Galletta's Greenhouse Karting Club, located in Oswego, NY, is a go-kart racing club that specializes on racing as professionally as we can for as economically as possible. In the early 1990s, we developed a style of kart racing that is different, but no less competitive than any national karting organization. Our biggest difference is affordability. Our club is free to join and race in, and the only thing anybody pays for is gas and parts. We are the largest and longest-running dirt karting class in the local area, as we were founded in the early 1990s and our average feature is 45-Laps usually consisting of 10-15 karts, with a 200-Lap "Klassic" Championship at Summer's end deciding an Annual Points Champion. We race homemade 1-Wheel-Drive racing karts that can race on professional karting tracks and backyard speedways alike. We have karts rebuilt from used racing chassis, used yard karts and some built from scratch. We have ONE class to ensure a true overall track champion, and not have several smaller classes of divisional champions with no clear winner. We race used 5hp Briggs Flathead motors fueled by pump gas, sped-up by hand-shaved heads and select racing cams, and regulated by stock Fun Power-type carburetors instead of expensive prefabricated 2-WD chassis powered by high-priced methanol-fueled motors. On our own backyard oval speedway, we turn clockwise with our top speeds approximately 45-50MPH. Although we all run in the same division, in addition to a minimum weight requirement, we have something unique to our inclusive class -- a weight-to-power-allowance scale to allow heavier drivers more horsepower via stronger racing cams and more powerful gear ratios, a system proven to be successful as we have the tightest competition and most varied winner's circle locally over the last few years. This way our one class is bigger than the higher-priced karting classes, because heavier and lighter drivers can race equally and having the same chance of winning as the next guy. Racing experience, starting position, and a little bit of luck usually decides the outcome, and money and kart price play no role. To ensure this, we have an expert motor builder -- club co-founder Matt Stevens - who oversees that all of the motors are legal, equalized, and competitive, and does so for no cost - just to have people to race with! Join us and find out what many people, including semi-pro drivers from local racetracks say - we have the most fun and spend the least money of likely any competitive motorsport class in the world! The club races every Sunday afternoon all summer starting on the first Sunday in June annually in back of Galletta's Greenhouse and running every weekend until the weather stops us in the Fall. We race qualifiers and a 45-Lap feature most weeks, but change up to occasional Twin-30s or the occasional 55-Lapper. All races count for points and are tallied at the end of each season to determine the track champion. The season concludes with the 200-Lap Galletta's Karting Klassic in late-September or early-October. Our club is free to watch and free to join, and runs 100% off donations of the racers. You can race a Galletta's Team Kart for a nominal gas & parts donation, or race your own. We will help you either way, whether it be using a Galletta-kart or building one for yourself. We're not in this to make money and we're not in it to further a career in racing. We are in this to have fun racing with friends and family and be mini-superstars on our lil' website for as little money as humanly possible. And can your $1,000-$7,000 methanol racing kart go over 20 miles reaching speeds between 30-50MPH per lap in one race on one tank of pump gas? No? Well, we can. Join us! Enjoy the site!

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st, 2012: 13- Karts/50-Laps + 23 caution laps = 73 LAPS?! (23 caution laps! Did I count that right?!) - and so many cautions meant one thing... 1ST TIME ROOKIES! Not terribly unusual for newbies... except for one reeeaaaallly arrogant and loud n00b - who was involved in 8 cautions and warned 4 times about our 3-cautions-and-your-out-n00b rule we've had since 2008 - threw an angry, childish, irrational, and antagonistic temper tantrum of epic proportions when he was asked to sit after his 8th accident. The worst temper tantrum we have ever seen in our 20-year history of racing and 17-year history of racing for points. The funny thing was? Every single one of his arguments was utterly empirically refuted on video. He just didn't like sucking and took it out on us, I guess. And, according to the Busket case, he has bigger balls than every racer who raced here this year and ever because he spoke up about his perceived bias that we supposedly have, even though we gave him every benefit of the doubt until he just had to leave the track so we could finish the race. And when he left... only one caution after he left the race surface. Guess he proved his point, huh? Talk about it on Facebook, or check back later for more coming soon...

