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 #7
- Sunday, July 18th, 2010:
2010 Season, Event #7- Sunday, July
18th, 2010 -Driving the Galletta's Greenhouse
#9 kart, Jeff Tetro, won his 1st feature race
at Galletta's Sunday. He became the 8th different winner of
8 features so far this season at Galletta's, including the 6th
1st-time first feature winner so far at John J. Galletta Memorial
Karting Speedway. The racing is so close that handicapping and
staying out of accidents are critical more so than any other
year in our 20 year history of racing Karts at Galletta's!
15-karts large -- even without three regular drivers being
unable to race this week -- our heats are amazingly have more
karts than most other local karting classes features! And the
competition is VERY close, bumper-to-bumper all season so far!
Not bad for $500-700 racing karts on a free, donation-run
backyard speedway, huh? Sorry for the delays in the page's
update - driver/web-man/video-man/stat-man Chris Stevens here
had a wisdom tooth extraction Monday morning that laid me up for
about a day. Now let's get to it:
1st 10-Lap Heat Order-of-Finish:
1st. Rob Clarke (Galletta's #1)
2nd.
Jeff Tetro (Galletta's #9)
3rd.
Arnold "AJ" Nason (Hammered #35)
4th. Kelly Miller (Galletta's #7)
5th. Chris Stevens (Galletta's #8)
6th. Melissa Stevens (Scissors N' Fur #19)
7th. Collin Miller (Doe #26)
2nd 10-Lap Heat Order-of-Finish:
1st. Randy Platt (Galletta's/Platt #2)
2nd. Russ Hockey (Hockey #00)
3rd. Matt Stevens (Galletta's #3)
4th.
Chad Leroy (Galletta's #5)
5th.
Michael "MC" Howell (Galletta's #0)
6th. George Russell (Galletta's #6)
7th.
Gary Miller Sr. (Galletta's #4)
8th. Shadoe Russell (Doe #26)
Sadly,
points leader Tim Galletta missed the show to spend more time
with his wife and kids, so not only did he lose his season-long
stranglehold on the lead, but he was unable to debut his Sid
Harvey #54 kart (formerly the original Dick Dann #86 kart slightly
rebuilt), which looks sharp and fast! He will be eligible for
a make-up race (which was meant exactly for situations such
as these) and scored at the end of the event he missed.
(RIGHT) Speaking
of debuting slightly re-built and re-painted former Dick Dann
mobiles, AJ Nason debuted his wonderful new decal-job by his
wife on his Hammerd #35 (formerly the Destroyer Dann Racing
#68). Great job, AJ and crew! Plus, Randy Platt also debuted
his own motor on the Galletta's Greenhouse #2 kart until he gets
his own chassis to plant it on, and it proved again to be yet
another fast power-plant built by Matt! The feature went as
follows:
45-Lap Feature
Order-of-Finish:
1st. Jeff Tetro (Galletta's #9)
2nd. Randy Platt (Galletta's/Platt #2)
3rd. Melissa Stevens (Scissors N' Fur #19, 80)
4th. Chris Stevens (Galletta's #8)
5th. Matt Stevens (Galletta's #3)
6th. AJ Nason (Hammered #35)
7th. Kelly Miller (Galletta's #7)
8th. Michael "MC" Howell (Galletta's #0) DNF
9th. Chad Leroy (Galletta's #5) DNF
10th. George Russell (Galletta's #6) DNF
11th.Gary Miller Sr. (Galletta's #4) DNF
12th. Russ Hockey (Hockey #00) DNF
13th. Rob Clarke (Galletta's #1) DNF
14th. Shadoe Russell (Doe #26) DNF
15th. Collin Miller (Miller #24) DNS DNF = Did Not Finish
DNS = Did Not Start
Make-up Race Credit:
16th. Tim Galletta (Galletta's #7) via 8/1/2010
make-up
17th. Russ Bartlett (Galletta's #9) via
8/1/2010 make-up
18th. Ken Lindsley (Galletta's #5) via
8/1/2010 make-up
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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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!
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