Timeline of Nitro Type history

This timeline of Nitro Type history documents every notable event that has taken place concerning Nitro Type.


 * Pre-2012
 * 2012
 * 2013
 * 2014
 * 2015
 * 2016
 * 2017
 * 2018
 * 2019
 * 2020
 * 2021

Contents

 * 2010
 * 2011
 * September
 * December

2010

 * September 8: Austin Butler (TheCorndog) registers the nitrotype.com domain. [1]

September

 * September 8: Nitro Type first launches. [2]

December

 * December 3:
 * The Nitro Type test site gets used for the first time, including 3 new features: [3]
 * The achievements page gets redesigned. This would be the first of 3 redesigns of the achievement page.
 * The ability to sell cars is implemented.
 * The "Trucks" and "Flying Machines" dealership sections are added.
 * December 5: The Speed Racer achievement gets removed. [4]
 * December 10: Painting becomes available on the test site. [5]

January

 * Between January 15 and January 30: Nitro Type leaves beta.
 * January 30: Every feature on the test site gets added. In addition, friend racing (previously known as private racing) is redone, nitro animations are added, and 3 new tracks are added. [1]

February

 * February 9: The Hotdog Mobile's friend invite requirement gets bumped down to 10 friends only, and the 8 Bit Racer gets released to normal users (with 25 invited friends being the requirement). [2]

April

 * April 9: Nitro Type begins a Facebook contest. [3]
 * April 16: The aforementioned contest ends. All 11 winners get their prizes. The only known winner, the one who won the $1,000,000 and the free car, is mmazumder, who chose the Mini Sherman.

October

 * October 18: The ability to report users is added. [4]

November

 * November 1:
 * F4U-Corsair becomes the first person to reach 10,000 races and receives a car named after him, the F4U Corsair. [5]
 * In addition, the Police Bimmer makes its first appearance (included in the car preview), however, it was not released until July 2015.
 * November 12: The ability to sell nitros is added, as well as the ability to edit your comments on the Blog (now referred to as the news). The "Paint Car" button also gets moved to the Dealership, rather than the Garage. [6]

December

 * December 1: Nitro Type's very first event, the 2012 Xmaxx Event, begins. Four new cars are released: the Rocket Sleigh, Party Sleigh, XMaxx Tree Racer, and Shadow XMaxx Tree. [7]
 * December 2: Vielle becomes the founder of Nitro Type's very first clan, NTM. This would eventually lead to more and more clans being created, and Teams.
 * December 17: The Friends list gets added. Friend races now have a canned chat, rather than the free chat that private races used to have. [8]
 * December 20: Austin makes it so racing during the event gets 50% more cash and experience. This and the 2013 Xmaxx Event were the only times you could get an event bonus without racing with one of the event cars. [9]
 * December 24: The Nitro Type Wikia is founded by Apache782. [10]

Unknown dates

 * Unknown date in October 2012: TR0N receives the Nitro Type Savior title and $3,000,000 as a reward for reporting a bug that caused the advertisements not to work. [11]
 * Unknown date in October 2012: The "Biggest Winners" section on the scoreboard gets removed.
 * Unknown date in December 2012: Vielle becomes the first person to complete an 800 race session, getting the achievement and title Nitro Type Master named after his clan.
 * Unknown date in 2012: arenasnow, or Sean Wrona, gets 212 WPM. This would be the highest speed record for the next 6 years.

January

 * January 1: The 2012 Xmaxx Event ends.
 * January 2:
 * The "Blog" page is renamed to "News".
 * Vielle begins his 1,000 race session.
 * January 3: Vielle becomes the first person to finish a 1,000 race session and is awarded with two achievements: All Hail & Bow Before.
 * January 10: The Daily Rewards system gets released, as well as the Zonday Tricolore and the "Cruisin' Back" achievements section. [1]
 * January 24: The Nitro Type Forums are opened, and comment voting is added for users above level 8 and above. [2]
 * January 31: Three new cars are released: The Monster, The Gotham, and the Flux Capacitor.

March

 * March 5: The Pirc is released. However, CarriePirc didn't get it until shortly after it was released. [3]
 * March 6:
 * CarriePirc becomes the first person to complete 20,000 races and the first to earn The Pirc.
 * The Top 3 Scoreboard Champion Symbol is added. [4]
 * March 14: Nitro Type hits 1,000,000 races in a week for the first time. As a result, everyone who logged in that week received $1,000,000.
 * March 22: A "Site Stats" section gets added to the scoreboard. However, this section was removed with the release of Nitro Type 2.0. [5]

April

 * April 10: The EZ Rider, Suziki_GXRS_1200, and Lamborgotti AdventX are released. [6]

June

 * June 5: The forums get shut down due to trolls.
 * June 7: The first summer event, the 2013 Summer Event, begins. Four new cars are released: The Summer Classic (then called the Classic Woodie), the '41 Woodie Deluxx, the Hang Ten, and Hang Eleven.
 * June 12: The "Classic Woodie" gets renamed to "'13 Summer Classic". It would later be renamed to just "Summer Classic".
 * June 15: Corndog announces that he will be extending the summer event by one week, so instead of ending at the end of July, it would end in early August.
 * June 16: The '41 Woodie Sunshine gets released.
 * June 20: Gold Membership gets added, The Xcelsior V12 gets released, and the forums are brought back, however, only exclusive to gold members. [7] Corndog confirmed that Vielle was the first person to purchase it. [8]
 * July 1: The '41 Woodie Sunshine is made unobtainable.
 * July 3: The '68 Roadtripper is released. [9]
 * July 24: The Hang Fifteen is released. [10]
 * July 25: The '68 Roadtripper is made unobtainable.

August

 * August 7: The 2013 Summer Event ends.

October

 * October 18:
 * The Pumpkin Hauler first gets released, available for purchase from the dealership for $1,500,000, and the 2013 Halloween Event starts, although it was not as big as later Halloween events.
 * Skins get mentioned for the first time.
 * A teaser for The Wampus is posted. [11]

November

 * November 1: The Pumpkin Hauler is taken out of the Dealership.
 * November 7: CarriePirc becomes the first to reach 30,000 races, and the Wach 6 gets released. [12]

December

 * December 3: The 2013 Xmaxx Event begins, and Santa's Buggy and the Wreath Racer are released. The Rocket Sleigh and Party Sleigh are re-released as well. [13]
 * December 5: Corndog changes the minimum news commenting level to level 20, and makes it so that anyone above level 40 can access the forums. Gold members of any level remain able to access the forums. [14] In addition, Travis' Car is released, exclusive to Travis only.
 * December 14:
 * Nitro Type begins accepting bitcoins for gold purchases. [15]
 * However, sometime in 2017, the option to buy anything with bitcoin on NT was removed, although the tab for it remained. From 2017 to 2019, if you tried to purchase gold or cash with bitcoin, it would throw an error that says "The type 'bitcoin' is not a valid source type." At the release of Nitro Type 3.0, the option to use bitcoins to purchase gold or cash was removed.
 * December 16:
 * Like the previous events, it is changed so that people could get 50% more cash and experience by racing during the event, and like the last Xmaxx event, an event car would not have to be used to receive the bonus.
 * The Dark Elf and The Golden Gift are released.
 * The ability to buy gold for other people is added.
 * Two extra Gold Membership options are added. $14.99 and $19.99 has the same benefits as the original $9.99 gold, but they give more cash.
 * December 22: Nightmare becomes the first person to complete a 1,200 race session (1,247) and breaks the record for highest session races (Beating Vielle's 1,005 race session record the previous year) and is awarded the Typing Nightmare title.
 * December 24: In hopes to keep the record for highest amount of session races, Vielle completes a 1,501 race session, however gets no reward for it.

