Galletta's Karting Club - 2010 Season, Event #10 - Sunday, August 8th, 2010:

2010 Season, Event #10- Sunday, August 8th, 2010 - A "Snooze-U-Lose Twin-30s Night" was in store at Galletta's Backyard Karting Speedway, and Timothy Galletta became the 1st 2-feature winner of the season (but first in his Sid Harvey's #54 kart) when he took Feature #1. The 2nd 30-Lapper went top the man who led most of the 1st feature until he broke - Randy Platt (in the Galletta's Greenhouse #2 kart), fighting off a furious last-lap in-traffic challenge from Matt Stevens. Points, results, pictures and videos:

PART ONE OF TWO - 1st 30-Lap Feature:

 

PART TWO OF TWO - 2nd 30-Lap Feature:

 

Per usual, all in-action race snapshots are screen captures directly from our weekly race DVDs, which document the entire race from two camera angles, usually are anywhere between 1-2 hours, and are only $5 each, in higher quality resolution than our YouTube vids which they are made from. Just like the donations that run all of the karts, all proceeds go back into the club (in this case the DVDRs and the website).

Randi "Bobandi" Platt dominated his pole-starting position in the Galletta's #2. Randy's own kart was completed in time for the race, but due to an inability to work out the handling bugs, he just put his motor back on the Galletta's #2.

Randy was so fast that he was not even in the frame as AJ Nason holds off Chris Stevens, Mike Howell and Tim Galletta in the early going. Chris Stevens, however, broke a chain on his Galletta's Greenhouse #8 kart, and he hopped into the Galletta's Greenhouse #5, which was the last kart he won a Galletta's Klassic with in 2000 and 2001. AJ Nason's motor needs a bore, as it was showing signs of excessive wear and he parked it to try out the Galletta's Greenhouse #9 kart.

Randy's dominance however would not last, as the motor that was just placed on the #2 from his own kart must not have been bolted down securely, as vibrations shook it loose and cost him the race. Eerily reminiscent of the prior week's race where his axle bent and blew off a chain on almost the very same spot in the back turn. This set up Tim Galletta - who passed Mike "MC" Howell when MC slipped up with the Galletta's Greenhouse #0 kart just once in turn 4 - for the win. Mike pressured Tim but was unable to score a pass. Tim's 2nd career win comes in his 2nd year and even 2nd kart, as this one was with his Sid Harvey's #54 (his prior win was in the Galletta's Greenhouse #7 on week 2 of this season).

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Randy's dominance could not be held in check twice. As the 1st Twin-30 is a traditional Galletta's-type handicap (First by inverting season wins and secondly by points-per-race), the 2nd Twin-30 is inverting the finish of the 1st Feature. Randy's 1st-Feature breakdown helped him this time, as he again had the pole and again started to pull away in the Galletta's Greenhouse #2 kart. That was until Matt and Chris Stevens were able to pass AJ Nason and track him down. Matt challenged Randy in his Galletta's Greenhouse #33 kart, and on the final two laps, Randy was pressure cooked between lapped traffic and Matty-Joey, but was able to maintain a strong groove and score his 1st career win at Galletta's Greenhouse Speedway!

1st 30-Lap Feature Order-of-Finish: 1st. Tim Galletta (Sid Harvey's #54) 2nd. Michael "MC" Howell (Galletta's #0) 3rd. Chris Stevens (Galletta's #8, #5) 4th. Matt Stevens (Galletta's #3) 5th. Melissa Stevens (Scissors #80, 19) 6th. AJ Nason (Hammerd #35, #9) 7th. Randy Platt (Galletta's #2) DNF Retcon Bonus Make-Up Points: 8th. Shadoe Russell (#26) from 8/29 9th. George Russell (#2) from 8/29 DNF = Did Not Finish

2nd 30-Lap Feature Order-of-Finish: 1st. Randy Platt (Galletta's #2) 2nd. Matt Stevens (Galletta's #33) 3rd. Chris Stevens (Galletta's #5) 4th. Michael "MC" Howell (Galletta's #0) 5th. AJ Nason (Galletta's #9) 6th. Tim Galletta (Sid Harvey's #54) 7th.  Melissa Stevens (Scissors N' Fur #19) Retcon Bonus Make-Up Points: 8th. Shadoe Russell (#26) from 8/29 9th. George Russell (#2) from 8/29

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: