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Racing points championship racing from 1996-current
at Galletta's Greenhouse's Go-Kart Speedway
Sundays from June-August & Saturdays from September-October, and summer Thursdays (or Fridays) at Oswego Speedway Kartway.
We race exclusively with limited-modified 5hp Briggs and Stratton flat-head motors all with affordable 100% stock parts at Galletta's, & 5-8hp motors at Oswego.

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CHRIS CHRUSHER'S OTHER PROJECTS:
Chris' Children's Book:
Tee & Wee

Chris' Graphic Novel:
Chrusher: End Cycle

Chris' Goofy Comic Book:

chrusher.comicgenesis.com

Chris' Family Comic Strip:

towner.comicgenesis.com

Chris' Family Greenhouse:
Our Greenhouse


 

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I HATE MYSPACE!

DRIVER PROFILE FOR CHRIS "CHRUSHERCOMIX" STEVENS (2006-08)

Chris Stevens wins the 7/18/2008 show at Galletta's (With wife, Au)
Chris with his wife Rungnapha "Aoo" Stevens after a 10-kart, 45-lap race win at Galletta's on 7/18/2008.

Name:
Christopher John Stevens

Nicknames:
"Chris", "Crusher"; "Chrusher"; "Chrusher Comix"; "Chrush"; "CJ"; "Triple C"; "ChrisChrusher"; "Galletta's Boy"; "Somkid" (wife's name); The Cerebral Chrusher"; "Smooth Chrusher"; Pen name of "Chris Galletta"; "The kid that draws comics"; "The guy who makes fun of poor sport drivers on his website, man he's an @$$#0!&".

Hometown:
Oswego, NY, US of A.

Chris ChrusherComix Stevens and the Galletta's #8 at the 2007 Klassic Championship
Chris "Chrusher" Stevens with the Galletta's Greenhouse #8 at the Galletta's 2007 Klassic (9/23/2007).

Karts:
Co-owner all of the Galletta's Go-Karts
(driven the #8 from 2004-up, driven the #2 and #5 to championships; all Ogre Chassis).

DOB:
5/22/1974

Marital Status:
Chris & AuMarried; wife Rungnapha or Au (pronounced "Ooh?"). [Damn, she's hot!]
I HATE MYSPACE!

Occupation:
Galletta's Greenhouse Florist, freelance graphic artist, cartoonist (his mature-teen-and-up Chrusher comic book/graphic novel & Towner his family-friendly comic strip), illustrator (his children's book named Tee & Wee) & website builder and webmaster (Galletta's Greenhouse, Galletta's Go-Karts & above cartooning sites).

Years Racing Go-karts at Galletta's:
1991-current.

Career highlights:
Track Championships in 1999, 2000 & 2001 (2nd place to his brother every other year).
"Klassic" Championship Race Victories in 1999, 2000 & 2001.
Oswego Speedway's 1st Annual Dirt Supermodified Yard Kart Classic in 2007.
2006 Feature victory at Oswego Speedway's mixed-class dirt go-kart track. Countless career victories, including over 22 feature wins since 2002 season. Won in several different karts throughout career.


Chris Chrusher winning at Oswego Speedway on 8/4/2006!Galletta's Track Championship history:
1996 - 2nd overall
1997 - 2nd overall
1998 - 2nd overall
1999 - 1st overall*
2000 - 1st overall*
2001 - 1st overall*
2002 - 2nd overall
2003 - 2nd overall
2004 - 2nd overall
2005 - 2nd overall
2006 - 2nd overall
2007 - 2nd overall**

* = Includes Galletta's Go-Kart Klassic Victory
** = Includes Oswego Speedway Gas-powered Kart Classic Victory

 Oswego Speedway Classic Weekend - Dirt Yard Kart Division Top 3

Chris (and his lovely wife, Au) posing after the Oswego Classic win!On August 30th, 2007, Chris "ChrusherComix" Stevens won the Oswego Speedway Classic Weekend's Dirt Supermodified Yard Kart Classic 50, his 1st Feature at Oswego since 2006, and his 3rd overall feature of 2007 in his Galletta's #8. His father Wesley Ogre Stevens took 2nd in the Galletta's #4, and his brother and head mechanic Matt Stevens got 3rd in his Galletta's #33. This makes the three originators of Oswego-area Yard Kart racing taking 1-2-3 in the first ever Oswego Yard Kart Classic!

Chris and his wife Au after the 2007 Classic win. Chris wanted Matt to pose as well, but he was nowhere to be found. Picture courtesy of LocalTrax.com and XtremeFotoz.com! View more on this race here. More->

Chris ChrusherComix wins and shows people who don't like him something!

Chris "ChrusherComix" Stevens (posing with his #1 fan & wife, the lovely Thai tower camerawoman Rungnapha "Au" Phengpataew Stevens) after he won an exciting 50-Lap, 14-kart Feature event on June 10th, 2007. (Sorry we had to Mosaic out Chris's #1 sign, as he accidentally used the wrong finger!)

