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.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
- News Update - July, the 2009 World Record Festival! -
Hello, kart fans, and welcome to another news update, or as it's known for July, the 2009 World Record Festival! After William Lacey's 2 WS WRs last month, the world's best MK64 players reeled off a string of world records over a matter of days. Let's find out about them all as well as the rest of the action from July...
You didn't really think that world champion Michael Jongerius would let one of his records stay beaten, did you? After Lacey's 4'23"12 on WS 3lap last month, MJ hit back by over a tenth, bringing the WR down to 4'23"00 (3'38"73 NTSC), finishing the WR off with a final lap of 1'27"44! Lacey must have known that MJ would respond and improved his flap slightly, down 0"02 to 1'26"87 (1'12"25 NTSC). It was a good thing, because MJ went after the flap too...and tied Lacey's time! We now have two tied non-SC WRs, as MJ remains tied with Troy Ullman on RRy 3lap. Alongside this activity, Lacey continued to close in on Marcelo Almeida dos Reis, making improvements to his RRd, YV and TT times. These brought him an excellent AF cut of 0.812, moving him to within half an AF point of Marcelo. Meanwhile, MJ consolidated his position at the top of the charts, slightly improving his lead over Karlo Tomazelli.
The Lacey-Jongerius battle wasn't the only WR contest going on in July. Maurice Fleer's MR SC 3lap of 1'01"49 kicked off the WR spree for the month, giving Maurice his first ever WR! Following that up, SC legend Myles Bukrim made his own contribution to the WR fest and made sure that NTSC players were represented with a new RRy SC flap WR of 31"16 (37"47 PAL)! SC world champion Vincent Tolhuis didn't take kindly to this attack by Maurice and Myles, so he hit back to defend his WR on RRy with a fantastic 37"43 (31"13 NTSC) and did the same on MR 3lap with his 1'01"43, taking that sole WR away from Maurice! Determined not to be beaten, Maurice hit back with a phenomenal 1'01"26 (50"95 NTSC), smashing VAJ's response and getting himself back on the WR page. Undeterred, VAJ also nailed an impressive PAL WR on LR SC flap of 26"26, putting him second there overall, behind Steven Gutierrez. Myles also missed out on tying the FS SC flap WR by just 0"01 as he drove an excrutiatingly close 5"02. Naturally, all this action had an impact on the top of the SC charts, with VAJ dropping his AF by 0.2 to improve his lead over Karlo and cement the Dutch dominance of both non-SC and SC. Myles got himself to just 0.05 behind Greg Ihnatenko in 3rd and Maurice closed the gap to Kevin Booth with his 0.750 cut, remaining in 15th.
World records weren't the only talking point: activity went crazy in July in general. After some quiet months, SC players struck back in style and the top of the chart was full of players on the move. Zoran Tintor made an excellent cut of 1.450, bringing the gap between himself and Alex Penev in 8th down to less than 1.5 AF. as Brent Wingert passed Thomas Grandjean for 18th and Matthew Little improved his AF slightly in 20th. Robert Szabo had a great AF cut of over 4 to pass both Ryan Duescher and the Godfather of SMK, Sami Cetin, getting him into 21st. Matthias Rustemeyer had yet another awesome month, slashing nearly 9 from his AF and passing 7 players to 25th. George Dimitriou took 41st from Marcos Vinicius Alves and Patrick Hewson passed a big cluster of players with his cut of just over 2, up 7 into 83rd. Christophe Tremblay and Chris Williams both made similar improvements to shoot up the charts, Christophe up 26 into 110th and Chris up 29 into 119th.
Zoran also made a big impact back on non-SC, where he passed GOD Luke Barnard for 12th place, with Sami his next target. Matthias improved on both sides of the charts too and although he didn't move up any places, he did close right up to Mike Simmons' 26th spot. Myles' AF dropped slightly but he sneaked past Josh Layne into 28th with a small improvement. Josh will soon come under threat from the man in 30th, Finn Berger, who cut 0.6 AF to widen the gap between himself and Tim Everett as well as knocking off three more ARR points. Mat Abernethy saw his 5 place climb into 55th overshadowed by Matt Vanderwouw, who pulled off a terrific 18 AF, 16 place improvement to leapfrog Mat and land in the top 50 at 50th. Alex Kangas dropped a place into 63rd as a result despite some cuts of his own but Brent went up two places into 67th with a cut a quarter of the size of Alex's. Christophe had an excellent month on both sides of the charts, breaking into the top 100 comfortably by jumping 20 places into 84th. Cole Gilbert went up 1 into 97th and Thomas van Leeuwen made a big leap, flying up 46 places into 106th.