PS- Dan "Busket Case" Buske is indefinitely barred from the property for his irrational, out-of-control, unwarranted and empirically false, hysterica-fueled temper tantrum based on ignorance of how terrible of a driver he was and complete disrespect for the agreed upon rules of our backyard speedway).

DVD Highlight YouTube Video

Posted on Summer 2012 by ChrusherComix Studios

[VIDEO FORTHCOMING: COME BACK SOON]

YouTube video to this race is currently being produced and is forthcoming. All picture captures & video clips are directly taken from our weekly DVDs, which are almost always available to buy the day after the race. It's best to pre-order them so I can have them ready on race day for you.

DVD of this week's race available for $5. All captures are from this DVD.

Above is this race's menu. Most of the pictures found on this website are screen captures from that race's DVD. For a DVD copy of this race, please e-mail or call Chris Stevens and ask for this week's race. Each disc is chock full of between 1 to 3 hours of racing in the highest-possible DVD resolution with Dolby Stereo 2.0 with Pro-Logic Surround Sound, predominantly from multiple angles and are only $5 each (discounts available for multiple copies or regular kart Galletta-Kart renters). We accept PayPal or cash, and can either ship or arrange for pickup.

Race Results

Posted in 2012 by ChrusherComix Studios

9/1/2012 MAKE-UP (RETCON) RACE (8-Laps/8-Karts):

Retcon races are short hot-lap sessions counted as a race and designed for two functions: For rookie drivers to get some track time seasoning before entering the regular races, and for regular racers and veterans who missed an earlier race to make-up those races that they missed, and help get back into the points race without penalizing those who did race in that event. All drivers are scored in the earliest race they missed, retroactively counted as if they were in that race. Nobody should be racing exceedingly hard in these races, and almost none of the drivers are actually racing each other and they are often counted in entirely different races.

SCORING:
Pos. | Driver (Karts driven) | 2012 Make-Up Feature Credit Earned

  1. Joe Sereno (Galletta's Greenhouse #5) - Credited 13th in the two 8/8/2012 30-lap features
  2. "Wild" Billy Ruggio (Ruggio #02) - Credited 12th in the two 9/7/2012 30-lap features
  3. Eric Woolworth (Galletta's Greenhouse #1) - mis-scheduled - Banked for future use
  4. [NR] Chris Bartlett (Galletta's Greenhouse #6) - Credited 24th in the 6/10/2012 45-Lapper
  5. [NR] Dan Buske (Galletta's Greenhouse #7) - Credited 25th in the 6/10/2012 45-Lapper
  6. [NR] Shawn Malone (Galletta's Greenhouse #9) - Credited 26th in the 6/10/2012 45-Lapper
  7. [NR] Bill Truax (DS Humphreys #81) - Credited 15th in the 6/17/2012 45-Lapper


[NR] = Newbie Rookie (Inexperienced Rookie Driver)

 

9/1/2012: HEAT #1 (8-laps/7-Karts):

START:
Pos. | Driver (Karts driven) | 2012 Wins

  1. "Wild" Billy Ruggio (Ruggio #02)
  2. Eric Woolworth (Galletta's Greenhouse #1)
  3. David Spanfelner (D.S. Humphreys #54) <- Mis-scheduled (supposed to be in Heat 2)
  4. Brian Galletta (Platt-num/Team Take It #287)
  5. Joe Sereno (Galletta's Greenhouse #5)
  6. Matt Stevens (Galletta's Greenhouse #3)
  7. [NR] Chris Bartlett (Galletta's Greenhouse #6)

    KEY:

    [NR]     = Newbie Rookie/Beginner/Novice/1st Race Driver

Crafty lil' Matty-Joe did it again by methodically picking drivers off in the low groove - par for the course most weeks, which is why we suspect many people either give up or never try racing in the Galletta's karting club. He is pretty darn tough to beat in his trusty ol' Galletta's Greenhouse #3... the oldest, and most win-decorated chassis on the track!

