NEXT UPDATE IN TWO WEEK'S TIME

    Next weekend I will be having a few friends visit Uni for a day or two, leaving only part of next Sunday free. I also have a project worth a quarter of my final year mark to hand in the week after that. It's going ok so far, but i'll probably need to use the rest of next Sunday to work on that. After that term ends and im back home for Easter revising for exams (which will be in May). Updates will continue in 2 weeks time on Sunday 20th March 2005. Please keep the PRs coming in during both of the next two weeks though as POW awards are still up for the taking.

NEW MEMBER

    A new NTSC karter has joined the site. Joshua Seay from U.S.A has sent us all of his Time Trial Records and enters the NTSC World Rankings at #91 with a Pro G overall standard.

VIDEOS PAGE UPDATED

    This week we have a couple of updated video files; you can view Gerard Roodhorst's great new DP3 videos from the SMK Video Files Page or via this link:

http://membres.lycos.fr/scoubsmk/dutch.html

PR UPDATES

    On PAL in the Netherlands, Gerard Roodhorst has broken a great barrier with a Non-NBT World Record on Donut Plains 3 with 1'19"89! He has also taken the fastlap down to 0'15"74 non-nbt! Karel van Duijvenboden cut a few points off with a strong GV3 lap and VL2 lap. In France, Antoine Olivier has climbed to #30 on PAL with some new PRs on DP1, GV3 and VL2. Harold Christensen made a series of fastlap PRs and has climbed to Legend A overall standard and #17 on PAL. He should reach the GOD standards soon. William Jonas has made several small cuts off his PRs and a solid GOD time for BC2 fastlap. He is getting very close to the Legend standards and is now ranked at #34 on PAL. In the U.K, David Reed has climbed to #100 on PAL with 5 PRs. Matthew McCarthy hits a 5-lap PR on CI1. Alasdair Morrison set more King and Elite records, climbing up to #70 on PAL and Elite A standard overall. Chris Clark has also made great progress making it into the Elites with 9 PRs to Elite G overall standard and #93 on PAL.

    On NTSC, in U.S.A, Dean Barnhart announced his retirement to pursue his MK64 karting. He may be back to SMK in future, but for now he leaves us with a solid CI2 lap PR putting him at King F overall standard. Chris Polster has made many new PRs and climbs to King F overall standard and #55 on NTSC. In Canada, Chris Balch makes some great times for CI2 and VL1 cutting of enough SR Score to reach #4 in the World on NTSC and #1 in Canada! Jonathan Girard makes VL1 and DP3 PRs cutting some points down. In Brazil, Leonardo Vieira set 5 PRs including a massive cut off KB1 helping him up to Elite E overall standard and #73 on NTSC. Alencar Faria PR'ed on CI1 and MC3 and climbed to #11 on NTSC.

NEW VIDEO FILES ADDED

    The Dutch videos page link off the SMK Video Files page has had another update. Karel van Duijvenboden's latest vids including BC3 Non-NBT WRs have been added.

NEW MEMBERS

    Two new karters joining the Rankings this week!

    Firstly to PAL version from Germany we welcome Stefan Tiesmeyer who enters the Time Trials at Master A overall standard with a PAL World Ranking of #99 and a German ranking of #12.

    The next member is joining NTSC. His name is Pier-Yves Lemire from Canada who is joining the SMK World Rankings at #84. His overall standard is Pro B.

    Welcome to the site to both of you, we look forward to seeing you improve your records!

PR UPDATES

    On PAL we had a little return from German Champion Armin Huber with a crazy WR on DP3 1-lap of 0'15"38! Karel van Duijvenboden also improved his MC4 1-lap to a new mark of 0'18"61! It has been a busy week for NTSC karters in Canada, with many of them active. Simon Laflamme has a great time beating Jamie's RR 5-lap WR with 1'24"97! He also tied the fastlap to 0'16"88*. Simon worked on some NBT stuff aswell with helped him gain a lot of SR points and just about reach #2 on NTSC again! Chris Balch also had a WR with an improvement to his DP3 5-lap of 1'17"53! Jason Fraser made a return to SMK with 5 strong PRs. Jonathan Girard climbed to #15 on NTSC with some faster PRs on the courses he has been working on; he has also reached Legend A overall standard. Gabriel Laflamme had a new set of PRs that got him even closer to the Pro's. He passed two karters to #93 on NTSC. In U.S.A, Chris Polster made a big climb with many new records to King C overall standard and #43 on NTSC. His U.S.A ranking is now #20.