Impressive activity just kept on coming in July as Jeffrey Bonnano overtook 30 players to claim 118th, while behind him Thomas Jordet Larsen, after joining last month, made a superb 58 AF cut to reach 122nd, a 56 place improvement! Patrick Hewson moved up 7 places into 192nd and Aidan Foyel squeezed into the top 200 at 200 with his 20 place, 19 AF cut. Alex Griessing had an excellent 78 AF cut to help him past 83 players into 305th and Chris was yet another player improving on both sides of the charts with a very nice 43 place jump into 355th. Jean-Baptiste Tremblay claimed the biggest move of the month with an awesome 104.688 AF cut, smashing not only the top 500 barrier but also the top 400 barrier at 389! Chuck Foster's cut wasn’t too shabby either: nearly 73 AF and a 94 place jump into 459th. Robert Auray went up 15 places into 541st, Bradley Jordan hopped 27 players to reach 576th and finally Simon Theodor made a handy 36 AF cut to reach 606th.
And after all that, we still had a bunch of new players! Here they all are:
Colby Childress - 259 - Master A Bart Natoli - 616 - Apprentice C - 371 SC Daniel Crutcher - 625 - Beginner A - 205 SC Kevin Levesque - 659 - Beginner F Chante Smith - 677 - Newbie B
And one non-SC player joining SC:
Bradley Jordan - 359 SC
And that's just about all the action for a jam-packed July update. I hope you enjoyed the 2009 World Record Festival, join us again next time for more exciting kart action!
Hello kart fans, it's time for some long-awaited updates. We'll get started with June...
World number four William Lacey drove two more impressive world records, claiming both WS 3lap and WS flap with times of 4'23"12 and 1'26"89! Lacey also inched closer to breaking the long-standing triumvirate of MJ, Karlo and Marcelo with a 0.2 AF cut, dropping the gap to Marcelo to under 1.5. Matthias Rustemeyer continued to demonstrate his phenomenal skills by passing two more big names, Myles Bukrim and Josh Layne, to reach 27th. Finn Berger stayed in 30th with his small cuts but moved a little closer to passing Myles himself.
Over on SC, Myles got himself very close to passing Greg Ihnatenko back with his quarter of a point cut. Myles needs another quarter to tie Greg for third. Brent Wingert stayed in 19th with his 0.45 cut, closing in on Thomas Grandjean. Christophe Tremblay continued his progress from May by passing 35 more players, moving up to 136th. Olivier Aeby flew past 79 players with his 30 AF cut, reaching 153rd, and Glen Stevens climbed 39 places into 160th.
Back on non-SC, the next big group of activity came between 60th and 70th, where 5 players were in action. Matt Abernethy bridged a gap with his 7 AF cut which meant that although he only passed 3 players, he's right in the mix to pass a cluster of 6 more players separated by only 3 AF. Alex Kangas added to his incredible progress from last month by passing another 10 players for 62nd with a 12.5 AF cut. Craig Makepeace was unfortunate to drop a place to 65th despite some cuts, due to the progress of players around him. He may soon get passed by Matt Vanderwouw, who closed right up behind him in 66th with a 7 place rise. Brent also suffered from the progress of the others in this group, dropping 2 places to 69th even though he made some small cuts of his own.
Outside the top 100, Christophe Tremblay's jump of 12 places into 104th was overshadowed by Glen Stevens' astronomical cut of 258 AF! That's right, two hundred and fifty-eight. Glen passed 246 players with that cut to move from 355th into 109th in a single month. Thomas van Leeuwen had a very nice cut of nearly 52 to leap past 37 players into 152nd. Special mention must go to Thomas Jordet Larsen, joining at an excellent 178th. There was a large gap to the next mover, Pete Robinson, who moved up into 265th with his AF cut of 6, with an even larger gap to the next, Alvaro Fababu. He surged past 43 players, making a 35 AF cut to reach 385th. Again, we have to go way down to find the next movers, who were Tim Stoll, up 1 into 516th, and Jean-Baptiste Tremblay, climbing 47 places into 518th. Finally, Chuck Foster's cut of exactly 20 moved him past 20 people into 553rd, including Robert Auray, who went up 8 places into 556th.
New players: Thomas Jordet Larsen - 178 - Elite A Alex Griessing - 388 - Expert C - 185 SC Bradley Jasonn - 573 - Intermediate D - 369 SC Bradley Jordan - 603 - Apprentice A Dan LaShomb - 698 - Newbie D
And one shortcut joiner from non-SC:
Robert Auray - 395
That's all for June; July will follow very shortly!
