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60 County Route 20
Oswego, NY, USA
13126-6512
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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 tracks 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 2004 GALLETTA'S BOX STOCK GAS KARTING LEAGUE SEASON

The 9th Annual Galletta's Go-Karts Klassic 100  from 2004 DVD:
This disc contains the Galletta's Go-Kart Klassic Championship 100 from September 26th, 2004! Includes bonus coverage from other races in 2004 and/or some footage from other years.  Price $7.

Galletta's Go-Kart Racing Association
Galletta’s Speedway 9th Annual "Klassic 100"
(Held 09/26/2004)
 



2004 Galletta's Go-Kart Championship 100-Lap Klassic
Held on a beautiful Sunday, September 26th, 2004

Start via time trails (Outside is ahead w/ Galletta's 1-WD/Right-Turn Karts):

• Chris, Matt and Wes are in their 9th season racing at Galletta's.
• Jason is in his 2nd season racing at Galletta's.
• Ed, Dan, Tim, Adam and Bortel are in their 1st season racing at Galletta's.
• Roads is in his 1st and only race at Galletta's.

Race recap:

Chris Stevens (in his Galletta's #8) time-trialed into the coveted outside pole position, but it was Ed Meynes (in his #18) on the inside pole that took the lead and lapped half of the field of competitors within the first quarter of the race. This surprised everybody, as the usual strategy is to take it easy, save the kart, the track, and fuel for the marathon endurance race.

 

Ed Meynes in his green #18 completely dominated the first portion of the race, not only leading, but pulling away, putting a few karts down one lap, and one kart down at least two. He led the first 41 laps without one challenge, as several of the other drivers chose to try and save their karts, while Ed's was try to lap everybody. But his strategy backfired when his kart had several breakdowns, which handed the lead to Matt Stevens (in his Galletta's #3), winner of five of the previous eight Galletta's Go-Kart Klassics.

A large chunk of the racing was bumper to bumper throughout most of the race.

(Above) Jason Mills leads Barrelin' Brain Bortel early in the event.

 

Chris "Crusher Comix" leads Dan Murdock, Ed Meynes, and Jason Mills into turn three. Chris was severely disappointed, as his #8 kart - which scored the fastest time of the day in time trials - was retired early in the race when the engine lost power and parked for the remainder of the event (The engine proved later to be permanently un-repairable - something wrong with the valve guides that no repairman could fix). Chris had to take over his backup - the Galletta's #5, which was driven by a 1-time driver who was 2-laps down and fading (the driver was given his rental fee back).

 

Jason Mills (driving the Galletta's #6) did finish the final lap as the 2nd place kart on the track. However, when track officials reviewed the tape, it was revealed that he had caused several accidents via intentionally ramming, pushing, and hooking tires. The above photo shows one of these events. In this DVD capture, we see the late Dan Murdock's last race was scarred by three of Jason's accidents taking him and the Galletta's #1 kart out of really competing in the event despite of some excellent driving that had him moving up the pack on more than one occasion. Jason also took out Adam Barlow (in the Galletta's #2) once, and then Ed on at least one, almost two occasions. Hence, Jason was initially disqualified to last place on the lead lap, but later it was considered too harsh of a penalty, so he was given his 2nd place finish with a disqualification of -10 points and a warning against wrecking people. Finally, Tim Donovan (piloting the Galletta's #7) was incorrectly placed one lap down early in the race. Reviewing the tape, he was officially scored with the lead lap, and surprisingly held 2nd place to Matt for a large portion of the event. However, a slow-leaking flat tire did eventually lead to him being passed and then lapped by the entire field of karts. Brian Bortel finished a respectable seventh in the Galletta's #0, albeit a lap down.

