Super Mario Kart Time Trial World Records and Players' Site

Title Defence

Sami @ Sunday, November 25th   [link]

New Photos in Gallery

Alvin van Asselt sends us a photo this week, added to the Netherlands PAL section of the photo gallery.


New Members

Welcome to...

Matt Ellis, Canada (NTSC 81st, Canada 16th, Veteran B)
Josh Stevens, USA (NTSC 150th, USA 67th, Knight E)


New World Records

Karel van Duijvenboden latest World records on PAL featured Donut Plains 1 1'10"60 and a lap WR tie 0'13"73*, Ghost Valley 1 lap with a great mark 0'12"08; Bowser Castle 3 5-lap breaking the barrier to a strong 1'29"56; Mario Circuit 4 World Records to 1'33"03 and 0'18"23 and a small cut to DP3 5-lap World Record of 1'16"31.

Pierre L'Hoest also had a few solid World records this week; featuring Choco Island 1 1-lap 0'10"63; a lap World Record tie on Ghost Valley 2 of 0'11"84* and finally a World Record on Ghost Valley 3 of 1'14"84.

Florent Lecoanet shared the lap WR tie 0'11"84* with Pierre this week and also made his own lap World Record on his fav Koopa Beach 1 with 0'09"25.

Guilherme Arantes set a new NTSC World Record for Ghost Valley 1 5-lap of 0'59"57.


Movement

PAL Activity:

PAL World Champion Karel van Duijvenboden continued his title defence strong this week to maintain his lead as the same against French Time Trial Champion Pierre L'Hoest. Karel went on a World Record rampage breaking a barrier on BC3 and surpassing it by some distance. GV1 lap breaking the 12"10 was also a strong achievment amongst some other World Records. Pierre also made significant cuts, once again taking CI1 lap World Record the next step further and a WR tie on Ghost Valley 2 then a 5-lap World Record Ghost Valley 3 with regular PRs of a very high standard.

#4 Florent Lecoanet made a tie with Pierre on Ghost Valley 2 lap with some insane platform jumping and immediate straightening up reaction time skills. As next level as it comes; oh and he also pushed his Koopa Beach 1 lap World Record down a little further.

#6 Sebastian Stellmacher, the SMK Champion of Germany drives some solid Non-NBT PRs including some good work on Ghost Valley 3.

#9 Christophe Paquin worked solely on Donut Plains 3 with a nice 5-lap and a strong middle lap fastlap to show some good potential with refining the strategy.

#20 Manuel Babjar continued on with improvements to his weaker tracks following reaching his 1'27"99 target on Rainbow Road. He has cut a few more points off, with further PRs he can reach more into the Top 20.

#27 David Bonne of France and #28 Bjorn Eklund of Sweden compete in their Non-NBT battle; this week shows David making good progress on CI1 and Bjorn shaving off some more time on MC3 to keep his stats up.

#31 Guillaume Leviach is also driving very well with some crazy Rainbow Road Non-NBT times, some of his strongest yet, and some other PRs to enhance his average finish.

#36 Angelo Di Vano, the Champion of Italy cuts his way through the average finish gap and is almost reaching Clark on the rankings with more karters not too far ahead. However he is under attack from French competitior, #37 Frederic Duarte-Leite who has some solid NBT PRs since his return to make a large average finish cut. The Champion of Spain is also not far ahead on the ranking as both karters make their approach.

#49 Alvin van Asselt sent in a Rainbow Road PR, sub 1'29" and maintains his ranking this week.

#57 Mario Brueser gains another rank with some stronger DP1 PRs and is close to passing Chabanis and Nouwen of France and Netherlands respectively.

#64 James Jones passes Stacy Needham for #8 in the UK and a lot of new PRs, highlighting the most his Non-NBT sub 1'02" PR for MC1. James also made a sub 1'30" on Rainbow Road and targets O'Neill and Hooper for more UK ranks after the Swiss and French rivals just ahead.

#89 Fabio Sacco drove 3 PRs but were some very nice cuts, these included Ghost Valley 1 and Donut Plains 3 and they place him at #89 in the World on PAL.

#123 Steve Bayliss has driven a nice PR on Ghost Valley 2 and maintains his position.

#133 Tanja Broennecke and #134 Ian Broom continue the battle this week with Ian cutting his VL2 fastlap nicely making a slightly larger cut overall; Tanja remains in the lead with a pair of GV2 PRs that she is pleased with.

