Here's a cool one for racing game fans and wannabe pro gamers too, Nadeo, the developers of Trackmania Sunrise have developed a new version of their popular title named Trackmania Nations Electronic Sports World Cup and indeed will be giving it away for free from this Friday so we can all get training before the qualifiers begin.

The finals of the Electronic Sports World Cup will be in Paris this coming July with total prize funds of 400,000 dollars, quite how much of that will be awarded to the winner on this games' competition I don't know.

This special version features a brand new environment, the Stadium, and a revolutionary new gameplay designed for Nadéo's own custom cars.

Nadéo has pulled the technological rabbit from the hat with their own brand game engine, featuring the series' best graphics yet, finely tuned for the latest generation graphics cards, not forgetting simpler machines so that no one round the world has a technical freeze out on the race track.

With the online ingame ladder, players can customise their cars and avatars and race in their nation's colours on the world's servers from Friday onwards.

Many Trackmania and Trackmania Sunrise players will already have access to the following exclusive features: peer 2 peer data exchange

A trailer is also available to help you decide whether or not to download. I suspect download locations will be posted on the official site this coming friday.