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| 02 December 2008: "Ooo I wanna take you down to Nokonoko" |
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| Seasons Greetings as another year wraps up! Movement #1 Thomas Bolton was making the move up this week in his close battle with #2 Ben Stoneman by improving his YF times to cut 0.1250 AF points. Since tying #8 Cole Gilbert's 3lap from well over a year ago, Thomas finally reclaimed the record there with 46"391 and almost beat #4 Fabien Da Silva's flap with 15"194. He also drove a new prb time which ranks number three with KB2 3lap 40"670. This helped him move a little farther ahead on the prb charts too so Ben still has his work cut out for him. He also came up with three new times which of course includes a new WP flap record of 38"896. Ben got the number three spot on SG non-prb 3lap with 1'08"500 and LC1 prb flap with 23"257. Let the battle continue! #3 Giulio Centrone was also active giving LC2 non-prb flap a try coming up with 25"619 Myth B. Only Thomas and Ben have a faster time with Thomas on the verge of getting his 63rd God time. More recently, Giulio got back on WS where he held the sc records long ago. Before the month was out, Giulio improved his sc flap to 36"878 to close in on Thomas there. We'll probably see some WR's for next week. His new times did not help much on non-prb where Ben has a commanding lead but was almost able to close the gap on prb to reclaim the #4 spot from #11 Abel Marques. Around the top ten, #9 Michele Magnaterra keeps getting pr's but doesn't really go anywhere. He made some solid improvements on non-prb with SG 3lap 1'09"565 Myth C, CI2 3lap 49"969 Titan A, and MC flap 29"655 Myth C. He also gave SG prb a go getting 1'02"804 and 20"752. For now, he remains behind Cole in the ranks. Elsewhere, #13 Matthew Ord continues to slowly close in on #12 Nicola Gatti with two new times this week. He improved his WP 3lap to 1'59"739 God and DH 3lap 1'12"336 to Myth B. Unless we see a ton of new times from him, the other UK players at the top can relax with their nice AF cushion. Looming below is the USA's last shining star, #16 Marshall LeVett. Only second to #6 Nick Welch, he keeps on racking up the CR's and WR's. He took his handy work to SG non-prb where he got the 3lap record from #23 Lenny Andreev recently with a cool looking time of 1'08"080. For now, the honors await the player who goes sub 1'08 first. Marshall also improved his SG non-prb flap with 21"472 God and LM 3lap to 1'33"896 Myth C. While Lenny did not move up on the charts, he did get a few new times with SG non-prb flap 21"260, YF 3lap 47"383 and flap 15"545. All of them are God ranked but Lenny just missed tying Thomas' record on SG non-prb flap by one thousandth of a second! As long as he keeps hanging out with Ben, more WR's will come his way. Wrapping up the top 100, #31 Pol Gonzalez had another week of new times but is no where closer to moving up in the ranks. Despite just six pr's, he cut 0.5625 AF points to close in on the players ahead of him which helps on the prb side to stay ahead of fellow countryman #57 Carlos Munoz who ranks #29 there. The biggest monster in the top 100 without a question was #32 Joep van Gelder. Starting outside the top 50 this month, he cruised from Titan D to Titan B with his huge surge in activity. With over 20 new pr's just this week, Joep cut 5.7187 AF points to pass 7 players as he now makes his way rapidly to Titan A overall. He also took the title of #1 Netherlands on non-prb now with #35 Mark Engelsman sitting back to enjoy #2 status at least. The only question is how far will Joep go and dominate the charts. Formal World Champ, #55 Miguel Rodriguez still has 4 CR's so Joep has some ways to go yet! Movement outside the top 100 included #114 Marcus Whitley -30.9210, #121 Pierre Signamarcheix -1.5620, #125 Andrew Mao -12.8130, #129 Haddon Power-Cohen -9.5310, #167 Robert Lee -20.9840, #182 Florian Valandina -4.3430, #189 Richard Penkalla -11.8130, #247 Nicholas Harvey -25.0000, #413 Andrew Howes -3.6880, #453 Daniel Sampson -2.5470, #533 Alvin van Asselt -6.5320 and #557 Zack Weber -5.8440. New Records There were 4 WR's improved (blue) and three non-prb times (pink). Ben Stoneman started things off with another WP flap record of 38"896. Out of no where, the Dokan Course got some activity with Kizuna, a Japanese player, taking down Robert Szabo's ancient times with a much cleaner run going sub 1'24 first with 1'23"867, live replay. He also got a slightly quicker flap with 27"618. In the middle of this, Thomas Bolton reclaimed the YF 3lap getting 46"391. Also joining in on the Dokan action was David Roldan who blew the flap away with the BLS taking it down to 27"200, live replay. For non-prb, Ben got WP flap 38"896, Thomas got YF 3lap 46"391, and Marshall took the SG 3lap with 1'08"080. Awards Without much going on in the top 100, one player stood out among the rest with his massive pr pace and chart destruction. The Dutchie enjoyed another time of lax activity which made his accomplishments stand even more racing Titan C to Titan B overall, cutting another 15% off his AF, and almost into the top 30. For another big week of karting. Joep van Gelder wins the POW for the fourth week of November. It should not come as a surprise since only one player near the top was able to move over thirty places as he made his way up the Titan ranks. Cutting over 30% of his AF, he jumped all the way up to #32 and Titan B overall from starting outside the top 50 this month. Suffice to say, he got a massive amount of pr's to pull it off. For his big quick improvement in the charts and rising Dutchie, Joep van Gelder wins the POM for the month of November! Thats where we wanna go ~ETCH |
