Hello, kart lovers, and welcome to another news update! It’s been a great summer of karting action so far and June certainly did not disappoint, as there was plenty more action from some of the very best in the kart world, including a new GOD and another WR improvement…
Thomas Jordet Larsen decided he wasn’t content with just holding the MMF 3lap WR and cut almost a quarter of a second from it, dropping it to an awesome 1’26”71 (1’12”11 NTSC)! More on Thomas later, as there was more big news at the top: Zoran Tintor finally reached the top of the mountain and claimed his 32nd GOD to become MK64’s 11th non-SC GOD! Zoran’s improvement on FS 3lap took him from Legend A to the coveted 0 ARR rank. Zoran also strengthened his 5th position with a couple of excellent PRs: a 4th place on DKJP 3lap and an even better 3rd on KD flap with 39”26 (32”65 NTSC), bringing him an 0.4 AF improvement. William Lacey edged that little bit closer to Karlo Tomazelli on the AF charts, putting himself less than 0.2 AF away from 2nd with his MMF 3lap PR. German champion Matthias Rustemeyer closed in on the top 10 with 3 PRs, including a top 10 drive on MMF 3lap, that left him within a fraction of Michael Fried.
Worst GOD ever Cooper Lovera had a nice drive on DKJP and improved both his 3lap and flap times, although he remained in 20th. Finn Berger picked off another victim with his turtling, continuing the MMF fever with a double PR there that held his AF steady to allow him to pass Mike Simmons for 28th. Not far behind, two young guns competed to catch up with the veteran: Matt Vanderwouw held onto 31st with 4 PRs as Daniel Lunczer raced an impressive 16, the pick of the bunch being 21st place on RRy flap! Daniel reached 32nd, a couple of AF behind Matt. MMF master Thomas moved from 44th to 41st with 8 new PRs, adding a couple more GODs to his timesheet with a pair on RRd. Yet more excellent German talent continues to make its way up the charts in the form of Christian Wild, who went up an impressive 13 places into 53rd with 5 new GODs among his 16 PRs! No. 67 Christophe Tremblay improved his MMF flap while Jeffrey Bonanno also caught MMF fever, picking up two GODs there and moving up 2 places into 72nd with his 6 PRs. Robin Usher also had the fever, keeping himself just inside the top 100 by going up 1 to 99 with his double PR on MMF.
No action went on at the top of SC this month, which meant that the first mover was Noah Gordon, up 2 into 61st with 2 PRs. Alex Griessing made an excellent 22-place improvement to reach 63rd, hitting GOD twice on KD. Finally, Christophe went up 1 into 69th with an MR PR.
Outside the top 100, David Moll had an excellent month with a 30-place, 27 AF cut that included 4 Legend PRs. Patrick Hewson went up 12 into 140th with 3 Legends of his own as Kyle Sheridan hopped up 11 into 160th, racing 21 PRs. Alex added to his SC cuts with a fantastic non-SC month, launching himself up the charts into 169th with 26 PRs, cutting more than 60 from his AF! Special mention should go to Bernard Gutierrez, joining the charts at 176th, an impressive King F. Guilherme Arantes went up 6 places into 187th, improving to Elite A in the process. Noah had an even more amazing month than Alex, making a gargantuan leap up the charts from 470th all the way to 223rd! Noah improved a number of tracks on which he had no times in addition to comfortably beating many of his existing times, resulting in a massive 243 AF cut! Frankie Morgan went up a nice 22 places into 242nd and joined the Elite ranks.
Outside the top 300, Alencar Faria and Andy Lundeen both had good months, Alencar up 35 into 313th and Andy up 43 into 323rd. Richard Gallimore made a clean sweep, beating all 32 of his PRs to spark a big rise of 68 places that got him into 344th! Chuck Foster went up 9 into 378th before a big gap to the next move, who was Zack Weber, going up from 535 to 517. Bjoern Jordet had MMF fever too, improving both his times there but slipping a place to 595th.
New players:
Bernard Gutierrez – 176 – King F – 152 SC Jordan Reese – 452 – Expert B Jan Oliva – 509 – Advanced A
That’s all for June! Join me again at the end of July as the charts continue to heat up this summer!
Hello kart fans, and welcome to another news update! After William's heroic efforts to get the news caught up, I'm back to bring you all the news from May, and on time too! Let's not dwell too much on this miraculous event and instead get right to the action, where a new star has been causing quite a stir...
Thomas Jordet Larsen is the man I'm speaking of as he pulled off a remarkable world record on MMF 3lap! Thomas took down Michael Jongerius' WR with a 1'27"01, beating the Dutch master by "05. Not content with that, Thomas kept on racing and got the sub with a superb 1'26"94 (1'12"31 NTSC)! Thomas followed this up by claiming joint third on the flap, tying Zoran Tintor's new time with a 28"11. Despite these efforts, Thomas remained in 44th on the AF charts, but the potential is clearly there for Thomas to rise up and challenge the very best. Zoran is continuing to do just that, making it into the world's top 5 with improvements on his MMF 3lap and DKJP flap to add to that MMF flap. Zoran knocked VAJ down to 6th but now faces the sizeable 3.3 AF gap to Marcelo Almeida dos Reis in 4th.
