2006 Final Galletta's Go-Karts Total Point Standings
After 18 feature events from 6/11/2006 thru 10/07/2006
NOTE: The 75-Lapper was the final points show. The final five features, won by Matt (2), Dick (1), and Josh (2),
were counted as Fall exhibitions and won't count in the final points standings, though they are credited as career wins:

KEY:
Win column: * = Tie win, >= rain-shortened win, ^ = Classic win
(Does not include Oswego Speedway wins & points)
Name column: * = Galletta's Track Championships

Now let's have a recap of the 2006 Classic and the final 2006 races!

The 12th Annual Galletta's Go-Kart Klassic Championship 150!
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006 (150-Lap Event; #16)


The biggest race in the 1990-2006 history of the track was held on 9/23/2006: The Klassic. For more info, go to last week's page. Or see the final '06 races.

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Galletta's Go-Kart 2006 #17 from (2006/09/30) 28-laps (Rain-shortened event)
Rain-shortened 28-Lapper Finale:

1st	Kyle Reuter #7
2nd	Chris Stevens #8
3rd	"Flyin' Oz" Berry #11
4th	Matt Stevens #33/3
5th	Kelly Miller #0
6th	Freddy Collins #2
7th	Dick Dann #86
8th	Wesley Stevens #4
9th	Nick Dann #02
10th	Gary "I Give Up!" Miller #24

Here is Chris challenging Kyle for the lead on one of the final laps of the event. The rain started pouring heavily, and for the 1st time ever, a Galletta's Go-Kart event was rain-shortened in progress; just in-time for Kyle, who spun out on the final lap, saved only by Ogre's spin a spilt second earlier. Meanwhile, Fast Flyin' Flippin' Freddy did a Dukes of Hazzard jump over the small inside wall in the back stretch, landing on his head, then driving right into Kyle's parked #7 kart (who had to be repaired so that he could resume leading the race - we allowed it because it wasn't his fault; he wasn't even in the kart!). Kyle then gets his 1st win and becomes the quickest feature winner at Galletta's, though it was one of the shortest features in recent years here as well. (Chris's notes: Sorry for the slow update, as helping my wife pack for her trip to Thailand for her sister's wedding, and I also had no idea how to score a 28-lap event - I just made it up now based on between a 25 and 30 lap points scale.)

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Galletta's Go-Kart 2006 #18 (2006/10/07) 75-laps (Fall Endurance Championship)
Fall 75-Lapper Finale:

1st	Matt Stevens #33
2nd	Chris Stevens #8
3rd	Wesley Stevens #4
4th	Robbie Jimenez #5
5th	Freddy Collins #2
6th	Josh Schute #7
7th	Dick Dann #86
8th	Oscar Berry #11
9th	Kyle Reuter #1
10th	"New Guy"* #10
11th	Kelly Miller #0
12th	Nick Dann #02

Here is Chris challenging Matt for the lead on a late-race restart. Though he had a couple of runs, Matt found a groove in his new #33 and pulled away for yet another win. Mattie-Jo again extends his lead and pads his slightly eroded lead in the total points standings. Meanwhile, several drivers are dropping like stones in the points as they don't attend the races anymore... a shame considering that if every accomplished veteran driver showed up, the racing would be unbelievably competitive, especially late in the year when passing becomes more difficult. (Chris' notes: Sorry for the slow update, but I was terribly sick with a throat/head/chest cold all last weekend and 1/2 of the week, a condition worsened by racing in the cold for this race. Also, *- We need the printed name of the "new guy" as his signature is an utterly unreadable scribble.)

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Every year, after Klassic, we finalize the Summer Series and have a short Fall series. Due to a lack of attending drivers in the Fall and deteriorating weather, the series does not always get scored unless enough drivers attend, it gets videotaped, and someone writes the scoring down. If you want to race for points, please race in our Galletta's Kart Club events between June-through-September. That's the season, and post-Klassic races are almost more like practice/exhibitions that we add on only if someone helps score it. Now, here they are...

Galletta's Go-Kart 2006 #19 & #20 (2006/10/15)
30-lap "Non-winners" race and 40-lap "regular" race
It was a great night for Josh Schute, who has long been a middle-of-the-pack runner who has slowly, but steadily improved over the last year. But it was his night, as he not only won the 1st non-winner's race of the 2006 season, but he then held on and survived a late-race accident to win the regular 40-lapper (that contained several top-gun feature-winning drivers; Matt, Chris, Ogre, and Rob - who were all collected in a 2nd-through-4th place pileup). Josh took both races away from Dick Dann, who led both events until Josh stole away the lead late when Dick's kart mishandled in the first and blew a tire late in the second. Josh has been fast in the Galletta's #7 since last year, and it was great to see him get a win. A great, fun, competitive night for all involved. Pictures and updated stats are forthcoming.

Also, the Woodland Go-kart track has opened (click here for a picture gallery including a handful of shots from the new track [in addition to several shots of some of us Galletta's Go-Kart Club here at Galletta's and Oswego Speedway] are on Howard Seabrook's Small Engine Racing site here). The track looks nice, but we are trying to figure out what kind of rules they have, as they seem to be racing counter-clockwise (against their stagger?), racing on dirt with slicks, and allowing methanol karts to race with stock 5hps? Or hybrid in-between-er-karts, which would kind of disqualify them from running with our stock gas and Oswego's racing methanols. Or do they run classes? Or just testing/practicing? And how many people are running out there? If they want us to race on their track in the future, we race clockwise and only with stock-part 5hp karts. We'll see about next year, as it is starting to get too wet and cold this season. The track looks nice though, Great job. Maybe you could help out our track's turns with that heavy equipment... Matt does all this track by hand, shovel, and a roller on a mower, haha! (PS - Also, Howard & Co., feel free to link to our site as I have linked to yours. Hopefully we can all get a lot more interest in new drivers for next season by our combined websites. Thanks!)