Unknown dates

 * Unknown date in March 2013: Andrew1167 and Andy5692 become Nitro Type's first news moderators. Andy's account was later banned due to someone compromising his account and using it for an exploit 5 years later.
 * Unknown date in May 2013: Vielle becomes the first person to earn the Zonday Tricolore.
 * Unknown date in October 2013: Realtime friend request notifications are added.

January

 * January 9: The Wampus is added, and the Fort F-125 is released.
 * January 24: The Custom Car Drawing is announced. More information on that can be found here.
 * January 25: The Custom Car Drawing begins.

February

 * February 9: Vielle collaborates with Nightmare and then moderator andrew1167 to do a prank on the news in which he logged into their accounts and set high speeds, then they pretended that they were "hacked".
 * February 10: Vielle's account is banned due to the admins' belief that he actually hacked his accounts, even though he already had their login information.

March

 * March 7: The winners of the custom car drawing are picked. [1]
 * March 28: The garage is revamped, and the stats page is released. [2]

April

 * April 10: The Ferreti Samsher 458 is released. A few weeks later, it was made purchasable in the dealership for $12,000,000. [3]

May

 * May 30: The 2014 Summer Event begins, and the Summer Classic, '41 Woodie Deluxx, and Hang Ten are made available once again.

June

 * June 6: Lacan becomes the first person to complete 50,000 races. The Lacan Hypersport is released. [4]
 * June 13: Teams are released. NTA, NT, NTS, SBD, and DFT are created. [5]
 * June 19: The Hammer Wheels and Sun Buggie are released. [6]
 * June 30: Nitro Type surpasses 100 million total races. [7]

August

 * August 13: The Nitro Type test site is re-opened, and Nitro Type 2.0 is first announced. The test site was closed at an unknown date a few weeks after.

September

 * September 24: Nightmare is banned for abusing a site vulnerability to log into people's accounts and set high speeds.
 * September 25: Testing for the new track is made available to users. [8]

October

 * October 6: The test site is re-opened once again. [9] It was closed a few weeks later at an unknown date.
 * October 23: The Pumpkin Hauler gets added to the dealership once again, available for purchase for $1,500,000, and the 2014 Halloween Event starts, although it was not as big as later Halloween events. [10]
 * October 31: The Pumpkin Hauler is taken out of the dealership, and the test site is reopened once again. [11]

November

 * November 14: Racing is made available on the test site. [12]

December

 * December 5: The 2014 Xmaxx Event begins. The Buddy's Snowmobile and the Kringle 4000 are released. The Rocket Sleigh, Wreath Racer, XMaxx Tree Racer, and The Golden Gift are re-released as well.
 * December 11: SSH is created by volatile.
 * December 18: The Kringle 4000 XL is released.
 * December 22: The Buddy's Snowmorocket and the achievement I'm So Kringled are released.

Unknown dates

 * Unknown date in January 2014: CarriePirc becomes the first person to complete 40,000 races and is awarded the '14 Mantaray.
 * Unknown date in January 2014: Corndog's Car is created and Corndog gives it to himself.
 * Unknown date in February-March 2014: Travis/Corndog makes a forum post over-exaggerating the reason why Vielle was banned.
 * Unknown date in April 2014: "Vielle" is added to NT's filters, meaning that any post with "vielle" in it will automatically put the poster in moderation, and any name with "vielle" in it will not be approved. This was the premise for VFC's disbanding 4 years later.
 * Unknown date in May 2014: Damon5 completes a 1,838 race session and receives the title Typing Demon as a reward.
 * Unknown date in June-December 2014: CarriePirc becomes a moderator.
 * Unknown date in August 2014: Maximum players in one team is decreased from 200 to 50. "We know that those big teams won't like this, but unfortunately 200 members just doesn't make sense, and will not allow us to have proper team competition features in the future." - Austin in this news post.

January

 * January 1: The 2014 Xmaxx Event ends.

February

 * February 10: EthanJ.S. becomes the founder of the NitroType Olympics.

April

 * April 28: Nitro Type 2.0 is released. [1]

May

 * May 15: Teams 2.0 is released, and the "Popularity Contest" achievements are made unobtainable.
 * May 19: DOG is created by iDigDogs!
 * May 22: A number of people receive the title I Dig Bugs for finding bugs in Nitro Type 2.0's test site, and asssa123 receives the title Security Consultant. [2]

June

 * June 1: The Chicago Summer 2015 Nitro Type Olympics begin. This was the first Olympics competition. However, this competition did not receive official recognition from the admins.
 * June 2: The 2015 Summer Event begins. The Six Four is released, and the Summer Classic, '41 Woodie Deluxx, and Sun Buggie are re-released. [3]

July

 * July 1: The Summer Olympics end.
 * July 7: SYN is created by pjcrowley.
 * July 8: CarriePirc reaches 75,000 races, and the Police Bimmer is released. The Six Four Plus Three is also released. [4]

August

 * August 14: Yet another skin preview is given in a news post. This same news post is also the earliest mention of Seasons. [5]

September

 * September 1: The 2015 Summer Event ends. [6]

October

 * October 5: The Midnight Hauler is released.
 * October 8: The 2015 Halloween Event begins, and The Candy Hauler is released. [7]

November

 * November 16: Travis creates a news post challenging racers to race as much as they can on November 20th to try and get a site total of 1 million races in a day, offering rewards.
 * November 20: Nitro Type passes a total of 1 million races completed in a single day for the first time, with 1,126,208 [8] races completed.
 * November 23: As a reward for helping the site reach 1 million total races in a day, TheCorndog rewards the 36,124 players who did at least 10 races on that day and were at least level 20 with $1,000,000. The people who did the highest amount of races on November 20 were also rewarded with the title Six Zero Racer, and for completing the highest amount of races, Turtle_Drawn receives the title I Like Turtles.

December

 * December 1: The Munich Winter 2015 NitroType Olympics begin. [9]
 * December 7: The 2015 Xmaxx Event begins. The Kringle 5000, Wrapped Wracer, and Wrapped Wracer GT are released. In addition, the Rocket Sleigh, Xmaxx Tree Racer, Golden Gift, and Buddy's Snowmobile are re-released. [10]
 * December 16: The Holiday Hero is released. [11]
 * December 18: The Kringle 5000 L.T. is released. However, no news post is made.
 * December 27: Corndog agrees to sponsor and award custom titles for the Nitro Type Olympics. [12]

Unknown dates

 * Unknown date in June 2015: iloveshoes2 becomes a news moderator.
 * Unknown date in October 2015: Yakirol becomes the first person to complete a session above 3,000.
 * Unknown date in December 2015: The Cruisin' Back achievement section returns, although the achievement requirements are slightly changed.
 * Unknown date in December 2015: A player's country flag and average speed begin to show up alongside their news comments.

