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)

2026 SEASON

We are going to aim to be ready to race on Summer Sunday evenings. However, please support Galletta’s Greenhouse all Spring in the meantime! Matt depends on the business!

Also, apologies that the website was down, as I have been too busy with work and family to work on the website, points, and edited videos. I’ll do my best to work on it if I can. Thank you! -Chris Stevens

2025 SEASON

June-August: The 2025 Season’s entire Summer was lost due to track operator/kart mechanic Matt Stevens having a lot of greenhouse work (the winter season of 2025 was EXTREMELY hard on the greenhouse roofs) along with the usual issue of not having a track work vehicle (please contact us if anyone has one in mind for us to either buy or partially barter for), races will need to be planned out in advance with active drivers (contact us with interest).

September 2025: Despite not getting in a regular season race thus far, we held our 200-Lap Klassic on Saturday, September 27th, 2025. However, Matt *STILL* needs a work track vehicle (contact us if you can find us one, it does *NOT* have to be road worthy, just be able to drive around our track).

LATEST RACE:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th, 2024 – THE 28TH RUNNING OF THE GALLETTA’S GREENHOUSE KARTING KLASSIC 200-LAPPER!

Yes! We got our 200-Lapper in! FULL DETAILS ARE HERE!

NEXT RACE: Check in every Saturday for more potential race dates before the weather puts a cap on our 2025 Season. The weather was great on 10/4/2025, but not enough visiting drivers were available to hold a race. We will look at every Saturday until the weather no longer cooperates, as long as we have enough drivers to run. Write or call us if interested.

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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 Galletta’s Greenhouse Backyard Karting Point Standings
(as of 9/14/2024; PRE-Klassic)

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Pos.	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
1	Matt Stevens (Galletta’s #3, 74)	413.5	68.92	6	3	50%	0/0	28th	160	2024-09-14	3
2	Chris Stevens (Galletta’s #4, 8)	407.5	67.92	6	2	33%	0/0	28th	93	2024-09-14	2
3	AJ Larkin (Galletta’s #9; 7 )	368.5	61.42	6	1	17%	0/0	1st	2	2024-09-14	1
4	Melissa Stevens (SNFr #19)	269.0	44.83	6	0	0%	0/0	11th	8	2024-09-14	4
5	Andrew Hook (Galletta’s #0, 78, 83)	257.0	64.25	4	0	0%	0/0	2nd	2	2024-09-14	6
6	Greg Blanchard (Galletta’s #43)	172.0	43.00	4	0	0%	0/0	(R)	1	2024-08-13	4
7	David Hartpence Jr. (Galletta #0)	143.0	71.50	2	0	0%	0/0	2nd	0	2024-09-14	N/A
8	Matt Bubenhausen (Galletta #6, 9)	128.0	64.00	2	0	0%	0/0	(R)	0	2024-09-14	N/A
9	Justin Thurston (Galletta’s #93; 7)	117.0	58.50	2	0	0%	0/1	1st	0	2024-09-14	N/A
10	Tyler Kimball (Galletta’s #93)	112.0	56.00	2	0	0%	0/0	(R)	0	2024-09-14	N/A

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 Points Per	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

Direct Link.

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!

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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:

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Welcome to our Complete Race Archive + 1.5K Full Race Videos!

 

 

 

 

 

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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.