Race Index:
9/7/2008 Galletta's
9/4/2008 Oswego Classic
8/28/2008 Oswego
8/21/2008 Oswego
8/17/2008 Galletta's
8/14/2008 Oswego
8/7/2008 Oswego
8/3/2008 Galletta's
8/1/2008 Oswego
7/18/2008 Galletta's
7/10/2008 Oswego
7/6/2008 Galletta's
7/4/2008 Oswego
6/22/2008 Galletta's
6/19/2008 Oswego
6/15/2008 Galletta's
6/5-12/2008 Oswego
6/8/2008 Galletta's
5/30/2008 Oswego
5/15/2008 Oswego
5/08/2008 Oswego

2007 Season:
2007 Season Recap
2007 Fall Races
'07 Galletta's Klassic
9/10/2007
9/03/2007
'07 Oswego Classic
8/26/2007
8/15-19/2007
8/9-12/2007
8/02-05/2007
7/26-29/2007
7/22/2007
7/13-15/2007
7/05-08/2007
6/28-7/01/2007
6/21-24/2007
6/15-17/2007
6/10/2007
6/03/2007

2006 Season:
2006 #17-23
'06 #16: Klassic
2006 #14-15
2006 #13
2006 #12
2006 #11
2006 #10
2006 #9
2006 #8
2006 #7
2006 #6
2006 #5
2006 #4
2006 #3
2006 #2
2006 #1

2005 Season:
2005 Final
2005 #21
2005 #20
2005 #19
'05 #18: Klassic
2005 #17
2005 #16
2005 #15
2005 #14
2005 #13
2005 #12
2005 #11
2005 #10
2005 #9
2005 #8
2005 #7
2005 #6
2005 #5
2005 #4
2005 #3
2005 #2
2005 #1

The early '00s:
2004 Season Recap
2003 Season Recap
2002 Season Recap
2001 Season Recap
2000 Season Recap

The 1990s:
1990s Recap

Extras:
All-Time Points
'02-up Win List
Comedic History
Archival Page

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Welcome! We are a Karting Club that invented and races extremely affordable 5hp, Single Wheel Drive "Gas stocker" karts for a Points championship every summer at Galletta's Greenhouse Karting Speedway and a Gas Stocker division at Oswego Speedway's Clay Kartway. We also record weekly dirt karting classes in the Oswego area and make them available on DVD! Join us racing by either building your own or renting one of our team backup karts. Or just watch in person, or by buying our DVDs. Please read on and learn more about our extremely affordable brand of highly competitive racing!

THE 1990s at GALLETTA'S BOX STOCK GAS KARTING SPEEDWAY:

The beginnings of the modern-day Galletta's Go-Kart track - The mid-1990s:
Matt got his original #3 Go-Kart in 1990. It was a used neon-green Manco yard kart. Oddly, one of Chris' lifelong friends, David Scruton originally owned the kart and sold it to a small engine shop, which took a good motor off of it, put a crappy motor on it, and sold it for a profit. Had Dave and Matt knew, they could have made each other a better deal. The old kart used to be driven around the Galletta's Greenhouse property in a grand prix type track (often with friend John Gibson in the passenger side seat), which also could be shortened at will to an oval around the old "Crusher Coliseum" football field.

A year or two later, Chris getting a tank of a Thunder Island Kart, which was named "Black Bart" #1, painted to resemble Chris' childhood favorite driver Doug Heveron's early 1980s Supermodified. Matt, Chris, and friends (including Jesse Vivlemore and cousin Brian Galletta) used to race by taking turns and having elimination events. However, the original #1 was too heavy to compete with the smaller #3, so they stripped it and used the parts to build the first homemade "Ogre Chassis", the Galletta's #2. Chris and Matt further honed their racing prowess in their furious battles with karts of equalized weight. The track was formed around the old "Chrusher Coliseum Football Field" and the Fort Crusher treehouse, (which later became the race tower in 2005). The track was later slightly shortened to stop in front of the tower house, and slowly, but surely, a track was born through hundreds of races and years of Matt's hard work. Matt's neon green kart was re-painted to resemble Skip Matczak's red #3 Supermodified after his favorite driver Doug Didero. Then, after just a few years of Matt and Chris battling 1-on-1 (occasionally with Jesse "The Liar" Jesse Vivlemore driving one) we got a third kart, the #4 - a brand new Manco out of the box - and dragged Ogre into our early conflicts, schooling him in the ways of the racing arts as well. Ogre would have wanted his kart to resemble his high school buddy Eddie Bellinger Jr.'s #02 Supermodified, but it looked better red and black. Getting this third kart enabled the trio to officially begin a points standings and hold races.

1996 & 1997 Seasons and the 1st & 2nd Annual Galletta's Go-Kart Klassics:
(Spelled with a "K" because we race Karts, dummies!)

Here are some grainy photos from our 1st ever Galletta's Kart Klassic, the first with the Galletta's #4 (back then #23) driven by Chris, and Ogre inherited Chris's #1 (before it was scrapped for being too heavy; its parts salvaged to create a new, lighter kart, the Galletta's #2). Matt won this inaugural points standings and Klassic Championship race with Chris scoring a 2nd in each and Ogre a 3rd as well. He backed up the performance again in 1997.

