Nascar

**Nascar** (sometimes stylised as **NASCAR**) is a TrackMania Nations Forever map style commonly associated with falling asleep, boredom, and exhaustion. Nascar maps are notorious for their boring gameplay and overall repetitiveness. Tracks in this style are usually built with intent to punish the player for going too fast (contrary to full speed), requiring to lift off the acceleration key(s).

The nascar map style won *The Worst Style* award every year after 2009.

## History

### Origins

It is presumed that the style started with the map titled *Championchip Nascar and F1* built by now-retired nascar player Samy. As the builder himself would write in his blog, he did not get much attention back when the map was initially released, and to boost his map in the rankings he would use a script to download it five times a second. After a few hours of doing this, the first real downloads started to come. Samy would write that he was "SUPER EXITED" [sic] when an absolute stranger uploaded a replay on his freshly built map. The rest of this story, unluckily, is shrouded in mystery, as Samy would quit the TrackMania community altogether after a few months.

After that incident, nascar would still not become a known map style, as there was only one single map representing it on the TrackMania Exchange. It would take a whole month for somebody else to pick up the idea, with the player Deadorlife building a track he would publish under the name *TM Nascar*. It exhibited similar features to Samy's *Championchip* from a month prior, thus defining the nascar map style. *TM Nascar* is also the very first nascar map to ever receive a player award, of which it has a generous amount of two.

### Community formation

The nascar players community would form shortly after the release of *TM Nascar*, Deadorlife being its main leader and coordinator. It is unknown what players this community consisted of initially, but it is probable they were Deadorlife's close friends from either real life, or TrackMania.

The nascar players are known for never playing anything but nascar maps. That is partially caused by the fact that Deadorlife, the community's leader, would never allow any other map style on his server *HOTTEST NASCAR*. As stated by one of the former members of the nascar community, Deadorlife would also ban anybody no matter their rank within the community, should they be noticed on a server that is not *HOTTEST NASCAR*.

Deadorlife would quit TrackMania in 2011, never to be seen again. It is rumoured that he became a professional NASCAR racer.

### Modern times

As it stands, not much is known about the further developments of the nascar map style and/or the community surrounding it. That is, in part, due to the secrecy of the nascar community itself. Nothing is known about the player who inherited the community leadership, although it is believed that they continued the policies of Deadorlife. To this day, the hierarchy of the nascar community is not known.

Nascar style maps are still played today, but many players quit before they truly get into it. Most of the players who did find it interesting to play the style were only ever seen on the servers with *NASCAR* in the name. Those players were also noticed wiping their entire friend lists on both the game and on social media. Real life sources reportedly saw those same players "become obsessed with oval-shaped things", "doing very repetitive stuff", and "get scared whenever they heard cars braking or performing a drift".

## References

1. ↑ Given out annually after a community vote.
2. ↑ The blog, hosted on geocities, was unfortunately deleted in 2009 after the Yahoo purge. No public archives of it exist.
3. ↑ It was the player Morte\_745 uploading that replay. They are considered to be the very first nascar player.
4. ↑ According to various sources, the ban would only be lifted upon donating $100 to Deadorlife.
5. ↑ There are three total servers with *NASCAR* in their name.