Chris ChrusherComix Stevens wins his 2nd feature of 2007!
On August 26th, 2007, Chris "ChrusherComix" Stevens wins his 2nd feature of the year in his Galletta's #8, a 45-lap, 12-kart event. But the motor won 3 straight races, as the previous week Kyle Reuter beat Chris and Matt with it when it was on Chris' own backup, the Galletta's #5, and the following week, Chris won the Oswego Speedway Gas Kart Classic with it! Chris thanks his brother Matt and Melissa Gabel for their diligent work on the track and karts during the week, as he could not have done it without them. Oh, and Kyle for beating me with it the week before, haha!

Chris before his 1999 Galletta's Klassic win in the Galletta's #2! Chris after his 2001 Galletta's Klassic win in the Galletta's #5!
(Left) Chris before winning the 1999 Klassic in the Galletta's #2 and (right) after winning the 2000-2001 Klassics in the Galletta's #5.

Chris Chrusher wins the 11/4/2007 event!
Chris "The Cerebral Chrusher" Stevens won his fourth overall feature of the 2007 Oswego Karting season (three at Galletta's and one at Oswego), The Gary Miller/Ogre Retirement 45-Lapper on 11/4/2007. Chris won in the Galletta's #4, which used to be his regular kart in 1996 until he started using the Galletta's #2, the same time that Wes "Ogre" Stevens switched to the #4 permanently. However, Ogre is now retired due to his bone-crushing accident during the Klassic, and Chris's sore back needed the #4's soft cushy seat. First win for Chris in the #4 since the 1990s.

Chris ChrusherComix @ Galletta's Klassic 2006
Chris before the 2006 Galletta's Greenhouse Klassic - 2006/09/23 - Photo by Gene Galletta, Remastered by Chris Stevens.

Chris's lovely wife, Rungnapha "Aoo" StevensFavorite drivers:
Himself; his brother (to beat - HA!); Oswego Supermodified drivers Doug Didero, Bentley Warren, Doug Heveron, Joe Gosek (not so sure about his fans, though), Kelly & Joe Miller*, Randy Ritskes* (who actually calls us nuts? Wow, what a compliment! Ha!), Cameron & Fran Rowe*, Ryan Coleman*, & several other Oswego Speedway veterans. Everybody who regularly races Go-Karts with us, has a great time, doesn't whine is also in this list! I can't name you all, thanks!
* = Oswego regulars that have raced with us at Galletta's!

Least-Favorite
Drivers:
Drivers that can't race clean. Drivers who bump and ram. Drivers who lose their temper too easily. Drivers who think that a bigger motor means a better racer. Overly boastful winners. People who will only race with bigger motors than you. Guys that race with us a few times, lose badly, then accuse us of cheating and copy all of our ideas and race their own tracks or only race us with bigger motors than us and think that they're suddenly great.

Occupation:
Chris' artist profile:
Cartoonist/Graphic Artist, Chris Galletta Stevens

Please buy Chris's new children's book (co-created and written by Robert Buchanan)
named, Tee and Wee: Health and Nutrition for Young Earthlings, ON SALE NOW:
TEE AND WEE CHILDREN'S BOOK

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Chris' kid-friendly/family-friendly comic strip named Towner (with over 10 years of comics):


Chris' 2007 Graphic Novel, a drama; Chrusher - End Cycle:


Chris's 1988-1999 teen-to-adult-humor comic book named "ChrusherComix" (with over 20 years of comics):

Those that don't like his comics are subject to sore defeat in them and on the track.

Hobbies & interests:
Being with family & friends; His graphic art and cartooning websites (Chrusher and Towner); his Children's book (Tee and Wee) Judeo-Christian apologetics (favorites are Dr. Ravi Zacharias and KGOV's Bob Enyart Live); Fan/collector of composer John Williams' film scores with over 400 CDs and DVDs with his music; favorite movies include the Star Wars saga, Indiana Jones movies, and several other Spielberg films; fan of San Antonio Spurs basketball and NY Jets football; loves visiting Thailand (his wife's native country); Collector of 1980s Transformers "G1" collectibles & animation and 1980s G.I. Joe. Crushing people who cross him in his comics (and occasionally his go-kart site), hence his nickname, "ChrusherComix." Loves and owns countless pets, including cats, turtles, toads, frogs, and fish. Loves computers, and home theatre systems, and debating outspoken whiney atheist/leftist-liberal/anti-Christian types. And, of course, karting!

More of Chris & Matt's complete racing history is found here:

Early Pictures

More Q&A with Chris:

Chassis: Galletta's #8 and #5 are both Ogre Chassis. Driven the other Galletta Karts too.
Engine: Stock Briggs & Stratton 5hp flathead tuned "Galletta's style" by Matt Stevens.
Crew Chief: Myself and Matt Stevens
Pit Crew: Matt Stevens, Wesley Ogre Stevens, Melissa Gabel
Sponsors: Galletta's Greenhouse, ChrusherComix Inc., Emperor Sidious Palpatine, your mama.

