Full Speed

Full Speed (commonly abbreviated as FS, F&S, or FnS) is a style of maps in the game TrackMania characterised by fast car speeds (typically 600-700 miles per hour) with heavy scenery and overall high difficulty. The style grew out of the TrackMania's LOL scene in the early 2000s.

The popularity of full speed at its commercial peak ran parallel to several other TrackMania map styles. Full speed substyles include fun speed, speed fun, full fun, crazy speed, and speedy corners. Full speed has influenced many other map styles like lunatrick, crazy, jump, nascar, and roof.

Full speed is dominated by a relatively small group of TrackMania teams. Major international organisations had shown very little interest in the full speed scene until Nadeo acquired FSGamingCommunity in February 2016. Since then, the style has seen a significant growth in exposure. Whilst the origin of full speed style is in France, the style has evolved considerably with many other prominent fanbases located all over the world.

History
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a growing map building event culture gave birth to new map styles in the mapping scene including technical, hard LOL, destruction derby, and stunt - which combined difficult tricks and other techniques from a wide range of different early TrackMania map styles and, occasionally, even from different games altogether, such as Virtual Skipper and King's Quest III. From as early as 2006, maps were beginning to strip away some of the harder tricks and "hardcore jumps" and create more flow and speed led tracks. Some maps increasingly took their influence from LOL and this style would become known as speed fun.

As the style became generally more polished and sophisticated, it began to expand its reach from the underground to mainstream map sharing websites and gain widespread acceptance. It also began to split into recognisable substyles such as fun speed, crazy speed, and what was known at the time as speedcore (later renamed to speedy corners to avoid being linked to the music genre of the same name). Additional substyles emerged including full speed stunt in 2008, drawing further influence from stunt and lunatrick, a style derived from full speed initially.

The emergence of related styles brought a wave of new builders incorporating new ideas and techniques, supporting continual evolution of the map style. To this day, full speed makes frequent appearances on mainstream map sharing websites and keeps producing successful map builders including Eric342, NLPWF, Trickman68, Defacer and pgm_antoine03410.

The TrackMania News team noted a "rising zoomer affinity" for the map style in the 2020s.