Super Mario Kart Time Trial World Records Site

Its it the End of 2007... You can stand under my Umbrella...

Sami @ Sunday, December 30th [link]

End of 2007 speech

It has been both an eventful year both in and out of the SMK World, filled with sad days, happy days, easy days, stressful days, but very hopeful and fun days. But it has been a great ride wherever you have been; The Games meets that took off more this year were a great highlight, notably Paris in March which had the British, Swiss, Dutch and several French Karters, followed by a kart meet in USA and the long awaited Norway meeting in July which had Games Tournaments, football tournaments, and the likes of Legends such as Drew Blumfield proving himself on Battle Mode once and for all and scaling a mountain, earning the nickname of Mountain Yak (by the Gaff). The Championnat de France 2007 was also a great hit with Florent hitting the Top there and becoming the 2 Player World Champion on Match Race and 150CC GP. A meeting in October was held where Team UK hosted something fun including the 25th Birthday of Sami. More karters met up and a other celebrities like Leyla Hasso joined in some Tournaments briefly. The night out in Black Sheep Bar was planned in advance and it turned out to be a great idea!

During this, the site also had many new members from around the World, including new Champions making successful climbs in their individual countries, notably from Belgium, Spain, Italy and Japan; and they continue to climb and reach new heights along with all the other karters who have done so well this year. Pierre L'Hoest also recently dethroned Karel on PAL Time Trial although Karel put up one hell of a fight in the weeks prior to that, both of them setting World Records to amazing standards...

New recruits will be found in 2008, and we look forward to welcoming more new members as they find the site and show their interest in SMK and competing in Time Trials and being a part of a great community. So to all of you out there, find some local friends of any skill level to play Time Trials and join the site; beginners can be built up into pretty good players as a certain 8 year old has proven razz

We also have many more things to look forward to in 2008, including further large meetings that are in the works; one in the Netherlands and another in USA. Those are gonna be great as we will all have a great laugh and do new activities, plus the travelling itself to new countries for many of us and doing some sight seeing also is great. So I'll take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy and Healthy new year for yourselves, families and all friends. SMK is now 15 years old and the site will celebrate its 10th Birthday in November; keep up the great PRs and WRs everyone and we will keep the site active, and not to mention Hench as ever! wink

End of the Year POW/POM/POQ/POY

Just a note to say that on this update the final Player of the Week for final week of December and Player of the Month for December has been announced today.

The Player of the Quarter will be announced tomorrow (31st December).

The Player of the Year will be announced on New Year's Day (1st January).

New Members

Welcome to...

Miles Bond, USA (NTSC 195th, USA 95th, Contender B)

New World Records

Pierre L'Hoest set a World Record tie on Bowser Castle 1 lap for PAL 0'17"43*.

Movement

PAL Activity:

PAL Time Trial World Champion, Pierre L'Hoest drove a World Record tie on BC1 fastlap PAL this week, a small cut on his previous week's effort.

#3 Sami Cetin the Time Trial Champion of the UK made a surprise run this week on Time Trial (please excuse my drunk looking post lol, I was under the influence of the Gaff...). Sami went on a mission to regain #3 from Florent Lecoanet with a series of PRs on Mushroom, Flower and Star Cups and has secured that position for the end of 2007.

#5 Julien Holmiere also had a similar motive to Sami with his return with a strong set of PRs. Julien has cut some good average finish off this week and maintains his position at #5.

#7 Matthias Boucher of France is up next with some PRs on his weaker KB1 times that have slightly cut some average finish.

#15 Manuel Babjar of Germany set some more strong NBT PRs, passing Dutch strongman Michael Jongerius and landing directly into battle with Geoffrey Label, also noting that Sebastien Holmiere is very close ahead for some more possible rank gains as Manuel continues to target the Top 10.

#25 Guillaume Leviach made 3 PRs this week, some further NBT work on DP1 and a nice MC2 lap cut as he defends his rank.