Hello kart fans, and welcome to another news update! Loads of action to get through and we're kicking off with May...
Zoran Tintor edged closer to the top 10 with an 0.4 AF cut. He remained in 13th but closed the gap to Luke Barnard. Matthias Rustemeyer broke the tie with Finn Berger for 29th with his 1.5 cut. Matt Abernethy continued his awesome progress by blasting his way into the Legend ranks, making a 22 AF cut to reach 61st. Alex Kangas had a superb month, cutting an incredible 68 AF to fly up 74 places into 72nd and also become a Legend! Matt Vanderwouw's improvement was limited to 3 places by Alex as he climbed to 73rd.
Shortcut action was very low in May as the first active player was Christophe Tremblay, who rose into 171st with his 12 AF, 26 place improvement. The only other move was Tim Stoll's cut of 3, enough to move him up 15 places in the congested lower ranks.
Back on non-SC, special mention must be made of Jeffrey Bonanno, joining the site at an impressive 147th. Thomas van Leeuwen's 27 point cut saw him break into the top 200, moving up 29 places into 189th. New member Thomas Larsen made a phenomenal improvement with a gargantuan 197 AF cut, moving him up 198 places into 218th! Incredibly, Thomas also improved his ARR by nearly 18 points to become Elite C. Scott Burtis made some small improvements to help him keep 241st whilst Joseph Carpenter moved into the top 300 with a nice 37 place rise. Just behind him, Matt Gingery cut 22.5 from his AF to reach 283rd and Daniel Pabst went up 14 places into 285th with his cut of almost 16.
Patrick Gowey's 29 AF cut only moved him up 20 places into 341st due to an unusually large AF gap. Arturo Campano went up 45 places with his 37 point cut, reaching 363rd. Wesley Holbrook chopped 20 from his AF and passed 32 players, ending the month in 434th. Tim Stoll slipped down a place but limited the damage with some small PRs to drop into 517th. Finally, Steven Hall went up two places into 578th despite his AF getting slightly worse.
6 new players for May:
Jeffrey Bonanno - 147 - King D Lucas Fuentes - 287 - Pro A Jonathan Price - 427 - Expert C - 382 SC Robert Auray - 564 - Intermediate B Jean-Baptiste Tremblay - 565 - Intermediate C Chuck Foster - 572 - Intermediate C
And that's all for May! Join me again soon for all of June's action...
Hello again, kart fans, and welcome to another news update! This time we'll be going through all the action from April, so let's get right to it and see who's been shrooming their way up the charts...
No movement right at the top in April, but there was some from a player who might be there before long. Matthias Rustemeyer continued his quest to be mentioned in every news update of 2009 with his 4.2 AF cut, moving him up two places and tying Finn Berger for 29th. Matthias also achieved a very impressive ARR improvement of nearly 0.6, making him reach Legend +! Finn managed to hold his AF at exactly the same level with further improvements on CM, where he picked up his 18th GOD and also brought himself to Legend + overall! Marcos Vincius Alves made some small cuts to move up a place onto the brink of the top 50 at 51 while Rune Stubhaug, after a quiet March, continued to show his potential with a great 12.4 AF cut, sending him up 10 places into 57th. Matt Vanderwouw got himself to Legend F and 76th with a nice 9 place climb and Mat Abernethy put himself right on the edge of the Legend ranks, only needing one more ARR point to get in. He moved up 12 places into 85th.
Things were fairly quiet over on SC and once again it was Pat Bertovich who was the highest-ranked active player, cutting 0.15 from his AF but staying in 17th. Matthias also stayed where he was in 32nd with an 0.7 cut. After joining last month, Jonas Edlund made some impressive progress with a 22.3 cut to jump 29 places into 75th. Glen Stevens in 200th was the last mover, taking advantage of the highly clustered lower ranks of the SC charts to move 59 places with a cut of just under 14!
Back on non-SC, George Dimitriou was on the move again, passing 3 players for 124th. Michael Tunzi made some excellent progress, slashing almost 35 from his AF to climb 30 places into 134th. Alex Kangas went up 6 into 146th while Tianyi Liu carried on his progress from March with a 22 place rise into 178th. Eric Tapani's AF actually fell but some small PRs meant he breaks into the top 200 this time around, up one place from 201. Ryan Trovillion and Aidan Foyel both got closer to that top 200, Ryan up 7 places into 208th and Aidan reaching 216th with a nice 30 AF cut, passing 28 players. Patrick Gustie had a good month, overtaking 19 players to move into 259th while Pete Robinson continued his steady progress, up another 5 places into 268th. Daniel Pabst broke into the top 300 at 299 with his 14 place jump, cutting 11 AF.