MMF fever took over the kart world in May, as Finn Berger and Daniel Lunczer also made strong improvements there. While Finn remained in 29th, he improved his 3lap time to pick up another GOD and 28th position on the MMF charts, while Daniel went from 36th to 34th overall by improving his 3lap to Legend A and getting his flap into the top 20 overall! After Thomas in 44th, it was Marcos Vinicius Alves making a return to Rainbow Road, hopping up a place to 54th with a small improvement there. Christian Wild had an excellent month, racking up a whole bunch of improvements including 3 GODs to move up 11 places from 77th to 66th. Jeffrey Bonanno also got in on the MMF fest, improving his times significantly there to move up to 74th.
Over on SC, things were quiet at the top as the first active player was the German champion, Matthias Rustemeyer, who shaved a fraction off his FS flap time to increase the gap between himself and rival Daniel Lunczer, although he stayed in 23rd. Noah Gordon also stayed where he was in 63rd despite 3 PRs, while Alex Griessing passed 25 players to take 85th with his 8 PRs. Jed Grabman was up 3 into 118th and Daniel Sampson filled out his timeset a bit more in addition to improving some existing times to rise into 208th, a 42-place improvement. Jonathan Price went up 11 places down in the lower reaches of the charts just by sending in a time! He went from 398th to 387th with his RRd 3lap.
Outside the top 100 on non-SC, David Moll was next on the move, picking up a nice 26 places by going from 161 to 135 with an impressive 22 PRs. Patrick Hewson was up 11 into 152, among his PRs a nice Legend F on FS flap! 171st-placed Kyle Sheridan had a small PR on LR 3lap while Lenny Gutierrez moved closer to cracking the top 200, jumping up to 206th from 227th with his 11 PRs. Alex Griessing had a good month, claiming 24 places with his 30 AF cut. Jed added to his SC progress and went up 12 into 260th and Sophie Steiner had a great month, rising 28 places with her 13 PRs, including her first King time on LR flap!
Chuck Foster flew into the top 400, going all the way from 425 up to 387th. Florian Chollet had a similarly good month, passing 45 players on his way to 416th. It was Sebastian Wimmi who really motored up the charts, as he rose a huge 70 places with 29 PRs, improving almost all of his times. Jonathan Price topped even that with his 80 place rise, slashing more than 60 from his AF in the process! Noah Gordon massively improved his standing, filling out his incomplete timeset with 14 more PRs, moving him from 704th all the way up to 470th! Zack Weber made some good cuts, moving up 35 places with 20 PRs to finish in 535th. Daniel Sampson went up a place into 588th with a handful of PRs and last but not least, Kevin Pillinger completed the impressive feat of improving all 32 of his times, sending him up 53 places into 600th.
Two new players for May:
Andy Lundeen - 366th - Semi Pro A Richard Gallimore - 412th - Semi Pro F
And that's all from me! Don't forget that Round 2 of the 2010 Karter Contest is starting soon, so make sure to check out the forum and vote for your favourite karters when it begins. I'll be back to bring you all the news from June in a few weeks!
If you haven't seen it yet, this year's karter contest has begun! Go to the board to vote for your favorite karters. Today's matches include big MK64 names like Booth, Stinson, Wonn, PYL, Jones, Rustemeyer, and more!
And while I'm here, congratulations to Thomas Jordet Larsen for a fantastic new WR on MMF!
Yes, finally. This will be an update of what happened in March and April. And then I can get some sleep. It's been a long day, and I never did get that ice cream.
New Players Welcome to: #273 Robert van Zanten (Master A) #334 Sophie Steiner (Pro D) #384 Lester Sandles (Semi Pro C) #410 Andrew Howes (Semi Pro F) #502 Sean Docherty (Advanced A) #642 Elie Blatz (Apprentice A) #665 Christophe Charignon (Apprentice D) #700 Lucario Kiddo (Newbie A)
Non-Shortcut Movement None of the top 10 were active at all in these 2 months, although due to other people beating Zoran's times and not VAJs, Zoran slipped a little to 6th. In fact, the only person in the top 25 to PR even once was #13 Matthias Rustemeyer. An excellent 5th place lap on KD was a reward for his persistence.
#29 Finn Berger had a good time of it, passing Josh Layne in AF and netting Leg A on MMF 3lap, and a nice #7 place time on KD lap. #31 Matt Vanderwouw was back karting with 26 improvements to his times to move up to Leg +, and past Tim Everett. Someone making great strides was #32 Robert Szabo. His 14 PRs took him past 10 players on the AF chart, and he achieved 8 new God times in the process.
