Galletta's Karting Club

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   Chrusher.Com

   July 23, 2016, 5:14 am | # | Reply

   POST RACE NOTES:

   The largest and most talented karting division in Oswego, NY had another great weekend of racing despite a dry/bumpy track. And yet once again, an ignoramus sitting on the sidelines (for free) is overheard trying to get people to go see the karting in back of the local big track which he idiotically wears on his hat like a flaming useful idiot tool of theirs. “Five bucks to get in and watch.” “Go faster than ‘these guys’.” And he probably said more that was unheard, but he coincidentally quieted down once he realized he could be heard by drivers.

   Stupid idiot.

   Been there.

   

   

   Won that.

   

   

   

   We had been racing since the early 1990s and had been attending weekly races at Oswego Speedway since before you were born. You think we don’t know about it? And like with so many drivers and spectators at the local pay track, they need more? They’re filling up that tiny track every week with lemming-like people who think it’s the shit, and anybody who watches local racing knows about it. In fact, they could use LESS becase they only have time and space to herd on, herd off.

   People have told me they don’t like when I write about Oswego Kartway. They say I bash it. I don’t. I’m just stating my experience as a person who raced go karts BEFORE it existed, raced go-karts on it, and still race go-karts for years after we stopped there.

   So… sorry to those who don’t like me to talk about kartway, but it seems as if he needed a little… enlightening time:

   That “track out back” of the local famous speedway exists because the guys who started it visited OUR track and OUR races in the early 2000’s and basically somehow then got inspiration from heaven and came up with a novel idea all their own! What idea? Why to make an oval dirt karting track! And somehow, the big local track allowed them to build out in back. Pretty cool, huh? Yeah, especially because they were funded by the business owners running the big track, and had the name of the big track attached and attracting people. Really cool! And we were initially aboard. Why not? Two local tracks to run is better than one! As long as we had our own class, we were good to go and show our competitive (and economically unbeatable!) races to a larger crowd. Cool beans.

   

   And thus we did. We were there for the first three years as THE biggest class on the track for most of that duration (and would have been the undisputed biggest division if not for the track operator forcing a mixed motor class instead of our own). During the first one and a half years, our class was putting 10-15 karts on that little track a week, while all those other costlier classes struggled to put 1-10 karts out. It wasn’t until late 2007 and 2008 that the other classes built up enough regular karts to be even noticed, while ours took a hit (because many of our racers were upset with the track operator and couldn’t get them out there as much as we could get them on our track).

   On top of that, our speeds were VERY CLOSE to the speeds reached by classes where the karts cost SEVERAL TIMES MORE THAN OURS and GEARED DIFFERENTLY. Less than a second, in fact, some of the kids classes we were only a half second slower. And that was BEFORE we added racing cams and STILL kept stock “Fun Power” carbs and Yard Kart clutches to keep our karts cheaper and speeds safe on OUR LARGER track. That, to us, is LAUGHABLE! And sad. Why do they spend so much? Sure, their karts are more finely tuned than ours, and they put a lot more money into them than we do, but why? Racing is racing. What’s more laughable? We go faster on our track than the expensive pay karts go on the local pay track. The track is bigger and we have a higher top speed. If we wanted to adjust more, we could be faster than any of their classes because we make our own rules based on a majority of regular drivers, while they stick to organized racing guidelines and subdivisions of classes based on age, weight, motor, butthurtiness, etc..

   Our track is MORE THAN TWO TIMES BIGGER. AND WE RUN MORE LAPS. WE CAN DO OVER 200 LAPS ON ONE TANK OF PUMP GAS, WHERE THEY RUN ON ALKY FUMES AFTER A ITTY-BITTY 35-LAP FEATURE! Wow. Do the math. To us, a feature at the local pay track is like A HEAT RACE TO US. Their Classic is like our regular feature. It lasts about the same time and goes for around the same distance. And on TOP of all that… our Klassic is unfathomable to them. We race for hours for pennies, they race for minutes on thousands of dollars. To us, that’s a joke. Like women who buy overpriced purses or dresses for name brand. Stupid. Idiotic. Mindlessly arrogant. They do it to show off and say they raced in back of the big track. If they really cared about testing their skills, they’d race against guys that have been doing it for over two decades no matter WHERE they race and no matter HOW MUCH the karts cost to field. It’s an overpriced joke to us. And what do they have again? Thirteen or fourteen diluted classes? There is no true champion at the local pay track. A bunch of semi-winners. That’s like giving trophies to last place to us. In fact, we could save them a load of time and take the top two or three from each class and defeat them just to prove a point. But they don’t show up, so, oh well.

   Our division’s founders – Matt, Chris and Wes Stevens – were the ONLY drivers in the history of that track to sweep the 1st three seasons of Classic Pedestal spots AND Matt Stevens dominated the wins and points standings… mind you, this is all AGAINST HALF A FIELD OF KARTS WITH BIGGER MOTORS THAN OURS. The other prissy classes divide by the ounce of weight, by motor class, by chassis… and WE were forced to run against motors CLEARLY putting out FAR more horsepower than we were.

