Jeff Smith just loves Karting. “It’s simply the most competitive form of four wheeled road racing found anywhere!”

To go back a few years, Jeff spent his youth wrenching on a variety of Sports Cars and Formula Cars all the way from Formula Vee, through Formula Ford, and F2000 . “During that time I watched and learned so much about road racing, it was really a great experience.” But after finally gathering the funds to drive himself, he found the level of competition compared to the cost to go racing, wasn’t really adding up. “A few friends of mine, that had their eyes set on a professional driving career, were constantly talking to me about Karting, something I had never had exposure to growing up. Karting was completely foreign to me.”

After some time learning about the Northern California kart scene, Jeff jumped in head first and bought a used 80 Shifter.” I took the kart out to Dixon and just couldn’t believe the power-to-weight ratio, the handling, and the braking. I had the best time of my life that day, and was hooked on Karting.” Jeff also realized just how much he needed to learn to go fast. “Cars let you get away with so much. As I learned to push the limits of the kart, I realized I had developed a lot of bad habits that I had to change if I wanted to be fast in a Kart.” After my first few Kart Races, and getting my butt kicked pretty good, I realized just how competitive Karting is. I had lap records and won a lot of races in the full size cars, and here I was struggling to finish mid-pack in a kart race! That really woke me up. Karting demanded instant respect from that point forward.”

So yes, Jeff did it backwards! He started in cars and moved to Karting. But would he go back to cars? “Not unless they paid me to drive. Karting is just the best. There is no better way to go road racing than a Sprint Kart. The level of competition has no equal. The sprint karts performance is unmatched and the Karting community is second to none.”

Jeff met Jason first through Jason’s reputation as a pro-tuner, then eventually in-person at one of the races. “Jason is a great guy, easy to talk to and always having a good time. He was a person that was easy to be around with his good nature and sense of humor. So when it came time to launch into a Karting business, it was just natural to get something going with Jason.”

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Like many of my karting friends and customers, I did not start karting at 10 years old. At ten, I was playing baseball, learning chess, digging in the mud, and doing what other neighborhood kids were doing. I wanted to be a pitcher for the Oakland Athletics and drive a car like the Knight Rider. As I grew up, my goals and education were aimed towards becoming a business owner. In high school and college, my elective classes were business and computer related. My first real focus was to become an accountant, but after about 3 years of schooling, I changed directions.

During my college years, I bought my first go kart, a TrackMagic with a Yamaha KT100. As I started racing, I thought of various ways to make ends meet, while staying in the drivers seat. I was officially a karting "lifer" at this point. I ended up taking various jobs in a bank, a collections firm, a tuxedo rental company and finally planting my feet at KLS Racing.

KLS Racing provided the opportunity to apply the fundamentals that I learned in school. Starting out in the office to help KLS Racing on a part time basis, quickly turned into a full time job. It also allowed me an inside track to the kart racing industry. It is much easier to focus on a task (of being a race car driver) when you are surrounded by people who are committed to similar goals. Monday through Friday, I took care of the office duties, and on the weekends, I was racing. It took about two years for all the pieces to come together. I learned the hard way that race prep is essential to any successful racing program, and proper planning is essential in any type of business.

After leaving KLS Racing, I went on my own and started Fast Fusion Kart Services. The part I love about tuning is it is a constant challenge. I have successfully tuned for both local and national drivers. From my tuning experiences, it dawned upon me that I love being at the track and I love helping people achieve their goals. In September 2006, I went back to work for SwedeTech Racing Engines. SwedeTech's owner, Reine Persson, has been an intregal part of my karting life, as an engine builder, employeer, and friend. When the opportunity arose to join the SwedeTech staff, I moved quickly to get on board.

Over the years, I had seen Jeff either racing or helping other drivers. Jeff was always pleasant to talk to, his hair was perfect, and his kart was absolutely spotless from any type of foreign matter (DO NOT TOUCH HIS KART, Jeff is a clean freak).

In 2006 and 2007, I saw Jeff's true character. I mentioned my idea of Extra Kart Parts and he was interested. As 2007 came to a close, Jeff pursued the Extra Kart Parts concept with more enthusiasm, and I thought this was the type of person I wanted to associate myself with. Jeff's added energy helped pull the concept of Extra Kart Parts off of paper, and collectively we have turned the business into reality.