#36 Daniel Lunczer, fresh from his impressive gains in every update since he joined, continues to push on and shows no sign of slowing down. 22 players he dispatched with ease this time out, and moved up to Legend A. What are his ultimate limits? 14 God new times from him.
#44 Thomas Jordet Larsen is certainly no slouch either. His 4 place gain includes a few special God times on MMF. 78th to 10th, and 59th to 8th. Top 10 times are notoriously difficult to achieve so it's to his credit that he's so quick here. He must know the secret of the moles.
#77 Christian Wild improves again and successfully shakes off Robert Lee. A 20 place move brings him to overall Legend F, and he got a nice God time on KD lap too! #89 Mickael Smolen is up 2 spots with 2 PRs, whilst #100 Robin Usher re-breaks into the top 100 with 2 PRs on Kalimari Desert.
Outside the top 100, #108 Daniel Lesiak makes up a little bit of ground with 4 spots. Then we have a bit of a gap to the ever improving #161 David Moll. David is up 31 spots this update, and gets himself a rank of King F, with a Leg F time on DKjp as a sign of things to come. #163 Patrick Hewson delivers on his potential and cracks King with a 22 PRs.
#171 Kyle Sheridan also breaks into the King ranks, and simultaneously breaks into the top 200. Up 44 spots this time out, with a Legend F time on LR, a first for his collection. #234 Tom Leonhart sounds like he should be a knight, but he'll have to settled for Elite D at the moment. It's good reward for his 73 place improvement.
#265 Frankie Morgan climbs out of the Pro ranks and reaches Master A, within falling distance of Elite F. He could sneeze, and become Elite at the moment...well, if he turned his head backwards and sneezed and then let momentum...I'm babbling. He's up 64 spots. It's all good. Up 44 spots, and now Elite F is #268 Patrick Ode. He improved all his times to good effect. Lastly in the top 300, #288 Chris Williams moved from Master D to Master B with 8 solid times.
In the 300 to 500 range, #331 Michael Vogt continues to impress, moving from Semi Pro to Pro, and knocking aside 39 people. He has some Elite times, so Elite is certainly in his future. Someone else with Elite times is #364 Ryan Hutcherson. He's up 125 places by simply filling in his timeset a little more. #435 Alexander Walz has started his campaign well. Joining in the 600s, he's up 175 places, Intermediate D to Expert B. Keep up that good progress. Finally, #499 Sebastian Wimmer breaks into the 500 by the skin of his teeth with a nice 140 place move.
#589 Daniel Sampson PR'd 11 times to move from Intermediate C to Intermediate A, and the last mover of the update is #704 Noah Gordon, sending in some Elite times to fill out his Non-Sc timeset a little more.
Shortcut Movement #1 Vincent Tolhuis remained active with some nice PRs on LR, KD and FS, but with no rank changes. #3 Myles Bukrim however, made a nice 16 second cut to his RRd 3lap time, and most important of all improved the FS lap record to 4"94! (5"94!). #6 Greg Ihnatenko was also back with some times on KD and FS.
With KD now being included officially as part of SC AF, some long time absentees also submitted times. #9 Michael Fried sent in a time and moved up 2 places into the top 10. #15 Maurice Fleer was also active with 5 PRs, which moved him closer to #14 Jason Whalls. Meanwhile, #16 Robert Szabo, netted 2 more God times on TT 3lap and CM 3lap. #23 Matthias Rustemeyer gained 2 spots by submitting 2 KD times of his own, whilst #32 Dave Crawford made a surprise return to action with 2 WS times, passing Trystan Pugh in the process.
Up hugely from last time is #63 Noah Gordon. He broke into the top 100, with a 54 place move, which saw him breaking most of his SC times. He's Elite A now and close to overall King. Two Elite A players, #65 Daniel Lesiak and #76 Chris Williams, both moved up a couple of spots with a handful of PRs. #69 Christophe Tremblay however, moved up 18 places with just 6 PRs. Way to make those PRs count!
Then there's a long gap to #235 Ryan Hutcherson, who decided his Non-Sc idea was so good he'd do it in Sc too. He gained 98 places by simply sending in times for tracks he hadn't done yet.
And that's everything. If there are any errors or omissions it's likely because I'm tired and cranky. Please direct all complaints to Darius. :D
Some people say "two thousand and ten", but I don't listen to those people anymore. This will be a news update detailing the winners and losers of January and February. Mostly just the winners though..
