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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
The first race in the last quarter in the auto racing season was a brand-new start for Level 5 Motorsports. The Scott Tucker-owned, Microsoft Office-sponsored team first showed its long-awaited HPD ARX-01g in the team’s Sept. 17 return to American Le Mans Series competition. In the months prior to the ModSpace race, Tucker’s and teammates Luis Diaz’s and Christophe Bouchut’s track appearances were irregular, generating last-minute withdrawals to be able to pursue the brand new cost-capped LMP2 Honda in time for the world’s best opponents in Intercontinental Le Mans Cup races at the end of the entire year.
Without having the required tires for the vehicle soon enough made Level 5 to withdraw from the Silverstone ILMC race that would happened merely a few days before the ModSpace race at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway. Without having a sufficient amount of competition made the team withdraw from several ALMS races in July, including the Northeast Grand Prix in Lime Rock Park in Connecticut and the Grand Prix of Mosport in Ontario, Canada. Inside the first year in the LMP2 class, Level 5 Motorsports planned to continue moving on in the class, and races with no other LMP2 entries didn’t seem worth the laps. With a brand new, state-of-the-art car in development and major ILMC end-of-season races thriving ever closer, the team focused on preparing itself for international competition-the best competitors our world had to give.
The team went in the summer months in great ranking, with Tucker and Bouchut leading in points and the overall team earning a variety of podium appearances in all 3 series in which it’s entered. When the HPD ARX-01g begun its racing season at the Laguna Seca race, it fell strait into line with the rest of its group. The debut was great, providing on its manufacturer promise of increased speed and not enduring a single mechanical challenge or unplanned pit stop. The Level 5 team drove to a fourth-place overall finish with optimum points in the LMP2 category, another notable feat for the team’s first season.
The win secured the drivers’ championship for Tucker and Bouchut over time for the all-important Petit le Mans, this means Tucker is on track to be a four-time national driving champion. That his career itself is only Several years old speaks to his raw talent, determination and incredible development as a driver. That he also raced in just two races in addition to the ModSpace contest speaks to the fact that he’s a little nuts-or just versatile, enduring and is able to win, considering he added dual wins in the extra races to the win at Laguna Seca.
With the ModSpace ALMS out of the way, the race season started winding down in time but winding up in energy as drivers continued preparing for the Petit Le Mans and the very last round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup in China. With the year schedule back in line and a totally new ride to start, Level 5 Motorsports will aim to continue its momentum and end up as it started: on top.
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Sunday, December 18th, 2011
In case you happen to be like most individuals, your car is something you drive from one place to another, but how it does it is another question. The internal functions of cars are quite incomprehensible to the average person, and a strange not-heard-before noise can be quite terrifying. This is valid, whether or not the car is actually new or a few years old. It doesn’t even matter what price you settled for it.
A component could fail with no warning, causing your car to suddenly break down. Imagine some weird sound suddenly emanating from beneath your car as you drive along the highway. And then, as if by magic, the noise goes away. Quickly you wonder about the best option; should you go home to check it out, or try to get to a mechanic? With the noise no longer there, you think that something wedged beneath your car and then worked itself free. It’s possible that you get to your drive before the engine sputters and dies. This can be how things go when the fuel pump malfunctions, but never in your driveway. Typically it is on a Sunday afternoon meander with the family in the countryside.
A fuel pump can fail without warning and it can happen literally anywhere. That’s the point where it is extremely reassuring to know you have a mechanic with you who can diagnose as well as fix what’s wrong. A lot of weekend mechanics have no problem setting up a new fuel pump, but they need the right tools, and a replacement part. The gasoline tank does not have to be dropped to do this, so the car does not need to be propped up. In case you are wondering, you can find the fuel pump in the gas tank. Obviously you will want an upgraded pump, which should be stocked by the neighborhood auto parts store.
Be cautious about fitting generic parts, for the reason that may not work as well or last as long as the original branded parts. Setting up a generic just to save money may cause you to regret it later. You can go online to look for your substitute part, but by purchasing online to save money, you will have to wait for the part to be shipped. If you have a second automobile, that’s fine. Usually there is also a time imperative, therefore you end up paying a lot at the local mechanic’s to get the job done quickly. And who thinks of saving for maintenance right after they buy a vehicle?
A fuel pump is just one of several parts which will go out on your car at the wrong moment. If you figure out how to perform repairs yourself, or, failing that, get yourself a mechanic worthy of trust, you could save lots of cash.
