EXAM WEEKS : NEXT UPDATE ON 15TH MAY

    This week as some of you are aware from my stress levels I have my final exams at University starting. As a result, its probably best to leave an update next Sunday and postpone it a week until I can get these exams out the way. Anyhow the next update will be on Sunday 15th May. For those of you who are fairly new entrants the the site and are not familiar with the exact PR submission deadline time, try sending your PRs by 13th May to definitely be in that update. I will check for PRs on the 14th, but sometimes a few mails still end up slightly late and have to go in the following week. Updates should continue as normal each week on Sundays from there. Pray for me for these exams! Im gonna need it..

NEW MEMBER

    This week we have a new member to NTSC. Craig Lubbers sends in all of his Time Trial Records. So far he has been really working with MC1 and has driven some great times there on entering the site! His overall World Ranking is #104 on NTSC and he has an overall standard of Semi-Pro G. Welcome to the site!

PR UPDATES

    On NTSC, Chris Balch set a lot of stong NBT and Non-NBT times including a new WR for Mario Circuit 2 with the long boost of 1'05"91! Along with his other PRs he cut off enough points to pass Laflamme for #1 in Canada and reach #3 in the World on NTSC! On PAL, Karel van Duijvenboden took DP2 fastlap to a new mark of 0'17"15. Gerard Roodhorst has also been working on his GV3 time and has lowered the PAL WR to 1'15"22!

    On NTSC, in Japan, Toshi Miura made a NBT improvement to CI2 lap. Robin Usher has been making great progress with some big cuts on many courses and much stronger times! He is now at Semi-Pro F overall standard and #103 in the World on NTSC. In Brazil, Alencar Faria made some very fast MC1 records and an MC2 lap PR. Leonardo Vieira also made some small cuts that brought his SR a little closer to the Kings. In Canada, Eric Balch worked on all of his Mushroom Cup and Flower Cup times and destroyed all his times by far reaching #80 on NTSC and Elite F overall standard! He has some great potential, so watch out for more improvements soon! Jason Fraser made a KB1 5-lap PR. Close by in competition, Jonathan Girard worked on DP1, MC3 and KB1 with some good results that helped him take #10 on NTSC. Pier-Yves Lemire reached Elite B with 7 new PRs this week. Chris Williams returned with some GV1 PRs that helped him up to #18 on NTSC. In U.S.A, Drew Blumfield climbed to #72 with a fast GV1 PR. Joe Bernier has been very active hitting several new PRs. He still has great potential left and should be able to reach the GOD standards in the near future. So far he has landed on Legend F overall standard, #33 in the World on NTSC and #13 in U.S.A. Chris Polster returned to NTSC this week with some fast new PRs and a climb to King B overall standard. Chris is now ranked at #38 on NTSC and #15 in U.S.A.

    On PAL, In Australia, Nick Moncrieff-Hill hit some great DP1 times that brought him up to Master A overall standard and defended his 3rd place position in Australia. He also climbed to #96 in the World on PAL. Not far behind, Frank Sweet has been setting some good PRs that have brought him up to Master B overall standard and #102 in the World on PAL. In Germany, Sebastian Stellmacher hit a few more fast PRs cutting some more points off. In the U.K, Chris Clark's new PRs have helped him up to Elite F overall standard, #87 in the World on PAL and #17 in the U.K. In Sweden, Kalle Videkull hit some fast GOD times and has reached #9 on PAL. In France, Harold Christensen hit a small CI1 PR. William Jonas reaches #10 in France and #20 on PAL with a Legend A overall standard after more NBT and Non-NBT PRs. He is likely to reach GOD standard within the next update or two! Just ahead, Clement Papon reaches GOD standard overall with 3 PRs. Sebastien Holmière improves his CI1 lap. In the Netherlands, Ron Roodhorst improves a few PRs, reaching #70 on PAL and #9 in the Netherlands.

NEW MEMBERS

    The past two weeks have brought us five new karters to the site!

    Firstly, on PAL version from Germany we have David Schiering who has joined with an Advanced G overall standard to the PAL World Rankings at #146.

    On NTSC, From St.Lucia, we welcome Clian Polius who has sent in all of his times to reach #115 on NTSC with an overall standard of Intermediate B.

    From Canada for NTSC, we have a very skilled karter, Haroon Subhani who joins high up at Legend D overall standard, #27 in the World on NTSC and #9 in Canada.

    We also have a new Japanese karter, Ha Nyan who joins NTSC just ahead of Subhani, also having a Legend D overall standard. Ha Nyan has a World Ranking of #25 with a #4 Rank in Japan.

    From U.S.A, we welcome Michael Hermreck who starts his karting career on the NTSC World Rankings at #104 with an overall standard of Semi-Pro B.

    It is great to have so many new karters joining! We look forward to seeing improvements from these karters in the following weeks. Keep on Karting!