New Players Welcome to: #192 David Moll (Elite A) #307 Tom Leonhart (Pro B), #320 (Elite D) #318 Nick Meade (Pro B) #431 Steve Malpusta (Expert A) #492 Alex Jensen (Advanced A), #300 (Elite D) #497 Rick Kwasnik (Advanced A), #304 (Elite D) #570 Daniel Worthen (Intermediate F), #338 (Elite D) #610 Alexander Walz (Intermediate D) #639 Sebastian Wimmer (Apprentice B) #692 Jordan Miller (Beginner D) #707 Piyawat Jinkarn (Beginner F), #403 (Elite D)
Non-Shortcut Movement For those of us who don't like driving into walls repeatedly there was quite a lot of action in January and February. #1 Michael Jongerius started where he left off at the end of 2009 and stamped his authority on both Toad's Turnpike World Records. 2'58"92 (2'28"80) and 59"00 (49"07), are the new times to beat. He also improved his lowly ranked YV lap time of 3rd to 2nd!
#2 Karlo Tomazelli was also in action, taking his MR lap from 4th to 3rd. #3 William Lacey submitted an old LR 3lap time he forgot about, which equalised the AF lost to Karlo.
The big mover in the top 10 though was #5 Vincent Tolhuis, who moved up impressively from 8th to tie Zoran for 5th place. Vincent made 12 Prs, with a nice 3rd place time on BB lap. #5 Zoran Tintor also played and made sure that he didn't fall to 6th. A 4th and 3rd on SL 3lap and lap were his best improvements.
#13 Matthias Rustemeyer played only very infrequently at the start of the year, but with the 2 PRs he got, he moved past Luke Barnard. A nice cut on DK lap, gained him 7 spots. #20 Cooper Lovera also played, bringing his KD lap down significantly 15 spots to #17.
#44 Rune Stubhaug, #48 Thomas Jordet Larsen and #53 Marcos Vinicius Alves all played a small amount, and all gained 1 position on the AF chart. Marcos did enough with his 3 PRs to move from overall Leg C to Leg B.
#58 Daniel Lunczer was our first major mover of the update. He's up a full 21 spots, and improved his rank from Leg F to Leg C. A spree of 31 PRs was capped by God on RRy lap, but his time on BC lap, ranked #35 is arguably the better achievement. #63 Alex Kangas and #66 Christophe Tremblay, both played a little, with Alex moving up a spot, and Christophe moving closer to a bunch of players in front of him. #77 Jeffrey Bonanno joins them in the group of players this update to move 1 spot upwards.
#97 Christian Wild breaks down the door and announces his intentions, passing 63 players, and moving up from King F to King A overall. What I said about that lasso must have been true, because there's that guy again: #99 Robert Lee, storms past 69 players, and achieves a King B rank with an improvement of all 32 of his times.
Outside the top 100, not a lot is happening. It's a bit like that part in a scary movie where the girl has heard a noise, and she's going to investigate. I'm expecting a cat to jump from nowhere. Someone jumping, un-cat-like..more like a person, is #199 Jake Walter. Jake is up from #256 last time out, and has improved from Elite F to Elite B. That's some good work. The top 200 has some famous and decent karters, so you're in good company.
Someone looking to join that company of players is #202 Patryk Choma. Up from #251, he just misses out on a top 200 place, but is perfectly primed to make inroads from here on out. Elite F to Elite B is his reward for his efforts. #215 Kyle Sheridan is moving nicely along. He joins the Elite B crew this update, because the Pro F guys were a bit lame. They wanted to do medieval re-enactments with swords. Kyle was like.."later", and rose 136 places to get away from them. I mean, swords hurt!
#252 Alex Griessing continued his move up. He borrowed a ladder, so he's up 7 places. He reached Elite D, and he can see your house from up there. Another person, with a ladder, and by ladder I mean elevator is #260 David Smyth, who is up 31 spots from last time, and improves from Master F, to Elite F. Breaking into the top 300 is #289 Daniel Pabst. He's moved from Pro to Master, but wants to move onto Elite quickly which is lucky, as master is the easiest rank to move swiftly through. Another person into the top 300 is #291 Chris Williams. Chris also moved from Pro to Master this update and has a nice King D time on LR lap.
#320 Tyler Chambers makes a nice 14 place move from Pro D to Pro B. He has some Elite times, so there's plenty more to come from him. #370 Michael Vogt moves up 12 spots and sits at Semi Pro A. Be careful Michael. Those guys with the swords are up ahead. Hit them with your Elite times. #450 Jonathan Price broke into the top 500 and moved from Advanced C to Expert C. 24 PRs, and an Elite A time on FS lap netted him a nice 72 places.
#480 Joe Sebeny also broke into the top 500, and has a nice Elite C time on FS lap. I think that's a key lap if anyone is looking for some nice points. 67 places Joe made up this time around. Finally, #495 Luke Winter made his claim for top 500, and ultimate glory. Ultimate glory is probably closer to the top 100, but we have some nice bagels down here, so it's not all bad. Luke is up to Advanced A from Advanced C.