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
The pinnacle of the 2011 American Le Mans series will happen on Oct. 1 with the 14th annual Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. For Scott Tucker, driver and owner for Level 5 Motorsports, the race marks the start of his sixth year of professional racing. In 2006, he made his professional debut at Petit Le Mans, and following that, his career took off.
“There are not many Americans that get to race there, first and foremost, so I feel very privileged to be among that group,” he said. “This year, we’re the only American prototype team there. We feel very fortunate we were selected to race there.”
The Petit Le Mans race is definitely an endurance race modeled after the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which is its equivalent for the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup series. Road Atlanta owner Don Panoz founded it, and the first iteration ran on Oct. 10, 1998-and Panoz must have had a thing for tens, because the race covers no more than 1,000 miles or a the least 10 hours, whichever comes first. Class winners of Petit Le Mans automatically qualify for the next year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Tucker has focused on the American Le Mans Series as his career has continued. After he founded Level 5 Motorsports in 2008, his main actions have included drafting talented veterans noted for incredible precision even at maximum speeds. This year’s Petit Le Mans has unofficially been the ultimate goal in Tucker’s eyes: Mid-season, he announced the switch from the team’s Nos. 55 and 95 Microsoft Office-sponsored LMP2 cars to a brand-new, right-off-the-line HPD ARX-01g chassis, the result of a partnership between Honda Performance Development and Wirth Research. Tucker pushed hard to get the automobile finished at once, obviously without sacrificing quality. While making the transition between cars, Tucker even withdrew from ALMS races in Lime Rock Park and a huge one at Silverstone in Great Britain, choosing instead to the all-important Petit ahead.
Now, Tucker has added a 4th elite driver to his already well-stacked team. Marino Franchitti will join the team as well as its new car-which Tucker marks as best in the class-for this year’s race at Road Atlanta. Franchitti has extensive experience with the HPD prototype family, having taken part in the initial year of development of the ARX-01a with Andretti Green Racing before spending some LMP2 time with Dyson Racing. Incorporating Franchitti to the lineup is surely an obvious sign that Tucker is headed for the win at Petit Le Mans, though that’s never not the case when Tucker enters a race track. He’s a three-time national driving champion. Level 5 Motorsports’ performance in 2010 during its debut year in the American Le Mans Series sent them to the top of the podium and bumped them to the LMP2 category.
Tucker has made giant strides since his Petit Le Mans professional debut in 2006, and this year he’s possibly the most well prepared he’s been. A victory will mean yet another addition to Tucker’s unbelievable record during the past 5yrs, and moving to the LMP1 category means Tucker has made it to the top class in the sport he seemingly was born to compete in. No matter what the results wind up meaning for Level 5 Motorsports, the work they’ve already put in this year make it clear that the team is one of the most prolific, aggressive racing organizations on the earth.
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
2011 - Scott Tucker-owner of Level 5 announced the addition of Marino Franchitti to its driver lineup just in time for this weekend’s Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta. Franchitti will join Tucker and fellow driver Luis Diaz in driving the No. 55 Microsoft Office-sponsored entry for the enduro, a 1,000-mile/10-hour race.
Franchitti is the latest addition to Tucker’s superteam of motorsports competitors, that is established throughout the Level 5 Motorsports team’s 3 years of existence. Franchitti will be especially handy in driving the brand new Level 5 entry, a LMP2-class Honda Performance Development prototype developed in conjunction with Wirth Research. Prior to joining Level 5, Franchitti had raced essentially every iteration of HPD prototypes, such as the original ARX-01a with Andretti Green Racing in 2007 and Highcroft’s 2010 ALMS championship winner ARX-01c as well as its ARX-01e, which took second place all round at the 12 Hours of Sebring a few months ago. Franchitti this year will be seeking his third consecutive Petit Le Mans class victory.
The elite Level 5 team started off when Tucker joined the field of professional motorsports in 2006 when he was 44. What he didn’t have in experience he made up for in raw ability, quickly ascending the motorsports rankings. At the beginning, he joined up with Christophe Bouchut, an endurance racing expert, who acted as his coach and co-driver. Bouchut is just about the most successful endurance drivers in the field and a past winner of the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. He has also won 3 Porsche Carrera Cup France championships, 3 FIA GT titles and an FFSA GT championship. He’s the only triple FIA GT champion in history. Since the Level 5 Motorsports team began in 2008, Bouchut has co-driven with Tucker and been integral in the team’s success. With his wealth of experience and skill in controlled speed, Bouchut’s role as lead driver has allowed Tucker to develop his own skills, contributing to the depth of the Level 5 racing team. Over the 2010 season, Bouchut earned his 100th career win.
