Mine has just download via the game's downloader ( took about 5 minutes or so ), after a restart it's ready to go !!

Didn't they? I always thought 14.09.2011 at midnight GMT+1 would be a specific time ;) I though that; How much more specific do you want ? Whilst I was not about to stay up until the early hours waiting to play, when I got up this morning at about 8 and turned my PC on and started TrackMania I was ...

I'm pretty sure 5 years from now no one will remember the game launch was a few hours late. Very true, but; They were happy to take my 20 quid and not really provide me with the game I wanted ( Okay, when I paid and downloaded it a few weeks ago I failed to spot it said "beta" and did not...

The UK download site said "14 September at GMT+1".

Well, it's now almost 9AM in the UK, so that's GMT+8 and mine has not updated.

As other's have said, that is a very specific time, it did not say "sometime on the 14th".