A familiar sight: Matt Stevens (much to the chagrin of everybody else) blowing away the competition en route to yet another big victory. After Ed relinquished his considerable lead, Matt turned it on and nobody could touch him, going completely untouched for his record 6th Classic victory in nine years, including his second 3-straight win streak. Ed Meynes' juvenile sons angrily threatened punching people and challenged the fact that their dad didn't win after leading so many laps early, but this 100-Lapper is a marathon and not a sprint - Ed didn't save his kart, broke, and could never regain the lead, never able to get higher than 3rd for the remainder of the race. Considering that it was later admitted that Ed used the very first racing part in Galletta's Karting History (a raptor cam - all other karts are 100% box stock), we can't feel too bad that he broke and his early dominance was overcome. Matt's strategy of babying the kart for the first half of the race (or more) again proved the deciding factor yet again, with another seemingly effortless win. This event was videotaped (as is every Classic race since 1999, every single Galletta's race since late 2005, and every single Oswego Speedway Kartway race since 2007; See our DVD store for more).

2004 Klassic Official Order of finish***:

100 LAPS COMPLETED:

1st) Matt Stevens in the Galletta's Greenhouse #3

2nd) Jason Mills in the Galletta's Greenhouse #6

3rd) Chris Stevens in the Galletta's Greenhouse #5 (Laps 29-100) in the Galletta's Greenhouse #8 ( Laps 1-28)

4th) Wes Stevens in the Galletta's Greenhouse #4

5th) Ed Meynes in the Maynes Motorsports #18

ONE LAP DOWN:

6th) Adam Barlow in the Galletta's Greenhouse #2

7th) Brian Bortel in the Galletta's Greenhouse #0

8th) Tim Donovan in the Galletta's Greenhouse #7

9th) Dan Murdock in the Galletta's Greenhouse #1

SEVENTY-TWO LAPS DOWN:

10th) Brian "Roads" Conzone [1st-time "Guest" Driver] in the Galletta's Greenhouse #5 (Laps 1-28; -3 laps down at that point)

KEY:

* =Penalized -10 points for wrecking several competitors during the race. ** =  Brian "Roads" Conzone drove the #5 and was lapped twice within the first twenty laps by leader Ed Maynes. But when 2nd-in-points Chris Stevens' motor on his #8 malfunctioned, Brian lost his ride to Chris due to a seniority decision (and that Chris owns the kart, and Brian was 2 laps down after 20 laps - officially eliminated from contention). We apologize for this and he is welcome back anytime (this is the only time this ever happened - it was the Klassic and the regular drivers had to take priority over 1st-(and only)-one-time racers; so please come regularly). Confusing to score however, as Chris was never lapped, though the #5 kart was indeed lapped more than once when Roads drove it in the early going. This led to great confusion with the official scoring, but we  decided with this race to always score the driver and never the kart in a Galletta's Speedway race, as some drivers retire and other drivers step into their karts. We have done it in the past to both keep point-scoring regulars in the points race and also to prove to some quitters that the backup karts are just as fast as the starter karts. Chris was then penalized -10 points for the kart change, and Roads was given 100% of his money back even though he raced around 20 laps. This incident has not happened in years since because we no longer have a shortage of karts like we did prior to 2006. Now, we all often have backups, and backup/rental karts open always. *** = A handful of karts were placed a lap down early. However, there was some controversy over who was a lap down and who got their laps back when the leader broke down and brought out a caution (what some racing leagues call a "lucky dog" scenario). In fact, the final was re-scored three times since its completion in 2004, as it is the most confusing in Galletta's Karting League history. In the end, we thought and rethought this through several times and feel like the above order was the most fair to all, and the most logical upon several views of the videotape. We learned many lessons with this race, and now penalize points from any driver who wrecks another, as well as penalize points from any driver that uses more than one kart under Galletta's point scoring system.

On a sad note, this race wound up being the very last for a very promising driver. Dan Murdock died in the karting off-season in a tragic snowmobile accident. He was a smart, talented, well-mannered, and exceptionally nice young man who loved our racing club, and all of us at Galletta's miss him dearly. We have no doubts that he probably would have still been racing with us to this day, as he loved the racing here as much as we loved racing with him. He was named the 2004 Rookie-of-the-Year (a title he shared with Ed Maynes; see more here), and the Summer 2004 Visiting Points Champion. We named the 2005 Galletta's Klassic the The Dan Murdock Memorial in his honor. On that day, we all felt like he was watching us from heaven. God bless.