PR UPDATES

    It has been a busy two weeks, many of us including myself have had exams. Glad they are over! We also have several active karters and many new WRs on both PAL and NTSC. On PAL, Karel van Duijvenboden set 4 new WRs. DP3 fastlap is now a crazy 0'15"28, and KB2 lap is looking equally as good at 0'10"55. He has also been working hard on RR using some NBT driving to improve the lap. The WRs there now stand at 1'27"10 and 0'17"24! Michael Jongerius took Çetin's VL2 5-lap WR to a new mark of 0'51"58 and Gerard Roodhorst slightly improved his GV3 5-lap to 1'15"16. On NTSC, Canadian Champion, Chris Balch did all the talking when it came to WRs this week. He pushed GV1 really far with some very consistent races and a new pair of WRs at 1'00"29 and 0'11"87! He also broke the barrier on DP3 1-lap with 0'14"97 and took Segarra's KB2 5-lap to 0'56"30! Chris has now reached #2 in the World on NTSC!

    The NTSC activity including strong karters from Canada, with Jonathan Girard's latest PRs climbing him up to #8 in the World on NTSC. Pier-Yves Lemire reaches Elite A overall standard with 9 new PRs and also climbs to #71 on NTSC. From U.S.A, Thomas Harrington made a return with some KB1 PRs that were good cuts off his previous times. Craig Lubbers spent time improving each course and lap well and has climbed far up the list to King G overall standard, #68 in the World on NTSC and #31 in U.S.A. Joe Bernier has made a fantastic set of improvements with PRs on most of his tracks and some great MC2 long boost times. Joe has reached GOD overall standard, is now #16 in the World on NTSC and #3 in U.S.A! Drew Blumfield decided to improve many of his weaker courses and has some fantastic results so far. He reached some Glitch WRs of 0'54"21 and 0'02"01 on DP1. He has climbed up to #56 on NTSC and #25 in U.S.A with a new overall standard of King E. He definitely has strong Legend potential and can reach there once he hits the remaider of his weaker times. In Japan, Kazutaka Yamauchi improves a lot of his times up to Legend standards and drives a fast MC2 long boost time. Kazutaka is now #22 on NTSC and is defending his 3rd place in Japan from new karter Ha Nyan. Expect a battle soon though! Special congrats to Robin Usher for his constant improvements on nearly all courses. Robin has been cutting off a lot of time and has now reached Pro F overall standard and #97 on NTSC! Also notable is that he has passed Luke Kenyon which was one of his targets. Robin definitely has what it takes to reach the Elites soon, we hope to see his next lot of improvements soon. In Brazil, Alencar Faria makes many strong GOD times and an MC1 record of 0'57"98! Alencar has climbed to #10 in the World on NTSC. Leonardo Vieira hits 4 PRs and makes it through to King G overall standard. Eduardo Marques returns to SMK with 3 quick PRs that have cut a few points off his SR Score.

    On PAL, the battle for the title of Germany continues, with current German Champion, Armin Huber hitting 2 fastlap PRs, the KB1 time of which has taken a decent amount of SR Score off. Sebastian Stellmacher continued to hit fast GOD times and improve some of his Non-NBT records to cut his SR Score further. He is moving closer to Armin's SR, so the battle continues.. Norwegian Champion, Marius Hukkelċs has hit a lot of new records and is making large improvements overall. He will make it to the Kings in no time at the rate he is improving. So far he has reached Elite C overall standard and #81 on PAL. In the U.K, Matthew McCarthy hit 3 PRs and cut a few SR Points. Chris Clark karted a lot with a massive collection of PRs that bring him to Elite C overall standard, #79 on PAL and #15 in the U.K. In France, Harold Christensen is gaining strength on more NBT as well as Non-NBT with his latest PRs that bring him to #13 on PAL. Clement Papon hits the KB courses, climbing to #16 on PAL and #7 in France. Not far behind, William Jonas reaches GOD standard with his latest PRs and #19 on PAL. Matthias Boucher improved his VL2 lap with a sub 10 second time. In Sweden, Kalle Videkull some KB2 times and a fast RR 5-lap.

NEW MEMBER

    We have a new NTSC member this week, Ciro Oliveira Azevedo from Brazil! Ciro has entered the NTSC World Rankings at #87 with an overall standard of Master C. He also is ranked at #8 in Brazil.

    Welcome to the site!

