PRICES: Galletta's Kart Club is a free, not-for-profit, backyard racetrack. We operate
as a weekly point series raceway (Summer Sundays) only on nominal, bare-bones donations. For a regular-season race:
Spectator = Free. Donations welcome. Race your own kart =
$3-5 donation to Matt, or donated goods/services. Race a Galletta's Kart = Veteran: $15 donation. Rookie: $15-20 donation. (Why?
Rookies wreck more and race TWO features if they qualify!) A copy of
your own race's DVD = $5
per DVD.
Each DVD contains the
entire evening of racing from up to two camera angles (and sometimes
more!).
These are not fees.
The nominal Donations cover the gas and parts for 12 equalized Galletta-type racing karts, in addition to electricity for lights, water, and
none of the above ever cover a tip for Matt's work for the track. Matt prepares 12 racing karts out of his own wallet every single year,
always in the red, and the donations never once have covered gas and parts.
We run for no profit. Why do we do it? (1) the fun of economical,
equalized racing and (2) avoidance of kart tracks that only exist to
make money and allow unethical biases, cheating, and fighting.
Galletta's
Karting Club - 2010 Season, Event #6
- Sunday, July 11th, 2010:
2010 Season, Event #6-
Sunday, July 11th, 2010 -Driving the Galletta's
Greenhouse #6 kart, George Russell, won his 1st
feature race at Galletta's Sunday. He became the 7th different
winner of 7 features so far this season at Galletta's, including
the 5th 1st-time first feature winner so far at John J. Galletta
Memorial Karting Speedway. The racing, again, is just so close
(the karts are closely matched, the drivers are all experienced,
and the handicap system has been working wonders) that passes
are rare and starting handicapped up front is vital for your
chances. George took the lead on lap 2 from starting in 3rd
place via a pass for the lead on an early restart. Here he poses
with his son, Shadoe, who won a 5-lap make-up race - his career
first win as well. Points, race results and pictures are here and videos are catching up and will be up to date soon!
Thanks for reading!
Before the heats, we held another 5-lap
Make-up race, which enables drivers who have missed races (due
to work, family, travel, special occasions) to make-up points
and stay in the points championship. They are credited as
being tagged on at the end of the show that they missed
accordingly. What made it extra exciting
is that Shadoe Russell drove a strong race from the pole and
won, proving how the Doe man is making great strides and improving all the time!
5-Lap Make-Up Race Order-of-Finish:
1st. Shadoe Russell (Doe #26) [Credited for 7/5/2010]
2nd.
Jesse Vivlemore (Galletta's #5) [Credited for 7/5/2010]
3rd. Jeff Tetro (Galletta's #9) [Credited for 6/14/2010]
4th.
George Russell (Galletta's #2) [Credited for 7/5/2010]
5th.
Rob Clarke (Galletta's #1) [Credited for 7/5/2010]
6th. Randy Platt (Galletta's #6) [Credited for 6/27/2010]
7th. Russ Bartlett (Hammered #35)
[Credited for 6/20/2010] DNF
1st 10-Lap Heat Order-of-Finish:
1st. Arnold "AJ" Nason (Hammered #35)
2nd.
Jeff Tetro (Galletta's #9)
3rd.
Tim Galletta (Galletta's #7)
4th. Chris Stevens (Galletta's #8)
5th. Jesse Vivlemore (Galletta's #5)
6th.
Shadoe Russell (Doe #26)
2nd 10-Lap Heat Order-of-Finish:
1st. Melissa Stevens (Scissors N' Fur #19)
2nd. Russ Hockey (Hockey #00)
3rd. Matt Stevens (Galletta's #3)
4th.
Randy Platt (Galletta's #6)
5th.
George Russell (Galletta's #2)
6th. Rob Clarke (Galletta's #1) DNF
7th.
Russ Bartlett (Hammered #35) DNF
45-Lap Feature Order-of-Finish:
1st. George Russell (Galletta's #6)
2nd. Randy Platt (Galletta's #2)
3rd. Matt Stevens (Galletta's #3)
4th.
Chris Stevens (Galletta's #8)
5th.
Russ Hockey (Hockey #00)
6th. Melissa Stevens (Scissors N' Fur #19)
7th. Tim Galletta (Galletta's #7)
8th. Rob Clarke (Galletta's #1)
9th. Arnold "AJ" Nason (Hammered #35)
10th. Jesse Vivlemore (Galletta's #0) DNF
11th. Jeff Tetro (Galletta's #9) DNF
12th. Shadoe Russell (Doe #26) DNF
13th. Russ Bartlett (Galletta's #5) DNS DNF = Did Not Finish
DNS = Did Not Start
DVDs are available of
every single Galletta's Karting Club race held since mid-2005 at
Galletta's (including every Galletta's Klassic since 1998, and
every Oswego Kartway race between 2007-2008) and are of
DVD-Quality (far superior to the YouTube videos, which are
edited and compressed for time) for $5 per disc. Each disc
contains between 1-2 hours of racing action, usually from two
camera angles, complete and unedited. Most of the pictures on
this website are lo-res screen captures from the DVDs.
Contact
Chris for your copy today, and he can make any copy from our
archives, just ask. Here is the menu of this week's
DVD volume:
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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!
Galletta's Greenhouse Gas Flathead Dirt Karting Club & Backyard Speedway
60 County Route 20 Oswego, NY, USA 13126-6512
Telephone: (315) 343-0879
or (315) 343-4281
(Ask for Matt or Chris only!)
Directions