FINISH:
Pos. | Driver (Karts driven) | 2012 Wins

    1. Matt Stevens (Galletta's Greenhouse #3)
    2. David Spanfelner (D.S. Humphreys #54)
    3. Eric Woolworth (Galletta's Greenhouse #1)
    4. Brian Galletta (Platt-num/Team Take It #287)
    5. Joe Sereno (Galletta's Greenhouse #5)
    6. [NR] Chris Bartlett (Galletta's Greenhouse #6)
    7. "Wild" Billy Ruggio (Ruggio #02) DNF

      KEY:

      [NR]       = Newbie Rookie/Beginner/Novice/1st Race Driver
      DNF = Did Not Finish

9/1/2012: 8-LAP HEAT #2 (8-laps/6-Karts):

START:
Pos. | Driver (Karts driven) | 2012 Wins

  1. Adam Lytle (Lytle #33c) [R]
    2... oops. Empty - Mis-scheduled (David Spanfelner raced in Heat 1 by mistake)
  2. Melissa Stevens (Scissors N' Fur #80)
  3. Chris Stevens (Galletta's Greenhouse/Chrusher.com #4)
  4. [NR] Shawn Malone (Galletta's Greenhouse #9)
  5. [NR] Bill Truax (DS Humphreys #81)
  6. [NR] Dan Buske (Galletta's Greenhouse #7)


    KEY:
    [NR] = Rookie/1st Race Driver


Good heat race was a battle between Adam Lytle and Chris Stevens. Chris caught him on a restart and picked up (despite being 2nd in points) only his 2nd heat win of the 2012 season! Meanwhile, a rookie named Dan Buske found a way to (1) fly off the track with nobody near him on lap one, and (2) spin out all by himself and slam the inside hub rail at a high velocity on the last lap. Normally, this isn't newsworthy, especially when 1st-time-on-track rookies are involved... but just wait.

FINISH:
Pos. | Driver (Karts driven) | 2012 Wins

  1. Chris Stevens (Galletta's Greenhouse/Chrusher.com #4)
  2. Adam Lytle (Lytle #33c) [R]
  3. Melissa Stevens (Scissors N' Fur #80)
  4. [NR] Bill Truax (DS Humphreys #81)
  5. [NR] Shawn Malone (Galletta's Greenhouse #9)
  6. [NR] Dan Buske (Galletta's Greenhouse #7)
     

[R] = Rookie/1st Year Driver
[NR] = NEWBIE Rookie/1st Race Driver
DNS = Did Not Start (but qualified in)

 
 

9/1/2012: 50-LAP FEATURE (13-Karts):

One of our biggest features of the season still could not fill all of the karts. If we only had a few more drivers any given week, we could pull off a twenty kart race. In fact, we could pull one off EVERY week if drivers just simply showed up when it's time to race. Our track - unlike others in the local area - is large enough for that karet count and more. And most weeks we have race-ready/feature-winning/arrive-and-drive karts sitting idle. Where are the drivers in a race town like Oswego? Especially considering the local racetrack is essentially done for the season minus a few fall shows. Fill up these karts and race with the longest-running and most-experienced karting class in Oswego County!

START:
Pos. | Driver (Karts driven) | 2012 Wins

  1. "Wild" Billy Ruggio (Ruggio #02)
  2. Adam Lytle (Lytle #33c)
  3. Eric Woolworth (Galletta's Greenhouse #1)
  4. David Spanfelner (D.S. Humphreys #54)
  5. Brian Galletta (Platt-num/Team Take It #287)
  6. Melissa Stevens (Scissors N' Fur #80)
  7. Joe Sereno (Galletta's Greenhouse #5)
  8. Chris Stevens (Galletta's Greenhouse/Chrusher.com #4)
  9. Matt Stevens (Galletta's Greenhouse #3)
  10. [NR] Shawn Malone (Galletta's Greenhouse #9)
  11. [NR] Dan Buske (Galletta's Greenhouse #7)
  12. [NR] Chris Bartlett (Galletta's Greenhouse #6)
  13. [NR] Bill Truax (DS Humphreys #81)

