At the top of the charts, only Eddie Taylor moved up a place to 12th, but there were also good cuts for Michael Jongerius, Marcelo Almeida dos Reis, Trystan Pugh, Lucas Oliver and Cooper Lovera. Trystan, Lucas and Cooper all moved pretty close to GOD levels – can they make it and expand the elite club of five GODs? Watch this space. Jongerius once more stunned the Kart world by bringing his own Rainbow Road world record down by over a second and taking the FS flap record that Karlo broke at the end of January (which I omitted on purpose last time to include it here in a better context…*shifts eyes*). Karlo, not one to be upstaged, lowered his SC AvgFin to exactly 3 to extend his lead at the top of the board with new WRs on Royal Raceway SC Flap and Rainbow Road 3lap/Flap, beating Myles Bukrim, the Gutierrez brothers and Michael Fried respectively. Greg Ihnatenko retook PAL no.1 and world no.4 from Ben Miller after Miller stole the spot from him in January. Vincent Tolhuis continued to move up the SC ranks, flying into the top 20 at 18 with a 10 place rise and pushing Matthew Little down a place, despite Little also making some PRs.
While Myles Bukrim, Jesse Hristovski and Greg Ihnatenko all made some small cuts on their nonSC AvgFin, it was Vincent Tolhuis and Josh Layne doing the moving again. Vincent moved up two places to 30, while Josh gained a place on Vincent by moving from 35 to 32 and sandwiching Finn Berger between them (take that as a lame burger/Berger joke if you must). Breaking into the top fifty came that man Andre Hermanny, still rocketing up the charts with a 20% AvgFin cut to move to 47 and taking himself to Legend D from King A. Not to be outdone, Willi Rossberg came up with a 20% cut of his own to stay just ahead of Andre at 45 and became Legend C, up from Legend F. Willi was also in action over in shortcuts, climbing to 42 with a 26.1 cut, while ahead of him, David Schiering made another jump, although this time only of 7 places instead of January’s 121. Don’t think he was too disappointed about that as he ended up 27th.
Outside the top 5 and it was yet more Germans making cuts, Florian Eisele moving up 6 places to 53rd. Kristopher Will somehow found himself down two places despite making a small cut of his own, thanks to the efforts of Florian and Andre, and John Santamaria suffered the same fate . Kyle J Smith was the other mover inside the top 100, going for 93 to 87. The SC charts saw Andre making more cuts, as well as Fabio Ferrera and George Dimitrou, who rose 15 places to become no.79.
Michael Farmer was up another 10 places after his big cuts in January, finishing the month at 111. Stephen Meakings and Frank Chardin travelled upwards, Steven up 10 to 130 and Frank 8 to 134. Your friendly neighbourhood Kart reporter cut 55 from his AvgFin and moved 53 places up to 148…and Glyn Valentine upstaged me with a superb 86 AvgFin cut, moving 82 places to 125. I’ll get you yet, Glyn… *shakes fist*. On a less evil note, we both became Elite players, myself Elite B and Glyn Elite A *cries*. Brian Lloyd, George Dimitrou and Elizabeth Mimms were all big climbers outside the top 200. Brian moved 21 places to 204, George 44 to 253 and Elizabeth 81 to 309.
Finally, our five new players in February:
Sam Cobb – Apprentice B - 429
Jonathon Swider – Intermediate D – 407
Wilf Swann – Advanced B – 355
Michael Schlereth – Expert F - 330
Jeff Kottcamp – Expert C – 315
Stay tuned - or connected - for the March news report, coming up after the next times update!
At the top of the NonSC leaderboard, we had 7 of the top 20 making good cuts, including world no.1 Michael Jongerius, having a battle with Eddie Taylor to finally take the FS 3lap WR as well as the MR 3lap and a tie for the flap. NTSC no.2 Marcelo Almeida dos Reis got all of his times into the top 10 and passed Jeffrey Gutierrez for third, while his Brazilian compatriot and NTSC no.1 Karlo Tomazelli tied the MMF flap WR in an otherwise quiet month. Trystan Pugh passed Martin McMullan and Jamie White to reach 8th in the world, as well as tying the (then) Rainbow Road WR. Greg Lewis made an AvgFin cut of 5.5 to bring himself up from 18th in the world at the end of 2005 to 11th by the end of January! Eddie Taylor, Lucas Oliver and Cooper Lovera all made cuts of over 2 as they moved to 13,14 and 18 respectively. On the shortcut side, Ben Miller became PAL number one and world no.4 while Matthew Little went up 6 places to no. 18.
