Galletta's Karting Club - 2009 Season, Week
15: The World Championship of Gas Flathead Karting
Points Series continued on Saturday,
September 19th, 2009 at John J. Galletta Memorial Backyard Speedway:
Galletta's Kart Club 2009 Volume #15 DVD: This DVD includes Speedmonkey's Attack
Night race on
September 19th, 2009, the
Post-Klassic '09 Fall Bonus Points Race on
October 11th, 2009, and previously unreleased
bonus practice footage from the All-Galletta's race on
August 23rd, 2009. Almost 2 hours in the highest-quality resolution. 16:9 Anamorphic widescreen video, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo/Pro-Logic Surround, and two camera angles of
most of the action.
Price $5.
The
Mysterious
Professor Speedmonkey stole the Saturday, September 19th, 2009 Feature event at
Galletta's Karting Speedway driving the Galletta's #1 kart. He was able to track
down Ragin' Russ Hockey, who passed Tim Galletta early on and dominated until he
broke his drive hub on the very last lap. Again, poor Russ came close to another victory,
but yet so far. No cash-money prizes or stickers here, as Speedmonkey won a
banana. Easy to please a true racer such as he. After all, he appears to be a monkey,
and made a monkey out of all other karters. And
quite the braggart as well.
Due to a freak occurrence where only 5 karters could
make it, we only held a short, 25-lap race. But what was odd is that one
of them was a mysterious creature from the woods.
"The Mysterious
Professor Speedmonkey" asked for the "slowest kart that nobody has won in
years with." That was the
Galletta's #1, as all of the 11 other
Galletta's karts have won at least one feature in the last year or so,
and the #1 hasn't won one race in recent memory (maybe 2004?). It's the
one kart that usually nobody wants to drive, and say that it either
spins out too easily, is too slow, or is just plain cursed - even after
a couple of rebuilds. He made a monkey out of us all, by winning the
Feature after using Monkey voodoo on Chris Stevens and Tim
Galletta, confusing them momentarily and passing them both in turn two,
then using Monkey hyper-speed to track down and then Monkey
laser-eyes to break Russ Hockey's drive-wheel hub on the last lap
and steal the win. He then went about bragging, putting all karters in
the world down. And why shouldn't he? Nobody has ever beat him. And
nobody ever will. In fact, nobody even tries because it is hopeless for
most karters to consistently win races where all of the karts are truly
equal - AND one has Monkey Super-powers!
Only 5 racers, but still a good race. Next race is
October 3rd, 2009: The 14th Annual Galletta's Go-Kart Championship
"Klassic" 200! Yep, that's right 200 laps! Over 20 miles. And only 1
(or sometimes 2) tanks of gas! Beat that, methanol cookie-cutter
karters! :)
Before we show the point standings, let us recap this
GREAT
season thus far...
Galletta's Greenhouse Karting Club - 2009 Season
Recap: The World Championship of Gas Flathead
Karting Points Series
at John J. Galletta Memorial Backyard Go-Kart Speedway The longest-running
and still the biggest weekly dirt karting class in Oswego, NY.
Race #1
- June 7th, 2009: Matt Stevens started the 2009 karting season with a bang winning a ten driver, 45-lap feature
in his Galletta's #33 kart. The track was as smooth as silk, and being a
little slick due to the winter and spring's precipitation, provided for some excellent power slide racing, as
especially seen in the new camera angle in turns 3 & 4. This was the
first club race since
our class was disrespectfully banned from the Oswego Kartway during the
off-season despite all of the support our club gave to the Kartway
(3 years of 5-15 weekly karting customers in addition to free promotion
and affordable $5 weekly DVDs produced), and lifelong weekly customers
at the Kartway's parent track, Oswego Speedway.
Considering how the
track was built shortly after the operator visited and
raced on our track in 2005, how the operator forced our club to race
against bigger motors (that he sold parts to) then banned us when we
still won, yet asked for our own class, how they didn't pay us for logos and banners,
and how many problems they have with their customer base over their
first four years, I think all of these classy things just speak for
themselves. Race
#2 - June 14th, 2009: Twin 30s night was in store for a beautiful June day
that saw eleven drivers battle it out. Gary Miller Sr. won the 1st
feature in his Miller/Galletta's #24 kart, and Matt Stevens won the 2nd
in his trusty ol' Galletta's #3 kart. Our club had an interview from a
Syracuse University news reporter as well to cap a great night of
racing!
Race
#3 - June 22nd, 2009:
Jason "The Hammer" Mills won the eleven
driver, 45-lap feature in dominant fashion, putting both himself and the
refurbished Galletta's #2 in victory lane for the first time in years.
It was his 3rd career win.
Race #4
-
July
5th, 2009:
The '09 Independence Day Event had thirteen
drivers. First, a rookie powder-puff Go-Kart race won by Nazeha
Al-Hanini. Then,
Buddy Cottom took the 1st 30-lap feature
in the Galletta's #6, and Chris Stevens took the 2nd one in his
Galletta's #8.
