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| 04 March 2007: "Recovering from injury... 5 days till Paris!!" |
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| New Members Welcome to... Sebastien Cormier, Canada (NTSC 144th, Canada 32nd, Warrior A) Chris Collins, USA (NTSC 196th, USA 100th, Pawn E) New World Records Karel van Duijvenboden and Pierre L'Hoest went head to head on Choco Island 1 Fastlap on PAL both landing with a World Record tie of 0'10"70*. Alencar Faria drove an amazing time for Mario Circuit 2 5-lap on NTSC with 1'04"22. Florent Lecoanet improves his CI1 Shortcut WR time on PAL to 0'10"62. Christophe Paquin hit a trick/glitch time for Mario Circuit 1 lap on PAL that is currently a WR of 0'11"42. Movement PAL Activity: PAL World Champion Karel van Duijvenboden and #2 Pierre L'Hoest delivered an interesting battle this week on CI1 fastlap that ended in a WR tie between the two. #3 Sami Cetin worked hard on DP2 NBT hitting a strong 5-lap time with a good lap to go with it. #4 Florent Lecoanet improved his CI1 SC lap this week. #5 Sebastian Stellmacher has done it this week! He has passed Armin Huber to become the new SMK PAL Time Trial Champion of Germany. He hit a selection of strong records this week that helped him cut a great amount of average finish at high rank. #10 Gerard Roodhorst was in the small battle with #11 Christophe Paquin this week, Gerard hit the improvements on CI1 while Christophe held his position with a PR for KB2 5-lap and also a trick time for MC1. #27 Manuel Babjar makes a great cut this week on average finish with some nice NBT PRs including great work with CI2 and some other tracks. #34 Eric Scott drove solid BC2 and KB2 PRs this week making a good improvement to his stats and extending his lead from the Champion of Norway. #55 Sean Billingsley made a few fastlap PRs this week and has just fallen short of passing Swiss karter Leutwyler. His MC2 lap is getting stronger now along with some Non-NBT PRs on BC2 and GV3. #58 Geoffrey Ewbank has been hitting Belgian Records for Mario Circuit 3 following some good cuts there to defend his overall position. #61 Jean-Francois Schepers also drove several good Non-NBT times including a 5-lap close to the Belgian Record on MC3 and is getting close now to former Australian Champion Ademir Cortes. #65 Oleguer Limona of Spain is catching up a little faster now with some platform jumping on GV1 and good times for RR and MC3 also. #69 Mathieu Jaspard of Belgium however is moving faster than his rivals above, so they will have a battle soon. He reached a Belgium Record for Ghost Valley 1 5-lap this week. #78 Alexis Gauthier of France returned to SMK with some nice PRs working around the Mario Circuit tracks. #85 John Kenny drove a few Australian Records this week on MC2 and MC3 which were a great result as he approaches Mangeol and Gaffikin on the PAL rankings. #94 Stacy Needham hit a good cut with a long boost 5-lap on MC2 and more solid Non-NBT PRs. #112 Julien Brangeon of France has worked hard on select tracks, the majority from Mushroom Cup and cut a lot of seconds off his times as he moves quickly towards the Top 100s. #175 Emmanuel Debenest of France also made a significant cut since last week, once again cutting time off nearly all of his PRs. NTSC Activity: #2 Guilherme Arantes, the Champion of Brazil improved a little on his DP1 Fastlap. #7 Pierre L'Hoest continued to defend his 3 way battle with a CI1 NBT PR while #8 Julien Holmiere is a point from being attacked by approaching #9 Alencar Faria. Julien drove 3 new PRs this week and Alencar made some strong times including the new Mario Circuit 2 5-lap WR. #15 Martin Morissette is now #2 in Canada with his latest NBT PRs that have extended his lead from Laflamme and placed him in closer competition with Worley. #17 Ha Nyan, the Japanese Champion worked on several tracks this week making a good average finish cut and has passed Huber and Seb Holmiere on the NTSC Rankings. #22 Dan Hoernemann delivered a solid run on Mario Circuit 2 5-lap with long boosts that gained him an overall position after passing Japan's 2nd fastest, Goto. #28 David Smith also landed some good long boost attempts with a few other PRs on the BC tracks as he approaches Japan's #3 Toshi Miura. #66 Rich Gomes sent in some nice Non-NBT cuts on Flower Cup and Star Cup this week. He will be aiming to reach Sunderland next for #13 in Canada. #112 Emeric Gosselin hit 5 PRs this week on NTSC as he works his way towards Gabriel Laflamme. #133 Robin Usher of Japan improved a bit further with over 10 new times, making improvements to some of his weaker ones in particular. Recently active Brian Smith is only just ahead. #141 Ryan DeMaster and #145 April Thompson rivalry continues as both karters set their PRs. Ryan going for MC1 cut and a BC3 5-lap also. April goes for a larger volume of PRs and gets a slightly larger average finish cut while Ryan remains in the lead. The battle continues... |