January

 * January 3: The 2015 Xmaxx Event ends, as well as the Winter Olympics.
 * January 14: The first set of Nitro Type Olympics titles are distributed. [1]
 * January 30: iloveshoes2 becomes the first person to reach 100,000 races.
 * January 31: The Mercedex McLaro SLR is released. [2]

March

 * March 8: Thwampus is mentioned for the first time. [3]

June

 * June 1: The 2016 Honolulu Summer 2016 NitroType Olympics begin. [4]
 * June 6: The 2016 Summer Event begins. The Floaty Blue and B.O.A.T. are released. In addition, the Summer Classic and Six Four Plus Three are re-released.
 * June 20: The I'm Spicy! is released.

July

 * July 1: The Summer Olympics end.
 * July 11: The Y.A.C.H.T. is released, and the Six Four Plus Three is made buyable.

August

 * August 12: iloveshoes2 becomes the first person to complete 125,000 races.
 * August 17: The Mercedex McLaro SLR 12.5 is released, and the second set of Olympics titles are distributed.

September

 * September 7: The order in which nitros empty out in races is changed from bottom to top to top to bottom. This was the effect of an update in which racers in certain WPM zones were given a limited amount of nitros per race. [5]
 * September 8: The Nitro Type Discord is founded by Volhosis.
 * September 22: Seasons are released, and Season 0.5 begins.
 * The all time, most active, and fastest racers scoreboards are removed, as well as their respective team counterparts. [6]
 * On player profiles, the "All Time" column gets changed to "Season".

October

 * October 19: The 2016 Hallowampus Event begins. The Nitr-o'-Lantern is released. [7]
 * October 26: The Nitr-o'-the-Wisp is released, and The Candy Hauler is re-released.

November

 * November 1: The 2016 Hallowampus Event ends.
 * November 2: Anyone with a session longer than 1,300 races had their longest session reset to 0.
 * November 9: The Motorcycle License and Truck Driver achievements are added, and the Sports Coupes section of dealership cars gets changed to level 3 instead of level 5, and the Muscle Cars section of dealership cars gets changed to level 8 instead of level 10.
 * November 10: Born "Sudo", later renamed Nitro, the Nitro Type Mascot is born.
 * November 23: A race server glitch occurs in which some races would count as "0 WPM", more than 5 people were able to be in races, some people received abnormally high speeds, and some races counted as very high amounts of time, falsely awarding people with the Typiano Pizza Car. [8]
 * November 29: The XMaxx Xxpress is leaked. [9]
 * November 30: A bug causes Nitro Type to show the start date of Season 0.5 as this date. However, it actually started on September 22.

December

 * December 1: The 2016 Xmaxx Event begins. The Xmaxx Xxpress and XMaxx Xxpress XXL are released, and the Rocket Sleigh, The Golden Gift, Buddy's Snowmobile, and Wrapped Wracer were re-released. [10]
 * In addition, the Vancouver Winter 2016 NitroType Olympics begin.
 * December 9: The Gilded Xxpress is released, and the Holiday Hero is re-released.
 * December 13: The Lamborgotti Xmaxx LT is released.
 * December 14: petromax completes a 1,802 race session to gain #3 on the session Hall of Fame.
 * December 15: The Lamborgotti Xmaxx LT-C is released.
 * December 28: Nightmare's original account "dabestswagg" is banned permanently due to botting.

Unknown dates

 * Unknown date in January 2016: Teaching.com's headquarters is moved from California to Puerto Rico.
 * Unknown dates in September-October 2016:
 * Arrows next to players on the leaderboards are added to signify how high they had moved up or down compared to the previous day. Arrows are also placed on player profiles and team pages.
 * The release of the Hall of Fame.
 * "Rankings" gets renamed to "Leaderboards".
 * The "Scoreboard" gets renamed to "Rankings".
 * Unknown date in November 2016: HollowManNoToNitros! completed a 3,263 race session to gain #1 on the session Hall of Fame.
 * Unknown date in December 2016: Moises completes a 3,000+ race session to become #1 on the session Hall of Fame.

January

 * January 1: The 2016 Xmaxx Event ends, as well as the Winter Olympics.
 * January 3: Three new achievements are added to celebrate Nitro becoming the mascot for Nitro Type. [1]
 * January 10: The three aforementioned achievements are made unobtainable.
 * January 16: SECT is created by Nightmare on his new account.
 * January 29: Season 0.5 ends, and Season 1 is announced to begin on February 1. [2]

February

 * February 1: Season 1 begins.
 * February 13: Nightmare is awarded the title Bug Smasher due to his finding of a glitch.
 * February 17: SECT becomes the first team to accumulate 1 million points within 24 hours. [3]
 * February 22: Travis announces that the admins will no longer be sponsoring the NitroType Olympics.
 * February 27: Nightmare is locked out of his account due to his use of the guest racer technique, which increased the number of races per hour he could do since it made bot loading times nonexistent. This was considered "cheating" by the admins. After emailing Corndog, he confirmed that he was locked out until Season 1 ended.
 * February 28:
 * Season 1 ends. Nitro Type removes Nightmare's 2.5 million points due to his use of the guest racer technique, despite locking him out of his account for a full day prior to this. This caused the season win to go to Smithy instead and SECT to lose the season to DOG, despite leading for the entire season. Many people are unhappy about this to this day and see this of evidence of Nitro Type's bias with Nightmare having been banned 6 times prior. More information can be found here.
 * In addition, iloveshoes2 becomes the first user to reach 150,000 races.

March

 * March 3: The season titles are distributed. In subsequent seasons, the distribution of titles would happen immediately after the season ended. Season 2 is announced to start on March 6, and the third set of Olympics titles is rewarded. This particular set of Olympics titles would be the last to be rewarded for the next 3 years. [4]
 * March 4: The Mercedex McLaro SHS 15.0 is released.
 * March 6: Season 2 begins.
 * March 31: Season 2 ends, beginning NTA's 8-season win streak.

April

 * April 4: Season 3 begins.
 * April 30: Season 3 ends.

May

 * May 3: iloveshoes2 "accidentally" disbands NTA. She recreates it within a few hours.
 * May 4: A news post is created for the first time in two months. This was the first time that the admins mentioned in a news post they were working on friend races that could support more players than just five. [5]
 * May 6: Season 4 begins.
 * May 28: Team statuses are released, and an unused variation of the Strykist 1300 is leaked. [6]

June

 * June 6: The summer event is announced to start on June 14th. [7]
 * June 15: The 2017 Summer Event begins. The Strykist 1300, Strykist 1300 XT-LR, and the Range Runner are released. In addition, the Summer Classic and the B.O.A.T. are re-released.
 * June 30: Season 4 ends.