Race #5
-
July
12th, 2009: Eight veteran drivers battled it out in a 50-Lap Feature
which saw Russell Hockey take the
convincing win in his 2nd career feature in his third season driving his
Hockey #00 kart.
Race #6
-
July
19th, 2009.: Larry Phillips won his first ever feature in his 2nd season
in his #04 kart, proving that the flexible motor/weight rules that
Galletta's Karting Club enabled a much heavier man to race with lighter
guys and still win fair and square. Nine veteran drivers dueled it out
in the 45-Lap Feature.
Race#7
-
July
27th, 2009: A tremendous streak continues of new winners every week.
Wavin' Nick Dann won the 1st 30-lapper (his 3rd career win), and
Flippin' Fred Collins, after 5 years of horrible flips and last place
finishes, finally won his first feature! With 15 drivers, we had a ball.
Again, the biggest and most competitive weekly dirt karting series from
top to bottom in the area, and the only one where a win means a thing
in, as you are racing against several drivers with 5 to 18 years karting
experience each and all in equalized karts and doing so for points
series, not a bunch of three to nine kart races with drivers that just
started racing their own multi-thousand-dollar karts and race for a
sticker collection.
Race #9
-
August 9th, 2009: Chris Stevens became the 2nd winner in a row to win a
feature with a stomach bug. He took the 10-driver, 50-lap feature in his
Galletta's #4 kart.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention the 3-way tie for 3rd place with Matt
Stevens, Russ Hockey, and Kenny Lindsley III! Again, we prove on a
near-weekly basis that our karting is as exciting as any, and only
snobby karters that throw thousands of dollars into their go-karts
disagree.
Race #10
- August 16th, 2009: Twelve competitors, three heats, and a rough 45-lap feature were
in store. Matt Stevens, Russ
Hockey and Ken Lindsley all broke while leading, and it
was Chris Stevens who emerged as the winner in a war of attrition in
his Galletta's #8 kart.
YouTube video here.
Race
#11 -
August
23rd, 2009: Fourteen competitors, two heats, the 1st "ALL-GALLETTA"
Feature race and a regular veteran 40-lap feature! Brian Galletta
took the All-Galletta race in the Galletta's #5, and Matt Stevens
took the regular veteran feature in the Galletta's #3.
YouTube
video.
Race
#12 -
August
31st, 2009: Thirteen competitors, a rookie heat, and Twin-35-Lap Feature
races. Russell Hockey took the first feature and Fred Collins taking
the second. We are having our most diverse amount of winners this
season at Galletta's! Predictable considering our amount of regular
veterans has not eroded as much as in past seasons.
YouTube preview
of our DVDs, as always.
Race #13
-
September 7th, 2009: Nine competitors, two heats, and
a 45-Lap Feature race.
This one was taken by Matt Stevens in his Galletta's #3, but
Chris Stevens was staying with him in the Galletta's #4. Matt is
showing that the closer it comes to Klassic time, the more he tunes
up all of the karts, especially his own. As always, he is going to
be tough to beat (and only his father Wes and brother Chris have
ever beat him in a "Classic" race in the previous 13 years and 15
"Classics" on two tracks!)
YouTube preview.
Race
#14 - September
13th, 2009:
Matt
Stevens won a tough, 12-kart, 45-lap feature in his
Galletta's Greenhouse #33 kart, surviving two wrecks between 4 karts in
front of him. Tim Galletta, Russ Hockey, Gary Miller and Buddy Cottom all
wrecked together battling for the
lead after that, leaving Matt clear sailing for his 5th feature win of the
season, looking tougher as the 14th Annual Klassic approaches.
Race #15 -September 19th, 2009:
Due to a freak occurrence where only 5 karters could
make it, we only held a short, 25-lap race. But what was odd is that one
of them was a mysterious creature from the woods.
"The Mysterious
Professor Speedmonkey" whooped everybody's butts with his Monkey
Super-Powers.
Name (Go-Karts Piloted) (Colored picture borders have driver profiles)
Years Pro at Galletta's
Total Points (Place)
Average Points Per Event
Events
Raced
Features
Raced
Heat Wins
Feature Wins
Feature Win %
1
Chris Stevens
(Galletta's #8, 4, 5)
14th
2,190.5
146.03
15
19
0
3
16%
2
Matt Stevens
(Galletta's #3, 33, 1, 7)
14th
2,140.0
142.67
15
19
2
6
32%
3
Russ
Hockey (Hockey #00, Galletta's #9)
3rd
1,936.0
138.29
14
17
3
2
12%
4
Buddy Cottom
(Galletta's #5, 6, 4, 1, 2)
3rd
1,934.0
138.14
14
18
2
1
6%
5
Melissa Stevens
(Stevens #80, 19)
3rd
1,908.0
127.20
15
19
2
1
5%
6
Gary Miller Sr.