Jesse Hristovski made a nice jump of 7 places, from 29 up to 22. It seems that 7 was everyone’s lucky number for January, as Vincent Tolhuis also jumped 7 places from 39 to 32. Josh Layne then ruined my sequence by gaining 8 places up to number 35…but I won’t bear a grudge. Vincent added to his non SC success and his huge cuts in December by moving up another 8 places on SC to 28. David Schiering had a colossal 96.450 SC AvgFin cut – that’s 68% - taking him from 155 to 34!
Kristopher Will and Andre Hermanny were the big movers between 50-100 on non SC, Kristopher cutting 25% on his AvgFin to reach 57, while Andre continued his charge up the ranks to sit 3 places behind at 60 with a 31% cut. George Dimitrou broke into the SC top 100 at 94.
Outside the top 100, Michael Farmer and Stephen Meakings continued moves up the ranks from December. Glyn Valentine and Fabio Ferrera improved lower down the ranks, Fabio entering the top 200 with Glyn hovering just outside. We had five new players joining the site in January, and here’s how they ended the month:
James Bertolli – Intermediate F - 415
Elizabeth Mimms – Intermediate B - 390
Bradley Miller – Semi-Pro F - 275
Sonny Meade – Semi-Pro A – 246
And your friendly neighbourhood Kart reporter (me) – Master B – 201
I’ll be back tomorrow to give a rundown of all the main action in February!
With it Karlo gets a 9th sc WR and an 11th overall WR while Eddie disappear from the chart... for not having a pic ;) we still hope to see your face someday again Eddie :).
On February 13th Karlo Tomazelli lowered Myles RRy sc Flap time thus stealing a WR from him. His lap time was 31"72.
Then on February 16th he lowered the RRo sc Flap WR twice. The first time he just managed to slip under 1'05 with a 1'04"98 and a bit later he lowered it some more to 1'04"86*.
The next day he went for the RRo sc again but made the 3lap WR this time. He could beat Fried time with his own 3'19"12.
Then 2 days later on february 19th he lowered it again using a 1-0-2 shroom strat. His splits were 1'05"87 - 1'06"86 - 1'06"10 for a new RRo sc 3lap WR of 3'18"83*, right under 3'19s.
Enough about Karlo... for now ;).
On march 10th Myles Bukrim made a WR by taking one of Karlo's WR. He lowered his CM sc 3lap time to 1'05"79. So they both stole a WR from each other.
A bit later the same day Karlo Tomazelli took back that WR by beating Myles by 0"11. So the new CM sc 3lap WR is 1'05"68*. He used a 1-0-2 shroom strat again.
And earlier today Myles Bukrim took back his RRy sc Flap WR by cutting 0"19 off Karlo's Flap for a nice time of 31"53*.
So overall Myles kept his RRy sc Flap WR while Karlo kept his CM sc 3lap but took Michael Fried RRo sc 3lap WR and the Gutierrez brother's RRo sc Flap. That leave Fried with his N-sc WR and Steven with only have 2 sc WRs while still having a good ranking. Jeffrey lost his WR so he is gone from the chart. As for Karlo he gained 2 WRs to reach 10 overall WRs! 2 N-sc and 8 sc, well done.
News writers needed
You'll have noticed that there's been a lack of news updates lately. Vincent van der Fluit recently quited his news-writing job for the site and most of the other updaters (including me) have been too busy to write detailed news reports.
In order to get the news updates running again, we need new team members! Do you like to write about the achievements of other karters? Do you have enough time to write a news story once in a while (once a month for example, or once a week if you really like it)? Would you like to help us out? If you are interested, please let me know!