   

   And as thanks? We were told not to come back, our records and accomplishments get ERASED from their website and MOCKED AND THREATENED by people who claimed to represent the track. Oh, and webmaster/graphic artist Chris Stevens was NEVER paid for artwork and banners done. Instead, he was mocked as a failed artist/cartoonist by people who didn’t even have the balls to sign their names to their words. Again, only internet tough-guy swollen baboon pu$$ies do $hit like that. The long and convoluted history between our humble little race class and the local pay track is painstakingly drawn out on our website here, and has been since 2009 when our class was exiled from their track, erased from their website, mocked and threatened on local internet forums.

   One could say we don’t really care enough to hold any serious grudges anymore (it was over seven years ago after all) because we raced before the track existed, raced there 3 years, and continued racing our own way for years after we were exiled (and had just as much fun, had far less headaches and saved a LOT more money saved on entrance fees)… until we hear someone trying to recruit people AWAY from our races and TO the pay track. Then, we get a little pissed. We’re ONE class and we have over twenty karts on hand, most weeks we have 8-14 drivers. The pay track has more drivers than time to race and split them up into a gazillion classes with no one true winner and a ton of also-rans. Stop and think before you open your mouth. When you recruit, you slap us in the face and the pay track is overloaded and overpriced as it is.

   And so that reminds me. Why do SO FEW of the racers who race on that track race with us? Easy. Some don’t know about us. But some do. You will not see many prissy flatty-kart racers that race “flatties” brave our track. In fact, next to NONE. For one, they can’t even field their prefabricated karts on our track. The pussies can’t handle anything but a smooth-as-glass racing surface. Their karts are built too low, they’re used to racing in the missionary position, and their vaginas are too sensitive. But all jokes aside… their arrogance betrays them – they think racing on pay tracks with karts costing a few thousand dollars to competitively field automatically makes them superior. We laugh at such a notion, as we have MORE laps of weekly racing for MORE years and have MORE experience than the very MOST experienced local karter, bar NONE. And partially, it is fear. They know they could never beat drivers like Matt Stevens and Chris Stevens and therefore never join a race with them to have their fears proved true. They know a few drivers who used to race with us started racing there and dominated. They also know that Kyle Reuter – someone who DOMINATED local quarter-midget and methanol classes – part-time races with us, and they know they can’t beat him either. They know they couldn’t beat a Kelly Miller, who dominated Super Stocks and raced Supers. Not when the karts are equalized. To beat drivers like that, they need to buy an expensive prefabricated racing kart and buy some expensive motor from down south. They know on equal footing, they’d be exposed as also-rans. They know we groom beginner drivers who start shaky and within a half season, are racing with some seriously good skills and winning. They can beat the best the pay track has to offer in a half season racing with us. And one can go down our all-time list and regular lists to show many drivers who quit racing altogether who they couldn’t beat on equal footing. They’d lose, leave mocking our karts as beater junk, and resume their self-deluded fantasy of, “I’m better because my kart costs more” lie. Ha! If they truly had balls, they’d want to test their skills against the regulars at our track. But… they don’t do they? Need I say more.

   And mind you, probably 95-97% of the people who race, spectate, volunteer and officiate at that track probably never heard of us, have no idea who we are, or what we did there, or what was done to us there. Likely all cool people and work hard and race hard who we have no problem with and are happy they have a place to race. Still, a few more would look at our karts and laugh… that pride I spoke of. We’ve been told that both kinds exist. To them, they have no reason to dislike us and we have nothing against them, so why hold a grudge? But the maybe 3-5% of the people who are there that know what happened and how badly we were disrespected and cheated out of some fun (and credit for supporting that track for three full years when we didn’t need to), with never a single apology. Those are the ones we still harbor a little resentment towards. And the funny thing is? We’re pretty forgiving, fair-minded, honest and tolerant people. If the small handful of people down there who badmouthed, exiled, mocked and threatened us ever came forth and said, “You know what guys. You’re right. We overreacted to a disagreement about rules and treated you pretty unfairly. We’re sorry.” — we’d probably be okay with it. We’d probably edit our webpage documenting the problems we had there and soften it a bit. It wouldn’t entirely make up for the humiliation they poured upon us, but it would’ve been at least alright by us to forgive and forget, not be bothered by old wounds when some idiot comes along and badmouths our races and tries to recruit people there. I wouldn’t hold my breath though. If I did, I would’ve died in 2008 after our last race there, the Classic that we swept the top three spots in for the second year in a row. They have that pride that I spoke of above. The same pride that they think they are superior because they race in back of the speedway or spend five to ten times as much as we do on a single kart.

   So, in closing, knowing how many hundreds of spectators and karts are there on any given Friday night, and our long history with the track’s management as stated above, and how few people we have overall in comparison… we still get some joker coming out into our backyard and tries to recruit more people out there instead?

   Wow.

   Just… wow.

   Go home, goatee boy. You’re either drunk, ignorant, dumb, or all of the above.

   -Chris

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