Racing points championship racing from 1996-current
at Galletta's Greenhouse's
"Racing Yard Kart"/Go-Kart Speedway Every weekend from June-October
at Galletta's, and weekly all summer at Kart tracks in the local Oswego-area.
We race exclusively with limited-modified
5hp Briggs and Stratton flat-head motors all with affordable 100% stock
parts at Galletta's & Oswego to make the most affordable karting league in the world - Racing yard
karts, AKA Single-Wheel-Drive Gas Stockers!
Tough economy? You can still race all year with a $300-500 kart, pump gas,
and some spare parts!
Start today!
Nicknames:
Tricky Dick, Dickie-Dann, "The Destroyer"
Dick Dann's #86 Kart, circa 2007, before several rebuilds. Picture
by Deb, Dick's wife.
Karts:
Head man of Team Dann (#86 & 02 #68) AKA Destroyer Chassis.
Dick usually drives the #86, while his
son Nick usually drives the #68. Driven Galletta's rentals in
past.
Motto:
"Hey Matt, what're you doing to my wife?!"
Years Racing Go-karts at Galletta's: 2006-current.
Dick has at least one Feature
Event win every season of his karting career, seen below:
Due
to his work schedule as a trucker, Dick Dann could only race around
once per month during 2009 at Galletta's, and to make matters worse,
two of those potential race dates were rained out. Having motor problems
on his #86 and #68 team karts, Dick navigated the Galletta's #7 kart
on the
post-'09 Klassic bonus points race on October
11th, 2009, and led all 25-laps and take his 1st feature win of
2009, hence keeping his streak of at least one feature win per season
since his rookie campaign in 2006. More info and the YouTube video
of his dominant lead-every-lap win is found
here.
Dick
Dann passed Larry Phillips late in the race to win the 2nd 30-Lapper
on October 19th, 2008 (Melissa Gabel won
the 1st 30-Lapper, although Dick was in 2nd for most of that race
as well). It was the 1st time that the Dann #68 kart (usually driven
by his son
Nick) visited victory lane at Galletta's,
although Nick did score an Oswego Kartway win earlier that year on.
More here
Dick
Dann time-trialed the pole at the Oswego
Kartway 2008 Classic Time Trails, even getting a faster time than
1st & 2nd place All-Time point earners Matt and Chris Stevens.
He was allowed the handicap of a Raptor carburetor for this event,
the only one in the race with one, as Galletta Karting Club events
have mandatory 1990's-type gas stock carbs to regulate price and top
speed. (Click picture to see more!)
Dick Dann won a highly competitive feature on
8/5/2007
topping a field of top-notch local karters bar none, proving that
weight does not hold people back from winning at Galletta's - unlike
smaller, less banked local tracks. Dick won the same night that he
violently flipped and nearly busted his helmet! (See the exciting
below video, and give it a good rating. Lots of haters [sometimes
needlessly arrogant WKA-type karters, sometimes gaymers
"gamers" who think racing a video game is real racing, sometimes
people who watch bigger forms of racing - like NASCAR for example
- and think anything less expensive is less talented] online giving
our videos bad ratings.).
DICK DANN FLIPS AT
GALLETTA'S BACKYARD KARTING SPEEDWAY (THEN COMES BACK TO WIN THE FEATURE...) :
Dick often rebuilds yard karts
into 1-WD racing karts in his spare time. You can see in this slideshow
shows the rebuilding of the Nick Dann #68 in the 2008 offseason and
the the building of his newest chassis in the 2010 offseason.:
The kart has come a long way from then
after several rebuilds
- as seen from top picture (a
hybrid WKA-styled kart with 1-WD) to this
one (slightly race-adapted yard kart). This
was his rookie season. Oddly enough, although Dick has been a
semi-regular competitor since his rookie year, he has missed the
2007, 2008, and 2009 Galletta's Klassics, and the 2007 Oswego Classic,
while not finishing the neither of the ones that he did start
('06 Galletta's and '08 Oswego). In
his first four years of karting he has only raced a
total of around 30 of around 850 "Classic" or "Klassic" laps, which
are the highest-point-scoring races in our Karting Club. Even so,
Dick has still managed enough Regular-Season-Summer races and
Fall-Bonus-Point races to still be one if the highest scoring visiting drivers
in the history of the Galletta's and Oswego Dirt Karting Point
Scoring, as witnessed in our All-Time Oswego and All-Time Galletta's
Point Standings. He vows to make the 2010 event and pass points rival Gary
Miller.
That
Dick brought a lot of visitors to the Galletta's Go-Karts
website during the 2006-07 off-season, just from people
doing Google image searches for "Dick." Oddly, as soon as I
posted this, it stopped. Google is a fickle creature, no?
Haha!
Dick is known
as The fastest man weighing over 200 lbs. to win in
Galletta's 5hp history (Proving the stubborn and belligerent
Oswego Kartway Track Operator and his friends, the
"Intek-OHV-6.5hp-oops-I-forgot-to-tell-you-guys-that-we-are-now-Gas-Stock-Animal-Outlaws"
gang wrong; with the right setup, talent, and on-track
experience, you can win without buying a bigger motor than
the next man). Always finishes well, races well, and has
wins every season - with a gas flathead?! Gasp!
Dick is
the pioneer of the idea of utilizing a race cam to equalize
a weight handicap in our gas stock flathead karting club. In
2007, he tried out the Dyno 94-SS cam. Being a heavier
driver, he was allowed this otherwise breach of the rules.
He has also experimented with methanol and methanol Raptor
carbs on trial basis. As usual at Galletta's, we are open to
experimentation and we adjust our rules by majority vote
with the single condition of affordability in mind. Regular
drivers weigh around 200 lbs (weight is added for anybody
lighter). Bigger cams for heavy drivers (over 220 lbs) are
allowed, as are racing headers. However, we still do not
allow methanol or Raptor carbs, unless the driver would be a
super-heavyweight (at Galletta's, we would likely consider
this for someone possibly in excess of 280 lbs). At
Galletta's, we do NOT believe in making 15 weight and motor
classes. Yes, this means some people unfortunately do turn
away (only because they would want to invest $600-$3,000 in
a motor or they admittedly "love to eat, but I still love to
race" and weigh over 280 lbs), but it does mean we have the
most fun racing, make the speeds as close as we can (letting
experience and talent be the biggest determining factors)
and we actually decide an overall champion.
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