Sami Çetin's update, 4th December 2005
New Photo Added
A great karters meeting photo from France was sent in by Anthony Pichard this week. It features Harold Christensen, Clement Papon, Franck Mazières, Pierre Coste and Anthony Pichard from the site. The photo has been added to the PAL group meeting photos page on the SMK Photo Gallery. Many thanks for the pic Anthony!
PR Updates
PAL karters made some great improvements as Matthias Mann from Germany pushes further into the Legends with some more GOD times including NBT to cut more seconds off. He has also hit a Glitch lap World Record on KB2 with 0'02"09. Harold Christensen set 4 GOD standard PRs including his first WR on DP3 lap of 0'15"23 and is closing in on Julien. In the U.K, Leyla Hasso hit some quick PRs with Bowser making some good cuts and reached Expert G overall standard. In France, Florent Lecoanet returned to hit his Time Trial Records hard to keep up with his success in 150cc. He has greatly improved his standards all over using both Non-NBT and NBT driving styles. He is now #24 in the World on PAL and Legend C overall standard. It will be a close battle between him and Matthias Mann as they are only a point apart on the standards. Antoine Olivier set 7 PRs cutting some more of his SR Score down. Pierre Coste set two PRs on Choco Island 1. Anthony Pichard has been improving his standards well on both his stronger and weaker times and has pushed his rank up to #93 on PAL and standard to Elite D overall. Matthias Boucher improves his BC2 lap and cuts a few points down. In the Netherlands, Gerard Roodhorst hit two PRs on DP2.
On NTSC, in Brazil, Guilherme Arantes has been flying up the ranks with some very strong improvements in both Non-NBT and NBT with numerous new GOD times. He has reached #19 on NTSC and GOD -4 SR Score, he is heading towards #2 in Brazil and may reach that very soon! In U.S.A, Tyler Worley set some Elite PRs and a King PR to reach Elite A overall standard and #81 on NTSC. David Smith has made many new records this week and is getting closer to the Legends. He is now King A overall standard. In Canada, Chris Balch set a pair of GV3 PRs and Simon Laflamme hit a good PR on MC2 5-lap. In Japan, Hero Nake has set 7 PRs and passed Michael Fried for #22.
Sami Çetin's update, 11th December 2005
New Member
A new karter to NTSC is entering the site. Please welcome Jason Weatherman who joins the NTSC World Rankings at #110 with Master E overall standard.
New Photo
A photo of Florent Lecoanet has been added to the SMK Photo Gallery's France PAL Photographs page.
PR Updates
Kohei HG from Japan set a lot of new records on NTSC starting out with some NBT on DP1 with good results so far. He has climbed to King F overall standard and #73 on NTSC. Hero Nake made a small cut on BC1 lap. In Brazil, Guilherme Arantes worked very hard on his NBT driving and has made a great improvement from last week. He has now passed Alencar for #2 in Brazil and #13 on NTSC with a GOD -6 SR. From Canada, Jonathan Girard reaches GOD -7 with 2 PRs and Simon Laflamme makes a further cut to his MC2 time. In U.S.A, David Smith made a few PRs to get a little closer to the Legends. Tyler Worley set a big lot of PRs and made his way to King E overall standard and #70 on NTSC. Alexander Vittal made some good new times on quite a few courses and is now Elite A overall standard and #83 on NTSC.
On PAL version from Germany we saw more fast times from Matthias Mann as he lands on the Legend B overall standard. His work on the Vanilla Lakes have paid off with some great GOD times. In the Netherlands, Gerard Roodhorst makes a cut to his MC2 lap. In France, Pierre Coste pushes his PRs further with some higher standards to bring his overall up to King G and #70 in the World on PAL. Florent Lecoanet has become the latest addition to the GOD standard ranked karters on PAL with his latest new PRs including some MC2 long boosting. Harold Christensen made it to #11 on PAL with a few fast Non-NBT times. Matthias Boucher made a fast run at BC2 5-lap and cut a few points down. Anthony Pichard set 10 new PRs and has reached King F overall standard and #63 on PAL.
