Galletta’s Karting Club
We race customized “1-WD backyard racing go-karts” every weekend from June through October on a dirt track behind Galletta’s Greenhouses in the Town of Oswego, New York, USA. While we’re mostly just a bunch of friends and family having some competitive fun, we’re always looking for more drivers to join us, and we have arrive-and-drive karts on hand if you want to try it out!
- – Every Summer Sunday Night (JUN through late AUG)
- – Select Fall Friday Evenings or Saturday Afternoons (Late AUG through OCT)
- – Winter-Spring Closed (NOV through MAY)
LAST RACE:
SATURDAY OCTOBER 12TH, 2024 – THE 27TH RUNNING OF THE GALLETTA’S GREENHOUSE KARTING KLASSIC 200-LAPPER!
The Klassic 200 went down, but I’m too busy with work to write up a proper page covering it. However, All of the raw video footage we took from 5 camera angles is now up on the above playlist! Enjoy.
PRIOR RACES (& VIDEOS)
2024 Season
2024/10/12 – The 27th Running of the Galletta’s Karting Klassic – 200 Laps! [+YouTube]
…was held on Saturday, October 12th, 2024. Eight intrepid drivers started,…
2024/9/14 – Matt & Chris Stevens Survive the Big D*** in a Small Pond Twin 25s! [+YouTube]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH 2024, OSWEGO, NY – We were thrilled to finally have enough racers…
2024/8/13 – Twice-Rained-out Raindate Twin 20s Won by Chris Stevens & Matt Stevens [+YouTube]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 13th, 2024, OSWEGO, N.Y. – A rainy Sunday led to a raindate of…
2024/08/04 – 28th Season Opener Winners: AJ Larkin & Matt Stevens [+YouTube]
Sunday, August 4th, 2024, Oswego N.Y. – FINALLY! The 2024 Season is upon us! Later…
Labor Day Weekend ’24 – Congrats to Galletta’s Karters at Oswego Speedway Classic Weekend!
Congrats to occasional Galletta’s Karter Tyler Thompson on the 2024 Oswego Speedway Supermodified Classic 200 Victory (his 2nd Oswego Super Classic win), as well as one of our regular racers — AND current points leader (as of 8/14/2024) — AJ Larkin, scoring 6th (and an honorable mention to former old-school karter Cameron Rowe Sr. getting 2nd) in the Small Block Supermodified Classic! Afterward, we realized even more Galletta’s Karters than we mentioned and didn’t want to leave anyone out: Griffin Miller, Tony DeStevens, Lou LeVea Jr., and Dennis Richmond all got some Classic action in as well. We always say if we could get all these guys along with several of our All-Time Points Karters to all be in a kart on race day, the competition would be AMAZING!
2024 SEASON IS FINALLY ON! NEWEST RACES:
NOTE: We hope to have enough drivers to race either Friday or Saturday afternoon, so contact us if you are interested!
2024 Galletta’s Greenhouse Backyard Karting Point Standings
(as of 8/13/2024)
Name (Karts Driven) / * = Makeups | Total Points | Average Points Per | Features | Feature Wins | Feature Win % | Won / Heat & Makeup | 17 Race Seasons | All-Time Wins | Last Race Entered | Last Week | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
V | V | V | V | V | V | V | V | V | V | V | V |
1 | AJ Larkin (Galletta’s #9; 7 | 259.0 | 64.75 | 4 | 1 | 25% | 0/0 | (R) | 2 | 2024-08-13 | 1 |
2 | Chris Stevens (Galletta’s #4, 8) | 250.0 | 62.50 | 4 | 1 | 25% | 0/0 | 28th | 92 | 2024-08-13 | 2 |
3 | Matt Stevens (Galletta’s #3, 74) | 243.0 | 60.75 | 4 | 2 | 50% | 0/0 | 28th | 159 | 2024-08-13 | 3 |
5 | Melissa Stevens (SNFr #19) | 172.0 | 43.00 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/0 | 11th | 8 | 2024-08-13 | 5 |
5 | Greg Blanchard (Galletta’s #43) | 172.0 | 43.00 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/0 | (R) | 1 | 2024-08-13 | 6 |
4 | Andrew Hook (Galletta’s #0, 78) | 99.0 | 49.50 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 0/0 | 2nd | 2 | 2024-08-04 | 4 |
The next race is *TO BE DETERMINED*, as we will need to sort over what date we can race around (1) Matt’s week-long Family Vacation, (2) Chris and his wife’s (the track camerawoman) busy Fall work schedule, (3) the weather, and (4) by FAR the hardest part — the ever-fickle and unpredictable visiting driver attendance issues that we have been mysteriously dealing with for years now. C’mon competitors! Stay tuned!
