In our 11th year of points championship racing at Galletta's Greenhouse's Go-Kart Speedway
Sundays from June-August & Saturdays from September-October, and summer Fridays at Oswego Speedway.
We race exclusively with limited-modified 5hp Briggs and Stratton flat-head motors all with affordable 100% stock parts.
 

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Galletta's Go-Kart Speedway 2006 Event #13 results:
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006 (50-lap Feature)
We had a rainy weekend here at Galletta's due to Hurricane Ernesto's aftermath. Originally, with Oswego Speedway's Classic weekend a staple of our Labor Day weekend (and the Classic 200 scheduled on Sunday), we were planning on racing Monday, September 4th. However, due to the Classic raining out Sunday and being moved to Monday, we realized that our only chance to get it in this weekend was to hold it Sunday night, after the showers broke enough for us to race. It was a little late, and a little slick, and but nowhere near as late or as slick as we have raced in the past, so the green flag dropped!  But keep in mind, everybody... we will now race on every Saturday from here on out in the Fall. The reasons are multiple: (1) We attend Supermodified racing every Saturday during the Summer, (2) We watch NFL football every Sunday during the Fall, (3) Kids start going back to school, (4) If Saturday rains, we still have Sunday as a fail-safe rain-date. It has been a tradition to change the date from every Sunday before Labor Day to every Saturday after Labor Day for years here at Galletta's Speedway, as well as holding our Karting Klassic race in mid-to-late September. So... everybody take note and get ready! Now...


(LEFT) Early leader Jason Mills (#38) followed closely by Robbie Jimenez (#5) and Chris ChrusherComix (#8).
(RIGHT) However Jason's chain broke (as his kart's builder Ed Maynes looks on in grief), handing the lead to Robbie. Ed Maynes continued to field fast karts that couldn't complete the race, as all three of his karts (his own, his son Kenny's, and his friend Jason's) all got DNFs. Kenny hopped into a few backups and did something that we have never seen; He spun out, did a 360 and kept going FOUR times, not bringing out a caution for any one of them! We wish more people that spin out would learn from Kenny... maybe we'll ask him to give lessons to the inexperienced rookies.

(LEFT) Rapid Robbie set a fast pace for the rest of the event. Here he is shown blistering the track (see the sparks?) and challenged by Chris "ChrusherComix" (#8) but Chris couldn't catch his old #5 kart (that he won the 2000 & 2001 Classics in), and motor problems soon developed in his seemingly cursed #8 which led to Chris dropping out and to hopping into a backup, the #2 (which Chris also drove to a Classic win in 1999). Chris said, "The deuce don't drive like it used to. Cameron Rowe, Crashin' Tom Culeton and Flippin' Freddy Collins (the three drivers who have driven it the most since 1999) demolished that sucker wrecking it so much!, Ha-ha!" Fast Freddy missed his first show of 2006 because his phone number was disconnected. (RIGHT) Here is Robbie pumping his fist for his first career victory, one long overdue as he was in his second year with countless top 5 finishes. We also believe that he may be the youngest driver to win a feature at Galletta's.

(LEFT) What is it with all the ties this year? After Rob won, Matt (who started the race in the #7, then hopped out running in third place to hop into his #3 just because he wanted to "have more fun.") and Dick Dann tied for 2nd. Although everybody paying attention thought that Matt nipped him, we scored it a tie ("besides... Matt's lead in the points is already too big to overcome anyway" adds Chris). (RIGHT) Rob taking his victory lap. In an odd coincidence, Robbie won without his mother, step-father, or grandfather in attendance, as Kris was serving the 1st week of her indefinite suspension (for fighting; explained last week). Several people have noticed that his family seems to give him bad luck, as the last time they were late, he led many laps until he crashed shortly after they arrived and with just a handful of laps to go. But at least his expecting girlfriend Amanda, got to witness his triumph!

September 3rd, 2006 50-lap Feature Final order or finish:

1st	Rapid Robbie Jimenez #5
2nd	(TIE) Matt "Mush" Stevens #3
2nd	(TIE) Dick Dann #86
4th	Nick Dann #0
5th	Chris "Crusher" Stevens #2/#8
6th	Kenny Maynes #7/#2/#18
7th	Oscar Berry #10
8th	Billy Kuykendell #1 (DNF)
9th	Wes "Ogre" Stevens #4 (DNF)
10th	Jason Mills #38 (DNF)
11th	Ed Meynes #43 (DNF)

DNF = Did Not Finish Feature.
DNS = Did Not Start Feature (though qualified in Heat).
Updated point standings beneath the "rant" section...

Now onto the updated points...

2006 Galletta's Go-Karts Point Standings
After 13 feature events from 6/11/2006 thru 9/3/2006:

POINTS SCORING SYSTEM IS 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).
(A"*" in win category means a shared tie, a "*" in name category means track championships.)