How and where did you become involved in racing?
As the history section shows, my brother and I have been watching Supermodifieds at Oswego Speedway since early childhood, and used to play race with pedal karts and matchbox cars as toddlers. In our teens, we bought a couple of yard karts, raced them in our backyard with friends and family and then it slowly it took off from there by modifying them into hybrid racing karts - half yard kart, half race kart. Oddly, I am incredibly bored by other classes and forms of racing other than what runs at Oswego Speedway and our own brand of incredibly affordable and competitive karting.

Why do you race at Galletta's Greenhouse Go-Kart Speedway?
Because it is my home track in my back yard. Duh! What a dumb question. Idiot. But seriously, we created our own class because not only we made a karting track in our backyard, but to keep costs down. To build a WKA kart, you're talking about thousands of dollars for a competitive machine. Similar for Champs. Other racing vehicles are the same, but even more costly. Our karting is regulated in order to be able to make a competitive machine that can win races for just a few hundred dollars. $200-500 and you got yourself a kart that can race with us. People always tell us to jump into other classes, change our rules to allow methanol or expensive racing parts, but they just don't get it. We do our class to keep an exciting race with 10-15 karts on a track bumper-to-bumper close with one mistake being the difference between a win and last. Try that in today's economy on any other track in the local area. We almost always have the closest and biggest shows, mainly thanks to my brother's diligence in making every motor as close to equal as he can make it, and our friends for sticking to it and developing into good racers. We're always looking for more, so if you're reading this and like the idea of weekly racing for just a few hundred dollars, then please join us. No other class is more affordable and competitive from first to last place.

Why do you race at Oswego Kartway?
We grew up watching the races at Oswego Speedway (the Kartway's parent track and behind where the track is located), so it's fun to race where we saw so many great races through the years. Not to mention it is a vastly different track to Galletta's and it makes for a fun change up. Our track has long straights and narrow, highly banked corners; Oswego has almost no straights, nice clay, and very little banking in their turns, so it is a different racing experience. Plus, we have friends who race there, volunteer, and have a good time as long as we can keep our kart counts up, and as long as we aren't forced to race people who only race us if they can use different, bigger horsepowered, and much more expensive motors than us. They've been called cheaters by some, but I 'd rather just say that it is just poor sportsmanship when the playing field isn't equal.

What do you do when you are not racing and/or in the off-season?
I'm a graphic artist. I create, illustrate, color, and self-publish graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, and children's books while I'm not doing freelance projects. In the last couple of years, I've taught myself how to build and maintain websites in order to help get my comics and our go-karting noticed. Greenhouse work pays the bills, but it's more Matt's hobby than mine. The rest of the time, I just spend with my wife, brother, mom and dad.

Comments / Is there anything else you would like the fans to know about you, the team, or your sponsors?
My sponsors are Galletta's Greenhouse (my family's greenhouse) and pimping my own graphic artwork projects (ChrusherComix, Towner Comics, and Tee & Wee Children's Book ). And Emperor Palpatine, because he's my idol. So, that means I have no sponsors. Haha... don't need any for gas stocker kart racing! That's the fun of it, because it's low cost (a couple of hundred dollars a year) and high return of fun provided that everybody plays by the rules (Too bad that some don't). We love racing go-karts and we love racing good drivers. Over the last fifteen or so years, we lost track of the hundreds of people who have raced with us and then stopped. Of the hundreds, I can think of anywhere between twenty and thirty really good drivers that just gave up and stopped racing us. We always hoped that all the guys that raced 5hps with us for a year or two and stopped would come back, and we'd have some highly competitive 20-30 kart races. We would put on the best kart races anywhere, bar none. But either they get bigger motors, jump divisions, race elsewhere or they stop racing entirely. That kind of stinks, but hopefully from here on out we can gain more drivers than we lose. We usually have a trade-off and stay around 10-15 karts. But... in closing... we know that the guys who give up just admit that they can't beat us. Ha!

Form was Updated on: 9-26-07 and again on 7/18/2008.

 


This website is owned, created, maintained, and copyrighted © by Chris "Chrusher Comix" Stevens (including all text, pictures, artwork, video clips, and descriptions). The views expressed are not necessarily the opinions of others at the Galletta's Go-Kart Club or Galletta's Greenhouse (unless otherwise noted).

Race Index:
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 Gas Karting Championship of Oswego
2007 Fall Series

'07 #16: Klassic
2007 #15
2007 #14
Oswego Classic

2007 #13
2007 #12
2007 #11
2007 #10

2007 #9
2007 #8

2007 #7
2007 #6

2007 #5
2007 #4
2007 #3
2007 #2
2007 #1
2006 #18-23
2006 #17
(Classic)
2006 #16
2006 #15
2006 #14
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 Final
2005 #21
2005 #20
2005 #19
2005 #18
('05 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
2004 Klassic
2004 Final
'96-03 Klassics
1900s-2006 History



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