July

 * July 1: Season 5 begins.
 * July 7: Nitro Type goes down for days undergoing a server upgrade.
 * July 9: The site becomes live again.
 * July 15: The DOG shivtr site becomes victim to a phishing attack. More information can be found here.
 * July 31: Season 5 ends.

August

 * August 6: Season 6 begins.
 * August 12: The 2017 Summer Event ends.
 * August 31: Season 6 ends.

September

 * September 6: Season 7 begins.
 * September 30: Season 7 ends.

October

 * October 2: TheRedBaron unbans Vielle's account, not knowing why he was banned in the first place and why he was supposed to keep him banned.
 * October 4:
 * Corndog re-bans Vielle's account.
 * Season 8 begins.
 * October 18: The 2017 Hallowampus Event begins. The Track-o'-Lantern is released, and the Nitr-o'-Lantern and Nitr-o'-the-Wisp are re-released. [8]
 * October 27: The Candy Hauler is re-released. [9]

November

 * November 1: The 2017 Hallowampus Event ends. Nitro, the Nitro Type mascot, also turns 1 year old.
 * November 9: Travis creates a news post challenging racers to race as much as they can on November 10th to try and get a site total of 2 million races in a day, offering rewards. [10]
 * November 13: Nitro Type announces on Twitter that the aforementioned goal was not met. [11]
 * November 14: A news post is created allowing users to suggest themes for the upcoming Xmaxx event. [12]
 * November 22: The theme is chosen and is hinted at in a news post. [13]
 * November 30:
 * The site gets redecorated with the holiday theme, the event bonus is made available, and the Rocket Sleigh is made buyable, however, the achievements are not made obtainable yet and the cars remain unreleased.
 * Season 8 ends.

December

 * December 1: The 2017 Xmaxx Event begins. The Gingerbread Racer is released. Along with the Rocket Sleigh, the Gilded Xxpress, Kringle 4000, Party Sleigh, and the Lamborgotti Xmaxx LT are re-released. [14]
 * December 4: The Gingerbread Racer H&T is released. [15]
 * December 6:
 * Season 9 begins.
 * Nitro Type's bootstrap is first found and publicized, which, from then on, allowed players to leak upcoming cars, and to find the price of any car they wanted without actually having it or asking for what it was.
 * December 8: The Missile Toe is released. [16]
 * December 12: The Missile Toe H&T is released, and The Golden Gift is re-released. [17]
 * December 16: The Dark Chocolate Knight is released. [18]
 * December 31: Season 9 ends.

Unknown dates

 * Unknown date in February 2017: Smithy completes a 5,225 race session to take #1 on the session Hall of Fame.
 * Unknown date in April 2017: Travis announces that a "mini event with a car" would be coming "soon". This event was speculated to be an Easter event of some sort, however, it was never released.
 * Unknown date in August 2017: Moises completes a 5,335 race session in order to take #1 on the session Hall of Fame.
 * Unknown date in September 2017: Aaron Yang, more commonly known as TheRedBaron, becomes an admin. He originally worked for Teaching.com as the statistics specialist, however, even at this time, he played a major role in informing players about upcoming updates. For this reason, he would later go on to be the community manager.
 * Unknown date in October 2017: Smithy completes a 5,526 race session in order to take #1 on the session Hall of Fame.

January

 * January 2: The 2017 Xmaxx Event ends. [1]
 * January 10: Season 10 begins.

February

 * February 14:
 * Season 10 ends.
 * A spring event is announced.
 * February 18: Season 11 begins.
 * February 19: TheRedBaron becomes Nitro Type's community manager. [2]

March

 * March 9: The admins accidentally started the spring event early. More info here.
 * March 12: A news post is created officially confirming the spring fever event. [3]
 * March 15: The 2018 Spring Fever Event begins. The Teggsla, Egg Beater, Eggcedes, and Egg Hauler are released. [4]
 * March 24: iloveshoes2 becomes the first person to reach 200,000 races. [5]
 * March 31: Season 11 ends.

April

 * April 1: The 2018 Spring Fever Event ends.
 * April 5:
 * TheRedBaron conducts the first of the Monthly Team Interviews with TECT. [6]
 * Season 12 begins.
 * April 10: The Mercedex GT 20.0 is released. [7]
 * April 30:
 * Season 12 ends, beginning SSH's long 10-season win streak and ending NTA's 8-season win streak.
 * A PAC-sponsored event is announced. [8]

May

 * May 1: The admins accidentally start the PAC Event.
 * May 3: The 2018 PAC Event begins. The Rocky Roo is released.
 * May 4: Season 13 begins.
 * May 5: VFC is created by Tyrant.
 * May 9: RCWS receives a team interview from TheRedBaron. [9]
 * May 10: The NitroPAC is released, and May The Fourth is deactivated. [10]
 * May 18: The PAC Event ends, as well as Season 13.
 * May 23: Season 14 begins.
 * May 24: VFC gets forcefully disbanded by TheRedBaron (TheCorndog had him disband the team) due to it being named "Vielle Fan Club" with "vielle" being considered an "offensive" term by NT.
 * May 31: The General Beauregard gets replaced by the Ponce de Leon. [11]

June

 * June 15: Season 14 ends.
 * June 22:
 * The 2018 Surf n' Turf event begins. The Matchbox, Lucky Number 7, Easy Breezy, and HoverJet 5000 Mk. 3 are released, and the Summer Classic, '41 Woodie Deluxx, and Six Four are re-released.
 * Season 15 begins.
 * June 24: Rrraptor ties Sean Wrona's high speed of 212 WPM, and, by extension, ties the record for the highest speed obtained on the site without cheating.
 * June 27: Wildflower becomes the first person to complete 250,000 races.
 * June 29: The Y.A.C.H.T. is re-released, and it becomes required to claim an achievement after earning it to receive the reward. [12]

July

 * July 4: The Golden Breeze is released.
 * July 20: The 2018 Surf n' Turf Event ends.
 * July 23: Rrraptor breaks the record for highest speed ever obtained on Nitro Type, with 221 WPM.
 * July 24: Season 16 begins.
 * July 27: SSH receives a team interview from TheRedBaron. [13]

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 * August 17: Multiple NTA members switch to SSH.
 * August 19-22: TheRedBaron is fired due to what Travis implied to be laziness.
 * August 22-24: Multiple different users get either falsely flagged or banned for "Cheating". This was due to Jackie Markot, the fill-in support specialist for TheRedBaron, accidentally pressing a button on the cheater reports list.
 * August 28: Nitro Type 3.0 is officially announced. [14]
 * August 31: Season 16 ends.

September

 * September 6: The start date of the next season is changed from September 7 to September 14.
 * September 12: asssa123 becomes a moderator.
 * September 14: The 2018 Back 2 School Event begins. The B.U.S., S'cool B.U.S., AU-79, and The Underachiever are released. [15]
 * September 15: The Back 2 School (2018) season begins.
 * September 26: The Overachiever is released. [16]

October

 * October 10:
 * The Back 2 School (2018) season ends.
 * The 2018 Back 2 School Event ends.
 * The title Three Commas Club is released.
 * October 12: Season 17 begins.
 * October 17: The title Three Commas Club is made unobtainable.
 * October 23: DV0RAK receives the achievement Be a Legend.
 * October 31: The first few screenshots of Nitro Type 3.0 are publicly shown on the news. [17]

November

 * November 4: KTTY is created by ayeyuhskuh.
 * November 21:
 * Season 17 ends.
 * The theme for the upcoming Xmaxx event is announced. [18]
 * November 30:
 * The 2018 Xmaxx Event begins. The Jolly RS is released, and the Rocket Sleigh, Dark Elf, and Buddy's Snowmorocket are re-released. The Shadow XMaxx Tree is also re-released, met by very mixed opinions. [19]
 * The achievements Volatile Momatile and Six Typists over Hawaii are created and given to volatile and asssa123, respectively.

December

 * December 1: Season 18 begins.
 * December 4: The Jolly GTX LG is released. [20]
 * December 6: The Goldray and Can hav nt g0ld plx? are released, The Golden Gift and Gilded Xxpress are released, and it is announced that nitro selling would soon be removed as well as leaderboard titles for seasons. [21]
 * December 8: The Wraptor is released. [22]
 * December 11: Travis' Truck is created and Travis gives it to himself.
 * December 12:
 * The Wraptor GG is released. [23]
 * Travis patches the guest racing method that had been used by many racers on team KTTY. He begins to work on a feature as compensation for competitive players whose typing speed is above 100 WPM.
 * December 14:
 * The Silent Knight is released, along with the song "I Need Gold". [24]
 * In higher WPM zones, the load time for bots is decreased significantly.
 * A glitch occurs in which the number of people using the site was so high, some of Nitro Type's backup servers reverted to older versions, causing the summer event theme to show up instead of the Xmaxx event. [25]
 * December 28:
 * The NT Gold car is created.
 * Galaxied completes a 4,000 session on the Hall of Fame.
 * December 31: Season 18 ends.

Unknown dates

 * Unknown date in May-July 2018: If one is gifted gold, a pop-up begins to show in their garage who gave them gold.
 * Unknown date in June 2018: Wildflower completes a 3,501 race session to become #3 on the session Hall of Fame.
 * Unknown date in August 2018: ClassicGeneral completed a 3,751 race session to gain #3 on the session Hall of Fame.
 * Unknown date in August 2018: anT completes a 3,777 race session to gain #3 on the session Hall of Fame.
 * Unknown date in October 2018: Nitro Type surpasses 1 billion total races. [26]
 * Unknown date in December 2018: The news commenting requirements get moved from level 20 to level 40, and the cooldown between posting comments gets changed from 15 minutes to 20 minutes.
 * Unknown date in December 2018: Nitro Type surpasses 3 million total races completed in one day.
 * Unknown date in December 2018: Travis patches a glitch that allowed people to exceed the friend limit, however, in compensation, he makes it so that Gold Members can send cash to people who are not their friends.
 * Unknown date in December 2018: For a short time, there is an update in which the track shakes whenever a player makes an error while typing. This is quickly reverted, and changed so that the track would only shake whenever a nitro was used.

January

 * January 1:
 * The 2018 Xmaxx Event ends. [1]
 * asssa123 creates PL0X.
 * January 5: chak breaks the record for the highest speed ever obtained on Nitro Type with 228 WPM.
 * January 18: Season 19 begins.

February

 * February 9: asssa123 becomes an admin.
 * February 22: It is announced that Nitro Type v3 Alpha for Gold Members will be out in early March. [2]

March

 * March 8: Nitro Type v3 Alpha is released for Gold Members.
 * March 9: The account of Andy5692, a former moderator, is used to generate billions of illegitimate cash via an API exploit. The cash was subsequently sent to players.
 * March 10: Season 19 ends.
 * March 11:
 * A news post calling for Gold Members to test v3 is released. However, this news post was later deleted.
 * Season 20 begins.
 * March 18:
 * News comments are restricted to Gold Members only. [3]
 * The Lamborgotti Tiesto is released.
 * It is the last car to be ever released in the dealership.
 * March 24: The achievements page is released on the v3 alpha site.
 * March 25: The stats page is released on the v3 alpha site.

April

 * April 2: The "My Profile" page is released on the v3 alpha site.
 * April 8:
 * A new Nitro Type Discord server is created.
 * ayeyuhskuh's account gets banned due to attempted account theft and intent to take down the site.
 * April 10: The new Discord server is released to the public.
 * April 11: The team page is released on the v3 alpha site.
 * April 24: chak breaks the record for highest speed twice, with both a 233 and a 236 WPM race. [4]

May

 * May 1: Racing is enabled on the v3 alpha site.
 * May 2: Track Animations are released to all users, however, there is a random chance of getting them in races.
 * May 3:
 * SSO support, as well as the sign up page, is released on the v3 site, and non-gold members become able to log in and test.
 * Friend referral links are disabled.
 * May 8: The friends race chat is added to the v3 beta site.
 * May 9: The friends page is released on the v3 beta site.
 * May 10: The achievement Wiki Hero! is created and rewarded to three Nitro Type Wiki admins.
 * May 11: Season 20 ends.
 * May 13: Season 21's start date gets pushed from May 15 to May 17.
 * May 15: Season 21's cars are leaked on Discord.
 * May 16: The leaderboard page is released on the v3 beta site.
 * May 17: Season 21 begins. The Alpha Romero 123Ω and the Portch Cobalt are released.
 * May 23:
 * The mystery box's design gets changed on the v3 beta site.
 * The teacher portal is released, however only to Clever users. [5]
 * May 28: The Gold Membership upgrade page is released on the v3 beta site.
 * May 29: Pandora completes a 6,006 race session to take #1 on the session Hall of Fame.
 * May 31: Nitro Type's new logo is released on the v3 beta site.

June

 * June 3: The news page is released to the v3 beta site.
 * June 5: Nitro Type 3.0 is officially released to the main site at nitrotype.com.
 * June 7: Travis' Big Truck is created and Travis gives it to himself.

July

 * July 1: Season 21's end date gets moved from July 17 to July 14.
 * July 2: The teacher portal is released completely. [6]
 * July 8: The Bright Idea is released, and asssa123 gives it to himself.
 * July 10: pjcrowley completes a 6,005 race session to take #2 on the session Hall of Fame.
 * July 14: Season 21 ends and SYN wins the season, thus ending SSH's 10-season win streak.
 * July 17: Season 22 begins. The Goldfish, Sandstorm, and The Jury are released. [7]

August

 * August 8: The cooldown between posting news comments gets changed from 20 minutes to 8 hours.
 * August 12:
 * The Shock Value is leaked. [8]
 * The ability to post comments on the news is removed.
 * August 13: All news comments are removed, making it impossible to view comments from past posts.
 * August 17: asssa123 is fired from Teaching.com and his admin rights are stripped.
 * August 21: The new track is released to the newly reopened Nitro Type test site. [9]
 * August 30: Season 22 ends.