PR UPDATES

    On NTSC, we had a return from Champion, Jamie White with a few PRs including a great new BC1 lap of 0'17"11! Canadian Champion, Chris Balch hit a new GV1 5-lap WR of 1'00"20. In Japan, Ha Nyan has been karting very well this week with some good improvements that have brought him up to Legend B overall standard, #19 in the World on NTSC and past Yamauchi to be 3rd place in Japan! Activity in Brazil went very well with a return from their champion, Oliver Segarra Gonzalez. Oliver hit a few of his weaker times where there was room for improvement and cut some good points off his SR to bring him back up the list to #4 in the World on NTSC. He is likely to catch up to the top few karters soon if his improvements continue! Alencar Faria made several small cuts to his times including many solid GOD times that have cut some of his SR points, bring him a bit closer to Toshi Miura. Leonardo Vieira made 4 PRs and climbed to #69 on NTSC. In Canada, Jonathan Girard improves his KB2 5-lap time. In U.S.A, Drew Blumfield set 8 new PRs, six of which were in the GOD standards. He is well on his way to reaching the Legends, and has reached King D overall standard so far. His World Ranking on NTSC is now #50 and he is #24 in U.S.A. Joe Bernier cut some good points down with strong NBT and Non-NBT records that he set this week. He is now not far from reaching Sabbagh on the NTSC rankings. Craig Lubbers also made a good set of improvements on many courses. Like Blumfield, he definitely has Legend potential as he hits King D overall standard, #52 on NTSC and #25 in U.S.A. David Lalo makes some good improvements and passes a karter to reach #114 on NTSC and Advanced B overall standard. Michael Hermreck improves a great amount and lands on Master F overall standard with 20 new PRs! He is now ranked at #92 on NTSC.

    On PAL, in Germany, David Schiering made PRs on every course and lap with some big cuts! His standards flew up to Master B overall and he is now #102 on PAL and #13 in Germany! He will probably reach the Elites and Kings in no time with this pace! Well done! In France, Matthias Boucher hits 3 new PRs. William Jonas makes 5 new PRs cutting some of his SR Score down a bit further into the GOD standard. Antoine Olivier made good progress with many new records and a climb to Legend D overall standard, #23 on PAL and #12 in France. Harold Christensen hits 2 PRs this week. Norwegian Champion, Marius Hukkelċs improved some of his records with great results on DP3 and has reached Elite B overall standard and #76 in the World on PAL. In the U.K, Chris Clark has worked on a lot of fastlap times mainly and cut a few points down. He has climbed to #77 on PAL and #14 in the U.K. In the Netherlands, Gerard Roodhorst made 3 PRs and reached -4 SR Score. Karel van Duijvenboden made a VL2 lap cut. In Switzerland, Raphael Braun made a pair of fast Non-NBT KB2 times.

DEAN BARNHART

    Dean Barnhart informed us this week that he would like to be removed from the SMK Players' Site and Non-NBT Site for personal reasons. We are sad to see you leave Dean, but we wish you good luck for the future.

PR UPDATES

    On NTSC this week, In Canada, Simon Laflamme hits a KB1 fastlap WR of 0'09"37! In Brazil, Alencar Faria after a lot of work for many weeks on MC1 has tied the 5-lap WR of 0'57"88*. He may try to improve this one soon! Alencar also hit some other great PRs that have brought him up to #8 on NTSC. Also in Brazil, Ciro Oliveira Azevedo made 4 PRs on the DP courses and cut some SR points down. Ha Nyan in Japan has been hitting more PRs and is making his way to Legend A. He has also nearly reached Liem on the NTSC Rankings. Canadian champion, Chris Balch worked on some more NBT times with a great lap on MC2 long boost and others that have cut a few more SR points down. Eric Balch made an impressive improvement this week; working through the Star and Special Cup courses he has destroyed all of his previous times and made a massive climb to Legend G overall standard, #39 in the World on NTSC and #12 in Canada. Jonathan Girard made 3 new PRs and cut some more points down. 14 year old Haroon Subhani has made a good set of new PRs on many courses that have brought him up to Legend C overall, #20 on NTSC and #8 in Canada. Pier-Yves Lemire cuts some SR Score with 5 new PRs this week. In U.S.A, Drew Blumfield improves more of his weaker times to cut large chunks off his SR Score. He has now reached Legend G overall standard, #38 in the World on NTSC and #15 in U.S.A. With improvements on the few remaining weaker times he has, he can reach the mid or high Legends easily! Craig Lubbers has also made good improvements with a number of new PRs bringing him up to King B overall standard, #41 on NTSC and #16 in U.S.A. Joe Bernier has hit some new GOD times, using both NBT and Non-NBT driving styles and has climbed to #15 on NTSC this week as a result.

    On PAL version, Sebastian Stellmacher has hit more GOD times including good results for VL1 that have brought him ahead of Huber to be the new SMK Champion of Germany and #5 on PAL. Nick Moncrieff-Hill of Australia set two strong GV2 times that brought him up to Elite G overall standard and #96 on PAL. In Norway, Marius Hukkelċs has been working more of his times towards higher Elites and Kings and has climbed to #75 on PAL. In France, Harold Christensen set 2 PRs (CI1 lap and VL1 5-lap). William Jonas sets PRs on CI1 and VL2, his VL2 5-lap being very fast! In the U.K, Chris Clark had a successful attempt at the MC2 long boost and cut a lot of points on other courses also. He has climbed through to King F overall standard, placing himself just ahead of Gaffikin for #10 in the U.K and #62 on PAL. Matthew McCarthy makes some good results on VL1 this week. In the Netherlands, PAL Champion, Karel van Duivenboden made a great VL1 lap and DP3 5-lap. Gerard Roodhorst worked on KB2 5-lap and 1-lap Non-NBT with great results. In Switzerland, Raphael Braun also worked on KB2 with a great 5-lap.