[Previous entry: "Valentines"] [Next entry: "No pipe jumps... the ancient way"]
| 21 February 2010: "Spot on" |
|---|
| New Members Welcome to... John Western, UK (PAL 244th, UK 47th, Contender A) Carlos Rodriguez, Spain (PAL 260th, Spain 3rd, Contender D) Ichiro Sakamoto, Japan (NTSC 163rd, Japan 18th, Knight C) New World Records Raul Henrique has broken the Donut Plains 1 fastlap World Record with 0'13"34. Movement PAL Activity: #54 Alexandre Burel, the Plug and Play Team Champion returned this week with a couple of NBT PRs for Mario Circuit 1. #116 Alexander Walz of Germany has been continuing his rampage and unleashing his potential on a lot of tracks with the latest wave of PRs. He is heading fast up to the Top 100 on PAL and now stands at 12th place in Germany on PAL Time Trials. NTSC Activity: #4 Guillaume Leviach returned this week with a pair of very strong Donut Plains 3 NBT PRs for NTSC, in particular the 2nd place time/French Record for the fastlap. A rival soon after attacked the same course. #7 Sami Cetin improved some of his Star Cup times this week including good NBT work of MC4 and some attempts on Bowser Castle 3 which are coming along nicely. He has passed Alencar Faria for another rank higher on NTSC. #20 Raul Henrique decided to attack further on Donut Plains 3 to answer the challenge of Leviach. Although he was not able to focus on the fastlap strat yet, his course time was looking very strong. #48 Ben Allen had a mini session on NTSC this week to set some quick PRs on a few weaker times. Within a short space of time a nice average finish cut happened placing him further within the Top 50 in the World on NTSC; passing Drew Blumfield and also Colombian SMK Champion Juan Arevalo. #51 Chris Morton is now after Drew's rank with his latest times on Bowser Castle 3. He has potential there for a sub 1'30" course time following a good couple of PRs. #244 Christophe Tremblay is improving his driving techniques and is looking to continue several more PRs over the next weeks. This week he scattered some PRs amongst Flower, Star and Special cups with a focus again on Mushroom cup including Mario Circuit 1 which is shifting towards the 1'02"00 barrier. |