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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 local speedways upon invitation. 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 2001 GALLETTA'S BOX STOCK GAS KARTING LEAGUE SEASON

2001 Regular Season:
In 2001, we raced 22 regular season point events between June 10th & October 13th, 2001. Again, this season was another 100% box-stock gas 5hp flathead Briggs & Stratton motors, as we still hadn't met local dirty race folk who cheated and forced us to upgrade our motor rules yet. This season, we started having big track guest-star racers join us and have a ball! We raced with brother Oswego Speedway Limited Supermodified drivers Fran Rowe, Cameron Rowe and Gordon Smallidge, Supermodified driver Randy Ritskes, Street Stock driver Joe Miller, in addition to Supermodified co-owner Eric Syrell, and some of his pit crew members Sean Stevens (no known relation), and (our cousin) Brian Galletta. Cam helped Matt create stagger on the karts, which in past seasons, we had absolutely none. This increased the speeds about one second. Cam also won a feature (becoming the 1st visitor to ever do so in our 1990-2001 history) but was plagued with an undiagnosed hairline fracture of the drive wheel axle all season, which prevented him from securing more wins. Here are the points standings after the Summer series and going into the '01 Galletta's Kart Klassic...

2001 Regular Season 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)	Total Points (Place)	Average Points Per Event	Events	Feature Wins
1	"Mighty" Matt Stevens (Galletta's #3)	1503.50	68.3	22	11
2	Chris "Chrusher" Stevens (Galletta's #5, 6, 2)	1455.00	66.1	22	7
3	Wes "Ogre" Stevens (Galletta's #4, 2)	1160.50	52.8	22	3
4	Brian Galletta (Galletta's #1, 7)	445.50	40.5	11	0
5	Cameron Rowe (Galletta's #2, 6)	319.50	39.9	8	1
6	Sean Stevens (Galletta's #7, 6)	219.00	36.5	6	0
7	Fran Rowe (Galletta's #7)	94.00	31.3	3	0
8	Jesse Vivlemore (Galletta's #6)	56.00	28.0	2	0
9	Gary _________ (Galletta's #7)	36.00	36.0	1	0
10	Gordon "Gordie" Smallidge (Galletta's #6)	29.00	29.0	1	0
11	"King Mark" Marc Dumesnil (Galletta's #6)	27.50	27.5	1	0
12	Eric Syrell (Galletta's #6)	23.50	23.5	1	0
13	Mike Rowe (Galletta's #1)	16.00	16.0	1	0
14	Randy Ritskes (Galletta's #6)	15.00	15.0	1	0
15	Joe Miller (Galletta's #1)	15.00	15.0	1	0

2001 Galletta's Go-Kart Klassic:
This season saw an 80-Lap, seven kart Klassic race on October 24th, 2001; our latest Galletta's Klassic in history because it is usually in mid-to-late September annually. One reason it was held so late is that nobody could make it until October. Galletta's Karting Club 2001 Rookie of the year Cameron Rowe shocked everybody by not showing up for the Galletta's Klassic, even though he and his brother qualified the weekend before. Eric Syrell led a good portion of the Klassic early, but Chris Stevens took the lead on lap 29 and led the remainder of the show by holding off Matt's repeated attempts to pass him to win his third of three straight Klassics and earned points in the Klassic, He also BARELY passed and clinched his third straight Track Championship that year, in his orange Galletta's #5 kart. Now the finalized points standings:
 

2001 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)	Total Points (Place)	Average Points Per Event	Events	Feature Wins	Classic Win
1	Chris "Chrusher" Stevens (Galletta's #5, 6, 2)	1734.50	75.4	23	8*	1
2	"Mighty" Matt Stevens (Galletta's #3)	1721.00	74.8	23	11	0
3	Wes "Ogre" Stevens (Galletta's #4, 2)	1374.50	59.8	23	3	0
4	Brian Galletta (Galletta's #1, 7)	641.50	53.5	12	0	0
5	Sean Stevens (Galletta's #7, 6)	405.00	57.9	7	0	0
6	Cameron Rowe (Galletta's #2, 6)	319.50	39.9	8	1	0
7	Eric Syrell (Galletta's #7, 6)	218.00	109.0	2	0	0
8	Fran Rowe (Galletta's #7)	94.00	31.3	3	0	0
9	Jesse Vivlemore (Galletta's #6)	56.00	28.0	2	0	0
10	Gary ________ (Galletta's #7)	36.00	36.0	1	0	0
11	Gordon "Gordie" Smallidge (Galletta's #6)	29.00	29.0	1	0	0
12	"King Mark" Marc Dumesnil (Galletta's #6)	27.50	27.5	1	0	0
13	Mike Rowe (Galletta's #1)	16.00	16.0	1	0	0
14	Randy Ritskes (Galletta's #6)	15.00	15.0	1	0	0
15	Joe Miller (Galletta's #1)	15.00	15.0	1	0	0

* = Klassic Win! Note: We also held a November Fall race that did not count in the points this season. Matt Stevens won it. Technically, if we counted that one for points, Matt may have been able to edge back into the overall points lead. But since I (Chris) am the statistician and I won the Summer + Klassic points, I didn't count it, haha! However, all joking aside, traditionally we do not count post-Klassic "Fall Exhibition" races in the points standings, so my overall Track Championship is legit.

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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 & formerly at Oswego Speedway Kartway. http://www.jimlosurdoisawhineyloser.com/

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!

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Our karting club's home track is located in back of:

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60 County Route 20
Oswego, NY 13126-6512
(315) 343-0879 or (315) 343-4281
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Galletta's Greenhouse & Karting Team
60 County Route 20
Oswego, NY, USA
13126-6512
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(315) 343-4281
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