#27 David Bonne sets a solid PR for Ghost Valley 2 and passes former French Champion Nicolas Clementy.

#30 Angelo Di Vano, the Champion of Italy is unstoppable as he continues his quest to close the gaps in stats and hit awesome PRs. Mario Circuit 1 he focused on hard after learning the strats with a great lap finish and 1'00" barrier broken. His other PRs are also getting stronger as he is now in the Top 30 with about 4 or 5 karters in range to attack in the next weeks if he makes a similar cut.

#35 Frederic Duarte-Leite and #36 Ben Allen are in the next battle! This week Frederic sets 6 PRs with some good NBT on CI2 and a strong cut passing Spanish Champion, Oleguer. Ben Allen however has a crazy week with a -4 average finish cut catching up close to Frederic to make a very interesting battle. Ben has also reached #4 in the UK and is within range to head for his target of 3rd place in the UK.

#50 Alvin van Asselt defends his rank with his latest KB2 PR near the 1'05 barrier.

#53 James Jones of the Team UK fights well on his Non-NBT PRs passing Parigos Legend Anthony Pichard with the latest new times including BC1, some great MC2 and RR, amongst others. He has a good pace for the Top 50 soon.

#92 Tom Gaffikin (a.k.a The Gaff)... He made a surprise return on a short visit to Sami's prior to a night out of celebration and wanted to join Team UK with a PR or two; a nice lap cut on his VL2 placed him ahead of former UK Time Trial Champion from 1996, Matt Leech for #15 in the UK.

#117 John Kennedy is really picking up the pace with his PRs, setting thestrong cuts he needed as he passes Frank Sweet and Gene Tagliabue for #7 Australia. Former Australia #2 Martin Bowman who was active in 1996 around the time of Matt Leech, is the next target for John followed by the Top 100s.

#121 Steve Bayliss set a pair of DP3 PRs pretty quickly showing some good skill and improving his stats.

#141 Samuel Gomez of France has found a new rival with the return of #142 Arno van den Barselaar of the Netherlands! It has been a while since Arno played but he is already setting some good records so far and hopefully will continue to compete; Samuel holds the lead by a little distance with an equally good set of improvements this week.

#160 Daniel Caterbow set PRs for CI1 and VL1 this week making some good marks there and is heading towards the next ranked karters on the list.

#189 Daniel Pabst improved his course PR on Bowser Castle 1.

#257 Lindsay Molenaar drove a very nice cut to pass Turkish Karter Alper Cetin and is on the way to reaching Zak White who is close in the lead after many PRs Lindsay made. With a similar cut she may also be able to reach Arbinder Manku.

#262 Jason Mathoora (a.k.a Team UK's Cameraman) improved a few MC2 PRs on a visit to Sami's this week to pass rival friend Skipper and to complete the week's and Year's Team UK Feel No Way activity.

NTSC Activity:

#7 Pierre L'Hoest drove a couple of NTSC PRs this week to follow up on his PAL work. This included some NBT on DP1 and BC1.

#14 Tyler Worley made a few NBT PRs on Donut Plains 2 that are pretty solid and have improved his stats a little, extending his lead further from Sami and Jamie.

#27Michael Fried sets a Non-NBT PR for Choco Island 2.

#29 David Smith of USA worked on Koopa Beach 1 again to improve his standards there as he nears the 50 second barrier with a very nice lap also, following up with some Rainbow Road PRs that are helping his average finish to approach Fried a little. A battle for #5 in USA may take place soon.

#91 Josh Stevens set 5 PRs in the week leading up to the new year and is maintaining his rank. He has however two close ranked rival karters just above within very close range and USA's Trickmaster David Wonn not far ahead.

#104 Nicholas Harvey and #106 Jacob Goldfinger continue a very close battle on average finish this week. Inactive Chris Morton is even ranked between them. Nicholas has made a strong cut and is making his way to the Top 100s with a lot of PRs on the KBs and VLs, some times which were very strong. Jacob has had less time to play this week but succeeded in a nice sub 18 second lap for BC1 and will come back stronger in the new year with more PRs.