2023 Season
2023/10/28 – The 26th Running of the Galletta’s Greenhouse Go-Kart Klassic [+YouTube]
Saturday, October 28th, 2023, OSWEGO, N.Y. – 103 laps out of…
2023/10/14 – Mid-October “Buddy the Galletta’s Patrol Cat Memorial” Twin 20 Tune-Ups won by Devon Tonkin & Chris Stevens [+YouTube]
Saturday, 10/14/2023 – In the first race held since “Buddy The Galletta’s Greenhouse Patrol Kitty”…
2023/08/06 – Big Crash During Late Nite Twin-20’s; Matt Stevens Sweeps! [+YouTube]
Sunday, August 6th, 2023; OSWEGO, NY, USA – Matt Stevens dusted off his Galletta’s Greenhouse…
2023/7/30 – Twin-25s won by Nic Olivares & David Hartpence [+YouTube]
Sunday, July 30th, 2023, OSWEGO, NY – Nic Olivares led from green to checker in…
2023/07/23 – Andrew Hook & Chris Stevens win the Biker Gang Twin-25s! [+YouTube]
Sunday, July 23rd, 2023, Oswego, N.Y. — Four winners for four features thus far in…
2023/07/16 – AJ Larkin & Matt Stevens Win Twin-25s for our 28th Season Opener! [+YouTube]
Our season opener was scheduled for Sunday, July 16th, 2023 late afternoon/early evening. There was…
10/28/2023 – The 26th Running of the Galletta’s Greenhouse Go-Karts Klassic!
2023 Galletta’s Greenhouse Speedway Point Standings – Sponsored by R & C Sushi Bar LLC
Finalized totals tallied between 7/16/2023 – 10/28/2023:
Pos. | Name (Karts Driven) / * = Makeups CAPS: Entered every race |
Total
Points |
Average |
Feat-
ures |
Feat-
ure Wins |
Feature Win %
|
Won / Heat & Makeup
|
Seasons
(17 Races Per)
|
All-Time Wins
|
1 | CHRIS STEVENS (Galletta’s #8, 4) |
1212.5
|
110.23
|
11
|
3
|
27%
|
1/1
|
28th
|
92
|
2 | MATT STEVENS (Galletta’s #74, 33, 3) |
1146.0
|
104.18
|
11
|
3
|
27%
|
0/1
|
28th
|
157
|
3 | AJ Larkin (Galletta’s #9; 5) * |
697.5
|
63.41
|
11
|
1
|
9%
|
0/1
|
(R)
|
1
|
4 | Andrew Hook (Galletta’s #0, 39) |
651.0
|
130.20
|
5
|
1
|
20%
|
0/1
|
2nd
|
2
|
5 | MELISSA STEVENS (SNFr #80, 19) |
645.0
|
58.64
|
11
|
0
|
0%
|
0/1
|
11th
|
8
|
6 | Nicolas Olivares * (Galletta’s #1, 6, 5) |
518.5
|
64.81
|
8
|
1
|
13%
|
1/1
|
2nd
|
5
|
7 | Steve Larkin (Galletta’s #7, 5) |
465.5
|
66.50
|
7
|
0
|
0%
|
0/0
|
(R)
|
0
|
8 | Tucker Wells (Galletta’s #6) |
426.5
|
142.17
|
3
|
0
|
0%
|
0/1
|
(R)
|
0
|
9 | Jeremy Burton (Galletta’s #2, 93) ** |
402.5
|
50.31
|
8
|
0
|
0%
|
0/2
|
(R)
|
0
|
10 | Tyler Thompson (Galletta’s #78, 2, 83, 43) |
349.0
|
116.33
|
3
|
0
|
0%
|
0/1
|
(R)
|
0
|
11 | Logan Crisafulli (Galletta’s #93) |
334.0
|
334.00
|
1
|
0
|
0%
|
0/1
|
(R)
|
0
|
12 | Austin Carroll (Galletta’s #78) |
295.0
|
295.00
|
1
|
0
|
0%
|
0/1
|
(R)
|
0
|
13 | AJ Nason (Galletta’s #43, 83c) |
269.0
|
89.67
|
3
|
0
|
0%
|
0/0
|
1st
|
0
|
14 | David Hartpence Jr. (Galletta #2, 0) * |