#140 John Kennedy of Australia is fast moving up towards the Broennecke/Broom rivalry as he works on various weaker tracks including the GVs also and passes more karters including Finnish Champion, Nuutilainen.

#165 Daniel Caterbow worked only on Rainbow Road this week but made some very nice improvements putting him a few points short of Alex Hantson.


NTSC Activity:

#2 Guilherme Arantes, the Champion of Brazil is back in SMK this week with a World Record for Ghost Valley 1 5-lap.

#11 Soul Kobayashi the Champion of Japan set 12 very nice records cutting down some time and climbing the charts on each one. He has reached another rank and also closer to the Top 10.

#14 Tyler Worley worked a little further on Ghost Valley 3, shaving a few more points on his average finish.

#31 David Smith went for more of a significant cut this week and extended the lead from Harrington well and approaches Roodhorst.

#42 Nathan Stinson performed in a similar way to David in terms of strategy and cut some significant time off a few of the tracks; Nathan gained two positions on the NTSC World Rankings.

#59 Emeric Gosselin sets a small PR on Bowser Castle 1 lap.

#126 Jacob Goldfinger set slightly fewer PRs this week however the cuts were very good as Jacob continues to march through the 120-130 ranks.

#152 Nick Harvey has worked solidly on as many tracks as possible and is making excellent progress as he closes in on the Top 150 with several US rivals around his rank to battle his way through. Nick is evening out his times pretty well eliminating the weaker tracks and will hit a 1'01" on MC1 very soon.

#154 Ryan DeMaster drove a pair of KB1 PRs with a sub 1'00" 5-lap and defends his position following Nick Harvey's ascending.

#180 Chuck Foster maintains his rank this week following the entry of the two new members a bit further up the ranking. However he is well on the way to higher ranks as he hits 12 PRs learning some new strategies along the way to help him PR further on these courses and others.

Feeling no way to fight all the way

Sami @ Sunday, November 18th   [link]

New Photos in Gallery

Some more Photos were added this week, the NTSC Group Photos some of Leonardo Vieira, Alencar Faria and Guilherme Arantes of Brazil. Then a photo of Jacob Goldfinger added to the USA Photos page.

If there are any more pics to go in please email them to me, thanks in advance.


New Member

Welcome to...

James Cutting, UK (PAL 125th, UK 23rd, Knight B)


New World Records

Pierre L'Hoest made 5 World Records on PAL this week contributing to his rising power with Donut Plains 1 at 1'10"80 and a lap at 0'13"73; Mario Circuit 3 has been improved to 1'27"63 then Donut Plains 3 Pierre slightly edged out Karel with PAL World Records 1'16"39 and 0'14"78.

Karel van Duijvenboden drove Bowser Castle 3 PAL World Records of 1'30"14 and 0'17"63 following with a Ghost Valley 3 World Record tie at 1'14"88.

Florent Lecoanet made a lap World Record tie for Koopa Beach 1 of 0'09"27.


Movement

PAL Activity:

PAL World Champion Karel van Duijvenboden has had a litle less time this week to hold up against long time rival, French Champion Pierre L'Hoest. However the battle is still fierce with Pierre closing in only a few points away now for reaching the Top on PAL SMK Time Trial; next week could be the decider. Pierre went strong with 5 World Records while Karel hit some solid PRs and 3 World Records busted out.

#4 Florent Lecoanet hit more strong records this week with a WR tie on KB1 fastlap. He has cut a bit more average finish with his result.

#8 Armin Huber, the former Champion of Germany made a surprise return this week with some cuts to his VL1 lap time.

#9 Christophe Paquin of France made a few PRs and maintained his position this week.

#13 Pierre Coste continued to work on NBT PRs with his main highlight, breaking the 59 second barrier on Mario Circuit 1, excellent time Pierre.

#15 Geoffrey Label hit some solid PRs including his strong sub 50 sec KB1 time and a few others, passing Michael Jongerius in the process and closing in on Seb.

#27 David Bonne drove 3 small on-NBT PRs, working within CI1 and RR to maintain his rank.

#31 Guillaume Leviach also followed Bonne with further Non-NBT cuts greatly lowering his average finish further to former Paris Champion, Archibald Lefevre.

