Galletta's Go-Kart Speedway 2006 Race #7 results:
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006 (Two 10-lap Heats and 40-lap Feature) 

 

  (LEFT) Heat #1 was won by Wesley James "TrOgre" Stevens, followed by his Junior, "The Boy" Matthew "Mush" Stevens.
(RIGHT) Heat #2 was won by Chris "ChrusherComix" Stevens followed by Dick Dann and Robby Jimenez.

 
The 11-cart feature was competitive, but filled with many accidents, and we show two here. Here, Fred Collins took out Chris Stevens (LEFT) and later on, a pileup starting with Ed Meynes and Wes Stevens collected several others (RIGHT). Chris was upset that Matt placed an untested new motor on his kart, which proved to need some wearing-in, and the carb gummed-up to make matters worse. And, to add injury to insult, Fred badly bruised Chris' leg in the above accident. Chris then used a little-known rule (where if a rookie driver crashes a rental kart more than twice and a top-5 veteran's kart is out, he may take the ride) and usurped Nick Dann from the backup #10. Nick wrecked a handful of times and also did not pay his rental fees. The #10 was too demolished by Nick to even compete in anyway, so Chris didn't finish the race in either kart.

With both 2nd and 3rd top-point drivers (Chris Stevens and Ed Meynes respectively) plagued with motor problems all night and both acquiring dreaded DNFs, Matt Stevens took the victory and extended his points lead with his third win of the year. Ed was furiously fast when his kart was running, but it just would not keep going, especially in the cautions. (ABOVE) The pictures here show that Matt didn't blow everybody away, as Robbie Jimenez continued his steady improvement by scoring a close second, and Ogre right there for third. Brian Bortel and Gary "Whiney-baby-quitter" Miller continue to kill themselves in the points by not showing up for the races!

July 23rd, 2006 40-lap Feature Final order or finish:

(TIE) = Chris and Ed both dropped out on the same lap and were awarded an even split of the combined 6th and 7th place feature points.
If there are any errors in the scoring, they must be addressed by seeing the lap scorer AFTER the feature race. They are final when posted on web.

2006 Galletta's Go-Karts Point Standings
After 7 feature events from 6/11/2006 thru 7/23/2006:

NEW: POINTS SCORING SYSTEM IS NOW IN RULES SECTION!
Each heat and feature is started in a handicap order, reversed from points-per-event (low-to-high).
Inexperienced drivers with less than 10 races and wreck-prone drivers start in the back regardless of points.
Points are scored based on finishing positions in heats and features (with bonus points for each feature lap in the top 3 spots).

VIEW THE DVD! DVD is available for $5.
All pics are internet-reduced, low-resolution screenshots from the DVD.

Galletta's Go-Karts 2006 Volume 6 DVD includes the entire July 16th, 2006 event
(Two heats and Feature from two cameras in the pits and the race-tower).
Only $5 (or trade for other camera angles of our racing here or Oswego)!

2006 Volume #6 DVD:
Contains the July 23rd, 2006 races at Galletta's. Two camera angles of each race.  Price $5.

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2006 Harborfest Championship Go-Kart race:
Will occur on Sunday, July 30th at Galletta's. All are invited to watch or, if a rental kart is available, you are invited to race.