Seasons Greetings

Sami @ Sunday, December 23rd [link]

New Members

No new members this week

New World Records

Pierre L'Hoest made the 5-lap Ghost Valley 3 PAL World Record this week 1'14"68.

Movement

PAL Activity:

PAL Time Trial World Champion, Pierre L'Hoest set a few small BC1 PRs that he had not improved upon for a long time and followed up with a Ghost Valley 3 5-lap World Record.

#17 Manuel Babjar of Germany went very strong on a few NBT PRs this week including great marks with a German record for Donut Plains 2. Once he hits similar standards on other tracks he will be climbing fast towards the Top 10. So far he is closing in on Dutch #3 Michael Jongerius.

#25 Guillaume Leviach has driven a few more strong PRs, most notable is another cut to one of his favourites, Rainbow Road with an excellent time. He has passed Olivier with his latest PRs to become #13 in France.

#28 David Bonne continues his fight to reach Clementy this week as he works on GV2 breaking the 1'03" barrier for a nice record.

#32 Angelo Di Vano, the Champion of Italy concentrated hard to close the gap to the next karters and does an excellent job this week with a -4 av fin cut! His extra fast NBT PRs have earned him big cuts with a great lap on KB1 and other solid times. He has passed Mazieres and is well on the way to catching the next group of karters soon.

#36 Frederic Duarte-Leite delivered 3 new PRs this week and defends his rank.

#38 Ben Allen (a.k.a Sami's secret weapon) makes a return from his Uni during holidays to hit some SMK hardcore. He has solid potential here and has crushed many of his weak times following improving his NBT technique. He is well on route to reaching the Top 3 in the UK as he lands close to Clark's rank within the Top 40 PAL! Keep up the great karting!

#49 Jean-Francois Schepers improved both his KB1 times and maintains rank in the Top 50.

#49 Alvin van Asselt drives another small Non-NBT cut to KB2.

#54 James Jones hits a lot of very nice Non-NBT PRs and has taken down some French and Dutch rival karters. He has further rivals just ahead in the ranking and has a great pace to reach the Top 50 very soon.

#65 Julien Brangeon continues to improve his times greatly in the week and makes a -2 cut passing a few karters on the way.

#125 John Kennedy returned to SMK this week after receiving new snes pads and starts hitting some good records. He continues his journey to climb up the Australia rankings.

#160 Daniel Caterbow made 6 PRs with Bowser and is reaching the Top 160 after landing just in the lead of Bhoja.

#189 Daniel Pabst of Germany passes rival Leyla Hasso with 5 PRs on various tracks and then continues to climb past further rivals ahead with new PRs and potential to reach higher levels.

#259 Lindsay Molenaar sets 4 new PRs to try to reach the next rival and is getting closer there.

NTSC Activity:

#9 Soul Kobayashi, the Champion of Japan makes a strong improvement on several tracks this week and reaches a great position in the Top 10 in the World for NTSC! He is very close to reach #8 Anderson who is a little ahead in the ranking and further karters not far ahead in the lead. Keep up the great Records!

#14 Tyler Worley set 2 small NBT PPRs making a cut to his average finish and maintaining position against rivals.

#27Michael Fried lowered his MC2 lap record a slightly.

#29 David Smith hits #6 in USA with PRs to improve his position; the NBTs on DP1, DP2 and DP3 getting sharper. He is now in reach of Girard for another rank.

#42 Nathan Stinson improved a few more of his weaker times to close the gap to the next rank a little further. The Top 40 is not far ahead.

#91 Josh Stevens leads the pace on last week's rivalry with a lot more PRs and pushing them to a higher level to land in the Top 100 and not stopping there... He has nearly broken into Non-NBT sub 1'01" on NTSC and has many other great records.

