6/23/2013: Matt Stevens Sweeps the Twin-35s in his Galletta’s Greenhouse #3 & 33!
SUNDAY, JUNE 23rd, 2013 - Matt Stevens is like a high-scoring MVP in a sport. You can contain him, slow him down for a bit, even think you got him figured out. Then he explodes. Matt took over the lead from his handicap starting position of 2nd place in the 1st feature and led most of the race to win it with relative ease, although Brian Galletta kept things interesting. But in the 2nd feature, he did another one of his steal jobs - he really didn't deserve it running 4th and 3rd pretty much the whole way until the end. Chris Stevens, Dave Spanfelner, and Billy Truax all had serious shots at the win but all made mistakes that Matt capitalized upon, taking Truax by a bumper at the checker. The kid just cannot be stopped, and no driver at the local pay karting tracks is in his league in terms of experience, motor building, and sheer volume of wins and championships. His record speaks for itself, ignored or not by less talented/less experienced pay karting snobs. (BTW, he swept three years of titles when he raced at the local pay track too - back when the other classes weren't even counting their points and keeping track of their wins.) More pictures and points below!
RETCON MAKEUP RACE CREDITS:
1st. Billy Truax (Ruggio Racing #02) - Credited 9th in both 6/19/2013's Twin-30-lappers
2nd. Marc Sgarlata (Galletta's Greenhouse #1) - Credited 12th in the 6/5/2013 45-lapper
3rd. Scott McGroty (Galletta's Greenhouse #7) - Credited 13th in the 6/5/2013 45-lapper
Other than the make-up race, we scheduled no heats and opted to go for twin-35s. That's 70 laps of racing going between 35-50mph at around 15-16 seconds a lap. That's a lot more than 5 minutes of feature racing.
35-LAP FEATURE #1
35-Lap Feature #2:
2013 1-WD Gas Flathead Karting World Championship Point Standings after 6/23/2013's Event
For the Galletta's Karting Club's World Championship of 1WD Gas Flatheads held on Galletta's Greenhouse Backyard Karting Speedway for the 2013 season to date, scored in this manner . Our complete All-Time Points Standings from 2000-to-'the-last-completed-season' are found on this webpage , and our division's complete 2006-08 standings on Oswego Speedway's cutesy lil' Kiddie Kartway (before our class was barred from, mocked and threatened ) on this page . At season's end, the current totals will be added into the below:
Pos. (Last Week) |
Name (Go-Karts Piloted) [Most drivers have clickable Driver Profiles] ® = Used Retcon Race; # = Used Timeout |
Total Points (Place) |
Average Points Per Feature |
2013 Events Entered |
2013 Features Entered |
2013 Heat Wins/ Entered |
2013 Feature Wins *=Tie |
Career Feature Wins (2000-up) |
Years Pro in GKC |
|
1st. |
 Brian Galletta
(Brian Galletta #13, 28) |
690.5 |
115.08 |
4 |
6 |
1/1 |
1 |
4 |
8th |
|
2nd. (3rd.) |
|
669.0 |
111.50 |
4 |
6 |
0/1 |
2 |
117* |
18th |
|
3rd. (2nd.) |
|
656.0 |
109.33 |
4 |
6 |
0/1 |
1 |
65* |
18th |
|
4th. (5th.) |
|
608.0 |
101.33 |
4 |
6 |
0/1 |
1 |
2 |
2nd |
|
5th. (4th.) |
|
605.0 |
100.83 |
4 |
6 |
1/1 |
1 |
1 |
2nd |
|
6th. (10th.) |
|
456.0 |
76.00 |
2 |
6 |
0/1 |
0 |
0 |
1st |
|
7th. |
|
422.0 |
70.33 |
4 |
6 |
0/1 |
0 |
6 |
7th |
|
7th. |
|
422.0 |
70.33 |
4 |
6 |
0/1 |
0 |
0 |
® |
|
9th. (6th.) |
|
339.5 |
84.88 |
3 |
4 |
0/1 |
0 |
0 |
2nd |
|
10th. (12th.) |
|
210.5 |
70.17 |
1 |
3 |
0/1 |
0 |
0 |
1st |
|
11th. (--) |
 Marc Sgarlata
(Galletta's #7) ® |
210.0 |
70.00 |
1 |
3 |
0/1 |
0 |
0 |
® |
|
12th. (9th.) |
|
205.5 |
102.75 |
2 |
2 |
0/1 |
0 |
4 |
3rd |
|
13th. (--) |
 Scott McGroty
(Galletta's #1) ® |
199.0 |
66.33 |
1 |
3 |
0/1 |
0 |
0 |
® |
|
14th. (11th.) |
Mark “Gooner Gilligan” Groesbeck (Galletta's #1) ® |
161.0 |
78.00 |
1 |
2 |
0/1 |
0 |
0 |
® |
Billy Truax
(Galletta's #7, 1, 02) ®®
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