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| 22 December 2008: "Snow and Cabin... a dream come true :)" |
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| New Members No new members this week... New World Records No new World Records this week... Movement PAL Activity: #29 Gene Tagliabue fights stronger this week with more PRs, successfully taking the lead against Swiss Time Trial Champion Raphael Braun. A few more close ranked rivals are close range, and he has the pace to cut further towards the Top 25 or even 20 soon. #32 Alvin van Asselt has worked well on Mario Circuit 1, coming very close to the legendary 1'00" barrier but falling a little short. We await his further results. #40 James Tagliabue is also making great progress, bridging the large gap between karter behind and ahead; with plenty of potential to go as he works on some more NBT times. Once those are sharpened and combined with his Non-NBT skills, he will fly up to the Top 30s and higher. #75 John Kennedy returned this week to answer some challenges on his favourite track, with a nice GV3 lap to put into the works. #94 Steve Bayliss improves his Rainbow Road PRs a little further and maintains his rank. #101 Samuel Gomez is driving some strong cuts this week with a very nice average finish improvement and is now very close to reaching the Top 100s. This could spark off a rivalry again with Bayliss should he continue to improve at this rate. #131 Alex Hantson of the Swiss team is also making good progress, only 3 PRs but his -4 average finish cut is looking very promising! His PRs included MC2 lap and BC2 both. NTSC Activity: NTSC Time Trial World Champion Pierre L'Hoest had some near misses on World Records this week, with some good attempts at some PRs on various tracks with the tougher strats. #5 Oliver Segarra Gonzalez enjoys his latest week of PRs with a pair of MC3 times and a good start on CI2 lap also. If he makes a similar amount of average finish improvement next week it could put him in direct competition with Brazil's 2nd fastest, Alencar Faria. #14 Guillaume Leviach continued to PR, with further work on his favourite Rainbow Road and other NBT & Non-NBT PRs, main focus being on Special Cup. #158 Chuck Foster is pulling ahead of his previous rivalry pack with some good PRs on the MCs and his weaker BC3 times. Can he keep a strong pace and climb beyond the Top 150 on NTSC before the new year? |