Race Index:
9/7/2008 Galletta's
9/4/2008 Oswego Classic
8/28/2008 Oswego
8/21/2008 Oswego
8/17/2008 Galletta's
8/14/2008 Oswego
8/7/2008 Oswego
8/3/2008 Galletta's
8/1/2008 Oswego
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 Season:
2007 Season Recap
2007 Fall Races
'07 Galletta's Klassic
9/10/2007
9/03/2007
'07 Oswego Classic
8/26/2007
8/15-19/2007
8/9-12/2007
8/02-05/2007
7/26-29/2007
7/22/2007
7/13-15/2007
7/05-08/2007
6/28-7/01/2007
6/21-24/2007
6/15-17/2007
6/10/2007
6/03/2007

2006 Season:
2006 #17-23
'06 #16: Klassic
2006 #14-15
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 Season:
2005 Final
2005 #21
2005 #20
2005 #19
'05 #18: 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

The early '00s:
2004 Season Recap
2003 Season Recap
2002 Season Recap
2001 Season Recap
2000 Season Recap

The 1990s:
1990s Recap

Extras:
All-Time Points
'02-up Win List
Comedic History
Archival Page

Extras:
'96-03 Klassics
'02-up Win List
1900s-2003
Archival Page

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Welcome! We are a Karting Club that invented and races extremely affordable 5hp, Single Wheel Drive "Gas stocker" karts for a Points championship every summer at Galletta's Greenhouse Karting Speedway and a Gas Stocker division at Oswego Speedway's Clay Kartway. We also record weekly dirt karting classes in the Oswego area and make them available on DVD! Join us racing by either building your own or renting one of our team backup karts. Or just watch in person, or by buying our DVDs. Please read on and learn more about our extremely affordable brand of highly competitive racing!

THE 2003 GALLETTA'S BOX STOCK GAS KARTING LEAGUE SEASON

This season only saw 13 regular-season events before Klassic, as Matt, Chris and Wes started to get bored of just racing each other (and being at each others throats because of the rabid competition between the three) because they wanted to only race with visitors. The 8th Annual Galletta's Kart Klassic wound up being our longest to date, as we made the jump to 100 laps. Our first triple-digit lap race in history!

The 8th Annual 2003 Galletta's Go-Kart Klassic 100:

Our cousin, Brian Galletta, again joined us fro a good chunk of the season, and due to mysteriously retiring regular drivers, did a great job getting new recruits for us just in time for our big show. They invaded our 2003 Klassic to make it our biggest to date. Yes, he is flipping you the bird! Here they are posing for the camera before the 100-Lap event!

Opening lap saw Brian Galletta set a fast pace leading over time-trail-winner Chris, Matt, and Ogre. He dominated the early portions of the race in the Galletta's #7. However, he may have beat up his kart a too much early, as he wound up with a DNF. This Klassic had a tremendous, fierce 3-way battle between the originators of the Galletta's Karting Club, battling for the top spots back and forth for the entire 2nd half of the race going from 1st to 3rd and 3rd to 1st several times. However, it was Matt who continued his Klassic and Points Standings Championship winning streak after he passed Chris with 16-laps to go when Chris's foot fell off the gas pedal. Chris' foot slipped off a 2nd time, which was enough for Ogre to get him for 2nd on the very last lap. Chris was extremely frustrated by the fact that a slippery shoe was the difference between a hard-earned victory and tough luck 3rd place. Again, Matt used a strategy of babying the kart in last place for more than half the race before turning up the heat and stomping everybody late when their karts are tired and beat. Now for the finalized points standings, which includes Klassic points earned:

2003 Final Point Standings for the Galletta's Karting Season
Box stock 5hp gas go-kart championship of Oswego, NY

Rank	Name (Main Kart Piloted; Some more than one) Some names were spelled so poorly in our listings that they were illegible & could not be translated to type. People who can't spell their own names may be mentally challenged.	Total Points (Place)	Average Points Per Event	Events	Feature Wins	* = Klassic Win
1	Matt Stevens (Galletta's #3)	1356.00	96.8	14	7*	1*
2	Chris "Chrusher" Stevens (Galletta's #5)	1183.50	84.5	14	4	0
3	Wes "Ogre" Stevens (Galletta's #4)	924.40	66.0	14	1	0
4	Brian Galletta (Galletta's #7, 1)	549.50	78.5	7	0	0
5	Randy Platt (Galletta's #6)	353.50	88.4	4	0	0
6	Matthew Frey (Galletta's #2)	317.00	158.5	2	0	0
7	Antoin "Choch" Thomas (Galletta's #0)	274.00	274.0	1	0	0
8	Matt "Little D" Donoghue (Galletta's #1)	210.00	210.0	1	0	0
9	Tom "Fast-Flip" Culeton (Galletta's #2)	198.00	49.0	4	2	0
10	Scott Merry (Galletta's #?)	180.50	45.1	4	0	0
11	Adam Pasiak (Galletta's #0)	152.50	38.1	4	0	0
12	John "Burnsy" Burns (Galletta's #0)	136.50	45.5	3	0	0
13	Jason Mills (Galletta's #6, 0)	114.00	28.5	4	0	0
14	Brandon "Buth?" (Galletta's #?)	63.00	63.0	1	0	0
15	Dan Lupa (Galletta's #1)	37.00	37.0	1	0	0
16	Jamie Stevens (Galletta's #?)	37.00	37.0	1	0	0
17	Matt Markowski (Galletta's #?)	37.00	37.0	1	0	0
18	Lou LeVea (Galletta's #?)	36.50	37.0	1	0	0
19	Brian Osetek (Galletta's #?)	36.00	18.0	2	0	0
20	Brian "_______?" #1 (Galletta's #?)	31.50	31.5	1	0	0
21	Brian Mills (Galletta's #?)	30.00	30.0	1	0	0
22	Ricky Piazza (Galletta's #?)	29.00	29.0	1	0	0
23	Eric Cortright (Galletta's #?)	26.00	26.0	1	0	0
24	Adam McIntyre (Galletta's #?)	26.00	26.0	1	0	0
25	Leo Manford II (Galletta's #?)	26.00	26.0	1	0	0
26	Adam "________"? (Galletta's #?)	23.00	23.0	1	0	0
27	Samuel G. "Hencluseaw"? Jr. (Galletta's #?)	19.00	19.0	1	0	0
28	Dave Wahrendorf (Galletta's #?)	19.00	19.0	1	0	0
29	Anthony Master (Galletta's #?)	19.00	19.0	1	0	0

Again, this group of drivers (at least the top 10-13 with more than 2-3 races under their belts) were starting to get pretty good, but then all of the sudden, most of them stopped coming. Re-occurring theme throughout the history of Galletta's Racing Club: People start terrible, keep at it, then start to improve and be in competition with the big guns and start to win races... and then just give up and never come back with no explanation given. Even Tom Culeton, the 2002 rookie-of-the-year did return for four races in 2003 (winning two of them - which is a win ratio on par with Matt), and then mysteriously retired after a race where he crashed repeatedly with others enough to raise the ire of the property owner. Okay, no problem, let's find and groom more new drivers! Onto another season...

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The 7th & 8th Annual Galletta's Go-Karts Klassics  from 2002 & 2003 DVD:
This disc contains TWO Galletta's Go-Kart Klassic Championships from September 2002 and another from 2003! Includes bonus coverage from other races.  Price $7.

 

PS - Some snapshots from our 2003 Klassic DVD:

 

The Galletta's Go-Karting Club was founded by brothers Matt and Chris Stevens in the early 1990s when they modified yard karts for racing purposes. They are the inventors of "clockwise 5hp flathead gas stocker kart" racing, and have a 13-kart race team that includes several backup karts available to be rented and raced at both Galletta's and Oswego Speedway all summer. Invented with specifically "gas stock 5hp motor" rules so that a person doesn't have to spend thousands of dollars to race in extremely competitive racing events, the class grows in talent and competition every single year. Join us by building your own kart for around $200-500, or rent one of our team karts on two tracks all Summer & Fall in Oswego, NY!


The Oswego Gas Stocker Kart Club races at Galletta's Greenhouse Kartway & Oswego Speedway Kartway.

Due to the fact that the karts are so affordable and the oldest veterans have been racing for nearly two decades, it is one of the most difficult karting divisions to win at, but yet you can be instantly competitive for just a couple hundred dollars IF you're a good driver. You can't outspend your opponent due to our gas-powered stock-only rule, so you must out-race them and out-setup them. In fact, nobody has ever defeated Matt & Chris in the open challenge: race a stock 5hp flathead and stop them from scoring 1st & 2nd in a points season. Though hundreds of people have tried in hundreds of races since the early 1990s, Chris and Matt have scored 1 & 2 every year. But it's not just them you have to race. Our regular drivers are all talented and experienced. You can prove your skills against the winningest karters in the local area AND you won't even have to spend a lot of money to get started! We dare you to try! Make your own or rent one of our racing team karts. Sound like fun? Read on, explore the website, and join us!

More Galletta's Go-Karting flips, crashes and tight racing carting highlights on:
 
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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
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Please visit Galletta's Speedway racer/co-founder/co-owner Chris "Crusher Comics" Stevens's other websites that include my cartoons, comic books, children's book, and family greenhouse:

Galletta's Greenhouse & Karting Team
60 County Route 20
Oswego, NY, USA
13126-6512
Telephone:
 (315) 343-0879
or
(315) 343-4281
(Ask for Matt or Chris only!)
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