Matt Gingery had a similar cut to Daniel, moving up 15 places into 306th. Joseph Carpenter had an even better month than he did in March, leaping past 45 players with his cut of nearly 49 to reach 315th. However, cut of the month definitely goes to new player Glen Stevens. After joining in March, Glen made an awesome cut of 116 AF and flew past 145 players, landing in 352nd! Patrick Gowey's great cut was dwarfed by comparison as he cut 60 AF and passed 76 players for 361st. Finally, Alvaro Fababu made some small cuts to move up two places into 426th and Kristopher Lamp did the same for 532nd.
Another 6 new players joined us in April:
Thomas Larsen - 416 - Expert B Jonathan Price - 425 - Expert C - 382 SC Anthony Menta - 473 - Advanced C Brian Kress - 569 - Intermediate D Sean Munger - 645 - Beginner C Zack Weber - 658 - Beginner D
And another non-SC player joining SC:
Pete Robinson - 313 SC
And that's all for April! Join me again soon to find out who's been karting in May...
Hello, kart fans! Welcome to another MK64 news update. I'm your host, Darius Austin, and there's plenty to get through, so let's get right to it. We're starting off with all the action from March...
Up at the top of the non-shortcut charts, 7th-placed Vincent Tolhuis continued his quest to bridge the gap between himself and Jeffrey Gutierrez and Trystan Pugh. VAJ cut 0.625 from his AF but still needs almost 2.5 more to reach that pair. Next on the move was the worst GOD ever, Cooper Lovera. He cut nearly a point from his AF to tie Tuomas Dunkel for 19th. Finn Berger remained in 29th, turtling another few places up the charts on CM as kart phenomenon Matthias Rustemeyer bears down on him. Matthias continued his seemingly endless progress and went up another two places into 31st, passing Jonathan Bernier and the man who claims he is better than Michael Jongerius, Glyn Valentine. Marcos Vincius Alves closed in on the top 50 but remained in 52nd with his 0.7 cut.
Over on SC it was Pat Bertovich carrying his excellent progress in 2009 through into March. Pat cut another point from his AF to pass Thomas Grandjean for 17th. Not too far behind, Robert Szabo closed in on Sami Cetin in 22nd with a small cut. The next name should be familiar to you all; that's right, Matthias was on the move here too, up another place into 32nd. George Dimitriou had a terrific month, cutting almost 9 from his AF to move up 8 places into 42nd. Eric Tapani passed 11 people to reach 112th, while Corey Thompson actually managed to rise 9 places into 270th despite his AF getting worse!
Over on non-SC, Brent Wingert continued his progress from February, moving past 5 players into 65th. My arch-nemesis Robin Usher made a very small cut that didn't get him anywhere near me or move him up any places, so he stayed in 91st. Mat Abernethy carried on his terrific improvement, moving up 22 places with an AF cut of nearly 20 and entering the top 100 at 97. Willem Pieters made a nice 11 point cut to move into 119th while shortcut movers George and Pat were also in action here, each up 8 places into 127th and 134th respectively. Michael Tunzi matched that 8-place jump, up into 164th, while Kevin Cook went up 3 into 171st. Tianyi Liu just broke into the top 200, jumping exactly into that 200th spot with a 9 place cut and denying Eric Tapani the chance of getting into the top 200 himself as Eric moved up 3 into 201st.
Ryan Trovillion could only move up 4 places into 215th despite his 11.5 AF cut due to a rather large gap in the rankings, but his next cut like that should take him into the top 200. Austin Gates and Aidan Foyel both made decent cuts of a similar size and moved up 15 and 17 places, Austin jumping into 230th with Aidan reaching 244th. Corey Thompson had a terrific month, flying up the charts into 256th with a 79 place, 74 AF cut but Mickael Smolen topped even that, roaring into 284th with his 91 AF cut that saw him pass 98 players! In between the two, Pete Robinson continued his more steady progress with a 7 place climb into 273rd.
Matt Gingery was another player with a sizeable cut, leaping 68 places up the charts into 321st. Oyvind Lokken went past 7 into 347th while Joseph Carpenter took advantage of some fairly clustered players to jump 42 players into 360th with a cut of 26. Nicholas Hindes passed 11 of that group with his 6 place climb into 364th. Finally, Wesley Holbrook broke into the top 500 with some conviction, moving up 38 places into 464th.