    Available/Unused/Open Karts:
    Some karts are backups reserved for their owners. Others are available for any/all racers (You?).
  14. -- (Galletta's Greenhouse #0) <- has won a Klassic and tons of features with various drivers and nobody drives it?!
  15. -- (Ruggio #02b - Reserved for Bill Ruggio)
  16. -- (Galletta's Greenhouse #2) <- has won a Klassic and tons of features with various drivers and nobody drives it?!
  17. -- (Galletta's Greenhouse/Chrusher.Com #8 - Reserved for Chris)
  18. -- (Galletta's Greenhouse #33 - Reserved for Matt)
  19. -- (Galletta's Greenhouse/Chrusher.Com #74 - Reserve for trusted veteran)
  20. -- (Galletta's Greenhouse/Scissors n Fur #80 - Reserved for Melissa)
  21. -- (Platt-num/Team Take It #187 - Reserved for Randy Platt)



    KEY:
    [R]     = Rookie/1st Year Driver
    [NR] = Rookie/1st Race Driver
    DNS = Did Not Start (but qualified in)


The race had a lot of drivers (GOOD!)... but two things were against us that historically make for a long, crank evening... late start, a full moon, and a handful of drivers in their very 1st feature race at Galletta's. If tradition says anything, some crazy things can happen when those things all line up.

FINISH:
Pos. | Driver (Karts driven) | 2012 Wins

  1. Matt Stevens (Galletta's Greenhouse #3)
  2. Chris Stevens (Galletta's Greenhouse/Chrusher.com #4)
  3. Melissa Stevens (Scissors N' Fur #80)
  4. David Spanfelner (D.S. Humphreys #54)
  5. "Wild" Billy Ruggio (Ruggio #02)
  6. Eric Woolworth (Galletta's Greenhouse #1)
  7. [NR] Shawn Malone (Galletta's Greenhouse #9)

    DNF - Did Not Finish
  8. [NR] Chris Bartlett (Galletta's Greenhouse #6) - DQ1
  9. Joe Sereno (Galletta's Greenhouse #5) DNF-MF
  10. Brian Galletta (Platt-num/Team Take It #287) DNF-MF
  11. Adam Lytle (Lytle #33c) DNF-MF
  12. [NR] Bill Truax (DS Humphreys #81) DNF-MF

    Disqualified x2 for arguing with drivers, officials and refusing to leave the premesis!
  13. [NR] Dan Buske (Galletta's Greenhouse #7) - DQ1 & DQ2

KEY:
[NR] = NEWBIE Rookie/1st Race Driver
DNF-MF = Did Not Finish via mechanical failure
DQ1 = Disqualified for violating the 1st-timer three-strikes-and-you're-out rule in addition to repeated warnings for being directly involved in too many cautions (the cut-off according to the rules is three-strikes-and-you're-out for 1st-timers, but was given a few mulligans via being warned three times and was directly involved with over seven cautions each) and had to park the kart for the remainder of the feature.
DQ2 = Disqualified for in angrily berating and arguing against track officials/owners/operators/veteran drivers without even one empirical point in his favor for arguing, including not exiting the property when told to on more tha one occasion, saying that he has "bigger balls" than not only everybody at the track that night, but everybody who ever raced here in our seventeen+ years of racing history, and calling everybody at the track, "a bunch of retards". They lose earned place and in addition have their points negated x2, and if ever seen again, may have further penalties inflicted upon him.