238.5
|
59.63
|
4
|
1
|
25%
|
1/1
|
2nd
|
2
|
15 | Bob Failmezger (Galletta’s #6) * |
236.5
|
59.13
|
4
|
0
|
0%
|
0/1
|
(R)
|
0
|
16 | Tony DeStevens (Galletta’s #2) |
229.0
|
229.00
|
1
|
0
|
0%
|
0/1
|
(R)
|
0
|
17 | John Mathis (Galletta’s #83c) * |
183.0
|
45.75
|
4
|
0
|
0%
|
0/1
|
(R)
|
0
|
18 | Adam Lytle (Galetta’s #33c) * |
182.5
|
45.63
|
4
|
0
|
0%
|
1/1
|
7th
|
10
|
19 | Randy Baldwin (Galletta’s #9) * |
182.0
|
45.50
|
4
|
0
|
0%
|
0/1
|
1st
|
1
|
20 | Nathan Powers (Galletta’s #6) * |
172.0
|
43.00
|
4
|
0
|
0%
|
0/1
|
(R)
|
0
|
21 | Stacie Wells (Galletta’s #78) * |
159.0
|
39.75
|
4
|
0
|
0%
|
0/1
|
(R)
|
0
|
22 | Matt Bubenhausen (Galletta’s #93, 7) * |
156.0
|
39.00
|
4
|
0
|
0%
|
0/1
|
(R)
|
0
|
23 | Devon Tonkin (Galletta’s #93) * |
115.0
|
57.50
|
2
|
1
|
50%
|
0/0
|
(R)
|
0
|
* = Ran in a Makeup Points Heat Race (and scored in last place in an event that the driver missed).
Hyperlink = Driver has a Galletta’s Racer Profile.
ALL-CAPS = Drivers started every race event this season.
(R) = Rookie; 1st Season at Galletta’s.
See our humble little 4-kart Klassic from 1999. Watch Matt’s unbeatable streak through almost the mid-2000s. Catch Chris Stevens’ dry streak end and get hot himself between his almost unbeatable lil’ brother’s streaks! Observe Wesley “Ogre” Stevens get an upset win in 2006! Behold the surprises when Kyle Rueter and Kelly Miller become the 1st “Visiting” drivers to win a Klassic 200! Hours of footage, thousands of laps, and hundreds of drivers giving it a shot here!
2023 Race Video Playlist
HINT: When we race, it takes time to make the race pages with videos, race results, and weekly point standings up, *BUT* you can get sneak peeks by viewing our 2023 Playlist, which is updated on YouTube instantaneously as soon as a new video gets completed! Every race video all season gets uploaded there as soon as they are processed and uploaded, and not all are public, some are only available via this playlist:
Race archives as always with hundreds upon hundreds of race videos race results and point races available to watch below:
Welcome to our Complete Race Archive + 1.5K Full Race Videos!
2022 Season
2022 Season at the Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Club & Backyard Speedway – Year 27! [+YouTube]
After a 20-month hiatus (two offseasons and all of last season), Galletta’s Backyard Karting Speedway was back to racing for our 26th Points Racing Season (out of 27 years). It appears that we didn’t get a 200 in due to…
2021 Season
The 2021 Season at the Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Club & Backyard Speedway – Year 26… Canceled.