(Galletta's/Miller #24, 0)
5th
1,711.5
122.25
14
18
1
1
6%
7
Larry
Phillips (L&K Small Engine #04)
2nd
1,225.0
122.50
10
13
0
1
9%
8
Fred
Collins (Galletta's #9)
5th
1,117.0
139.63
8
11
1
2
11%
9
Tim
Galletta (Galletta's #7, 9, 2)
1st
596.0
119.20
5
6
1
0
0%
10
Jason
Mills (Galletta's #2)
9th
482.5
160.83
3
5
1
1
20%
11
Nick
Dann (Galletta's #7, 4, 0, 1)
4th
460.5
115.13
4
6
0
1
17%
12
Kevin
Galletta (Galletta's #9, 5)
1st
370.0
123.33
3
3
0
0
0%
13
Jesse
Vivlemore
(Galletta's #0, 5)
2nd
329.5
109.83
3
3
1
0
0%
14
Kelly
Miller (Galletta's #7, 4)
3rd
320.5
106.83
3
5
1
0
0%
15
Brian
Galletta (Galletta's #5)
4th
277.5
138.75
2
2
1
1
50%
16
Dick
Dann (Dann #68)
1 = Methanol
4th
241.0
120.50
2
3
0
0
0%
17
Kenny
Lindsley III (Galletta's #2, 1)
2nd
240.5
120.25
2
2
0
0
0%
18
Tony Gonyeau (Galletta's #1, 7, 0)
®
226.0
113.00
2
3
0
0
0%
19
RaYzor
_______
(Last name
withheld via paranoia)
(Galletta's #7, 2)
1st
147.0
73.50
2
2
0
0
0%
20
Soliman
Barakat (Galletta's #4, 1)
®
144.0
144.00
1
2
0
0
0%
21
Bob
Galletta (Galletta's #4)
®
139.0
139.00
1
1
0
0
0%
22
George
Russell (Galletta's #2)
1st
139.0
139.00
1
2
1
0
0%
23
Asaad
Al-Hanini (Galletta's #2, 7, 1)
®
137.0
137.00
1
2
0
0
0%
24
Todd
Sharp (Galletta's #9)
®
135.0
135.00
1
2
1
0
0%
25
Jeff
Tetro (Galletta's #6)
1st
132.0
132.00
1
2
0
0
0%
26
Justin
Bonacquisti (Galletta's #5)
®
130.0
130.00
1
2
0
0
0%
27
Josh
Chetney (Galletta's #1)
®
124.0
124.00
1
2
0
0
0%
28
Justin
Galletta (Galletta's #1)
®
123.0
123.00
1
1
0
0
0%
29
Austin
Hicks (Galletta's #24)
®
118.0
118.00
1
2
0
0
0%
30
Dan
Woodard
(Woodard #w5) * =
Stock 6.5hp
1st
118.0
118.00
1
1
0
0
0%
31
Gary
Galletta (Galletta's #6)
®
115.0
115.00
1
1
0
0
0%
32
Shadoe
Russell (Galletta's #1)
1st
111.0
111.00
1
2
0
0
0%
33
Andrew
Miller
(Galletta's #0)
®
108.0
108.00
1
1
0
0
0%
34
Nazeha
Al-Hanini (Galletta's #7)
®
108.0
108.00
1
2
1
0
0%
35
Terry
Miller (Galletta's #5)
®
106.0
106.00
1
2
0
0
0%
36
Jesse
Newcombe (Galletta's #4)
®
106.0
106.00
1
2
0
0
0%
37
Neaiamh
Al-Hanini (Galletta's #1)
®
104.0
104.00
1
2
0
0
0%
38
Ron
Rowe (Galletta's #2)
®
101.0
101.00
1
1
0
0
0%
39
Josh
Herscha (Galletta's #0)
1st
100.0
100.00
1
2
0
0
0%
40
Zack
Sawyer
(Galletta's #1)
®
95.0
95.00
1
1
0
0
0%
41
Eddie
Scruton (Galletta's #6)
1st
93.0
93.00
1
1
1
0
0%
42
Brian
Paul (Galletta's #1, 7, 2)
®
87.0
87.00
1
1
1
0
0%
43
Ken
Pierce (Galletta's #7)
®
86.0
86.00
1
1
0
0
0%
44
Brandon
Matott (Galletta's #0)
®
84.0
84.00
1
1
0
0
0%
45
Mike
"MFC" Howell (Galletta's #2)
3rd
83.0
83.00
1
1
0
0
0%
46
"Professor Speedmonkey"
(Galletta's #1)
N/A
73.0
73.00
1
1
0
1
100%
NOTES: All karts are 1-WD and all Motors are 1-WD 5hp Gas Flatheads with Stock '90s Carb, shaved head, and select pre-approved Dyno Racing Cams
(different weight requires different ones allowed; 94-SS is the
standard for light/medium weight groups - AKA anybody under 220 lbs.). This means fast, equal speeds and, cheater-free engine-builders, all for low prices.
Two karts so far this season were not gas flatheads (a methanol
flathead with raptor carb and a gas stock 6.5hp OHV), and
although they were allowed to run and scored their full points, but their placement did not penalize anybody else with
the same gas flathead motor, who were scored as if the other
motored kart was not there.
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