 

2012 Point Standings after 9/1/2012's Event

For the Galletta's Karting Club's World Championship of 1WD Gas Flatheads held on Galletta's Greenhouse Backyard Karting Speedway for the 2012 season to date, scored in this manner. Our complete All-Time Points Standings from 2000-to-'the-last-completed-season' are found on this webpage, our division's complete 2006-08 standings on Oswego Speedway's lil' Kartway on this page, and our 2000-to-'the-last-completed-season' wins are on this page. At season's end, the current totals will be added into the below:

Pos. (Last Week)

Name (Go-Karts Piloted)
[Most drivers have clickable Driver Profiles]

Total Points (Place)

Average Points Per Feature

2012
Events

2012
Features

2012
Heat Wins/
Entered

2012 Feature Wins

Career Feature Wins (2000-up)

Years Pro at GKC

1st.

Matt Stevens Profile - Pics from Matt's assorted kartsMaster Matt Stevens (t)
(Galletta's #3,33, 0, 1, 02, 74, 80)

2,247.5

118.29

13

19

3/7

7

110

17th

2nd.

Christopher Galletta Stevens Driver Profile - Pics from soorted winning kartsChris "Chrusher" Stevens
(Galletta's #8, 4, 74)

2,185.5

115.03

13

19

2/7

5

63

17th

3rd.

Melissa Gabel Stevens profileMelissa Stevens
(Scissors 'n Fur #19, 80)

1,733.5

91.24

13

19

2/7

1

6

6th

4th.
(5th.)

David Spanfelner - Galletta's #9 -6/17/2012David Spanfelner
(D. S. Humphrey's 1,522.5
#54, 81, Galletta's #9, 7, 6) (^)

1,662.5

87.50

12

19

2/7

0

0

1st

5th.
(4rd.)

Brian Galletta - one of the original GKC members!Brian Galletta
(Platt-num #287, Galletta's #7) (t)

1,644.5

86.55

13

19

0/7

1

2

7th

6th.

Etic Woolworth - Galletta's Greenhouse #2 - 6/17/2012Eric Woolworth
(Galletta's #1, 2) (^)

1,613.0

84.89

12

19

1/7

0

0

1st

7th.

Joe Sereno in the Galletta's #5 (9/1/2012)Joe Sereno
(Galletta's #5, 6) (^^)

1,461.5

81.19

9

18

1/4

2

3

2nd

8th.

Adam Lytle #33c - 8/19/2012Adam Lytle
(Lytle #33c, Ruggio #02b) (t) (^)

1,366.5

71.92

12

19

0/7

0

0

1st

9th.
(10th.)

Bill Ruggio - #02 - 9/1/2012Bill Ruggio
(Ruggio #02, Galletta's #6, 0) (^^^)

1,273.0

67.00

9

19

0/7

0

0

1st

10th.
(9th.)

Timmy Galletta (in Galletta's #9)Tim Galletta
(T-Galletta #54) (^) (t)

1,161.0

89.31

8

13

1/4

1

7

4th

11th.

Randy "Bobandi" Platt in Platt-num #28 (2011)Randy "Bobandi" Platt
(Plattnum #187, Galletta's #2) (^^^)

737.5

73.75

4

10

1/2

1

6

5th

12th.

Justin Galletta in the Galletta's Greenhouse #7 (2011)Justin Galletta
(Galletta's #7)
 

523.0

104.60

3

5

0/1

1

2

2nd

13th.

 Doug Bradford - Galletta's #0 - 6/10/2012Doug Bradford
(Galletta's #0, #1)

257.0

85.67

3

3

1/2

0
0
®

14th.

Kevin Galletta (Galletta's #0)Kevin Galletta
(Galletta's #7)

246.0

61.50

2

4

0/0

0

0

2nd

15th.
(21st.)

William Truax - DS Humprhies #81 - 9/1/2012William Truax
(Galletta's #9, 7, DS Hum. #81) ^

227.0

45.40

2

5

0/0

0

0

®

15th.
(14th.)

Eric Sereno - Galletta's Greenhouse #6 - 6/17/2012Eric Sereno
(Galletta's 6)

176.0

88.00

1

2

1/1

0

0

®

16th.
(15th.)

Fred Collins (Galletta's #9)Fred Collins
(Galletta's #9) (^)

159.0

79.50

1

2

0/1

0

2

6th

17th.
(16th.)