#36 Angelo Di Vano, the Champion of Italy is further taking down his rivals, both active and inactive as he is gaining on active Leviach above and has just passed the Norwegian and Australian champions with his records this week.

#40 Frederic Duarte-Leite of France made a super return to SMK, a legendary karter from a few years back, remember from my University days of updating. Frederic comes with some new Non-NBT PRs also passing Australian Champion Scott and gaining on karters above at the Top 40 PAL.

#49 Alvin van Asselt has gained a few positions this week with some PRs and is in the middle of a battle with the Belgian Champions.

#58 Mario Brueser of Germany made a bunch of further times since his return to SMK last week and is picking up the pace well within the Top 60; Geoffrey Ewbank is next up on the list to reach.

#70James Jones continued to lower the average finish gap vs rivals and is now a small point short of Brangeon and not far behind more karters ahead after PRs across each cup to improve his overall stats.

#93 Fabio Sacco of Italy makes some more improvements this time working on some Mushroom Cup and Special cup times; he is within easy reach of some very close points with karters above so he can pass them next week and move into the Top 90.

#123 Steve Bayliss drove a great set of new times working on key weaker tracks to lower his average finish down. He still has plenty potential and will rise to challenge more karters ahead as he lands at #21 in UK.

#133 Tanja Broennecke has something great to celebrate; with a set of fast records that she hit this week, she has passed Sue Cladingboel to become the new Women's World Champion of Super Mario Kart on PAL Time Trial! Excellent efforts and lots of potential to reach the Top 100 with the pace of improvement. However it didn't stop there as a sudden return from a rival in the UK, #134 Ian Broom provided a list of PRs and an equally good cut this week, so a battle may commence in the next week to see who will be in the lead.

#148 John Kennedy of Australia continues his improvements strong during this week with a cut into the Top 150. His next rivals are all pretty cose ranked so with the pace kept up he can reach the Top 140 or further in the next week.

#164 Alex Hantson of Switzerland is gaining more ranks this week with a decent cut to his times after passing some German and French rivals. He is on the way to Lola's rank on his next PRs.


NTSC Activity:

#4 Alencar Faria is continuing his pace from last week cutting down his weaker times and is making it towards #3. In the next few weeks he could be in range to attack the position.

#10 Florent Lecoanet of France had a few outstanding PRs to send on NTSC and has gained some average finish with these.

#14 Tyler Worley has extended a lead from White to maintain his #2 position in USA after some good cuts to his Ghost Valley 3 PRs.

#31 David Smith returned with a quick PR for Donut Plains 2 5-lap.

#36 Karl Ludwigsen also dropped by this week after a short break and has a few NBT Mario Circuit 1 PRs to strengthen his position. He has potential to gain ranks to the higher 30s and rival David, we will see more PRs soon.

#44 Nathan Stinson continues to drive strong records this week and is passing some more of the legendary USA Team karters from the start of the Millenium; Kelly Malo and Jason Whalls.

#129 Jacob Goldfinger did a run through of near enough all of his times with a mass improvement to his records this week. He has climbed to within the Top 130 on NTSC.

#161 Nick Harvey continues his PRs since joining and is following in the footsteps of other active US karters with some great times and is well on the way to the Top 150.

#180 Chuck Foster, not much further down the list from Harvey is also setting solid PRs after announcing a return this week. So far he has set some PRs on each cup, the majority on Flower cup with a lot of room for improvement to gain higher ranks soon.

Its almost Unreal...

Sami @ Sunday, November 11th   [link]

SMK Photo Gallery

Just a quick note to all, Michael Fried has offered some webspace for the SMK Photo Gallery now so all he photos have been relocated there and I am updating them as normal (Geocities account was previously full).

Guillaume Leviach sent us his photo this week and it has been added to the France PAL photographs page of the gallery.


New Members

Welcome to...

Nick Harvey, USA (NTSC 168th, USA 76th, Warrior B)


New World Records

Karel van Duijvenboden led the WR scene on PAL with Donut Plains 1 WRs of 1'10"88 and 0'13"76, followed by Donut Plains 3 WRs of 1'16"41* and 0'14"81.

Pierre L'Hoest drives a crazy World Record on Mario Circuit 2 5-lap of 1'08"41 and a lap World Record for Ghost Valley 3 at 0'14"70.


