08/05/2008: "No news is good news!"

So another week is over, and nearly another 2 days too, but this is only going to be about last week's news, so if I don't mention a move you made, or a record broken, it will probably be in next week's update, or maybe I just left it out because I'm mean.

Champion News
Although Michael Fried karted a little this week, his AF increased a little. Whilst moving backwards though, he broke 3 site records and passed Tim for #1, to become Site Champion again. If only we could all do that! smile

Non-Champion-But-Super-Karters-Anyway news
#5 Shaun Tanney is the highest ranked karter to actually improve his AF this week. He halved the gap between himself and 4th place Alvin. #6 Mickael Smolen followed in Shaun's slipstream. Alvin will have to return very soon or he'll risk falling further down the list.
Brendan Payne is still burning strongly. He broke into the top10 last week, and now he's climbed a further 3 places to 7th. Brendan is now firmly placed as USA #2 and still hasn't slowed down.
Rounding out the top10 news, 9th place Kristopher Will passes Omer to become German #1 again and keep his place in the top 10.

Titles are cool
Cole Gilbert played again this week for the first time in a trillion years, making it count, and passing Paul and Mark to move up to 11th, just finishing outside the limelight. Everyone from here down to 19th played this week, but only Stacy Needham and James "That LC Record is mine bitches" Pierrepont passed anyone. Stacy is up 1 to 16th, and James passes 3 to finish 18th.

Best of the rest
Leslie Wolf is definitely the best of the rest this week, making the move of the update and passing a full 15 players to finish 38th. Great work!
Honorable mentions to Rene Bauer who is up from 44th to 40th, Ben Wilson who is up from 54th to 48, and finally Alvin Le who is up from 86th to 77th.

Ye Olde Records of Site Yore
So, in order:
James Pierrepont takes the crown jewel of records for himself, lowering LC to 1'09"831
Daniel Boettcher takes Ted's MG crs record down to 47"340 and breaks us into the top 10.
Daniel Pascua lowers his own DKS record to 1'56"650 and is 4th now, close to 2nd spot.
Aubrey Clissold says thank you very much, and makes KC a clean sweep, taking the lap to 45"360
Cole Gilbert returns and steals Stacy's MT lap by 0.001. The new times is 45"927
Clement Guine joins the site this week, and brings his GV crs world record with him. An awesome sub 21 at 20"892
Alex S is back in action with a DDR improvement. 1'54"181 and a World Record.
Michael Fried was very busy this week, taking down 3 records. First lowering his own MR crs time to 1'43"722 solidifying that WR. Then he went and broke both DKJP records. First bringing the course time to 2'16"160 and then mastering the new lap strategy and bringing the lap to 42"634
Mark Schmidt broke Tim's old WS lap record by 0.007, with a 37"491
Olivier Valty beats Omer's DH lap. 30"378
Aziz Abdullah joins the site with his awesome BC3 crs time of 2'04"091 getting us 2nd place on the top 10 charts there.
Lewis Benny decided to improve both his MC3 records this week, pushing them ever lower to 1'19"271 and 24"322, and finally
Mickael Smolen beats Tim's DKM crs time and lowers it to 2'12"486

New Players
Welcome to: Jonas Rom, Alexander Harrold, Matthew D. Lopez, Clement Guine, Fabrice Delabrosse, Kyle Miller, Carlos Morales, Daniel Sampson, Steffen Walther, Jean-Philippe Dumais, Julian Grassberger, Robert Hill, Aziz Abdullah

Have a good week!