September

 * September 1: The Back 2 School event's start date gets moved from September 2 to September 3.
 * September 3: The 2019 Back 2 School Event begins. The Gold Standard, Shock Value, and Solar Roller are released, along with the B.U.S., S'cool B.U.S., AU-79, and The Overachiever being re-released. [10]
 * September 9: The H2GO is released. [11]
 * September 16:
 * The DevasTater is released. [12]
 * Season 23 starts.
 * September 20: chak breaks his own record for highest speed obtained on the site yet again with 240 WPM. [13]

October

 * October 4:
 * The 2019 Back 2 School event ends. [14]
 * Season 23 ends, and Season 24 begins.
 * October 7: Season 24's achievements are added. The Creepy Crawler, The Goblin, and Something Wicked are released. [15]
 * October 16: A new version of the race track is released.
 * October 23: A new tab is added on the friends page that allows you to view racers you had raced against in previous races. In addition to this, the friends' chat is reduced to only seven available messages in total.
 * October 28: It becomes possible for team tags to have up to 6 characters rather than the original 4.
 * October 30: Various friends features are updated, which included raising the friends list capacity for Gold and standard members to 1,000, automatically having new racers get a friend request from Travis and Corndog, and adding a special icon in place of the Remove Friend X if it is a teammate.
 * October 31:
 * The achievements Nitro Type Master, All Hail, Bow Before, Typing Nightmare, and Typing Demon are made unobtainable due to Travis not wanting to promote players completing long sessions as it could be detrimental to their health.
 * Vielle gets unbanned.
 * Six new emoji options are added to the friend race chat options.
 * A friends race bonus is added.

November

 * November 1:
 * The race results screen is updated to match the new track.
 * Friend symbols are added to the leaderboards.
 * November 2: The rewards for some of Season 24's achievements are changed, namely Spooky Fast, Fang-tastic, and Type Fright-er.
 * November 4:
 * Display names are changed to no longer allow most symbols, non-language characters, or emojis.
 * Team MotDs are changed to only allow 150 characters instead of the original 400.
 * Nitro Type goes down for maintenance and sends everyone that has logged in within the last year a friend request from Travis and Corndog.
 * November 11: Former admin asssa123's account receives a ban.
 * November 14: The feature where one would be able to see racers close to them on the leaderboards even if they were not in the top 100 is removed. Additionally, the notification telling one's exact ranking as well as how many points they have is placed back on the top of the leaderboard even after being removed with the release of v3.
 * November 20: One of the upcoming cars for the 2019 Xmaxx Event gets leaked. [16]
 * November 27:
 * Various team updates are made:
 * On the team page, the team tag doesn't appear next to the team members' names; although, this was re-added the following day. Team join dates were also removed.
 * Team tags were made smaller on player profiles.
 * The requirements for creating a team were changed from having to pay $5,000,000 to $50,000 and having to be at Level 20 to Level 5.
 * Open Enrollment (allows anyone that meets a team's requirements to join without officer approval) and Invite Only Enrollment (racers can only join if they're personally invited) options were added.
 * Kicked members can't reapply for 2 weeks without an invite.
 * If enabled, a "Class" tab which features a team-esque page is added for teacher accounts and students in their class.
 * The previous level requirement for sending cash is removed.
 * November 28: Season 24 ends.
 * November 29: A new option when creating/editing a team is added that, if enabled, will automatically remove non-officers that have been inactive for 7, 14, 30, 60, or 90 days.
 * November 30:
 * Races are shortened from 40 seconds to 25 seconds.
 * The amount of nitros that are allowed to be used per race is decreased to one, rather than the former 3. However, people no longer have a fixed supply of nitros and instead have unlimited nitros.

December

 * December 2: The Xmaxx event's achievements are shortly obtainable for about 10 minutes before being made unobtainable again. In a twitter post, Nitro Type postpones the event to the following day. However, during the time the cars and achievements were available, their descriptions stated that they were supposed to be part of Season 25, and not a 2019 Xmaxx Event.
 * December 3: Season 25 begins, and it is revealed that it is not an event; but rather, a season. Despite this, the Rocket Sleigh is still made available for purchase once again. Additionally, The Rocket Klaus, The Snowy Knight, Frosted Roller, Gingerbread GT, Cold Snap, and the Holiday Heat are released.
 * December 4: John! gets the first ever 200 WPM race on Nitro Type while using the Dvorak layout.
 * December 10: For a limited time, the price of Gold Membership is decreased by 30%.
 * December 16: The Golden Ticket is released for Gold Members during Season 25. [17]
 * December 17:
 * Various stylistic changes are made to all features that display racers including race results, friend pages, team pages, and the leaderboards.
 * Friends on the friends page are now sortable by level, words per minute, races, and status.
 * December 23:
 * The minimum character requirement for names is increased from 4 characters to 6 characters.
 * Gold Members name tags while racing now have a Gold band around them rather than the entire tag being gold.
 * December 26: ayeyuhskuh completes a 6,500 race session to take #1 on the session Hall of Fame.
 * December 31: The Holiday Gold Sale ends.

Unknown dates

 * Unknown date in November-December 2019: The Message of the Day character limit for teams is increased from 150 to 500.

January

 * January 2:
 * Dangerbob receives a custom car for reporting various site exploits/bugs.
 * Achievements get a slight visual update and now include a lock next to incomplete requirements.
 * January 3: Season 25 ends.
 * January 6: Season 26 begins, and the Wavebreaker, Broadwing, Bimmer Prism i20, and Heartbreaker are released along with 22 season achievements.

February

 * February 1:
 * Nitro Type receives a large appearance update to most of the main pages and functions on the site, featuring much more animation.
 * The option to choose your country is removed.
 * New team members now display a "NEW!" symbol next to their name that is visible to members of that team.
 * February 14: The 7 Day and 30 Day options are removed from the leaderboards and the stats page.
 * February 17: Pandora completes a 7,140 race session to reclaim #1 on the session Hall of Fame.
 * February 20: iloveshoes2, previously moderator for the news comments before they were removed, is compromised, with all her cars sold and the cash stolen.

March

 * March 18: Wildflower reaches 500,000 races.
 * March 20: The Wild 500 is released to Wildflower for completing 500,000 races along with its corresponding King of the Race achievement.
 * March 31: Season 26 ends.