Matthew McGinley (Galletta's #7, 6) 8/12/2012Matthew McGinley (Galletta's #7, 6) (^)

146.0

48.67

1

3

0/1

0

0

®

19th.
(18th.)

James Fragale
(Galletta's #6) ^

146.0

48.67

1

3

0/0

0

0

®

20th. (19th.)

Jason King (Galletta's #9) 8/12/2012Jason King (Galletta's #9) (^)

145.0

48.33

1

3

0/1

0

0

®


21st.
(20th.)

John Moore
(Galletta's #9) (^)

137.0

68.50

1

2

0/1

0

0

®


22nd.
(--th.)

shawn malone gallettas 9 on 20120901Shawn Malone
(Galletta's #9) (^)

133.0

66.50

1

2

0/1

0

0

®

23rd.
(20th.)

Shane Fetterly
(Galletta's #6) (^)

127.0

63.50

1

2

0/2

0

0

®


24th.
(--th.)

Chris Bartlett (Galletta's #6 on 9/1/2012)Chris Bartlett
(Galletta's #6) (^)

119.0

59.50

1

2

0/1

0

0

®

25th.
(23rd.)

Alex Santana - Galletta's #2 - 8/8/2012Alex Santana
(Galletta's #2, 0)

95.0

47.50

1

2

0/0

0

0

®

26th.
(24th.)

John Galvin
(Galletta's #6)

74.0

74.00

1

1

0/2

0

0

®

27th.
(25th.)

Trevor Jock - Galletta's #9 -6/10/2012Trevor Jock
(Galletta's #9)

72.0

72.00

1

1

0/2

0

0

®

28th.
(--th.)

Daniel "Busket Case Whiner" Buske (Galletta's #7 on 9/1/2012)Dan "Busket Case" Buske
(Galletta's #7) (^)

-93.0

-46.50

1

2

0/1

0

0

®

Key:
^ = Used Make-Up Retcon Races (Heat/Consi/Semi/B-Main race scored as if raced in the back of a previously missed event's feature or twin features.)
T = Used Time-Outs (3 per driver per season; 5-10 minute break/repair blocks; can be rolled-over to Klassic. Newbie Rookies get one until the become regulars.)
L = Raced Light in handicap kart; Point penalty & warning only, no harsh DQs.
® = Rookie (Inexperienced beginner with less than 1 full season at Galletta's. NR = Newbie rookie, a 1st-time beginner/novice.)

Notes:
Scoring: Point scoring scale is found on our scoring page in addition to our rules page, heats are bonus points, and more bonus points are awarded for each lap run in 1st place (1 point per lap) and 2nd & 3rd place (0.5 points per lap) for regular-season feature races and Klassic 200 (not for heats and Fall Bonus Races).
Starts: Regular season race starts are handicapped via inverting (a) feature wins and (b) points-per-race. 2nd of a Twin-30 start is inverted from the 1st finish, minus winners are still inverted . Klassic is started via time-trials.

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Posted on April 25th, 2006 by ChrusherComix Studios

John J. Galletta Memorial KartwayGalletta's Backyard Go-Kart Speedway is a free-to-race-on and free-to-watch 0.133887 mile dirt oval with 20-degree banked turns. It is located behind Galletta's Greenhouse in Oswego, NY, and can be seen from outer space! The single-wheel-drive gasoline-fueled flathead motor karts take the track between 15-17 seconds per lap which averages over 30 mph (approximately 45-50 mph top speed in the straights). Our speeds are comparable to alcohol/methanol-fueled karts that cost 8 times as much because we use mostly homemade or rebuilt go-karts and gas on a large track; leading to more karts, more competition, and more fun. Our class is usually the largest and most competitive in the area. Thanks to Google Earth for this Spring 2006 photo. Our karting club's home track is located in back of:
Galletta's Greenhouse of Oswego NY (Official website)
Galletta's Greenhouses
60 County Route 20
Oswego, NY 13126-6512
(315) 343-0879 or (315) 343-4281
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