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05/15/2008: "Wheeling and Dealing"

I'm walkin' on sunshinnne...woaaaaaaaaaah...

Movement
The top 2 this week decided to calm down their rivalry a bit, and each took a break from the PR-frenzy that was last week. Alvin leads the way, whilst Kevin secretly hopes someone fires a blue shell.
Behind those 2, Kristopher Will successfully defended his 3rd place spot from Emmanuel Debenest. There is quite a large gap between these two and the top two, so we'll see over the next while if anyone can bridge that gap.

The person who seems most likely, with almost Obama-like momentum, is Tim Shelbourne. He has kept climbing impressively over the last few weeks, and passes David and Giulio to slot in at #5 . Can he continue his impressive run?

The next 5 players who have been impressing over the last few days are all from the North American continent, 3 from Canada and 2 from the USA. Cole Gilbert breaks into the top 10, moving up 3 places from 11th to 8th. Armando Cobian and Dave Phaneuf both move up two places. 19->17 and 21->19 respectively. Erik Reynolds gains 3 places to move from #25 to #22, and lastly Benoit Boudreau passes a couple of players to move up to #32. Behind the scenes Michael Fried is making a strong showing in the North American rivalry, and should be ranked pretty high when he sends in his last remaining times.

Finally, Manuel Schmitz climbs 4 places and cuts over 6 avg finish points to reach #37.

Everyone else pretty much sucked.

Other news
Ok people. Go search in your garbage cans for wherever you threw your wii wheel, because this week's Nintendo challenge requires you to have to use it. *goes off to try it before writing more* Oh dear. That was awful. Try to beat my first try time of 1'31"331!
This challenge will be a time attack to see how quickly you can drive through 10 rings. You can only use the wii wheel. Several item boxes are strewn across the map, and these seem to all contain a single mushroom. Good luck! In the last challenge, the top 6 places were all impressively filled by Japanese karters. Let's see if we can do better with this challenge. Good luck!

...and don't it feel good!