Movement

PAL Activity:

PAL World Champion Karel van Duijvenboden still remains in a close battle vs French Time Trial Champion Pierre L'Hoest. Karel is taking back some World Records on the DP tracks and Pierre went for a great cut with a slightly new strat on MC2 5-lap to cut a few seconds off his time and edge out Karel on the Totals stats. Karel is still yet to attempt this method however. Pierre drove an excellent 1-lap WR on GV3 PAL and some other strong PRs to maintain his level.

#4 Florent Lecoanet drove a couple of PRs this week including a slightly tighter VL1 lap.

#6 Sebastian Stellmacher, the Champion of Germany stuck to some Non-NBT driving with some stronger times on a few tracks that he has been training on.

#11 Gerard Roodhorst drove some nice NBT PRs on Donut Plains 1 cutting some average finish.

#20 Manuel Babjar of Germany drove another mini PR on Rainbow Road course time... almost at his target.

#27 David Bonne competes closely vs #28 Bjorn Eklund of Sweden with some PRs from both. David hits a nice RR lap and Bjorn set some MC4 PRs.

#42 Angelo Di Vano, the Champion of Italy continues to go strong with some good NBT work this week on several tracks, passing Belgian Champion Jaspard on the way and setting the way for the Top 40 on PAL and further benchmarks.

#51 Alvin van Asselt set a solid KB1 lap time and a few trick PRs this week. He is maintaining his position and should pass into the Top 50 soon.

#60 Mario Brueser of Germany returns to SMK with some good MC1 PRs to start off his comeback. Rival, Fellberg is just ahead for another rank in Germany.

#71 James Jones created some awesome times this week in a few places and is heading towards the Top 70 on PAL as he hits #9 in UK.

#95 Fabio Sacco of Italy drove a few good PRs making a -2 av finish cut to climb a few more places this week.

#127 Steve Bayliss hit his Rainbow Road targets he has been interested in. A sub 1'29" was looking good and Steve claimed that time this week.

#145 Tanja Broennecke continues on her path to Cladingboel as she hits some more strong Women's World Records this week. Several Dutch karters and the Champion of Finland are now on the route.

#157 John Kennedy of Australia starts to improve on his weaker times this week making good progress as he makes his way towards Scrim for another Australia rank, we look forward to Kennedy's PRs next week.

#163 Daniel Caterbow improved his RR lap PR this week.

#180 Emeric Gosselin takes on some more of the PAL action with improved records on a few tracks with a lot of potential from fastlap times.

#204 Daniel Pabst of Germany continues to kart with some more nice cuts to his records as he approaches the Top 200 on PAL.

#259 Lindsay Molenaar of Netherlands made several PRs this week and has successfully passed rivals Skipper and Mathoora on the PAL rankings. Next up is Alistair Brooks... we are sure Lindsay will like to challenge his rank.


NTSC Activity:

#4 Alencar Faria has improved on some of his weaker times and this helped him pass Canadian Champion Chris Balch for the 2nd rank in the continent. A good average finish cut by Alencar, he will now make his way to Matthias Mann.

#20 Simon Laflamme of Canada this week went to VL2 doing some of the crazy island jump routes succeeding in a nice 1-lap PR that was sub 9 seconds.

#47 Nathan Stinson of USA made a comeback with some PRs on a few weaker tracks making significant cuts as he passes a former CI2 Legend Hurtgen.

#54 Pete Crawford drove a new lap PR for CI1.

#59 Emeric Gosselin worked on a DP1 5-lap time claiming a sub 1'17" but was mostly pleased with his new RR lap record he hit this week.

#148 Jacob Goldfinger has done an excellent cut this week to his times and moved himself closer to the next lot of karters on the rankings.

#151 Ryan DeMaster drove some new times for KB1 and MC4 making some small cuts there.

Breaking the ice this week and Breaking the ice last night

Sami @ Sunday, November 4th   [link]

New Members

Welcome to...

John Kennedy, Australia (PAL 170th, Australia 10th, Warrior B)


New World Records

Pierre L'Hoest had another battle this week, with several WR ties: Donut Plains 1 1'11"26* and 0'13"79*, followed by World Records on Donut Plains 3 of 1'16"85 and 0'14"84.

Florent Lecoanet broke the big barrier on PAL with an insane World Record on Vanilla Lake 1 0'49"76.