Joao Barbosa, another Level 5 Motorsports standout began his racing career in his native Porto, Portugal nearly 30 years ago. He won back-to-back kart championships in 1988-1989 and continued to win the Portuguese Formula Ford championship in 1994 and the Italian Formula Alfa Boxter Championship in 1995. In 2001, he joined the Grand-Am Sports Car Series and competed in the GT class until he joined the Brumos Racing team in a Daytona prototype in 2006. After four seasons there, he joined Action Express Racing and won the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2010. In 2010, he also made seven starts in the ALMS for Extreme Speed Motorsports in the GT2 class.
Luis Diaz, the 3rd part to this weekend’s Petit Le Mans bid, hails from Mexico City, Mexico. He ran in the Toyota Atlantic and Indy Lights Series from 1999-2003 prior to the move to Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series in 2004 when he co-drove the No. 1 car with former Champ Car competitor Scott Pruett for Chip Ganassi Racing. In 2007, he moved into the ALMS, driving an LMP2 Lola B06/43-Acura for Fernandez Racing. The pairing finished sixth in the LMP2 standings that year and won the class championship in 2009. Diaz made his Level 5 debut this year at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, a very good begin to the season, and his LMP2 experience is going to be crucial at Petit Le Mans using the new car.
Ryan Hunter-Reay has been off the grid for most of the 2011 season as Tucker and crew have been devoted to the ALMS and LMP2 class, but he has been a major contributor to the Level 5 team’s overall success. He’s a regular in the IZOD IndyCar Series for Andretti Autosport, where he nabbed his 2nd victory at Iowa Speedway a year ago. Hunter-Reay helped the No. 95 Level 5 Motorsports BMW Riley to a third-place finish in the 2010 Rolex 24 at Daytona.
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Friday, December 2nd, 2011
There are many things different about this year’s Mazda Laguna Seca race. For all drivers, the weather has been uncharacteristically chilly throughout the week’s practice runs and system checks. For Scott Tucker and his Level 5 Motorsports, weather is hardly noticeable-at least not compared to the brand new metal vessel they’ve been wheeling around at triple-digit speeds. Scott Tucker and the team recently partnered with Wirth Research to debut an HPD ARX-01g chassis at the American Le Mans Series race tomorrow. Last week, drivers Christophe Bouchut, Joao Barbosa and Luis Diaz, as well as team manager David Stone, visited the Wirth Research team to meet their new team member. But of course, giving it the once-over means nothing once behind the wheel.
Initial practice runs this week were promising; the drivers emerged from their seats optimistic. Team owner Scott Tucker was a man of few words after his first practice run. “It’s good,” Scott Tucker said. “We’re going through the normal systems checks. We’re just going through the motions.”
Initial practice runs this week were promising; the drivers emerged from their seats optimistic. Team owner Scott Tucker was a man of few words after his first practice run. “It’s good,” Scott Tucker said. “We’re going through the normal systems checks. We’re just going through the motions.”
The motions should be enough for Scott Tucker and Level 5, if last year is any indication. Scott Tucker along with his team won the 2010 American Le Mans Series championship, and Tucker won both 2010 Rookie of the Year and Champion Driver. Still, with a brand new car, it will be important to find the team’s sweet spot in order to make the podium once again.
“Right now, it’s more about finding the balance,” said Luis Diaz after his practice run earlier this week. “If you have a good balanced car, you’ll have a good car in qualifying and race. We’re focusing on having a decent car, good balance front to rear, and then we’ll start to focus on having that ultimate lap.”
The team has been using a simulator in London in order to prepare for the new car’s debut. The car is so new that no spare parts have arrived yet, which makes this weekend’s race a risky one for Level 5. “We don’t have any spare parts, so we need to be really good with the car today,” Stone said. The team rushed the new car to the raceway in order to be ready for Petite le Monde next weekend, so it’s clear their eyes are to the horizon.
The team has been using a simulator in London in order to prepare for the new car’s debut. The car is so new that no spare parts have arrived yet, which makes this weekend’s race a risky one for Level 5. “We don’t have any spare parts, so we need to be really good with the car today,” Stone said. The team rushed the new car to the raceway in order to be ready for Petite le Monde next weekend, so it’s clear their eyes are to the horizon.