#106 Jacob Goldfinger had a little less time to play this week but still succeeded in a significant improvement with some nice records and will follow Josh into the Top 100s soon. #108 Nicholas Harvey is continuing to rival Jacob with a lot of new times and reaching the Top 110 also. The battle will continue from here and Nicholas is on target for a Top 100 rank very soon.

End of two weeks solid... ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Sami @ Sunday, December 16th [link]

New Members

No new members this week

New World Records

Pierre L'Hoest took the Koopa Beach 1 1-lap World Record for PAL 0'09"21.

Tyler Worley and Florent Lecoanet now share a World Record for Koopa Beach 1 lap on NTSC: 0'08"90*.

Movement

PAL Activity:

PAL Time Trial World Champion, Pierre L'Hoest took a sneak win on Florent on the KB1 lap record and also landed another small PR.

#3 Florent Lecoanet improved his PAL KB1 lap that was later beaten by Pierre on the PAL side.

#13 Pierre Coste returns with a few good PRs and is lowering his average finish slightly while defending his rank.

#17 Manuel Babjar of Germany continues the close battle vs Swedish Champion #18 Kalle Videkull! They both pass UK #2 Matthew McCarthy following some great new PRs; GV1 5/5 NBT from Manuel and some nice Non-NBT work on the KBs from Kalle with plenty of potential for the KB1 track. Manuel is edging out this week and is in direct competition with Parigos Power's own 2 player mode Champion in Paris, Monsieur Christensen.

#27 Guillaume Leviach and #28 David Bonne are picking up the pace well with a few new PRs from David as he gains a rank and also 7 new PRs from Leviach as he hits his way further, now within range of former Champion of France from 2000/early 2001, Nicolas Clementy.

#33 Angelo Di Vano, the Champion of Italy drives some good PRs for a -1 average finish cut and is now in direct competition vs Sean Billingsley. Another PR will see him gain the next rank, then Franck Mazieres is not far ahead.

#36 Frederic Duarte-Leite of France performs similarly to Angelo this week with some good new PRs including NBT work and climbs another rank this week.

#42 Mathieu Jaspard, the Belgian Champion improves some of his PRs, DP1 has a lot of potential left as he is edging closer to Australian #1 Eric Scott.

#49 Alvin van Asselt sets a small PR on Koopa Beach 2 5-lap time.

#59 James Jones is making a strong cut and has shortened the gap to the next karters in rank so he will aim for some positions in the next week.

#65 Stacy Needham of the UK made a quick return and PRs on 5 boards including a fast platform jump on GV1. Excellent work as he climbs some spots on the ranking.

#67 Julien Brangeon followed closely behind Needham as they close in on becoming a rivalry. Julien also drove a few nice records, improving on some weaker stuff and gaining a position from Visser.

#77 Marc Goulette of France made a suprise return and always keeps his PRs large and effective with a great improvement to his statistics from new times, passing Swiss and Dutch rivals along the way.

#85 Fabio Sacco improved 1 PR this week but it was a significant cut for VL1 lap to pass a few karters on the ranking.

#141 Samuel Gomez of France makes 5 PRs with a sub 1'40" on MC3 and a few other good records passing Florian Bube this week.

#164 Daniel Caterbow continues some work on BC2 lap making a significantly stronger cut this week putting him in range to reach the rank of French Women's SMK Champion, Lola Zappara.

#193 Daniel Pabst of Germany improves some PRs well, picking up the pace mostly on lap records showing good potential for 5-laps to follow. He is close to reaching UK's Beginner/Intermediate Mushroom 150ccGP Tournament winner, Leyla Hasso.

NTSC Activity:

#4 Alencar Faria continues his rank defence with a 1'00"00 time for GV1, he will break the barrier soon and hit other tracks.

#10 Florent Lecoanet and #14 Tyler Worley had a mini battle this week on Koopa Beach 1 fastlap for NTSC, both succeeding in a World Record tie.

#20 Simon Laflamme, continues his work on DP1 with another further small cut to his time.

