April 2003 Archive

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Sami Çetin's update, 6th April 2003

THIS WEEK'S PR UPDATES

No World Records were hit this week but we still had some great activity. Three of our veteran karters from the U.K were active this week. A return from Richard O'Neill who has been inactive for a little while has been a suprise as he has karted on several courses including his weaker ones. He now stands at King C overall only a few points short of King B, #4 in the U.K and #29 in the World on PAL! Not far behind him, Gavin Ward has also been cutting large amounts off his SR score. He has gotten rid of his remaining Elite times and is making his way through the Kings well. He is now at King E and #37 on PAL. Further up, Britain's 2nd fastest karter, Matthew McCarthy hit 8 good PRs that have helped him almost reach Steven Zwartjes on the PAL Players' List, Belgian Champion, Peter Toch is also within reach. Champion of Sweden, Kalle Videkull almost hit a PAL WR on MC4 5-lap with a 1'37" time using the boosts. He also hit a good pair of times on MC3 that have helped him to reach #3 in the World on PAL!

NTSC Karters also had a great time karting, the two fastest French NTSC karters, Christophe Paquin and Yves Daniel were setting records. Christophe is getting closer to the 1'00" barrier for MC1 and hit a 3/5 jump on GV1. He is now very close to Legend F. Yves Daniel's 11 PRs also made good progress as he cut 11 SR points down. Martin Morissette continues to PR since he has reached GOD, the highlight for him this week being a 0'59"95 time for MC1, well done there Martin! Mark Sunderland drove some King and Legend records including a GOD time for KB2 lap! He has been able to meet up with Stanley Jeram for some karting which has helped him. Mark is now #21 on NTSC.

Jason Fraser has been working more on DP1, KB1 and RR to cut down some points. Those records helped him to reach Legend F, pass 3 karters to #15 on NTSC and #5 in Canada! Juan Sebastián Arévalo worked hard on MC2 to cut them down as far as possible. He has hit double GOD times so far that look pretty solid. Thomas Harrington has returned to claim the 3rd place from Stanley Jeram who karted some weeks back. Thomas made a little PR on MC2 lap and a decent time for GV3 5-lap and cut a few points off. Simon Laflamme hit Rainbow Road hard with some good PRs, not quite WRs but he may have the potential there to attack Jamie's times with more work.

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Sami Çetin's update, 13th April 2003

NEW MEMBER

We welcome a new member to NTSC this week, Xavier Jutras from Canada who enters the NTSC Players' List at #67 in the World (NTSC) and #18 in Canada. His overall standard is Master B.

THIS WEEK'S PR UPDATES

10 active karters this week and PAL has a return from Paolo Galasso from Switzerland! Paolo has hit 23 great PRs that have helped him up to King D between British karters Shaw and Rowntree at #34 on PAL! Swedish champion, Kalle Videkull has still been at it with his SR score getting faster each time. After a nice MC3 GOD time he attacked Rainbow Road hard breaking into 1'27"s and setting a great lap aswell. Sébastien Holmière followed closely behind with 8 PRs cutting down his times with some general driving on some courses and boosting strategies for MC4. Matthew McCarthy secured his position on the PAL Players' List at #15 in the World after passing retired Steven Zwartjes with two great GV2 records.

Thomas Harrington continued to improve to catch up with Stanley Jeram as he hit the KBs even further with a sub 1'00" for KB1 and some nice times for GV1 and DP3. Patrick Burke finally reached the Kings with some PRs on CI2, BC2 and GV3. Juan Sebastián Arévalo made a GOD lap for DP2 and also improved his weaker DP3 time. His SR cut was good as it got him to Legend C overall and he passed many karters to reach #8 on NTSC! Jason Fraser improved KB1 and VL1 this week to make it to Legend E overall and #14 on NTSC. Martin Morissette's improvements on the GV courses were good as his SR is nearing the -1 mark and Canadian champion, Simon Laflamme improved his MC2 5-lap a bit.

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Sami Çetin's update, 20th April 2003

THIS WEEK'S PR UPDATES

We had few members active this week, but some of the karted a lot with several improvements by large amounts. Our newest member Xavier Jutras has been sending in his first lot of improvements that cut over 130 points off his SR score giving him this week's POW and a climb to Elite E overall standard, #60 in the World on NTSC and #16 in Canada! Christophe Paquin also continued to kart, making 12 new records including a nice 4/5 jump on GV1 5-lap. This all helped him to pass two karters to #17 on NTSC. Jason Fraser made some nice quick improvements including a near GOD time for MC1 lap and other records to place him at #13 on the NTSC Players' List.

On the PAL side, Arno van den Barselaar hit most of his courses well sticking to using Bowser mainly but now and again using other characters. It was a great week for him though as he reached Master G overall and passed Mike Groels on the way for #10 in the Netherlands and #71 in the World on PAL! Champion of France, Sébastien Holmière improved on some Star and Special cup times and has gotten very close to Kalle Videkull who is still at #3. Matthew McCarthy improved KB2 5-lap just missing a GOD time, but he is sure to hit it soon.

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Sami Çetin's update, 27th April 2003

THIS WEEK'S PR UPDATES

4 members on NTSC were active this week in SMK, all of which were the fast Canadian karters. Mark Sunderland hit some great records, including GOD times on KB1 and some other times on GVs including some jumps on GV1 platform. Mark made it through to King A this week. He is well on the way to reaching the Legends! Martin Morissette hit the CI courses very well this week with some great GOD times for CI2! Jason Fraser made improvements to DP2 and Xavier Jutras made some cuts to GV1 that helped him up to #59 on the NTSC Players' List.