulation conversation. Forza Horizon still has a huge arcade racing footprint. The Crew Motorfest's advantage is that it can be weirder with theme, vehicle type and event framing, especially now that it has spent years teaching players to expect playlists as self-contained car-culture tours.
Platforms and access
The Crew Motorfest is available on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Amazon Luna and PC through the Ubisoft Store, Steam and the Epic Games Store. Ubisoft also lists the game as playable through Ubisoft+.
The base game launched in 2023, with Ubisoft Ivory Tower developing and Ubisoft publishing. PlayStation's store page lists the game as PS5 Pro Enhanced and notes online play is required, with PS Plus required for online multiplayer on PlayStation.
RC Frenzy is paid premium content, so players should check whether they already own the Year 3 Pass before buying it separately. Ubisoft's Season 9 page confirms the playlist's May 6 launch, but the exact standalone price can vary by platform store.
The launch trailer does not need to reveal a whole new game to make RC Frenzy worth watching. It shows The Crew Motorfest leaning into a lighter, stranger side of open-world racing, and for a live game that has to keep the same islands feeling new, that change of scale is the point.