Dirt

Dirt (formerly called Mud) is a TrackMania Nations Forever map style created and popularised by the player Riolu. It became much more popular with the community after its founder was caught cheating in May 2021. The main benefit of the dirt style is the complete lack of bugs and potential geardowns. Due to this, it is one of the most popular competitive map styles.

Some of the most popular Dirt maps include A02-Race and D15-Endurance of the official campaign, and DirtTrickzZz by the acclaimed mapper John_Michaels2. Such refined maps gained tons of awards and replays on the TrackMania Exchange website from the top dirt style connoisseurs.

However, being careful on dirt is one of the most important things. If a player's car exceeds the dirt speed limit (160 speed), they get a giant acceleration penalty of approximately 190 speed, thus rendering their vehicle completely immobile. After this penalty is inflicted, the game is rendered unplayable and will promptly close itself, as well as apply a special flag on the game's executable. This flag makes the game shutdown immediately upon opening it.

Name Change
Little known fact is that the dirt style was initially called mud, but the name changed circa July 2009 when Riolu, the founder of the style, had a "horrific mud accident" [sic] (now known as the MudBug), and was forced to rename the style to dirt, as to not give himself PTSD of the events that had unfolded prior.