Honourable mentions this time out for: #562 Zack Weber (who, for the 3rd update in a row rose a significant number of places, 51 this time!), and #596 Daniel Sampson (Again, consistently moving up)
Shortcut Movement For those of us who *do* like slamming into walls, or more accurately, bumping off them and jumping over magically (just like in real life), there was a lot of activity in the first 2 months. Both #1 Vincent Tolhuis and #2 Karlo Tomazelli were playing for WRs. Karlo got the upper hand on KD 3lap, nabbing a 1'43"60 (2'04"57) to VAJ's 2'04"71 (1'43"72). VAJ hit back on MR 3lap, getting a nice 1'01"13 (50"84) to Karlo's 50"98 (1'01"30). Karlo also took CM lap down to 17"63 (21"20), whilst VAJ got a nice 2nd place lap time on MR of 18"65 (15"51).
Outside that battle, #4 Zoran Tintor made great gains, and moved up from 8th spot in the previous update with 6 new God times, on LR 3lap, MR 3lap, and both on RRy and DKjp. Zoran is up to Leg + now in SC. #Robert Szabo continued his run of form, with 5 PRs, pushing him to Legend B, and nabbed another God time on CM lap. #17 Matthew Little gets some God times of his own on FS lap and CM lap, and moves up 4 places. Leg C to Leg B for him.
#23 Daniel Lunczer, who was a relative newbie a few months ago, glides effortlessly into the top 25 from #42. King B to Leg D, with 3 new God times on LR lap, and both RRd ones. A 6th place time on DK lap shows his potential. #25 Matthias Rustemeyer flexes his SC muscles again, moving up a rank to Legend D, and netting 3 new God times on LR lap, TT 3lap and MR lap.
Unexpectedly, #53 Michael Jongerius submits a lot of new SC times, and the karting world breathes a sigh of relief to find out that there are still some WRs he doesn't have. Still, he has 7 new God times, from nowhere, so he may yet be a threat to the stop SCers in future. #78 Chris Williams follows up his nice Non-SC movement with some SC movement. Up to Elite A and a 7 place gain. #87 Christophe Tremblay gains 4 places with just 1 PR, bringing his WS lap to King F. Rounding out the top 100, #92 Robert Lee, replicates his NonSc feat with a 60 place move into the top 100 and an Elite B rank.
Outside the top 100, there's some nice movement from #109 Alex Griessing. He's up from #162, which shows the power of submitting a full set of times. #111 Jake Walter, is up 4 places with some nice PRs. #117 Noah Gordon sends in 13 new PRs to fill out his own timeset, and is another to reap the benefits. He's up from #159. Lastly, #138 David Smyth follows the example of those around him, and sets a time on those tracks he hasn't yet, improving from Elite D to Elite C.
Good karting all round for the first 2 months. Keep up the good work!
This will cover November and December of 2009. It'll cover it with some sort of blanket. Then we can use it along with some other furniture to make a fort! The end of the year is always a busy time for kart, as people decide they have to push to achieve the goals they set themselves 12 months ago, and it can also be of great interest to anyone pushing for the vaunted Player of the Year award. So let's get to it!
New Players Welcome to: #79 Daniel Lunczer (Leg F), #42 (King B) #204 Jerry Fischer (Elite B) #256 Jake Walter (Elite F), #115 (Elite C) #291 David Smyth (Master F), #189 (Elite D) #309 Patrick Ode (Pro B) #351 Kyle Sheridan (Pro F), #283 (Elite D) #382 Michael Vogt (Semi Pro C), #294 (Elite D) #499 Thomas Bye (Intermediate A), #301 (Elite D) #510 Will Lietz (Advanced C) #538 Alan Tilbury (Advanced D) #664 Ting Xuan Wu (Apprentice F) #709 Noah Gordon (Newbie D), #159 (Elite C)
Non-Shortcut Movement #1 Michael Jongerius, decided to play some Mario Raceway, and improved both his 3lap and lap times. Although not improving his own rank, it broke the tie with Matthias' for #3. Having practiced MR flap with Michael at Sami's house, #3 William Lacey , also improved his lap time, but not his rank.
The big mover at the end of 2009 was definitely #5 Zoran Tintor. With a grand total of 20 PRs, averaging almost 9 spots gains each, Zoran passed 7 players to break into the top 10, and the top 5. The highlight of this run wasn't the LR 3lap God that he finally managed to break, but his new World Record on Banshee Boardwalk lap of 40"98 (34"08)!
#8 Vincent Tolhuis improved 3 of his times into the top 10, but lost out to the massively improving Tintor. #14 Matthias Rustemeyer, on a high from becoming God, continued his excellent progress with an AF cut almost as large as Zoran's. A 32% cut, 23 Prs, and a 7 place gain saw Matthias pass a lot of legendary players. The highlight was a 5th place time on BC 3lap.