True to his history, Tucker is prepared for and confident in the change. “We’ve seen gains with the engine all year and the good thing is that there’s still room for development,” he says. “The HPD engine and chassis combination has proven to be the best over the years. We feel very comfortable and confident in making this unprecedented and decisive move in the middle of the season.”
True to his history, Tucker is prepared for and confident in the change. “We’ve seen gains with the engine all year and the good thing is that there’s still room for development,” he says. “The HPD engine and chassis combination has proven to be the best over the years. We feel very comfortable and confident in making this unprecedented and decisive move in the middle of the season.” As the race kicks off tomorrow, the new car will weather it’s first true road test. The results of tomorrow’s race will be a telling indicator of the weekend to come.
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Sunday, November 20th, 2011
We have seen an abundance of publicity regarding the Scott Tucker-owned Level 5 Motorsports racing team’s mid-season decision to change cars. In spite of the risks the change brought of interrupting the explosive momentum the group has maintained since the season’s open, as well as the potential points lost by withdrawing from races while the car was being finished, the change has been nothing but positive. The marriage Level 5’s skillful and talented drivers; the integrity, innovation and reputation of Honda Performance Development; and the precision and technique of Wirth Research has benefited all three groups.
When the wait for Level 5’s new LMP2 Lola Honda Spyder was over, it had become obvious the car was well worth it. Not that Level 5 had too much to worry about, with wins at the 12 Hours of Sebring and the Grand Prix of Long Beach, along with podium finishes at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and Six Hours of Imola, all during the team’s debut LMP2 season. When the team ignited the engine on the raceway for the first time at ModSpace American Le Mans Monterey presented by Patron, they bettered their season in the only way to better an already winning season: They made history. Tucker and co-drivers Christophe Bouchut and Luis Diaz earned their highest overall finish of the season at the Laguna Seca race. The car didn’t require a single unscheduled pit stop or encounter any unexpected issues, which easily secured the team’s fourth LMP2 victory of the season and Tucker and Bouchut’s drivers’ championships.
Bouchut nailed a best period of 1: 16.867 in the new HPD ARX-01g, that is just a second behind the LMP1 winning car’s fastest lap. With this being the first iteration of the HPD ARX-01g, with development still in early stages for cost-capped configurations, the pace was impressive, especially considering the model had less than three hours of run time before the endurance test.
The lofty expectations for the new Honda before it was finished were valid enough that Tucker had reserved the 1st two chassis that have been produced, and the team waited patiently for its new and improved car, even withdrawing from competitions in order to have it in time for Petit Le Mans. The hype surrounding the car, both before it was proven and following its tenacious debut, solidified the partnership between Wirth Research and Honda Performance Development (HPD), as Wirth announced Sept. 9 the beginning of a new long-term technical partnership with Honda.
Wirth and HPD have been participating since 2003, but the new relationship extends the companies’ sports prototype programs and includes a new IndyCar project. In an official Wirth press release, the company notes that the unyielding success of its LMP1 and LMP2 cars in the past year have opened the opportunity to build on the achievements and begin to evaluate several new projects for high-profile clients.
“We looked through the numbers, inside and out, and from our perspective, there’s no doubt the Honda package in the new cost-capped configuration will be a front-runner in LMP2,” Tucker said, after making the mid-season decision to switch cars. “We’ve seen gains with the engine all year, and the exciting thing is that there’s still room for improvement.” Members of the Level 5 team even visited the Wirth Research center to check out their new set of wheels in production.
It’s not only for any car that could evoke so much anticipation out of an already dominant racing team. It can be expected that so long as there’s improvement in the prototypes, teams like Level 5-which constantly strategizes and evaluates situations to optimize the chance of a victory-will keep HPD and Wirth high on their radars. The brand new long-term partnership between companies would be the exciting beginning of an era of innovation and ultimate performance ability in motorsports.
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
An F430 World Championship -after yet another stellar qualifying attempt for Race No. 2, set for Saturday in the North American division at the Ferrari Challenge International Finals. Tucker will start at the front of the F430 pack in the North American division, after qualifying the No. 755 F430 Ferrari with a fast lap of 141.524 mph.
Riccardo Ragazzi fronts the Italian grid, as Tucker closes the gap on the competition, setting up a true international showdown. In only the team’s second race at the prestigious Mugello Circuit in Mugello, Italy, the battle for the world finals for the F430 on Sunday will be off the charts.
