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| 01 February 2009: "Looks like VL1 outside..." |
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| New Members Welcome to... Shingo Nakano, Japan (NTSC 217th, Japan 22nd, Contender A) Bolivar Haeser, Brazil (NTSC 257th, Brazil 23rd, Novice D) New World Records Tyler Worley improves his Koopa Beach 1 NTSC World Record to 0'45"89. Movement PAL Activity: #25 Gene Tagliabue, the Time Trial Champion of Australia has had a fantastic week with strong average finish improvement with his large volume of PRs. Hitting weaker tracks on several boards and coming up with surprises like MC1 fastlap he has climbed to the Top 25 of PAL. Another cut similar can reach him up to the next group who are close also to the Top 20. #31 Alvin van Asselt makes an NBT cut to his Rainbow Road fastlap. #97 Samuel Gomez drove 4 new PRs, hitting some nice Non-NBT on Rainbow Road and a few decent cuts to CI1 where he has more potential. The next few karters are very close on the ranking. #137 Job Plessius of Netherlands who joined us not long ago has been PR'ing well on some tracks and improving his overall stats. He has recently passed Austrian #1 Peter Elsaesser. #181 Elie Blatz of France is also gaining good ground each week with more PRs. This week GV2, KB1 and MC4 had good results and he is now within range to reach Plug and Play team rival Martin Pfeiffer. #243 Lindsay Molenaar of Netherlands had some more time to play hitting some more sharper PRs with Toad on various tracks, mostly fastlaps. NTSC Activity: #4 Oliver Segarra Gonzalez nailed 3 new fastlap PRs this week. He has also passed his rival team mate, Alencar Faria, regaining the 2nd fastest Time Trial position in Brazil. Can he reach #1 Brazil? #15 Tyler Worley drove a couple of PRs, one was a sharp GV1 NBT fastlap, and the other was more than just a PR; yes, another cut to his Koopa Beach 1 NBT World Record! #125 Dean Barnhart set 4 new PRs with D.K.Jr this week; for Bowser Castle 2 and the rest on Special cup. His improvements have gained him a few more ranks. |