Sami Çetin's update, 18th December 2005
New Member
New karter Brent Menke from Nebraska, U.S.A joins the site this week at #127 on NTSC with an overall standard of Semi-Pro A.
PR Updates
We had a return from PAL World Champion, Karel van Duijvenboden as he takes the DP3 lap WR back with 0'15"13 and lowers his MC1 lap WR to 0'11"56. He also worked on his crazy Rainbow Road 5-lap and pushed it down a little to 1'27"08. We saw some good work from Matthias Boucher in France with his new DP3 PRs; Antoine Olivier also hit some good cuts on KB1 and GV3 and is heading towards GOD -1. In Australia, Frank Sweet is continuing his mission to reach #1 in Australia and has made many new times, GV2 reaching the Legend standards. Frank is now #2 in Australia after passing Martin and Nick and ranked at #83 in the World on PAL with an Elite B overall standard. In the U.K, Matthew McCarthy returned with an MC2 long boost time and a cut to his SR Score. In Germany, Sebastian Stellmacher hit two PRs while in a battle this week with Huber.
On NTSC, in U.S.A Jason Weatherman made some of his first new PRs since joining the site and is making good progress so far, passing some karters to reach #106 on NTSC and Master D overall standard. Alexander Vittal made a few PRs on Mushroom and Flower Cup and climbed to #82 on NTSC. Tyler Worley made many small cuts to his PRs and climbed to #66 on NTSC. David Smith worked on a lot of times to reach Legend status and with the help of a massive cut to his GV1 times with some platform jumping he has now reached Legend G overall standard and #47 on NTSC. Canadian Champion, Chris Balch improved his GV3 times this week and in Japan, Hero Nake made some MC2 long boosts and brought himself up to GOD -2 SR Score.
Sami Çetin's update,25th December 2005
Merry Christmas
Firstly I would like to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas. Hope you all have a great day today!
New Member
Please welcome new karter André Luis Trani from Brazil who joins the NTSC World Rankings at #106 on NTSC and #9 in Brazil with a Master D overall standard.
PR Updates
PAL World Champion Karel van Duijvenboden picked up on both PAL and NTSC karting this week with some good results. He has hit some NTSC World Records on GV1 lap with 0'11"75 and KB1 lap with 0'09"10. On PAL he also did some damage on a few courses with the following great new World Records: DP2 lap of 0'17"12, BC2 lap 0'20"06, MC3 5-lap almost reaching the big barrier at 1'30"04 and RR 5-lap closing in on a barrier also at 1'27"04! In Germany, Matthias Mann continued his strong improvements, reaching Legend A overall standard and improving his KB2 glitch lap WR to 0'01"93 and setting a 5-lap of 0'57"13! Armin Huber set a few PRs cutting some points down. In the U.K, Richard O'Neill returned with some of his first attempts at long boosting on MC2. He is getting closer to the Legend standards as he takes back the #3 position in the U.K and hits #41 on PAL. In France, Matthias Boucher makes some very strong VL2 non-nbt PRs. Julien Holmière returns with some VL lap PRs to fight back for his position against Christensen. He has made good progress so far, we will see where the battle goes from here. William Jonas and Pierre L'Hoëst both worked on Rainbow Road where William improved his lap close to Pierre's new record. Pierre also improved his 5-lap a little closer to the World Record. Pierre Coste made a large list of PRs using more NBT driving and has climbed to King D overall standard and #61 on PAL. Antoine Olivier improves his KB1 5-lap.
NTSC activity has been very strong with some good PRs from Japan; Ha Nyan worked on NBT MC3 driving with some good cuts and another small PR to his RR time. This helped him defend his position at #11 on NTSC. Hero Nake made further cuts to his long boosting records for MC2 and a CI2 lap PR. These improvements helped him pass Jeram for #21 on NTSC. In Brazil, Guilherme Arantes is unstoppable as he continues to set big improvements everywhere! He has now reached GOD -7 SR Score and #12 on NTSC! In Canada, Jason Fraser returned with a GOD time on GV1 lap. In U.S.A, David Smith improved 9 of his PRs and has reached Legend F overall standard. Tyler Worley has again been very active with several new PRs. He has climbed to King C overall standard and #57 on NTSC.