VIEW THE DVD! DVD is available for $3-$5.
All pics are internet-reduced, low-resolution screenshots from the DVD. DVDs are $5 each, but if you pre-order and buy multiple discs we can discount to $3 or less depending on how many one orders. On average of 2+ hours of action on every disc, two camera angles, and packed with tight racing and spectacular flips and crashes right in front of the cameras! And this week, partially announced by Colin Miller! Cameras operated by Uncle Gene Galletta, Rungnapha "Au" Stevens, and captures are all optimized for the website by Chris "ChrusherComix" Stevens for free, so please give your thanks and buy a DVD! Notice that the Oswego Speedway sells their DVDs for $40, ad we sell ours for $5. That means we're cheap, so buy one!

Oswego Speedway Dirt Track Go-Kart Exhibition:
At the Oswego Speedway's dirt track, there were no races due to Classic Weekend (which wound up being a truly great one as I had predicted), which we have been attending for decades. However, as I described before, we were against going back there because the track officials were (1) forcing us to run in an open class with bigger motors, (2) not penalizing wreckers, (3) having a nonsensical starting order, and (4) not allowing us to go in for payouts (we wouldn't because of reasons #1, 2 and 3; though we wanted to). We spoke to "Lawnmower-Man" Wayne Degroff, who tells us that he will now be in command down there, and he said that if we have enough karts to run our own class then we can race on our own as we wish, so we may very well be back (as long as they don't run their races at the same time that we do, which may be a problem if they run theirs on Saturdays as rumored. We actually prefer Fridays there - or early Saturday afternoons... maybe... only if everybody there would also come back here too, a problem as a few [like Brian Bortel for example] have not raced both in a long time since Oswego started their track). Stay tuned and we'll see if we can straighten everything out.

IMPORTANT NOTICES:
(1) This is a reminder that we always race Saturdays in the Fall (when Oswego Supers stop Saturdays and NFL football starts on Sundays). (2) Also, several drivers have been pulling IOUs of late, and the broken parts have exceeding the rental money, so unless people start paying up, then Matt will have to take money out of the Points Fund like he did last year. So people who owe... pay up... or the top-10 drivers will all get screwed out of year-end prizes. (3) We will be having payouts for the Classic Championship Race (held in mid-September every year)... and for the top drivers at the end of our racing season, so see Matt or Chris about how much money we should put into a pot and race-to-win! It should be fun, but everybody has to agree and go in or we can't do it, and also people who stole the 50/50 money should give it back too! (Note that only stock-part 5hp flatheads can compete for winnings. Your kart must be approved by Matt). See Matt and/or Chris and discuss the details!

Our races take place at:

Galletta's Greenhouses
60 County Route 20
Oswego, NY 13126-6512
(315) 343-0879
Need directions? Here's a Google Map!

POINTS SCORING SYSTEM FOR GALLETTA'S GO-KARTS RACES:
 

Pos.	10-laps	20-laps	25-laps	30-laps	40-laps	45-laps	50-laps	70-laps	130-laps
1	20	54	68	82	110	124	140	192	362
2	18	51	65	78	105	118	134	182	346
3	16	48	62	74	100	113	128	174	330
4	14	45	59	70	95	108	122	166	314
5	12	43	56	66	90	103	116	158	298
6	10	41	53	62	85	98	111	150	284
7	9	39	50	59	81	93	106	142	271
8	8	36	47	56	77	88	101	136	258
9	7	33	44	53	73	83	95	130	243
10	6	31	41	50	69	78	90	122	230
11	5	29	38	47	65	73	85	115	217
12	4	26	34	44	61	68	80	110	204
13	3	23	31	41	57	63	75	105	191
14	2	20	28	38	53	58	70	100	178
15	1	17	25	35	49	53	65	95	165
16	1	14	22	31	45	48	59	90	149
17	1	11	19	27	40	44	53	85	133
18	1	9	16	23	35	40	47	80	117
19	1	7	13	19	30	35	41	75	110
20	1	5	10	15	25	30	35	70	100

10-lap race is heat. All others are "Feature Events". Kart Classic is 130-laps (as of 2005).
In Feature events, bonus points are awarded as follows:
1st place = 1.0 point every lap
2nd place = 0.5 point every lap
3rd place = 0.5 point every lap
(3rd place is only awarded bonus points with 11 or more karts.)
Classic has never had awarded points for laps led (may change).

Thanks to "Pinner" for this great shot of Matt, Chris, and Au's favorite driver's new Supermodified, the Xtreme/Carson #3; Doug Didero!
We hope he races it all season next year, as it was the fastest car in the Classic with almost no track time prior to the race!

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