Hi folks, the yearly tradition of discussing what was the best WR of the past year is here to continue.  
The question as always: what were the most extreme WRs driven within the previous year?
Too many options for a poll, so I will just list the new WRs driven in 2018. I encourage everyone to post their favourite option for PAL and NTSC, respectively.  

Eventhough the topic of last year did not select an official winner (there was no poll anymore), the general consensus seemed to be that the best PAL WR was 12"02 by ScouB and the NTSC one that got named most was my 45"99 on VL2.

So for full disclosure the winners in previous years:
2015: KB1 45"76 by Sportsguy001
2016: DP2 1'24"97 (incl. 16"77 WR flap) by KVD
2017: MC2 12"02 PAL by ScouB & VL2 45"99 NTSC by KVD

Anyway on to the topic at hand...by the looks of it this certainly underlines ScouB's powerful year, as he dominates the options for both systems:


PAL
GV2      11"76      ScouB
MC3      1'26"48      KVD
MC3      16"79      ScouB
VL1      09"51      Antistar
KB2      54"72      ScouB
KB2      10"25      ScouB

NTSC
DP1      1'07"57      ScouB
DP1      13"20      KVD
MC2      1'00"65      ScouB
CI1      50"81      Matt
CI1      09"79      KVD
DP2      1'22"30      ScouB
DP2      16"23      ScouB
MC3      1'22"75      ScouB
MC3      16"16      ScouB
CI2      1'02"44      ScouB
CI2      12"22      ScouB
VL1      09"21      ScouB
MC4      17"48      KVD
RR      1'23"63      KVD

I hope I didn't forget any. Good luck selecting! For me there are 2 clear winners, but I'll post my personal favourites a bit later.

I won't comment the MC3/MC4 part because I don't really get how impressive/hard those new strat WRs are. I would pick the following ones first:

PAL
KB2      10"25      ScouB

I have been some kind of KB2 master for ages and really thought my 10"31 was a very strong WR which would not be beaten easily, or by a very small margin just to hit a new barrier. ScouB destroyed it in a way which reminded me of my old CI1 10"55 with the old strat – winning more than 0"05 on the previous WR on a short race (10" lap). This deserves to be remembered and honored.

NTSC
MC2      1'00"65      ScouB

If I'm not wrong this is the first time MC2 went under the 1'01" barrier, and not just with a 1'00"98! Being consistent here is incredibly hard and ScouB just did it right, the video was super impressive, this might be one of the best 5-lap performances ever driven.

CI1      50"81      Matt

Not only because Matt. The CI1 "new strat" is harder to keep consistent than the previous one, and breaking new barriers there is extremely hard. This deserves to be mentioned, and I have to confess the fact it was driven by a player who's not used to drive WRs every week proves a high level of devotion behind the performance.

I'd vote Scoub's MC2 race as WR of the year though.

I'm pretty much in agreement with Karel on the KB2 flap and MC3 5lap. But gotta give a special nod to CI2 flap

PAL
I think both MC3 are far from being maxed (they are shitty compared to what we have done in ntsc), so they are out. Its between the remaining 4. But I think my KB2 flap edges out a little indeed

NTSC
It's a lot harder to pick one there. RR and MC2 are not really WRs so I'm not counting them. For me it's between the CI1 DP1 and MC3 ones.
MC3 being the most revolutionary, CI1 the most pushed and DP1 the most impressive ?
It depends on what we want to reward.
But even if it's far from being maxed, I'd go with MC3 5laps as well more for the strat development during the year than for the time itself.

And between both Id go with PAL KB2 flap prolly.

Pipeboost on MC3 was first used by Marisa or Chris Wild. One of those two, I'm not entirely sure. I'd give ScouB most of the credit for the way that MC3 is played now though.

KVD wrote on 01/04/19 at 06:52:50:


Yeah Marisa discovered pipe boosts around 2007, but Chris Wild was discovering the wall bumping, that was on MC4 lap first? Absolutely Julien has taken the strategy very far and the limits are crazy. Definitely would be good to see how low the PAL one can go this year.

ScouB wrote on 01/06/19 at 05:12:35:


Oh ok, yeah definitely the MC2 and 3 wall bumps you did first. I just thought the MC4 one might have been Wild's on MC4 only cos I remember him getting WRs on the track. Maybe he tried it shortly after at the time.

Well I didnt really say I "invented" or "discovered" it but I was the first to capitalize the fact it wins time and to wr with this.
It's like pipeboosting, I'm pretty sure someone did it before Marisa without really proving it wins time or without doing it on purpose.

ScouB wrote on 01/06/19 at 08:22:17:


Agreed on both, from what I read from Marisa he was the first one to test and I think discover it but yes it is very possible others may have stumbled on the pipe boost leading to his testing. It would be a long time ago. And certainly you've really gone far as it has been pushes a few seconds further already.