2004 Summer Point Standings for the Galletta's Karting Season
Box stock 5hp gas go-kart championship of Oswego, NY
After 27 races between 6/13/2004 through 9/26/2004 Klassic:

Rank	Driver name (Kart(s) Driven). Some signatures were illegible and cannot be digitally processed.	Total Points (Place)	Average Points Per Event	Events	Feature Wins	* = Klassic Win
1	"Mighty" Matt Stevens (Galletta's #3)	2506.50	92.8	27	11*	1*
2	Chris "Chrusher" Stevens (Galletta's #8, 5)	2435.00	90.2	27	7	0
3	Wes "Ogre" Stevens (Galletta's #4)	1340.50	60.9	22	0	0
4	Dan Murdock (Galletta's #1)	1106.50	73.8	15	2	0
5	Ed Maynes (Maynes #18, Galletta's #2)	888.50	98.7	9	1	0
6	Jason Mills (Galletta's #6)	805.00	89.4	9	1	0
7	Adam Barlow (Galletta's #1, 7)	609.50	76.2	8	0	0
8	Matt Barlow (Galletta's #5, 1)	527.50	48.0	11	0	0
9	Mark Miller (Miller 5.5hp OHV #007, Galletta's #7)	518.00	64.8	8	2	0
10	Brian Bortel (Galletta's #0)	351.50	87.9	4	0	0
11	Tim Donovan (Galletta's #7)	348.50	69.7	5	0	0
12	Jeff Vachon (Galletta's #?)	303.50	50.6	6	0	0
13	Brian Galletta (Galletta's #7, 1) [Retired due to unrelated (dialysis) arm surgery]	296.50	59.3	5	1	0
14	Mike Simoneou (Galletta's #??)	255.00	36.4	7	0	0
15	Matt Frey (Galletta's #2)	227.50	75.8	3	1	0
16	Brian "Roads" Conzone (Galletta's #5)	180.00	180.0	1	0	0
17	Eric Raponi (Galletta's #2)	163.00	32.6	5	0	0
18	Neil Gosch (Galletta's #?)	161.00	40.3	4	0	0
19	John "Burnsy" Burns (Galletta's #0)	114.50	57.3	2	0	0
20	Mike Sur. (Galletta's #?) (Sorendo?)	97.50	48.5	2	0	0
21	Justin Gurney (Galletta's #?)	94.50	47.3	2	0	0
22	Shane Miller (Galletta's #?)	77.00	38.5	2	0	0
23	"Ozzy" "___?" (Galletta's #0)	72.00	36.0	2	0	0
24	Mike Cleary (Galletta's #?)	67.00	66.0	1	0	0
25	Ray "RaYzor" Castaldo (Galletta's #0)	66.00	66.0	1	0	0
26	Kevin ?? (Galletta's #?)	62.50	62.50	1	0	0
27	Ray Port. ?? (Galletta's #?)	51.00	51.00	1	0	0
28	S. Healy (Galletta's #?)	47.00	47.00	1	0	0
29	J.T. (Galletta's #?)	39.00	39.0	1	0	0
30	Toby (Galletta's #?)	39.00	39.0	1	0	0
31	Dustin "______?" II (Galletta's #?)	34.00	34.0	1	0	0
32	Randy "____?" (Galletta's #?)	33.00	33.0	1	0	0
33	Dustin "???" (Galletta's #?)	33.00	33.0	1	0	0
34	Justin Cook (Galletta's #?)	33.00	33.0	1	0	0
35	Kenny Krap (Galletta's #?)	33.00	33.0	1	0	0
36	David Beprist (?) (Galletta's #?)	33.00	33.0	1	0	0
37	Mark II???? (Galletta's #?)	32.50	32.5	1	0	0
38	Christian Eby (Galletta's #?)	30.00	30.0	1	0	0
39	Matt Ruggio (Galletta's #?)	30.00	30.0	1	0	0
40	Coop (Galletta's #?)	29.50	29.5	1	0	0
41	Tom II??? (Galletta's #?)