April

 * April 7:
 * Gold Members are now only able to change their display names once every 8 hours, unlike before, when they were able to change it at any time with no cooldown.
 * Main track stickers are added, giving everyone the ability to use stickers outside of friend races before the race begins.
 * Achievements receive another redesign. This update removed achievement points visually; however, they can still be earned. Even so, the Under Achiever and Under Over Achiever achievements are disabled, making The Gator unobtainable.
 * The ability to view points for the top 100 teams on the 24-hour leaderboard is removed and an "All Time" stats section is added to team pages, showing the total race count and overall accuracy and words per minute average.
 * The ability to see a player's graph of their most recent races in their profile is removed.
 * The ability to see speed and accuracy in both the "last days" and "by month" section of a player's race logs is removed.
 * April 8: Season 27 begins and the Tigreen, X1 Eclipse, Error 500, and Vapor are released along with 5 season-exclusive stickers and 22 total season achievements.
 * April 10:
 * Former Nitro Type admin asssa123 is unbanned.
 * The sticker button during main races now flashes before a race.
 * Stickers are made significantly larger when displayed.
 * The default  and  stickers are replaced with  and.
 * The Nitro Type Gold icon is changed on the track to only display the character "N", rather than "NT".
 * The most "Nitros Used" section of the Hall of Fame is removed.
 * April 16:
 * The Nitro Gold sticker is added for Gold Members, along with its corresponding achievement Show That Gold!.
 * All King of the Race achievements past the Mini Sherman are changed to hidden achievements.
 * All of the consecutive win achievements are deactivated.
 * Travis leaks the upcoming types of season loot including: "trails, sound effects, track effects, animated cars, reactive cars, skins (in some form), etc" in a discord DM to PenguinTyper . The full message can be found in the second half of this video.
 * April 19:
 * representindupw completes a 10,733 race session, earning them 1st place on the Hall of Fame.
 * xyxhukeyrsxyx completes a 7,056 race session, earning 3rd place on the Hall of Fame.
 * April 27: 冠军卷土重来 completes a 10,518 race session, earning 2nd place on the Hall of Fame.

May

 * May 1: The Nitro Type Olympics Discord server is open to the public, as well as registration to participate.
 * May 7:
 * The Hehehehe achievement is created and given to a few select members of the NT community, awarding a Shadow Floaty sticker titled ";D".
 * The "Biggest Spender", "Longest Session", and "Most Money" categories of the Hall of Fame are removed.
 * A minimum account age (14 days) is added in order to send cash to other players. However, accounts can be of any age to receive cash.
 * The ability to use nitros is removed from races in the 1-9 and 10-15 WPM zones.
 * May 11: The "Oldest Active Player" category of the Hall of Fame is removed because it was both broken and many "stolen" accounts made their way onto the Hall of Fame. Travis said, "The whole thing got pretty pointless, so we're happy to be rid of it."
 * May 12: The Hall of Fame gets a slight change where the "Most Active" shows the top 10 and the "Fastest Racers (500+ Races)" shows the top 5.
 * May 15: TypeOnederful (along with her alt) gets rewarded TypEd1tor for her help in editing and correcting Nitro Type's typing passages.
 * May 20:
 * A Season page is created to introduce the Nitro Pass, which included three bonus tiers that weren't included with the original Season 27 achievements. These three tiers rewarded the 9 Bit Racer, the "Nitro Pioneer" title, and $250,000 to gold members.
 * Every season achievement is removed and replaced by the Nitro Pass.
 * May 25: Registration to participate in the Nitro Type Olympics is closed.
 * May 28: The price of The Wild 500 increases from $10,000 to $50,000,000. [1]

June

 * June 1: The 2020 Nitro Type Olympics officially begin.
 * June 4: The Olympics are postponed to early July (to coincide with Season 28) due to technical issues. Also, registration to participate in the Nitro Type Olympics is reopened.
 * June 10: A Nitro Game Updates and Fixes page is added at popular demand from Jacob and PenguinTyper.
 * June 16: Sending cash is now restricted to Gold Members only. However, non gold members can still receive cash.
 * June 17: Per player feedback, the canned-chat options for friends races are updated to include the phrases "One Sec..." and "Let's Gooooo!"
 * June 19: The Season 28 theme, "Wampus World", is unofficially revealed to a couple members of the community by Travis.
 * June 23: Registration to compete in the Nitro Type Olympics is closed again.

July

 * July 1: The garage is updated to accentuate the painting and loot buttons.
 * July 3: Season 27 ends.
 * July 4:
 * Season 28 begins and Chompus' Wild Ride, the Whiplash XS, The Hydro Planer, the Timber Speeder, and Wampus' Waffle Wagon are released along with 6 season exclusive stickers and 25 total season achievements.
 * Levels are removed and replaced with seasonal levels, which reset every season. Along with this, the minimum level requirement for teams is changed to a minimum races completed requirement, level requirements are removed from the dealership, and XP is removed from the mystery box.
 * The Wampus' spawn rates are increased to match with the Season 28 Wampus World theme.
 * The XP bar that appears on one's race results is updated to have a more flashy and fiery design.
 * A minimum of 50 completed races is added to the requirements to create a team.
 * Display names are no longer required to be unique, and spaces are now allowed.
 * The search feature on the Friends page is removed.
 * The 2020 Los Angeles Summer Nitro Type Olympics begin.

August

 * August 3: The Summer Olympics end.
 * August 7:
 * Nitro Type debuts its first, limited-time merchandise. [2]
 * Several minor visual updates are made to the login, sign up, and race pages.
 * August 14: The fourth set of Nitro Type Olympics titles are distributed.
 * August 21: The Nitro Gold upgrade page is given a massive visual overhaul. Additionally, all Gold tiers aside from the $2,000,000, $25,000,000, and $100,000,000 tiers are removed.
 * August 23: Rrraptor completes a 242 WPM race, breaking the record for highest speed ever legitimately set on the site.
 * August 24: The Jeepers Rubicorn gets completely re-designed.
 * August 25: A new, more animated track is released on the test site for Gold Members to test.
 * August 27: The test site is temporarily closed for maintenance and redirects to a news post explaining why.

September

 * September 3: The test site is re-opened after several issues get resolved. [3]
 * September 4: Season 28 ends.
 * September 5: An exploit is found and shared throughout the community in which racers are able to receive the Season 29 rewards early through setting their calendar forward (past the start of Season 29).
 * September 6:
 * The aforementioned exploit is patched. All cars, titles, and loot earned through the exploit are removed, but all cash earned is kept.
 * A column for racers' lifetime races is added to the Team page.
 * September 8:
 * Season 29 begins and the Webmobile Spider, Rand Rover Evar, SpaceZ Crew Draco, MacLaro Sienna, and the Calculatron are released along with 7 season exclusive stickers and 40 total season tiers.
 * The ability to search for friends is added back, after being removed at the start of Season 28.
 * September 16: The new, more animated track becomes available for all to test. [4]
 * September 21: The animated track undergoes performance testing [5].