Following the qualifying run, Race 1 brought an unfortunate and unavoidable end for Level 5 and Tucker. In rainy conditions, Tucker started from the No. 1 position among all F430 drivers, but was forced to retire from the event after his No. 755 machine was involved in an incident with the Ferrari of Houston’s Mark McKenzie.
“Sometimes, you get caught up in some things that are out of your control, and it’s very disappointing,” said Tucker, who scored a combined three victories at the Ferrari Challenge International Finals the past two years in Valencia, Spain. “We got tangled up with another car, and there wasn’t anything we could have done about it.
“You come over here to try and challenge for a victory - we fully expected we would do just that - and then something like this happens. We’ll just put it behind us and go on to the next race. There’s still a lot left to the weekend.”
Indeed. The car sustained serious damage, however, the team worked through the night to get the car ready for Saturday’s action.
Tucker was not injured in the incident.
“Scott actually ran a better qualifying lap for the second race than he did for the first. That’s very encouraging,” said Boardwalk Ferrari Team Manager David Stone. “This is a very challenging road course in dry conditions, much less the wet conditions that we experienced on Friday.
“We’re looking for big things out of him Saturday and then on into Sunday for the World Final.”
The green flag is scheduled to wave for race No. 2 at 2:40 p.m. local time Saturday.
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
The Level 5 Motorsports team’s 2011 season has proven it a versatile, dominant team stocked with talent, skill and determination. Commanding the podium at the majority of the races it entered-including winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and podium at Imola and Sebring, among others-is proof that the Scott Tucker-owned, Microsoft Office-sponsored team has found a winning formula in its schedule, race strategy and drivers, including Tucker, Luis Diaz and Christophe Bouchut. As they began the final quarter of an already unbelievable season with the ModSpace American Le Mans Monterey presented by Patron mid-September, all their ducks seemed to be in a row: their equation had been proven again and again as reliable for an effective winning effort. But this race contained one wild card, or wild car, as the case might be-the team would finally debut the HPD ARX-01g they had announced they were switching to mid-season. The Level 5 Motorsports team’s 2011 season has proven it a versatile, dominant team stocked with talent, skill and determination.
The Level 5 team expected the car to be a positive multiplier for their already winning equation, but as is the case in racing, they also knew always to expect the unexpected. For another team, the possibility and risk of entering a brand new car so close to the season’s biggest races could throw off drivers and the team’s rhythm, but Level 5 is made up of drivers who have experience not only adapting to car changes but in motorsports itself.
“Experience counts,” said Christophe Bouchut before the ModSpace race. “We’ve worked hard to prepare for this race, but it’s still brand new and there are still things to check.” The team opened the gearbox for inspection, sitting out of a final practice session to acquaint themselves with the new car as much as possible before its first run. Bouchut was right: A car can be inspected over and over, and the race strategy can be cemented into the drivers’ minds, but there comes a point for drivers when lessons from previous race experience takes over with a sort of intuition and sensibility that can’t be taught.
Tucker is the least experienced driver on the Level 5 team, but what he lacks in years behind the wheel he makes up for with a brilliant learning curve that barely existed in the first place. A rookie in 2006 at age 44, Tucker displayed natural talent and surprising skill in the Ferrari Challenge Series before he created Level 5 Motorsports and began building a dream team of drivers. As the seasons progressed, Tucker began seeing his first major success. In 2009, he won the Sports Car Club of America National Championship. Later, he was the first American to drive one of Audi’s V-12 turbodiesels in a competition, during the 24 Hours of Le Mans. His passion for motorsports coupled with an unrelenting pursuit of excellence-which has caused him to maintain an ultra-disciplined fitness regimen as well as a grueling, three-series race schedule-have catapulted his short career into the territory of his counterparts, whose first races weren’t too long after their first birthdays.
Christophe Bouchut, part of the Level 5 dream team, is one of the most successful endurance drivers in the world. His victories have included the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. He has also won three Porsche Carrera Cup France championships, three FIA GT titles and a FFSA GT championship. He is the only triple FIA GT champion in history. Bouchut has been driving with Tucker’s Level 5 team since 2008, adding his experience to Tucker’s burgeoning motorsports empire and becoming an integral part of the team’s success.
Luis Diaz drove in the Toyota Atlantic and Indy Lights Series from 1999 thru 2003 before moving to the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car series in 2004 when he co-drove the No. 01 car with former Champ Car competitor Scott Pruett for Chip Ganassi Racing. Three years later, Diaz moved again, this time into the American Le Mans Series, driving an LMP2 Lola B06/43-Acura for Fernandez Racing, and won the class championship in 2009. Diaz was also named Most Popular Driver that season. Diaz’s experience with Level 5 Motorsports is limited to only the 2011 season, but his familiarity with the LMP2 cars has undoubtedly been invaluable to the ever-changing team.