#22 Dan Hoernemann of USA sets 2 NBT PRs this week.

#25 Toshi Miura of Japan improves his VL1 5-lap PR, cutting a little average finish.

#30 David Smith is breaking more records and improving his strategies on the tracks as he heads towards Lubbers for a possible #6 in USA next week.

#48 Guillaume Leviach of France also improves some of his weaker times on NTSC this week with great progress so far, extending his distance into the Top 50 a bit further.

#73 Eric Myers drove a lot more Non-NBT PRs recently passing the Champion of Costa Rica, and some rivals in Canada, Brazil; including also a gain vs US rival Brian Thomas.

#106 Jacob Goldfinger, #107 Masa Sagawa and #108 Josh Stevens are now in a 3-way battle! Masa Sagawa made fewer PRs but still some very good cuts on a some courses, with lot of potential when he plays more tracks and can recah the Top 100. Josh Stevens had slightly less time to kart this week but it didn't stop him making another mass cut to land just below the two other rivals. Jacob Goldfinger leads the 3 fast karters with a lot of PRs this week and a pace to head into the Top 100 very soon.

#117 Nick Harvey is moving up very fast to the rivalry above, doubling the amount that the other karters was cutting off their average finish. Nick has set a lot of quality records and will gain many USA ranks in the next set of PRs.

#112 Gabriel Arantes of Brazil improves his weaker BC3 lap with a good cut to his stats as a result.

Will FFXII be 100 hours of gameplay if I messed about on msn at same time?

Sami @ Sunday, December 9th [link]

New Photos in Gallery

New photos are in the Photo Gallery today:
- Ben Allen (UK PAL Photos Page)

New Members

No new members this week, get recruiting team wink

New World Records

Pierre L'Hoest worked on Donut Plains 2 only this week but headed up with some PAL World Records of 1'25"58 and 1-lap 0'16"85.

Gerard Roodhorst drove a new PAL World Record on Ghost Valley 3 1'14"78.

Movement

PAL Activity:

PAL Time Trial World Champion, Pierre L'Hoest worked only on Donut Plains 2 in his first title defence, after battling with some strategy work he made a solid course time and new lap World Record to edge out Karel there.

#3 Florent Lecoanet, World Match Race and 150CC GP Champion has hit some key courses on Time Trial this week to once again pass UK Champion Sami Cetin.

#11 Gerard Roodhorst hit a surprise Ghost Valley 3 World Record this week! He continues to show his strength just when you thought he maxed out there...

#19 Kalle Videkull, the Champion of Sweden closely battles vs #20 Manuel Babjar as they both hit one of the greatest race tracks known to man since time began... MC1! Kalle goes Sami style going sharp as ever Non-NBT with 5/10 pipe jumps and a very fast record. Manuel was after the NBT sub 1'00" barrier and reached exactly the time he was after.

#28 David Bonne hit a new PR for Koopa Beach 1 5-lap.

#30 Guillaume Leviach passes French legendary rival karter Archibald Lefevre hitting some 5-lap PRs in the majority for Special Cup times and is well on pace to reach Jerome Gava who was a former Champion of France, including a Tournament winner I believe in 2002.

#34 Angelo Di Vano, the Champion of Italy extends his lead from Spanish Champion, Limona and moves closer to the next ranks as he heads towards the large average finish gaps towards the rivals above at #30. Angelo made several NBT PRs again this week and is headed towards another great month.

#48 Jean-Francois Schepers improved his Koopa Beach 1 lap record.

#49 Alvin van Asselt improves a PR for Bowser Castle 1 lap

#59 James Jones hit a -3 Average Finish cut which pushed him up into the Top 60 this week with some great new times and also ahead of UK rivals Hooper and O'Neill to become #6 in the UK. Ben Allen at #5 in the UK is not far ahead.

#68 Julien Brangeon of France made a suprise hit back with a large cut to 3 of his PRs; Ghost Valley 2 and Mario Circuit 3.