#32 Matt Vanderwouw slowed a bit near the end of the year. Just 8 PRs was enough to push him ahead of Jonathan Bernier. Meanwhile, #42 Robert Szabo did enough to push his overall rank to Legend A, with God time on KD flap. #45 Rune Stubhaug was back in action, moving ever closer to Legend A with a 5 place move, picking up both God time on MMF, and one on RRy lap and DK lap.
#49 Thomas Jordet Larsen ended the year with a great many PRs. He improved nearly all of his times to rise 23 places, and move from Legend D to Legend B. God times on LR lap, KTB lap, MR 3lap, SL 3lap and RRy lap were the highlights of a nice set of times. Outside the top 50 we have #66 Christophe Tremblay. Christophe passed 8 players and moved from Legend F to Legend D. A 28"71 (23"88) on MMF lap, gave him the God there. #76 Nicola Torre moved up 4 places with a nice God on LR lap. #77 Jeffrey Bonanno made a nice run to Legend, passing 14 players and PRing 27 times.
#91 Mickael Smolen made his grand entrance into the realms of the top 100 with a strong 10 place move, and a rank change from King B to King A. Only one more left before Legend. #160 Christian Wild, PR'd like a wild man. Improving all his times was his first achievement. Getting an AF cut of almost 50% was his 2nd. Passing 144 players was jaw-dropping. A top 50 time on MR lap, and moving from Pro B to King F was the icing on the cake. Great job Christian! Now I want cake...mmmm.
Then we get to #168 Robert Lee. Robert must have thrown a lasso over Christian, because he did exactly the same thing. 32 PRs, 153 players passed. Almost 50% AF cut, and moved from Pro D to King F. Fantastic stuff. I think I'll have ice cream too. Updating can be hungry work!
Further down the list we get to #223 Lenny Gutierrez. He's our 3rd player to improve all his times and make great progress. 127 places gained, and Elite C overall! Awesome. Lastly in the top 250 we have #248 Cassen Herrmann. He didn't like being Advanced F or ranked #524 in the world, so he decided to pass an astounding 276 people on his journey to Elite D.
#259 Alex Griessing put in a solid effort to get his rank up to Elite F, from Pro C. It's a long climb from here Alex, but worth it! #286 Marcus Whitley took great advantage of the holiday season too. Netting 195 places, and finishing at Master B, within striking distance of Elite. Rounding out the top 500 we have #441 Dave Muilenburg, who is making nice upwardly movements, passing 29 players, and #446 Jonathan Price, who breaks into the top 500 with some style. 24 PRs gets him a 66 place gain.
Honourable mentions this update to: #558 Daniel Crutcher, #579 Bjoern Jordet, #611 Zack Weber, #615 Daniel Sampson and #641 Kevin Pillinger, who all made great cuts on their way to the promised land of the 500.
Sc Movement Shortcut action was turned up a notch at the end of 2009. The top 3 were all in action. #1 Vincent Tolhuis finished the year with a few of World Records. He finished with a 5"98 (4"97) on FS lap, and 4"15 (3"45) on DK lap. #2 Karlo Tomazelli isn't afraid of putting in some hard work though, and hit a nice 4"97 (5"98) on FS lap to tie the WR. #3 Myles Bukrim played a little and improved his FS lap time to 4"99. and took his MR 3lap time down a little. #8 Zoran Tintor was the last of the top 10 to improve, improving his LR lap and TT lap times. The latter secured another God time for his collection, and a nice 4th place time.
The end of the year was good to #16 Robert Szabo. He moved up 3 places on the SC list, with 4 PRs on FS,MR WS and TV. They were enough to push him past Bernier, Wingert and Bertovich.
#91 Christophe Tremblay broke into the top 100, and imrpoved his overall rank to Elite B as he further completed his SC set of times. #152 Robert Lee also decided to try his hand at SC, bringing his rank to Elite C. A nice King C time on LR lap was his best. #168 Alex Griessing moved up 18 places, and hit the CM SC for the first time. #180 Daniel Crutcher improved to Elite C with 6 PRs. #261 Daniel Sampson starts his SC career with some Elite D entry times, and #262 Cassen Herrmann does the same.
Lastly, Michael Jongerius of robot fame, struck once more. This time on TT lap. His time of 34"73 (28"88), once again stole the WR on this track. All our base, and our TT records, are belong to him.
Sometimes you wanna get something done, you gotta do it yourself. This is going to be a news update to cover what happened during September and October 2009.
Before I start, I just want to clear up that Darius accidentally updated the SC news for the whole of August - December in his previous news update, so if people notice they've suddenly lost ranks in September and October, it's because you didn't have them yet! ;)
I'm not a permanent replacement for Darius, but whilst he's away, the page needs to be updated. I'm also not going to adopt the same style, so no complaining about that, or I'll delete your times, and then come around to your house and shake my fist, and then go to get some ice cream. I really like ice cream.