1998 Season & 3rd Annual Galletta's Karting Klassic:

Left: Chris "Chrusher" Stevens (#2), Matt (#3) and Wes (#4) prepare the karts for the 1998 80-lap Klassic. Back when we only had 3 karts! Right: Before the race, Chrusher, in the Deuce, lets everyone know that he is #1 (though he placed 2nd). Chris got his nickname in middle and high school, as he wrote and illustrated a comic book and comic strip "crushing" classmates, teachers, and pretty much everyone he knew.

Ogre, in the #4, smiled for the camera before RaYzor Castaldo delivers a brutal WWE-style kick to the back of the skull! This pic was even talked about on Ray's obnoxious internet radio talk show, HateTheRadio.

Look at Matt's lead over Chris and Ogre! Chris is dejected after a grueling 80 laps, after another futile attempt to defeat his little brother Matt for the 3rd straight Klassic and Points Championships in a row. Matt is getting revenge for all of those childhood beatings that Chris delivered upon him!

Matt wins! (What else is new... other than his long hair! Haha!) Also, RaYzor looks on, looking rather womanly.

1999 Season & the 4th Annual Galletta's Kart Klassic:

Back when we only had 4 karts! Chris finally beat Matt's streak and won the Klassic and Points Titles this year, in the #2.


According to some, here are "The Galletta's Boys!" Matt & Chris. (Even though that's only our mother's maiden name.)
 


Wesley James "TrOgre" Stevens... looking as mean as ever! Well, at least his kart was clean back then!

 

One of Chris' best buddies, a hair-bag named RaYzor, poses next to the then-brand-new #1. (Poor Ray... not even my friends are safe from the wrath of my humor, much less our go-kart buddies.)

The #1 kart when it was first built and with a fresh paint job... Before several rental drivers wrecked the thing into hell! This was the 2nd Ogre Chassis in our fine collection. Early on, just a few friends and relatives joined us, but with each new kart came more and more guest drivers to fill them! Early on, Dan Boyce, Ray Castaldo, and a few cousins drove it in a handful of races.

We are searching for our points standing records to our 1996-1999 seasons, as they exist, but are currently lost in storage somewhere. When we find them, we'll process them digitally and put them up on the website. However, starting with the 2000 season, we now have a complete record of every points race held at John J. Galletta Memorial Racing Yard Kart Speedway, and have them up on the web. And you'll be amazed at how far they've come in just ten to twelve years! Observe them! Onward to next season!

<-The Early Years (A Comedy)  |  2000 Season ->

The Galletta's Go-Karting Club was founded by brothers Matt and Chris Stevens in the early 1990s when they modified yard karts for racing purposes. They are the inventors of "clockwise 5hp flathead gas stocker kart" racing, and have a 13-kart race team that includes several backup karts available to be rented and raced at both Galletta's and Oswego Speedway all summer. Invented with specifically "gas stock 5hp motor" rules so that a person doesn't have to spend thousands of dollars to race in extremely competitive racing events, the class grows in talent and competition every single year. Join us by building your own kart for around $200-500, or rent one of our team karts on two tracks all Summer & Fall in Oswego, NY!


The Oswego Gas Stocker Kart Club races at Galletta's Greenhouse Kartway & Oswego Speedway Kartway.

Due to the fact that the karts are so affordable and the oldest veterans have been racing for nearly two decades, it is one of the most difficult karting divisions to win at, but yet you can be instantly competitive for just a couple hundred dollars IF you're a good driver. You can't outspend your opponent due to our gas-powered stock-only rule, so you must out-race them and out-setup them. In fact, nobody has ever defeated Matt & Chris in the open challenge: race a stock 5hp flathead and stop them from scoring 1st & 2nd in a points season. Though hundreds of people have tried in hundreds of races since the early 1990s, Chris and Matt have scored 1 & 2 every year. But it's not just them you have to race. Our regular drivers are all talented and experienced. You can prove your skills against the winningest karters in the local area AND you won't even have to spend a lot of money to get started! We dare you to try! Make your own or rent one of our racing team karts. Sound like fun? Read on, explore the website, and join us!

More Galletta's Go-Karting flips, crashes and tight racing carting highlights on:
 
YouTube And the complete and high quality races found on this site and YouTube can be purchased in our Galletta's Go-Kart DVD store!



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Our karting club's home track is located in back of:

Galletta's Greenhouses
60 County Route 20
Oswego, NY 13126-6512
(315) 343-0879 or (315) 343-4281
Need directions? Here they are!

Please visit Galletta's Speedway racer/co-founder/co-owner Chris "Crusher Comics" Stevens's other websites that include my cartoons, comic books, children's book, and family greenhouse:

Galletta's Greenhouse & Karting Team
60 County Route 20
Oswego, NY, USA
13126-6512
Telephone:
 (315) 343-0879
or
(315) 343-4281
(Ask for Matt or Chris only!)
Directions



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