Jeremy Baldi

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  • April 18, 2014 at 2:31 am in reply to: 2 Honda CR 125’s shifter kart engine bundle with spares #25864
    Jeremy Baldi
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    Latest listing. If engines don’t sell or you have an offer please email at skillege@ymail.com

    April 10, 2014 at 5:52 am in reply to: 2 Honda CR 125’s shifter kart engine bundle with spares #25391
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    New listing. If engines don’t sell or you have an offer please email at skillege@ymail.com

    September 23, 2013 at 6:09 am in reply to: removing rear wing ?? #10487
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    Man 145.1 is flying in a F-125.  Even without the wing the best I have ever seen is about 133-135 but I have never been to Daytona were you really have the track to build up there.

    I always wondered about the stories about 160mph but I remember Russell Jr a few years ago going 156 which I know is moving pretty good.  Johnny West was hitting 143 at MIS a few weekends ago and the straight is not near the length of Daytona so the 143-144 must really be were they hit that aero wall.  So it would be interesting for sure to see what Jeff’s kart does without it.

    September 21, 2013 at 5:39 am in reply to: removing rear wing ?? #10420
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    Yeah the balance of the kart without the wing will defiantly change.  I have the black laydown F-125 with the big wing.  I have run with and than taken it off for sessions and the balance changes quite a bit.  It has always been drivable but defiantly a little tail happy.  Do you have a diffuser on the kart?  That helps quite a bit to minimize the balance shift and like Sam mentioned shifting some weight to the back will help too.  But for sure taking a little downforce of the front will be the biggest help to balance it though.

    If you do it defiantly post results. Daytona is the one track I think removing the rear wing might be a help.  Everywhere else I have always gone faster with the wing.  Even at MIS this past weekend I ran without the wing and while I went 4 mph faster on the straight but 2.5 secs slower per lap.  Now they only use 1/3 of the oval there instead of 3/4 of the oval like Daytona. I would bring all the parts to put it back on and do a comparison if you can.

    Brian,

    Is 145 the fastest mph you have gone there? Or the fastest a superkart has gone? I thought lay down 250s have hot 160mph so just curious what the number is.

     

    Jeremy

     

    September 16, 2013 at 5:51 am in reply to: Mike Roncke Recovering #10024
    Jeremy Baldi
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    Glad to hear Mike is recovering.  We thought there was a red flag at the end of the race but weren’t sure. Any idea were he hit the wall and what was the cause?  I always like to try and learn from any accident especially one when someone was injured.  Whether it be a failure, mistake or just an accidental racing incident there is almost always something to learn from or to watch out for in the future.

    Hope Mike continues to recover and gets back to racing soon.

     

    -Jeremy

    September 15, 2013 at 5:26 pm in reply to: Michigan Kart Club at Michigan Intl Speedway #9992
    Jeremy Baldi
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    Just got home and want to throw a thanks out to MKC for a great time.  Had lots of track time and even though some still didn’t like turn 3 I thought the improvements and break markers were a big improvement and all in all it was a pretty good turn.

    Had a great race for the lead going on with Robert Lawson for the first 15 mins of the sat f-125 race until my chain fell off. Really bummed because we were having a great battle and it probably lasted the whole race and would have been a blast. But I did a 1:24:2 in sun practice which I was pretty stoked about so that made up a little for the race failure.

    Thanks again for a fun weekend.

    -Jeremy Baldi

    September 11, 2013 at 5:43 am in reply to: Michigan Kart Club at Michigan Intl Speedway #9601
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    Any chance we could get in later than 7:00pm?  We should be close to getting there by 7:00 but if we hit traffic or have any road issues it is going to be very tight.

    September 9, 2013 at 7:22 pm in reply to: Michigan Kart Club at Michigan Intl Speedway #9445
    Jeremy Baldi
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    I went back and watched my video (as well as other karters) multiple times and had a really hard time finding any brake markers.  I guess there are three 6″x6″ squares starting about 300 feet from the apex of the cones.  But if you started braking there you would have no chance of making the corner.

    Like Robert mentioned the white line running across the track that is probably 500 plus yard out of the apex is when you need to start braking (at least in a F125).  But that is when you have to start braking since you are going from over 100mph down to about 20mph.  So if MKC is adding bigger brake markers make sure you go all the way out to that white line.

     

    Jeremy

    September 5, 2013 at 10:52 am in reply to: Michigan Kart Club at Michigan Intl Speedway #9074
    Jeremy Baldi
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    Here is a vid from last years event if anyone wants to see the track layout.

    I didn’t have a problem with the layout but some braking markers coming off the oval would be helpful.  Any safer barriers would also be welcome anywhere because they are way better than concert.  The only other thing for the team setting up is to make sure you have a mychron pick up out and angled to match the banking.  No mychron beacon was out last year and when a driver finally put one out it was hard to get the karts to pick it up because of the angle of the track.

    As for any shifters I was getting into first gear twice (getting off oval and turn 3 in the infield) which is a little tough on the gears so be prepared.

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