2021 Season — The Season That Never Was: Our 2021 season was unfortunately completely lost due to circumstances out of our control. And it’s a long,…
2020 Season
2020 – The 25th Season of Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Club & Backyard Go-Kart Speedway Recap!
Our 25th Points Championship Race season can be watched in its entirety via this above video playlist (from one, two, and sometimes even THREE HD video angles)! And below is the complete week-by-week rundown that had 40 different drivers enter…
2019 Season
Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Club & Backyard Speedway 2019 – Our 24th Season!
Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Club & Backyard Speedway 2019 – Our 24th Season! Our 24th race season was held on a near-weekly basis from 6/23/2019 – 9/29/2019, with 24 drivers racing in 15 features & 9 different winners (not counting many…
2018 Season
Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Club & Backyard Speedway 2018–Our 23rd Season!
COMPLETE 2018 SEASON IN REVIEW Newest to oldest: 9/22/2018 – 23rd Annual Galletta’s Greenhouse Go-Kart 200-Lap Klassic Championship [YouTube] ? Saturday, September 22nd, 2018 – Unedited video footage from the event. I’ll be working on getting a properly edited video ASAP (hopefully within…
2017 Season
2017 Season at Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Speedway – Year 22
Welcome to the Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Club & Backyard Speedway’s website! Founded in the early 1990s, Galletta’s Karting Club & Backyard Speedway was created to race go-karts as competitively as we can for as purposefully affordable as we can (via rules), using…
2011 Season
2011 Season Recap: The 16th Annual Points Championship of Oswego Karting & 200 Lap Klassic Race!
2011 Gas Flathead Karting World Championship Tallied between June 5th, 2011 through October 8th, 2011 by ChrusherComix Studios Our season thus far at Galletta’s has been action-packed, competitive, clean, and fun. Instead of blowing a few grand to be herded on…
2010 Season
2010 – 15th Annual Points Championship of Oswego – Season Recap + ALL Race Videos!
Welcome! We are a Karting Club that invented and races extremely affordable 5hp flathead, Single Wheel Drive “Gas stocker” karts for a Points championship every summer at Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Speedway and a traveling points show at other local area tracks. Hybrid between a…
2009 Season
2009 Season -14th Annual Point Championship Recap (+ Complete Season on YouTube!)
Welcome! We are a Karting Club that invented and races extremely affordable 5hp flathead, Single Wheel Drive “Gas stocker” karts for a Points championship every summer at Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Speedway and a traveling points show at other local area tracks. Hybrid between a…
2008 Season
2008 Season – 13th at Galletta’s & 3rd at Oswego Kartway Recap [w/COMPLETE YouTube Videos!]
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 Oswego Speedway‘s Clay Kartway.…
2007 Season
2007 Season Recap: 12th Galletta’s Season & 2nd Oswego Speedway Dirt Season DVDs! [+ Complete YouTube Playlists]
The Galletta’s Karting Club Complete 2007 Season & 2007 Gas Stocker Kart Championship Series of Oswego County The ’07 Galletta’s Kart Club’s season is here for your enjoyment. Team Galletta’s boasts the largest home dirt kart track, most weekly karting…
2006 Season
2006 Recap | 11th Point Season & Annual Klassic 150 [+YouTube Season Video Playlist]
In 2006 we raced 2 tracks: 35 drivers raced in our 11th season at Galletta’s Speedway & 18 drivers raced in our new “gas stocker” division in our 1st season at the new Oswego Speedway Dirt track (later renamed Oswego…
2004 Season
2004 Season & 9th Annual Klassic 100-Lapper [+YouTube]!
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…
2003 Season
2003 Season & 8th Annual Klassic 100 [+YouTube Video!]
THE 2003 GALLETTA’S BOX STOCK GAS KARTING LEAGUE SEASON This season only saw 13 regular-season events before Klassic, the fewest in the modern era of Galletta’s Super-Yard-Kart racing. The reason being that Matt, Chris and Wes started to get bored…