October

 * October 1: The Nitro Track HD is released on the main website, as well as a news post [6] corresponding to the release.
 * October 12: A massive ban of botters was executed by the Nitro Type admins.
 * October 16:
 * Any animated cars now appear animated in the garage, and in player stat cards (seen on the leaderboards and race results screens).
 * Three new admin-exclusive cars and one new admin-exclusive sticker, the Screw Tank, the Hoverbike, the Jet Bike, and Safety Tie are added into the game code, all of which relate to YouTuber Colin Furze.
 * Due to an error with the new garage view, many smaller cars appear much larger than intended when seen in the garage.
 * The Nitro Type logo at the top now redirects a user to the garage, while they're logged in.
 * On the race page, the nav-bar is removed and the top logo is made smaller.
 * October 17:
 * The leaderboards tab is moved to the drop-down menu.
 * The garage's sizing gets fixed and the small car bug gets patched.
 * Players with non-lifetime gold are now able to purchase multiple years of gold, for $9.99 USD per year.
 * October 18: It is announced that the leaderboards will be removed on December 3. [7]
 * October 19: A glitch in which cars appear smaller in the garage is patched.
 * October 20:
 * The Nitro Type logo at the top now redirects a user to the homepage.
 * When racing, there is a button on the top left that redirects a user to their garage.
 * October 22: Xplode receives a custom title for reporting lots of security vulnerabilities on the site that are now patched.
 * October 28: The "Team Status" feature (where users could communicate with the rest of their team about anything) is removed.
 * October 29: In the garage, there was a glitch where a car is smaller when equipped in the garage or hovering over a user's profile. The glitch has since been patched.

November

 * November 1:
 * The ability to see another user's amount of money is removed.
 * The "Send Cash" feature is given a slight visual update and moved to the top of the user's profile and the button is not visible if you are signed onto a non-gold account.
 * The ability to see another user's advanced stats is removed.
 * November 2: The "Friend Me" and "Join [MY TEAM]" stickers are added for all players.
 * November 10:
 * The Screw Tank and Safety Tie are released and obtained by all players that login during the #NitroFurze event (Nov 10-Dec 7).
 * A #NitroFurze advertisement banner is added to the HD race track.
 * November 11: The option to race with the classic track is quietly removed, and the enhanced HD track becomes the only option to race with. Adrian, a Nitro Type admin, had previously stated in a news post that if the HD track went well, the classic track would be removed.
 * November 16:
 * The Jet Bike is released and obtained by all players that login during the #NitroFurze event.
 * The mystery box "Claim Now!" button receives a slight visual update.
 * November 17:
 * The #NitroFurze achievement is released and obtained by all players that login during the #NitroFurze event (Nov 10-Dec 7).
 * The notification that pops up when a friend invites one to a race, when a player accepts a friend request, or when a player is friend requested becomes visually smaller.
 * November 20: The mystery box "Claim Now!" button receives another visual update.
 * November 23:
 * The Hoverbike was released and obtained by all players that logged in during the #NitroFurze event.
 * Nitro Type starts its Black Friday Sale that lasts until November 29, 2020.
 * The #NitroFurze event end date is extended from November 23 to November 29.
 * November 30: The #NitroFurze event end date is extended again, from November 29 to December 7.

December

 * December 1: Season 29 ends.
 * December 2: Season 30 begins. The Festivitank and the Wrapped Flyer are released, and the Lamborgotti Xmaxx LT-C is re-released.
 * December 30:
 * A CAPTCHA is added during large sessions to reduce automated botting capabilities.
 * An option for Google, Clever, and Facebook Single-Sign-On (SSO) users to customize their username and password is added.
 * Support for temporary bans is added.

Unknown dates:


 * Unknown date in January 2020: Cash gift notification messages are changed to show the amount sent rather than only showing the amount once you claim it.
 * Unknown date in January 2020: The Top 3 Scoreboard Champion Symbol is changed to no longer be given out to officers or captains of top 3 teams.
 * Unknown date in February 2020: The tags for racers with Gold Membership on the track is reverted back to being solid gold rather than a gold outline.
 * Unknown date in March 2020: 高手卷土重来 completes a 6,650 race session, earning him 2nd place on the Hall of Fame.
 * Unknown date in May 2020: SECT gets auto-disbanded.
 * Unknown date in June 2020: The Wampus' join date is changed from January 10, 2014, the day it was added, to September 8, 2011, the day that Nitro Type was first released.

January

 * January 6:
 * Season 30 (XMaxx 2020) gets extended four more days to end on January 12, 2021.
 * Stronger passwords are now required, as stated on the Updates Page.
 * The password must be 6+ characters, and must contain at least one capital letter, number, or symbol.
 * January 10:
 * Leaderboards get replaced with Top Teams (in the last 7 days). Top Teams also show up in the teams search page. If teams have completed at least 150 races in the last 7 days, they will also see their position and their nearby teams on their teams page. You can read about it on the Updates Page.
 * Realtime notifications are received in the bottom right corner when friends, classmates, and teammates come online, with the ability to mute notifications if desired as well.
 * January 11: A "Top Speeds" category is added to the Stats page, showing every top speed a player has obtained since August 8, 2017.
 * January 12:
 * Season 31 is released with 3 new cars, the Heartbreaker LV-2, Bimmer M6, and The Dominator.
 * A tab showing where your team ranks on the "Top Teams" leaderboard on the team page is removed.
 * The #NitroFurze banner that appeared on the main track is removed.
 * January 14: Nitro Type releases a 2021 New Year's News Post.
 * January 16:
 * The "Top 3" race and profile badge is upgraded to include more ranks. Top 3, Top 10, Top 50, Top 100, and Top 300 for racers, and Top 3 through 50 for teams. Ranking is based on speed and activity over the last 7 days.
 * The ability to update a team's Message of the Day (MotD) is removed, and put back up again a few hours afterwards.
 * January 19: The ability to "boost" (add a reaction to) one's latest team Message of the Day (MotD) is added.
 * January 26: The Minnie the Cooper and the Misoux Lion both get a v3 redesign.

February

 * February 5: Joshua Hu obtains a new high speed of 247 WPM, breaking the record for highest legitimate speed obtained on Nitrotype. [1]
 * February 6:
 * The Item Shop is released along with the Jet Powered Truck, MVP sticker, and "First!" title. The Hotdog Mobile and Bimmer Prism i20 are also made available for purchase.
 * The dealership is removed.
 * The ability to sell cars is removed.
 * The achievement awarded to players for selling cars is made unobtainable to new players.
 * The Nizza 350x receives a v3 redesign.
 * A cash sending limit of $10,000,000 is added.
 * New users get all 3 starter cars instead of choosing one. Once the user finishes the qualifying race, they receive the Minnie the Cooper, Jeepers Rubicorn, and the Misoux Lion.
 * February 8: Over 20 cars get v3 redesigns, including the Auttie Roadster, Lamborgotti Mephisto, Fort GT40, Strykist 1300, Misoux Toad, and the EZ Rider.
 * February 9: The Fastback, MP 427, and the Auttie R-8.1 get v3 redesigns.
 * February 14: The Lamborgotti Vengeance and The Glamrod replace the previous week's featured items.
 * February 18:
 * Cash sending limits for team captains and officers is increased to $50,000,000.
 * The admins begin to give specific people (such as content creators) the ability to override the cash sending limit.
 * February 20: Season 31's end date is extended from February 21 to February 23, 2021.
 * February 22: The price for painting is removed, making all paintjobs free.
 * February 24: Season 32 - Winters End is released, with 2 new cars, the Ice Hauler and the Furious Maxx, and a re-released car, the Snowy Knight.