Galletta's Karting Club

Chris with his wife Rungnapha “Aou” Stevens after an impressive 10-kart, 45-lap race win at Galletta’s against some of the top karting talent in Oswego on 7/18/2008.

Chris with his wife and daughters; Pattaya, Thailand pic, January 2020.

Bio:
Chris is an artist/writer/cartoonist/web designer and multi-hobbyist who lives with his wife Rung “Aou” Stevens, and their daughters Faith and Celeste in their home in Oswego, NY, USA. He and his wife co-own and co-operate R&C Sushi LLC where they have made sushi for the SUNY Oswego Campus from 2011-up (and formerly for Oswego’s Price Chopper from 2011-2015 before they changed to an obtrusive international sushi franchise with a slavish contractual agreement). In addition, they have volunteered to help out at Galletta’s Greenhouse, his family’s small business.

Chris and his wife’s story is unusual, as they met online on opposite ends of the world by convoluted, yet miraculous happenstance. In 2002, Chris was looking for a girl who wrote him for months on an online matchmaking site in 2001 before suddenly stopping out of the blue. Chris searched online via the ICQ instant messenger for anyone from the same Province in Thailand to see if they could help. Rung was the only person online from the area, so she decided to do some detective work and help this stranger. While she did, they discovered the other girl moved to Austria and married another man. After that, he and Rung started a curious relationship of chatting almost every day for a year and a half despite living on opposite ends of the planet. Chris then got a passport and flew to visit her and stayed a month in Thailand in 2004 (this was WAY before the “Passport Bro” phenomenon was even a thing). They applied for a 90-Day Fiancé visa and she emigrated to the US where they got married in 2005.

Although Aou has never entered a race and isn’t a very big fan of racing in general, she still is a very large part of this website, as she has operated a camera for nearly every single race video on this website since 2005 — even through two pregnancies and sometimes utter boredom — and has incredible amounts of patience with Chris’ self-diagnosed OCD/OCPD about the thorough completeness of this website and the videos on it. Please thank her… she doesn’t have to do it, but she does!

All-Time Point Standings Placement:

Chris has been racing karts since the early 1990s, and has amassed a points and wins total that is second only to his brother Matt. Both Chris and his brother also garnered a lot of those wins between 2005-2008 against competitors that drove larger, more powerful motors, something that not many racers anywhere can attest to.

	Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Club (and Backyard Speedway):Chris’ Positioning in the  Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Speedway All-Time Points & Wins List from 2000-current, the only class in the history of the track.
	Oswego Speedway / Oswego Kartway (Gas Stock Dirt Kartway Division): Chris’ Positioning in the  Oswego Speedway Kartway 1-WD Gas All-Time Points & Wins List from 2006-2008, the largest class in the history of the track.

Karting Career Video Highlights, Victories & Profile Pictures 

Chris loves to drive any kart and is capable of winning in many different karts, proven by many of these victory lane pictures. He has won features in the Galletta’s Greenhouse #2, #4, #5, #8, #0 and the de-commissioned #01 karts between 1996-up. [Last Updated 12/2020]:

Chris 2016 win in #4 (w/ wife and daughter.)

2016 Chris swept Track & Klassic in #8!

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Recent Career Highlights:

One of Chris’ best career seasons was 2015!

A 2020 Win (w/ Daughters Faith & Celeste).

	2013 Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Track Championship: With a season-high 6 feature victories, an overwhelming amount of top-3 bonus points all year long, and 193 out of 210 laps in the top three followed by a 3rd place finish in the Klassic  (including nearly winning it – but was trapped in traffic) to clinch it, Chris “The Cerebral Chrusher” Stevens clinches the 2013 Gas Flathead World Championship at Galletta’s Greenhouse Speedway! More->
	2012 Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Klassic 200: SATURDAY,OCTOBER 6th, 2012: For the first time in the 17-year history of the event, our 200 lapper saw controversy deflate the championship. Matt and Chris Stevens battled yjtough the field during the second half of the race, and back and forth in 1st and 2nd for the stretch run. Chris Stevens passed the finish line in first place, although Matt protested because he put himself in the back of the pack from incidental contact with a lapped kart (and he was not instructed to)! Matt did wind up being awarded a tie and by doing so, also the track championship. More…->
	2011 Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Klassic 200: SATURDAY,OCTOBER 8th, 2011: A grueling 200 laps saw Chris Stevens break a 10-year dry-spell by winning his first Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Klassic since 2001 (while running almost on fumes)! It was not easy, as he time trialed 5th, and had to come from the back of the field twice and then held off his brother Matt to take the win. More…->
	2007 Oswego Speedway Classic 50 (Gas Stock Dirt Kartway Division):Chris Stevens and his wife “Au” Rungnapha after the Oswego Speedway Dirt Kartway’s 2007 Classic, where Chris scored the 5hp/6.5hp Gas Stocker Division’s Classic win in the 5hp Galletta’s Greenhouse #8 Kart. The race is generally known as the biggest and most exciting race in the history of that track judging by the on-track kart count (15), laps (50), the racing, a few funny crashes, and the “oohs & aahs” from the crowd. Chris wanted his brother Matt to pose as well – as he is the master mechanic of all Galletta’s karts AND the 2006-08 Track Champion of that track – but they hurried us off. View more on this race here. More->