New Members Welcome to: #304 Christian Wild (Pro B) #321 Robert Lee (Pro D) #350 Lenny Gutierrez (Semi-Pro A) #492 Matt Stankey (Adv B) #510 Dane Kerwin (Adv C) #523 Luke Winter (Adv C) #524 Cassen Hermann (Adv A) #614 Bryan Von Dohlen (Exp B) #622 Bjoern Jordet (Int F) #647 David Fleming (App F) #659 Kevin Pillinger (Beg B)
Non-Sc Movement They say (the people who know these things), that it's really hard to talk about yourself in the 3rd person, so it's funny that I have to do that straight away. So first up, #3 William Lacey went on a mission, and passed Marcelo with an AF cut of 0.66, with some strong 2nd place times on YV flap and BB flap. He also cut the gap in AF to 2nd place Karlo to just 0.2. That was nothing compared to the big news of the month with the arrival of our newest God, #21 Matthias Rustemeyer. Matthias nailed the final remaining God times on LR, TT, FS, CM, MR and WS, and moved up 5 places on the AF chart too. His MR flap of 27"79 netted him an impressive 3rd place time on that track. Congratulations to him! Reaching God is one of the hardest and most rewarding accomplishments in the game.
Next up is #27 Myles Bukrim who passed 2 players with 5 nice PRs, including a God time on DK 3lap. #30 Finn Berger made some steady progress, netting a God time on FS lap, and Leg A on the 3lap. #33 Matt Vanderwouw continued to Vanderwow us, with a 13 place jump, a move from Leg B to Leg A overall, PRing pretty much everywhere.
Next of the big movers is #72 Thomas Jordet Larsen. Thomas didn't just reach legend in this update, but he went a step further, moving from King A to Legend D, and passing 17 players on along the way. Just behind him #74 Christophe Tremblay completed his timeset bringing him from King C to Legend F. A God time on MMF 3lap was the highlight of an impressive set of improvements.
Just outside the top 100 sits #101 Mickael Smolen. He sits there planning and plotting, and concocting poisons with which to kill us all! In his spare time he also plays some kart. This gave him a nice improvement of 29 places and a move from King D to King B. A 32"04 (26"64) God time on YF flap indicates that he is far from his overall potential.
Further down the list is #166 Patrick Hewson. He's at the top of the Elite pile, banging on the door of the King's castle. It's night time though, and there's nobody around. A 10 place move this update hints that he won't be Elite for too much longer. A person shadowing Patrick's every move appears to be #169 Ryan Trovillion. He also made a 10 place move but managed to sneak into the castle before the doors shut. He moves up to King F with 18 PRs, and a nice Legend time on FS 3lap.
#245 Patryk Choma is wasting no time at all. He decided passing 10 or 20 people wasn't enough, so overtook a full 101 people. His Pro F rank rapidly turned into an Elite F one. Good job! #294 Chris Williams also wants in on the action, and traded his Semi-Pro B rank in for a Pro A one. 31 PRs and 64 places gained is all in a day's work. #374 Alvaro Fababu made up 15 places, with 12 PRs and a lot of heart. #405 Chuck Foster made up 27 places, with 10 PRs and a lot of guts. Whilst, #435 Jonathan Price made up an impressive 71 places with 24 PRs, and..well..a lot of PRs! Rounding out the top 500 is #447 Tyler Wishall, who improved his rank from Advanced to Expert, and passed 28 people along the way. Honourable mentions to: #506 Patrick Autenrieth, #574 Stephen Hall, #656 Nicola Strogieri and #658 Zack Weber, who all picked up some points this update.
Sc Movement The top of the SC ranks were quiet over these 2 months. #3 Myles Bukrim improved his 3rd place DK flap time a little, and #19 Robert Szabo hit a nice 28"50 (34"27) on YV 3lap to move up 11 spots on that chart. #84 Chris Williams was the highest person to make any big moves though. And with 13 improvements he cut 20% off his AF to pass 34 people. #139 Christophe Tremblay also decided to fill out his SC times a little, since he was filling in his Non-Sc side anyway. A rank of Elite C is a nice way to start.
Then out of nowhere, Michael Jongerius, the Non-Sc Champ, decides to submit a time of 1'49"37 (1'30"96), on TT 3lap, which smashes the previous World Record on this track. The guy can do anything.
That's all for now. See you next time! (Sooner than you can possibly imagine)
Hello and Happy New Year to all, these are the POW awards for the first month of the year...
Week 1 Zoran Tintor claims award number one with a massive 15% AF cut bringing his AF down into single digits and cementing 5th spot overall
Week 2 Not to be outdone, Vincent Tolhuis slices almost one AF point this week and also moves into single digit AF territory.
