These were the sort of tips that were missing 10 years ago when I started playing TM.
Back then you learned by spectating online better players than you.
Great job with this vid Wirtual!

I think this channel is one of the most underrated channels I've seen. Such a high level of explaining, keep it up!

mastering drifting can take hours he says. More like years

5 most essential skills:
1. Knowledge of the Pyramids
2. Not pulling Wirtuals
3. Hiring editors with actual sense of humor
4. Custom maid outfits
5. Analog keyboards

Something worth noting when you talked about gear-shifting:
The lights on the back of the car - the ones that also work as tail-lights - actually indicate which gear you're in as well.

5 skills u need in trackmania:
1. Driving on normal road
2. Driving on banana-road
3. Driving on sand
4. Driving on grass
5. Driving on ice
:D

Next vid should cover SD's, Neo-slides and nose dive. Maybe also talk about booster lines

Can you also make an ice guide?
Would be great. :)

Try and pump out as many videos as possible while this game is still fresh and your numbers will sky rocket

I love how this game has such simple controls and can be played on a keyboard, is very easy to pick up and play but difficult to master.

This is great for beginners and perfectly executed too! :D I have always felt that there are many people who never got to experience the limits of the Stadium car in the previous games. And to make things worse, the first things that pop up on YouTube are always big channels driving terribly, crashing everywhere and doing none of the things you mentioned, so you really had to dig into it to find these techniques. Let's hope this video gets some attention!! :D

Anyone else watching this after it was released on Xbox?

me watching this video with 500 hours in the games and still not understanding how grass works

The content man, It just keeps coming!

I just started Trackmania today, though have been watching Wirtual for YEARS. This helped a lot. :-) Way harder than he makes it look.

I played TMNF from time to time like over 10 years ago and have been binging your channel for the past few days. Now I'm itching to get into it for real, it looks so fun

4:35 remember 235 and 341. the other ones pass too quickly at the start of the race to be worth remembering as a newbie.

This is soooo satisfying. These are the tricks I've been reiterating in my head for the past years when I've played TrackMania and there doesn't seem to be any videos regarding this. Plus, none of my friends played TrackMania at that time, so there's no point in teaching them some of these. So it's like a dream come true.

Nice tutorial ! I hope you'll give us the secret of overwalls in the next one :p

Also among the older tricks, it could be nice to explain the neoslide, the speedslide and its variations, backward driving and turtling.

Thanks a lot for this. So many videos like this out there go on rambling for fifteen or twenty minutes, while actually providing less detail than this one does. This is really helpful, thank you.