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| 15 June 2008: "The Learning Curve" |
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| New Members No new members this week... New World Records No new World Records this week... Movement PAL Activity: #10 Manuel Babjar defends his rank against Italian Champion at #11 Angelo Di Vano. Manuel made a nice lap cut on DP3 this week along with a further push on MC3 5-lap. Angelo however also made nice cuts on the DPs, including stealing a win on Manuel on DP3 lap by 0.04. Angelo's effort was also strong on RR which his helped his average finish close in on Manuel a bit more. The rivalry will continue! #16 Guillaume Leviach wis picking up the pace again this week since losing his close rivalry vs Angelo. However a strong IB lap and some excellent PRs have made him have a larger average finish cut; he can now see Jonas and Roodhorst not far ahead, with more karters fairly close in front of them. #28 David Bonne drives a very consistent BC3 course time and cuts off some average finish score with the result. #35 Alvin van Asselt is only a few seconds behind David's pace, also with his latest favourite BC3; he has finally broken into 1'33". #66 Gene Tagliabue extends his lead from Ademir even further this week, focusing a little more on some precision Non-NBT including a few key fastlaps. He has another signficant cut and is heading towards more historical SMK names on the rankings as he climbs. #73 James Tagliabue is unstoppable again this week, putting together more strong records to improve his average finish, he is starting to gain on his brother Gene at this rate, and he has passed #74 John Kennedy who broke the 1'00" on VL2 this week and a few other nice BC3 PRs to defend his rank. James is now #5 in Australia with John at #6. #82 Gavin Mace has also made an awesome cut, flying towards the Top 80 that he can easily reach in the next week. His new set of PRs have done an all round improvement, and he has passed two of the strong Swiss karters on the way. John will have a battle soon if Gavin keeps the pace. #122 Daniel Pabst of Germany sends another strong set of PRs generating a -5 average finish cut, placing him near the Top 120. Sven Necker is up ahead for another rank gain in Germany soon. #128 Samuel Gomez sets a small PAL PR on GV1 lap which helped him cut a little further ahead of rival karters. #244 Lindsay Molenaar is training well these weeks with another collection of PRs, and further refining MC1 to make the lap sharper, also working on tougher courses to keep a level. She has passed Hakan Cetin this week. NTSC Activity: #7 Soul Kobayashi, the Champion of Japan is in direct competition with USA Champion Joe Bernier this week on World Rankings. Currently he has driven some more records to defend against the strong PRs of Tohgo and Akita. He will surely improve soon further, and can also reach Chris Balch soon with more new records. #21 Tohgo Ariake of Japan gains another rank this week following improvements on a selection of courses. He has made a good -2 cut to his average finish and is close to Michael Fried and thw Top 20. #36 Alvin van Asselt of Netherlands put some more time in on NTSC this week with a few more PRs and an improvement to pass Jason Fraser. Former NTSC World Champion Stanley Jeram is just ahead. #73 Juan Manuel Arteaga, the Champion of Costa Rica has discovered some NBT this week and makes initial testing on a few tracks. He has resulted in a few nice PRs and a good cut. He has potential to reach the Top 70 next week if he makes a similar improvement with more PRs. #113 Steve Bayliss of Team UK returned to SMK on the NTSC side with several PRs to continue his quest on both systems for the Top 100. He has passed some karters this week with his efforts. #118 Eric Schafer has also performed similarly with a solid set of new times, now leading the set of 7 or 8 USA rivals and also reaching the Top 120, not too far behind Steve. #128 Samuel Gomez of France, spent more time on the NTSC side this week also with a lot of new PRs and consistent 5-lap driving for some strong times. There are still many karters at close scores that he can aim to pass in the next week. This will place him in closer rivalry with Eric and maybe Steve. #192 Jacob McMillin has passed 4 more karters this week with 15 new PRs and lots of potential to cut further. He is close to the Top 190 and was a few points short of reaching Wade Allen. |