#87 Fabio Sacco drove 4 new PRs this week and has passed Damir Mrgic; he is heading towards 4 karters all closely ranked and can reach them in the next week with further PRs.

#132 John Kennedy of Australia worked on key tracks during the course of this week and has passed James Scrim on the rankings. Austrian Champion, Peter Elsaesser is not far ahead.

#143 Samuel Gomez of France delivers 4 new PRs using Bowser and D.K.Jr to cut some good time off, passing Finnish Champion Tuomas Nuutilainen and a French rival in the process.

#164 Daniel Caterbow of Germany made some solid PRs including more work on his Rainbow Road PRs and defends his rank well.

#197 Daniel Pabst of Germany makes a larger cut this week with PRs on some weaker tracks including the VLs to improve his statistics as he lands within the Top 200.

#259 Lindsay Molenaar has had a great week, lowering some key records to reach her big rival Alistair Brooks! She has passed him now and also Rebecca with her latest records and is on good pace to target Sami's nephew in Turkey.

NTSC Activity:

#4 Alencar Faria of Brazil makes a small improvement to his Donut Plains 2 time and defends his rank.

#20 Simon Laflamme, Quebec City Champion sticks to some Non-NBT fun on Donut Plains 1 and made a PR for his course time.

#22 Dan Hoernemann a strong member of the USA team made good acitivity this week with some NBT work on CI1 and DP3.

#31 David Smith has also been keeping things going well on CI1 and KB1 hitting NBTs and improving his stats.

#108 Masa Sagawa of Japan made some more nice PRs during this week and is very close to passing Kohei HG. He is also in th Top 110 now of NTSC defending against rivals not far below.

#112 Dean Barnhart of USA makes a surprise visit to Time Trials and is hitting some very nice PR cuts notbaly with some of the MCs and CI1 amongst other records giving him a good average finish cut and passing Joseph Lillo.

#116 Josh Stevens vs #117 Jacob Goldfinger... wow! All we have to say, two of the USA karters have been mega active again with both sides hitting solid PRs. Josh has been unstoppable in the crowd as he edges out over Jacob with a large average finish cut.

#132 Nick Harvey has also been cutting chunks off his times this week and will be moving up towards the rivalry in the #110 to #120 range with this continued pace.

They now dominate in 3 Modes! ;)

Sami @ Sunday, December 2nd [link]

New Photos in Gallery

New photos are in the Photo Gallery today:
- James Jones (UK PAL Photos Page)
- Angelo Di Vano (Italy PAL Photos Page)

New Member

Welcome to...

Christian Eitelmann, Germany (PAL 166th, Germany 21st, Warrior A)

New World Records

Pierre L'Hoest hits some key PAL World Records for his ranking with Mario Circuit 4 5-lap 1'32"85 and 1-lap 0'18"17; following up with Donut Plains 3 5-lap World Record 1'16"23.

Movement

PAL Activity:

He joined the SMK site fast in 2001, gradually climbed the ranks to reach the Top in 2004 for some months; he loves SMK, holds the pad a unique way, plays every day, and feels no way; he has even been sighted at meets sleeping when sitting up (dreaming smk?)... He is none other than Pierre L'Hoest who has this week hit 3 new World Records to dethrone Karel van Duijvenboden and become the Super Mario Kart Time Trial Champion of the World on PAL. Karel had other matters to attend to at this time but has fought well in the past weeks alongside Pierre's excellent activity. Karel had held the title on PAL for about 3 years to date, so big congratulations to him for his work there. On the forum you will see Pierre's MC4 fastlap video, some pretty nice stuff there!

#4 Florent Lecoanet cut some nice times down with 3 PRs making a significant gain on his average finish score.

#8 Armin Huber lowers his CI1 5-lap PR this week after regaining NBT technique there. He should be able to reach the 56 seconds and also cut many other courses.

#9 Christophe Paquin put together some PRs on his weaker tracks which are coming together nicely with a similar level of cut to Florent.