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Galletta's Go-Kart 2006 #21 (2006/10/21) 40-lap Feature
Today was Dick Dann's day (er, night), as he continued leading the entirety of the race as he did last week, but this week he held off Chris and Matt for his 1st career win in his rookie campaign. Dick proves all of the big-motor whiners wrong, as he wins a feature with his all-stock 5hp engine while he weighs over 200lbs.! Great to see all these 1st-time feature winners, as it shows that everybody is improving! Pictures and updated stats forthcoming if Chris has time (but he doesn't). However, the night was marred by two young hoodlums who were generally incompetent, seemed stoned, spun often, stalled often, wrecked often, broke parts (including severely bending their own friend Rob's axle [which is MY frame BTW - Rob's mom and dad only owned the engine and the wheels, and they took them back in 2007 after we stored them and cared for them for over a year], Ogre's hub/axle, and one of the wheels that they were driving), left early on their own accord, and then the following day, demanded their money back (even though they busted and bent several of the above mentioned parts on the karts that add up to far more than they gave in rental fees, including wasting and gas money idling while they didn't even know how to keep their karts running let alone race) AND threatened to steal a go-kart! The Sheriff's Department had to be called on the "punks" (as called by the deputy; who actually used to play football with us when we were teenagers), who refused to leave until they were forced to by the deputy. The deputy, who is an old friend, advised us that we should only let close friends race with us, and especially nobody under 18. We thought Rob and Josh were friends, but never calling us back after the way their friends acted toward us has led us to believe otherwise. They are now banned, and from now on we will no longer be allowing anybody under 18 to race unless their parent/guardians are there and completely approve and/or race with them. We've had too many problems with teenagers not having the physical and mental maturity to handle these karts, so it stops now. The current minors (16-17yo) who race with us all have this taken care of, as their parents/guardians have all been here, approving-of and/or racing-with us, but no more new kids unless they are over 18. The racing at Galletta's is all for fun amongst friends and people who genuinely love to race evenly-matched go-karts, and we don't need underage kids more concerned about their cell phones than the actual race, then threatening to steal go-karts and forcing us to call the cops when they damaged our property and refused to leave. We believe that the self-banned Kristina Pitsley tried setting this up, and she will never again be allowed on this property without the police being called. All she has done is lost friends, and made her son and husband never race with us anymore, which only hurts them, as they used to love racing here. People causing trouble and ruining the fun and competitive racing are not invited, and from now on, if you can't race a go-kart competently, then you won't be allowed to race.

Update: At least one of the said hoodlums was arrested recently for smashing a car's windshield or something along those lines. Wow, what a shocker! I guess the kid just has problems. These young whippersnappers these days... their whole lives ahead of them - girls, school, careers - and all they can do is look for, and find, trouble.

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Galletta's Go-Kart 2006 #22 (2006/11/11) 40-lap Feature:

Matt Stevens (#33) won what may have been the final exhibition race of the year. I say exhibition because we have not had a good turnout of late, its has been very cold, and I didn't do the points. Matt was chased closely by Wesley Ogre (#4), Chris (in the #2; his #8 broke a hub), Dick Dann (#86), Oscar Berry (in Matt's #3; the 1st visitor Matt ever allowed to race his championship kart - and he did quite well, at one point passing both Wes and Matt off a restart!), and Nick Dann (#02) rounding out the field with a DNF (poor Nick). Again, in these late season races, I have not added up the points, so this means that they are probably just exhibitions due to a lack of a large attendance, poor track conditions, and general off-season laziness by yours truly. Also, congrats to our newest and most-promising rookie driver, Kyle Reuter, who is doing a great job for the Oswego State's basketball team! We look forward to racing with him all next season!

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Galletta's Go-Kart 2006 #23 (2006/11/26) Final Feature of 2006:

Matt Stevens (#33) won the Thanksgiving '06 feature, the final exhibition race of the season, which wound up possibly being the muddiest race in track history. It included Wesley Ogre (#4), Dick Dann (#86), Fred Collins, Oscar Berry and Nick Dann (all in Galletta's rentals). Webmaster and racer Chris, didn't race because he didn't get enough sleep, the points race is over, and there was too much mud. But not all shared this opinion, as a mud-covered Fred Collins yelled, "This is the way I love to race! WOO!!!!"  Oscar (in the Galletta's #6) led a large portion of the race until Matt snipped him for another win. Matt made his way to the front three times partially due to the slick track.

The next race at Galletta's Kart Points Race will take place on June 3rd, 2007 , and the next Oswego County Super-Yard Kart race at Oswego Speedway's Dirt Track will take place on June 15th, 2007 and will count for points. DVDs anybody?

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2006 Volume #14 - '06 Klassic Part 2 DVD:
Contains the Center-angle of the 2006 Galletta's Klassic 150 from September 23rd, 2006, the rain-shortened September 30th, 2006, and 75-lap race from October 7th, 2006  at Galletta's.  Price $5 each.

 

2006 Volume #13 - '06 Klassic Part 1 DVD:
Contains the September 16th, 2006 race and the Tower angle of the 2006 Galletta's Klassic 150 from September 23rd, 2006  at Galletta's. Two camera angles available.  Price $5.

2006 Volume 15 DVD (containing the Non-point October15th, 2006's Non-Winner & Regular 40-Lapper races are available per specific order because they were never reviewed or transferred to DVD, just on VHS. Please request it personally through me for $5.

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