If you’ve been on the racing side of social media, you’ll know that sim racing is growing in popularity at an extraordinary rate.

It started out as a paid platform, but the franchise’s second game, Trackmania Nation, was free to play.

This popularity has created a selection of e-sports championships like the Esports World Cup, where the fastest Trackmania (Trackmaniac?)

As a racing game, it’s unlike any other, and yet the principle is the same as a simulator, but its controls are simpler and unrelatable to the real thing.

Now you too know more about a game that has taken a very particular corner of the digital racing world by storm.