    Back on PAL, in Germany, Sebastian Stellmacher has been making great improvements! It seems that not long from now, Armin Huber will have a challange for the German title. Sebastian has set some fast new GOD times and has reached -4 SR score. In the U.K, Matthew McCarthy and Alasdair Morisson cut a few points off with some PRs. In France, Clement Papon makes great progress with the MC2 long boost an other PRs. He is now ranked at #19 on PAL and #9 in France with a Legend B overall standard. Matthias Boucher reached #7 with some good NBT records. William Jonas also makes a massive cut with several new records taking him up to Legend F overall standard, #29 on PAL and #14 in France. Harold Christensen has reached GOD standard overall in style with some strong NBT times and a climb well into the minus SR mark at #15 on PAL and #7 in France. Gerard Roodhorst continues to hit some very fast non-nbt records and cuts his SR Score down further.

NEW VIDEO FILES LINK

    A new video files link from Chris Balch, containing many videos from different karters has been provided at http://timeofdeath.net/wrvideos.html. It is still under construction and more vids will be added there in time. A link has also been added to the section above.

NEW MEMBERS

    It has been a great week with new members! We have 4 new entries to the NTSC rankings..

    Our first new member is David Lalo from U.S.A who sends in all his times reaching Advanced G overall standard and #106 on NTSC.

    The next new member we have is Matthew Hofstad also from U.S.A who enters NTSC at #83 with a Master F overall standard.

    Our third new member is Pierre L'Hoëst who is currently French Champion on PAL. Pierre has also been karting on an NTSC machine and has achieved a few WRs so far. He is now ranked at #2 in the World on NTSC aswell with a -11 SR score in the GOD standard.

    Our fourth new member is Brachet Axel who sends in all of his times and enters the NTSC World Rankings at #110 with an Apprentice D overall standard.

PR UPDATES

    We had a major battle at the top of the NTSC ranks this week! With L'Hoëst's entry to NTSC a lot of the top karters were competing for their positions. Goto ended up losing a few places as Chris Balch hit 3 great WRs, two on MC4 with 1'33"52 and 0'18"27 and a new lap on DP3 of 0'15"06! Martin Morissette fought back with some great times on many courses reaching the -10 SR Score but in the end just falling short of Balch's mark. Both karters however passed Japanese Champion, Masakazu Goto. It didn't end there as Oliver Segarra Gonzalez of Brazil joined in the battle after his break from SMK with two PRs that brought him a bit ahead again, including ahead of Laflamme to #3! The battle continues next week. WRs on PAL this week included a fast 0'14"09 DP1 best lap from Karel van Duijvenboden.

    Other NTSC activity included a return from Robin Usher of Japan to climb a bit further on the NTSC rankings. He drove 13 new PRs with Bowser making a good leap to #108 on NTSC. In Canada, Jonathan Girard reached GOD standard with some strong GV3 times and two amazing records for MC2 with the long boost. He is now ranked #14 on NTSC and #6 in Canada. Pier-Yves Lemire who joined last week has been busy hitting many new records and so far has climbed to Master C overall standard, #80 on NTSC and #21 in Canada. He may be reaching the Elites very soon! Jason Fraser had success with the MC2 long boost fastlap gaining him some points. He is now ranked #12 on NTSC.

    On PAL, in Germany, Sebastian Stellmacher's latest PRs have cut off yet another big chunk of SR Score placing him up at #10 on PAL, very close to Videkull. German Champion, Armin Huber sent in a KB1 5-lap improvement. In Switzerland, Raphael Braun made a return hitting quite a few NBT times that cut a lot of SR score down. He climbed to #13 on PAL with his new records. In the Netherlands, Gerard Roodhorst hit some super fast Non-NBT DP1 records that are WRs for the Non-NBT site and a CI1 flap improvement. In France, Antoine Olivier reaches #30 on PAL and Legend F overall standard with his latest PRs, some of them with NBT. William Jonas is making stronger PRs each week as this set hit higher standards. He has been working on the long boost a bit with MC2 and others which are moving further into the Legends. He is now Legend D overall standard, #22 on PAL and #11 in France. Clement Papon hits two PRs and reaches Legend A overall standard.