Level 5 continues to run on a near-perfect combination of talent, passion, skill and experience. The cohesive mix of the drivers’ backgrounds has established the team as dominant frontrunners in multiple series and allowed the 2011 momentum to continue with the new HPD ARX-01g car.
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Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Mario Kart Wii has been one of the highest selling games on Nintendo’s console and with good reason. The Mario Kart series has consistently offered fast, exciting racing gameplay for both solo players and parties. The following few paragraphs will help you find some tips that might get you higher scores.
When you first load up the game, you’ll only have a few racers and vehicles available to you. By winning the various cups on different difficulties, you can unlock new drivers as well as higher quality carts and bikes.
Of course, the big question is whether to go with a cart or a motorcycle, as each have very specific capabilities. All vehicles in the game have varying statistics in speed, handling, and acceleration, but bikes and carts have unique qualities as well. Carts tend to have weaker handling than bikes, which can typically turn much more sharply, but carts also tend to have a higher top speed. The major difference between the two, however, is in respect to their mini boosts. When both bikes and carts do a power slide around a corner, but carts get a much more substantial boost than bikes. The tradeoff, though, is that bikes can perform a wheelie at the expense of maneuverability and gain extra speed on straight-aways.
Carts are ultimately better for drivers who are careful, but also aggressive. Being able to get to top speed and stay there while being able to push around weaker drivers and bikes is a central strategy, and hitting every power slide boost at corners will help them pull out in front. Bikes are better for drivers that prefer maneuverability and staying away from the fray. The faster acceleration of bikes means that, even though they get pushed around a lot more, they can get back up to speed and into the race much more quickly.
All racers in the game fall into one of three classes: light, medium and heavy. Any driver can always choose a cart in a heavier category, meaning that heavy drivers can only use heavy carts, medium drivers can use medium or heavy, and light racers can make use of all three. Although the carts and bikes each have subtle differences in their stats, the general rule of thumb is that light carts will accelerate quickly but have a lower top speed, heavy carts are the fastest but get up to speed much slower, and medium carts are well balanced. Furthermore, the weight of carts also plays a role in strength, as bigger carts can easily push around lighter carts. Bikes have very little power in this regard and can easily be muscled by carts.
When picking your driver, there are a few things to consider beyond their weight class. First of all, the drivers all have statistics that factor into their vehicle choice. Toad, for example, gets a bonus to his acceleration, while Bowser gets a speed bump and added weight. Compare drivers with vehicles to find a way to maximize their potential when mixed.
Through getting faster and better cars and getting more new drivers, you’ll find the right combinations that seem to work for you.
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
The owner of “Pink”, which is already six weeks being treated for aplastic anemia at the clinic “Malteser St. Franziskus “in Flensburg, received a precious gift from a patient who was lying in an adjacent room. It is a sedan, “Bentley”, which was donated for Mitrovic from Countess Lisa.
Owners of television, “Pink” and Zeljko Mitrovic and Milica were surprised when they saw the car brand “Bentley Continental” worth over 100,000 euros! Heiress Lisa bought it, to be repaid for Mitrovic indication of the attention at the hospital. Her deceased husband was is a German aristocrat and a multi-year member of Knights of Malta”. Zeljko and the Liza drank tea every day.
- Lady Lisa bought me, “Bentley”. I was surprised because I did not knew that she is a so rich. Only when she gave me a gift, we discovered is a full truth about her. She says I am her angel. We drank tea and coffee, and so was born a beautiful friendship. she was very enjoyed my company, and wanted to return the favor. She knew that I like expensive cars, so I bought a model “Bentley” - said on this occasion the owner of TV Pink Zeljko Mitrovic.
- I do not know how do I repay this to her. She is rich, but she care about her friendship with us. I have been loved in this hospital since I have arrived, from nurses, to staff, and to patients too. I almost became a star who comes from Serbia - Mitrovic says, adding that it is now completely healthy.
- When I am completely healthy and will start to do full throttle. Now I feel like a teenager and looking forward to returning to Serbia. It should be ten days after I got back in Belgrade.
- Only Zeljko could happen something like this. He met the grandmother, he thought that she is an ordinary patient and made her company at the hospital. Making funny in the restaurant and made cappuccino - she said.
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