#20 Manuel Babjar is making good progress on improvements to other tracks as he cuts anothr half a point putting him in sight of Swedish Champion Kalle Videkull, UK #2 McCarthy and Paris 2 Player mode veteran, Harold Christensen. Itl be interesting to see him aim for those ranks.

#25 Olivier Antoine of France drove a slightly faster lap PR for his strong course, KB1.

#27 Bjorn Eklund and #28 David Bonne battle continues this week with David hitting some BC1 and CI1 PRs, and Bjorn taking the lead this time with some good cuts for GV2. Both karters are moving closer to Clementy and Antoine.

#31 Guillaume Leviach drives a very strong Rainbow Road course time this week for PAL passing the UK record and other solid hits. His CI2 PR also served to help him maintain his position.

#34 Angelo Di Vano, the Champion of Italy aimed to reach Spanish Champion, Limona and has made it with several NBT PRs and others that have pushed his stats up well. Billingsley of the UK and several strong Non-NBT specialists of France are next up the ranking.

#42 Mathieu Jaspard, the Champion of Belgium extends his lead from his rivals this week with a vry nice cut to his times, and he is now within reach of rival champions of Australia and Norway.

#49 Alvin van Asselt made a nice PR for Koopa Beach 2 Non-NBT and maintains position.

#56 Geoffrey Ewbank of Belgium also works hard on a few PRs, namely Rainbow Road, securing a Belgian Record after a close battle with Jaspard there. He has passed Julien Chabanis and is close to reaching Lars Nouwen.

#64 James Jones approaches Swiss karter Cedric Leutwyler after improving a few PRs on each cup and cutting the average finish gap between him and Voireuchon.

#88 Fabio Sacco of Italy continues to make some strong Non-NBT cuts and improves past Descamps and is now on the way to Mrgic of Germany with further rivals in France and Australia not far ahead.

#120 Steve Bayliss has aimed for #20 in UK and hit that target well more more refining on Non-NBT skill across Mushroom and Flower Cup in particular with still a lot of potential left.

#133 John Kennedy of Australia continues to cut some courses well and is moving up towards Tasmania's SMK strongman, James Scrim. John is making good progress with improvements on more of his weaker tracks and also lands ahead of Women's World Champion, Broennecke.

#261 Lindsay Molenaar of the Netherlands sent in several new PRs and has closed the gap a lot towards Alistair Brooks. She is now in range to attack his ranking with her next set of new times.

NTSC Activity:

#22 Dan Hoernemann of USA set some Donut Plains 3 PRs using NBT and increases his lead from Subhani.

#25 Toshi Miura of Japan has slightly improved his Bowser Castle 1 lap and maintains his rank.

#31 David Smith continues his climb towards Roodhorst and Lubbers with more NBT PRs on various tracks. His BC2 PRs he recently made are also looking solid. Excellent work!

#78 Eric Myers of USA, a strong Non-NBT player returns to SMK with a big cut and some solid new times on various tracks as he takes down some rivals in this week alone. He is up against Costa Rica Champion, Arteaga next on the ranking.

#112 Masa Sagawa of Japan improves 4 more of his weaker times this week making a good cut to bring him closer to the Top 100s. The top 100 and Japanese rival Kohei HG are not far ahead.

#124 Jacob Goldfinger continues a great pace staying as active as ever with good times all round includin strong records for Rainbow Road and a sub 1'02" that he was after earlier in the week; we knew you could do it!

#133 Josh Stevens of USA who has recently joined smk has been hitting a lot of new times, pretty much re-writing his PR list and climbing far up the ranks. He has strong potential for the Top 100s so that ranks will see a climb from him further pretty soon.

#147 Nick Harvey also drove solid PRs as per Team USA mates Jacob and Josh not far above and has climbed into the Top 150 with a lot of improved standards and reaching the 1'01" level on MC1. All three karters in the mid 100s are performing excellently, we look forward to their progress in the next week.