2002 Season
2002 Season & 7th Annual Karting Klassic 90 [+YouTube Video!]
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. We also record the weekly dirt karting classes that count in the…
2001 Season
2001 Season & 6th Annual Oswego Karting Klassic Championship Recap [+YouTube]
THE 2001 GALLETTA’S BOX STOCK GAS KARTING LEAGUE SEASON 2001 Regular Season: In 2001, we raced 22 regular season point events between June 10th & October 13th, 2001. Again, this season was another 100% box-stock gas 5hp flathead Briggs & Stratton…
2000 Season
2000 Season Recap & 5th Annual Klassic 80-Lap Oswego Dirt Karting Championship
THE 2000 GALLETTA’S 5HP BOX STOCK GAS KARTING LEAGUE SEASON Snapshots from the 2000 Galletta’s Go-Kart Klassic: The 2000 year was one that saw Chris, Matt, and Wes Stevens run a staggering 33 events between the 4th of July and…
1999 Season
1999 Season & the 4th Annual Galletta’s Kart Klassic 80 [+Video]
1999 Season & the 4th Annual Galletta’s Kart Klassic 80: Chris finally beat Matt’s streak and won the Klassic and Points Titles this year, in the #2. Matt, of course, was 2nd while Wes was 3rd. Brian Galletta, RaYzor…
1998 Season
1998 Season & 3rd Annual Galletta’s Karting Klassic 80
1998 Season & 3rd Annual Galletta’s Karting Klassic: Left: Chris “Chrusher” Stevens (#2), Matt (#3) and Wes (#4) prepare the karts for the 1998 80-lap Klassic. Back when we only had 3 karts! Right: Before the race, Chrusher, in the…
1996-97 Seasons
The 1990s Seasons – 1996-1997 Recaps
THE 1990s at GALLETTA’S BOX STOCK GAS KARTING SPEEDWAY: The beginnings of the modern-day Galletta’s Go-Kart track – The mid-1990s: Matt got his original #3 Go-Kart in 1990. It was a used neon-green Manco yard kart. Oddly, one of Chris’…
About Us
Want to race go-karts? Affordably?
Then why spend $2,000-$5,000 to race when you can race like this for $200-$600?
What We Do:
We race customized backyard racing go-karts weekly on a dirt track behind Galletta’s Greenhouses in the Town of Oswego, New York, USA. We’re mostly just a bunch of friends and family, but always looking for more drivers to join us!
What We’re About:
Founded in the early 1990s, Galletta’s Karting Club & Backyard Speedway was created to race go-karts as competitively as we can for as purposefully affordable as we can (via rules), using karts that are hybrid – something between a prefabricated racing kart and a yard kart that can race fast and safe on both pay tracks and backyard tracks alike, all the while having drivers that are highly talented and experienced racers WITHOUT spending wars. The original, longest-running, and largest karting class in the area, we are also the easiest to join — we have over 20 equally fast, feature-winning, arrive-and-drive karts and a over the years of hundreds of races have amassed a massive list of hundreds of drivers join into the weekly Summer-Fall races. If you like it, rent, build, or buy your own for a few hundred dollars to join and compete (instead of a few thousand like most pay track classes to take to join and compete, as we CAP the type or parts and prices). And, some of the more experienced drivers at Galletta’s have been racing more than a decade before any of the local pay tracks were built and some have hundreds of more races under their belts. Come race where Kyle Reuter once called, “the Rucker Park of karting.”
When Do We Usually Race?:
Races are scheduled every Summer Sunday (June-August) evening, and then every Fall Saturday (September-October) afternoon (unless poor driver attendance or bad weather forces us to cancel). Exact timing TBA and based on active driver consensus. This is subject to change based on the weather’s effect on the track condition, and driver count. In addition, our schedule is flexible, and depending on weather and driver availability, we can occasionally change to Fridays or Saturdays to beat rain or for a special event. But our go-to dates for racing are usually every Summer Sunday and every Fall Saturday that we can race.
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