Week 3 Christophe Tremblay decided to have a pr streak this week, easily earning him this POW.
Week 4 Lots of small movements, but Daniel Lunczer made some nice cuts in both non shortcut and shortcut, an AF cut of ~5 in each
POM Good amounts of activity all round, with many players having good bursts. However, only one person showed good form throughout the whole month, and so the POM goes to Daniel Lunczer, with a 30% AF cut in non shortcut and 27% in shortcut, so a great month over both disciplines.
Join me throughout Feb as the POW awards return to primetime....
Hello again, kart fans. As you may of noticed, there's plenty of catching up to do, so let's see who was in action in the second half of 2009, starting with August.
World no. 4 William Lacey cut a quarter of an AF point at the top of the charts to move within 0.2 AF of Marcelo Almeida dos Reis. Vincent Tolhuis made a nice improvement of almost a point but he remained in 7th, closing the gap to Trystan Pugh. German champion Matthias Rustemeyer moved up yet another place, passing Mike Simmons for 26th while a few places behind him, Finn Berger turtled his way closer to Myles Bukrim with a small improvement. Matt Vanderwouw continued his excellent progress by climbing another 4 places into 46th, keeping him ahead of Rune Stubhaug, who broke into the top 50 with a 9--place, 8.7 AF improvement. Vincent Zee was the next player to make a cut, up 2 places into 81st, not far ahead of a trio of impressive cuts: Thomas Jordet Larsen, still flying up the charts with a 33-place leap into 89th; Jeffrey Bonanno, following up his excellent July with a 27 AF cut to move into 90th; and Glen Stevens, also breaking into the top 100 at 91 with his 18 place rise.
Over on SC, 3 of the top 10 all made a 0.05 improvement: no.1, Vincent Tolhuis, no.3, Greg Ihnatenko, and no. 8, Zoran Tintor. All three remained in the same place despite these cuts. Someone who did move was Robert Szabo, up 3 places into 18th with a nice 2.65 cut, dropping Matthew into 21st even though Matthew made some small cuts of his own. Special mention should go to Daniel Lunczer, who achieved the impressive feat of joining the SC charts at 42! Patrick Hewson held off compatriot Chris Williams, clinging on to 84th as Chris made a 25 AF cut to leap into 85th. Christophe Tremblay went up 19 into 91st and Glen Stevens went past 12 players with a cut of just 4, reaching 149th. Alex Griessing and Daniel Crutcher both made similar moves, Alex up 23 into 162 and Daniel up 25 into 180. Tyler Wishall illustrated just how tight the lower regions of the SC charts are by passing 34 players with his AF cut of less than 5, putting him into 229th. Alvaro Fababu made an even better job of that, passing an incredible 95 players with an AF cut of just 6.55!
Outside the top 100, Thomas van Leeuwen held onto 106th with a small improvement. Michael Tunzi passed a tightly-packed group of 21 players to reach 119th. That group included George Dimitriou, who passed 6 of them himself to reach 123rd. The most impressive cut of the month came from Mickael Smolen, who slashed an incredible 176.8 from his AF, rocketing past 162 players into 130th. Pat Bertovich dropped a place into 140th despite a small improvement thanks to Mickael's efforts. Patrick Hewson and Ryan Trovillion were the next movers, Patrick up 16 into 176th and Ryan closing in behind him with a great 33 AF cut, landing him in 179th. Fabio Sacco's excellent 70-place jump moved the Italian up into 251st, overshadowing Jed Grabman's 37-place rise into 258th. Patrick Gustie got passed by both of them and only moved up 2 places into 261st despite his 4.4 cut. Patrick was clearly a popular name for movers in August as another, Patrick Gowey, went up 23 places into 321st. Finally, there were over 100 players until the next active karter, Chuck Foster, who went up 27 into 432nd.
New players for August, including two more Patricks (or Patryks)!:
Greetings fellow Karters, I am George Dimitriou, and i will be looking after the Player of the Week Awards from here on in. We have a full year to get through, so lets get cracking with the awards for January...
Week 1 The first award of the year went to Mat Abernethy for a nice AF cut of 22 and moving up to Elite B
Week 2 In week 2 John Santamaria was active for 5 of the 7 days, and moved into the top 40 nonsc, earning him the POW for this week.
Week 3 In an otherwise quiet week Rune Stubhaug was everywhere, gaining 52 places with a 41 AF cut, and moving into the top 100.
Week 4 Plenty of activity this week, but Matt Vanderwouw was best performed, jumping up 26 spots to 92.
POM Two standouts this month, with Rune Stubhaug and Matt Vanderwouw both entering the top 100 after starting outside the top 150. However after joining in the first week of the year behind Matt, and finishing ahead of him, the first POM goes to Rune Stubhaug.
That's all for January folks, more to come over the coming weeks.