It's excellent to see a whole load of new players for March, including an impressive joining position of 205th for Derek Rogers:
Derek Rogers - 205 - Elite B Jonathan Price - 422 - Expert C - 381 SC Glen Stevens - 497 - Intermediate C - 259 SC David Ciura - 513 - Intermediate B - 229 SC Alex Griessing - 515 - Intermediate C - 235 SC Pat Trompke - 516 - Advanced D Stephen Hall - 578 - Apprentice A - 332 SC Jonas Edlund - 596 - Apprentice B - 104 SC Steven Ainsworth - 609 - Apprentice D - 321 SC
And one non-SC player joining shortcut:
Kevin Cook - 316 SC
And that's all for this update! Join me again for all of April's action...
Hello again, kart fans. Apologies for being behind on the updates; coming up is a summary of February's action, and March will follow shortly.
There was big movement in the top 10 from two players: William Lacey and Vincent Tolhuis. Lacey is currently still in the gap between Marcelo Almeida dos Reis in third and Trystan Pugh in fifth but he did take a massive step towards catching Marcelo with an impressive 1.6 AF cut, improving his AF to just over 6. VAJ finally entered the top 10 in style with a 2.25 AF cut, moving himself up past 4 players into 7th and pushing past champion Sami Cetin outside the top 10. Zoran Tintor made a tiny improvement but stayed in 13th as Greg Ihnatenko moved to the brink of the top 20, passing 3 players to reach 21st. Impressively, Matthias Rustemeyer continued his phenomenal progress, making an AF cut of 9 to move up 12 places into 33rd and take the title of German Champion from Willi Rossberg! Jean-Francois Dubreuil was pushed down into 36th as a result despite making an 0.7 cut.
At the top of the shortcut charts, Greg and fellow shortcut legend Myles Bukrim were both in action. Greg improved his time on TT 3lap to get him up to 4th there while Myles made a superb WR tie on YV flap of 5'78! Each man improved 0.1 AF points and stays in 3rd and 4th respectively. Pat Bertovich continued his great start to 2009 with a further 2.3 AF cut, moving himself up another place into 18th and pushing down Brent Wingert, despite Brent making some small cuts of his own. Robert Szabo cut 4.3 AF to pass Nathan Stinson for 23rd and that man Matthias passed two more people to reach 33rd on both sides of the charts. Marcos Vinicius Alves made a cut of half a point but remained in 41st.
Back on non-SC, Marcos rose 3 places, closing in on the top 50 in 52nd. Rune Stubhaug continued to demonstrate his remarkable potential after joining in January, flying into the Legend ranks with a fantastic 19.3 AF cut to give him a 17 place move and a ranking of 66th while Brent made some more small cuts and again found himself down a place to 70th as a result! Robin Usher suffered the same fate, getting dropped to 91st by Matt Vanderwouw's 7 place rise into 85th.
Outside the top 100, Mat Abernethy had a fantastic month, slashing over 25 from his AF for a 32 place jump into 119th. Mat's PRs included a GOD time on MMF 3lap, indicating that there is a whole lot more to come from him! Johnny Hengel and Pat made decent-sized moves, up 5 and 7 places into 137th and 142nd respectively but they were overshadowed by Alex Kangas, who leapt 27 places into 152nd with his excellent 38 point AF cut. Michael Tunzi climbed 14 places with a nice 18 point cut, putting him into 172nd.
Between Michael and the next mover is a gap of almost 50 places, but Ryan Trovillion more than made up for the lack of action above him! Ryan sliced over 92 points from his AF, sending him up an incredible 89 places into 219th and reducing the gains of three other movers: Austin Gates to 245th, Aidan Foyel to 261st and Pete Robinson to 280th. Daniel Pabst was another karter having a great month, up into 311th with his 33 point cut. Mickael Smolen and Matt Gingery both made large jumps: Mickael up an impressive 49 places into 382nd; and Matt even better, up 78 into 389th. Sam Cobb could only hold on to 417th with his small cut, not far ahead of Alvaro Fababu, who flew up 70 places into 427th with his 52 cut. Finally, April Thompson made sure that the female karters were represented with her nice 24-place jump, getting her into 628th.
Two new players from February:
Johnny Helenek - Pro A - 278 Patrick Gowey - Expert D - 437
And that's all for February! The update for March will follow soon...