Gerard Roodhorst made a strong pair of World Records on Ghost Valley 3 1'14"88 and 0'14"74.

Karel van Duijvenboden was in a fight for survival on Donut Plains 1 WR ties: 1'11"26* and 0'13"79*, followed by Ghost Valley 1 World record lap tie of 0'12"10*.


Movement

PAL Activity:

PAL World Champion Karel van Duijvenboden continues an exciting battle with French Time Trial Champion #2 Pierre L'Hoest as they tie WRs on DP1 and hit other fantastic times and WRs!

#4 Florent Lecoanet broke a big barrier after some crazy sliding on VL1 with a sub 50 second WR time!

#5 Julien Holmiere and #7 Matthias Boucher also decided to work on VL1 with some solid results!

#9 Christophe Paquin droves some strong NBT PRs, also working on DP1 this week and some nice NBT on KB2.

#11 Gerard Roodhorst returned back to Ghost Valley 3 to defend his World Records there with great results.

#19 Matthew McCarthy kept active with some further NBT PRs to extend his activity from the previous week. The results are placing him closer to Swedish Champion Kalle Videkull and 4am Match Race rival Harold Christensen.

#20 Manuel Babjar stuck to Rainbow Road with determination to break the 1'28" barrier.

#27 David Bonne improved his CI2 lap driving around the lake Non-NBT.

#31 Guillaume Leviach of France drove 3 Non-NBT PRs strengthening his position.

#46 Mathieu Jaspard, the Champion of Belgium now worked on DP3 and KB2 to make some new records and is points short of Willem van Voorst.

#50 Alvin van Asselt and #51 Angelo Di Vano, are in a tough battle, both drivers hitting a strong list of times. Alvin is going strong with Non-NBT so far, but Angelo is gaining time as he approaches the Top 50 fast.

#74 James Jones continues to follow in the footsteps of Alvin and Angelo above with crazy times left, right and centre and a large cut to his overall stats as he reaches the Top 10 in the UK.

#99 Fabio Sacco continues to enjoy his solid improvements each week with PRs to place him within the Top 100. Most notable are his MC3 PRs amongst others where he hit good ranks.

#127 Steve Bayliss drove more strong PRs across the tracks and another sub 1'03" on MC1 placing him on attack range to Paul Seabrook of Watford and Austrian SMK Champion Peter Elsaesser.

#151 Tanja Broennecke of Germany continues to climb towards her target with some new PRs and Women's World Records this week. There is plenty of potential to pass retired Sue Cladingboel; we look forward to see her progress.

#162 Daniel Caterbow drives 2 PRs this week climbing a little further on the ranking.

#166 Alex Hantson of Switzerland joined in the fun with 6 new records including good cuts on RR to pass some karters including new entry rival Kennedy.

#190 Leyla Hasso plays a defensive position with a series of small PRs this week. GV3 she was quite pleased with and a cut to her MC1.


NTSC Activity:

#5 Alencar Faria of Brazil drove very well with a couple of NBT PRs including a great mark on his favorite Mario Circuit 1.

#20 Simon Laflamme of Canada made a surprise VL1 lap PR that has cut some points down on his average finish.

#25 Toshi Miura of Japan continues to work on other tracks cutting good average finish as he extends his lead from Goto.

#49 Guillaume Leviach also played a bit of NTSC placing himself in the Top 50 with some new times including French Non-NBT records on Rainbow Road.

#54 Pete Crawford has a new rival in the form of a Legend from Brazil #55 Leonardo Vieira who makes a return to SMK with a sudden cut on MC2 5-lap. Both karters are doing well but Pete currently holds a stronger lead with more PRs on other track.

#59 Emeric Gosselin improves a PR on Donut Plains 2 lap.

#74 Ciro Oliveira Azevedo of Team Brazil also returns to SMK with some good PRs and is targetting two Canadians and another Brazilian rival karter, Salles.

#117 Masa Sagawa drove 6 new records this week with a significant cut on those times to pass another 5 karters on the ranking.

#150 Jacob Goldfinger vs #151 Ryan DeMaster, as if there weren't enough exciting rivalries this week, these two from the US were continuing to PR. Ryan busted out 5 solid new times making a climb on the ranking, while Jacob went on another rampage the other day scoring many new hits that have placed him ahead of Ryan slightly and on the Top 150.