Chris Stevens Sweeps the 2015 Track & Klassic Championships 
Chris Stevens Winning the 2007 Oswego Kartway Classic 50 [Gas Stocker Division] 
Chris Stevens after a 2008/07/18 win (with his stunning wife, Rungnapha “Aou” Stevens! 
Their daughter Faith’s 1st Victory Pic in 2015! 
Chris Stevens’ last lap Klassic win; Duel for the ages between himself Kyle Reuter and Matt Stevens! 
Ogie Steals Chris Stevens’ Klassic 200 win (when people claimed he stole it from Matt)! 
Chris Stevens looked dominant… 
Chris Stevens poses with his wife Aou after a win on 6/10/2007. He signifies that he is #1! 
2009/08/16 winner Chris
…was built in late-2003 as a joint effort via Matt Stevens, Wes Stevens (with possibly DJ Barnes and Randy Platt shipping in?). It was initially made to be a backup rental kart, but when renters started wrecking (and flipping?!) it almost immediately, Chris Stevens put an end to that, tried it out, liked it, and raced it as his primary kart (formerly he raced the #5 and #2 to Championship wins). He proceeded to win many feature races (and Track Championships), an Oswego Speedway Kartway Classic, and Galletta’s Greenhouse Klassic 200 Championships.
All of the Galletta’s Racing #8 kart’s Feature Wins
![2022/11/05 – LAST CALL for a Klassic? Nope… Twin 20s! Chris Stevens SWEEPS! [+YouTube]](https://karting.gallettasgreenhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20221105_201223-chris-wins-twins.jpg)
![7/12/2020 – The Return of the Barber: Chris Stevens and Keith Raymond win the Twin-25s! [+YouTube]](https://karting.gallettasgreenhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/50107736762_d3d635bb45_c-600x389.jpg)
![9/26/2015 – 20th Annual 200-Lap Karting Klassic: Kyle Reuter, Chris & Matt Stevens DUEL! [+FULL YouTube]](https://karting.gallettasgreenhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20150926_23_15_32_20th-Annual-Klassic-200-Finish.jpg)
![6/7/2015 – 20th Annual Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Season Season Opener won by Chris Stevens in #8! [+YouTube]](https://karting.gallettasgreenhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2015-06-07-08-40pm-chris-wins-opener-19020-600x576.jpg)
![8/14/2005 – Chris Stevens wins 13-kart as Mark Miller VIOLENTLY flips in Mixed-Motor, 40-Lap Feature [+YouTube]](https://karting.gallettasgreenhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/08/vlcsnap-2021-03-06-23h17m03s379.png)
![2004 Season & 9th Annual Klassic 100-Lapper [+YouTube]!](https://karting.gallettasgreenhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2003/10/2004kartklassic-600x563.jpg)
Fun Facts about the Galletta’s Greenhouse #8 Kart:
- Motor and kart setup maintained by all-time winning-est Oswego driver, Galletta’s Karting Club head mechanic and track operator (and Chris’ brother) – Matt Stevens.
- It was numbered #8 because it was the eighth Galletta’s Greenhouse Racing Team kart built (not counting the donated #0).
- Kart sponsored by Galletta’s Greenhouse (GallettasGreenhouse.com), ChrusherComix Studios (Chrusher.Com), and R&C Sushi Bar LLC (OswegoSushi.com)… which all happen to be Chris’ three jobs, so they really aren’t sponsors as much as they are self-advertising.
- As with the primary karts of club founders Chris and Matt, Chris usually does not want the kart wrecked and broken by a sloppy/inexperienced driver, and would only trust experienced drivers such as himself, his brother Matt Stevens, or possibly only a few of the more respected and experienced drivers hat have raced with us behind the wheel in an actual race. This doesn’t mean he “saves the best kart for himself”, it means inexperienced and negligent renters wreck so much that they destroy karts. Chris and Matt (and a few of the best all-time drivers) have won in multiple karts, and Matt himself has won in every single kart that renters say are garbage that we rig to win easily. Nope… It’s called not being a bad driver, not wrecking, and not needing to bend, rebuild, and buy replacement parts every weekend because some one-and-done troll thinks it’s a demolition derby or wants to maliciously break other people’s property. Proving yet again (which he and his brother have both done dozens and dozens of times over the years), most rookie/newbie renters are terrible drivers he proceeded to win many races in it, which debunked the idea that “MaTt aNd ChRiS RiG iT aNd RaCe fAsTeR KarTs.”
- It was rebuilt lower to the ground in 2007 to corner better at Oswego Kartway and be less “flippable” on both Galletta’s and Oswego. It rarely flipped before (once in 2004 and possibly once or twice in ’05 or ’06) and has not flipped once since the rebuild. In fact, before Chris claimed it as one of his main karts, renters wrecked and flipped it more in the short few weeks that it was an open rental kart than Chris has in the two decades of regular racing since.
Inspirations for color scheme:
It was painted white and green (with silver numbers) by Chris Stevens (the head of kart paint design at Galletta’s) for three reasons – (1) there was no white or green kart in the Galletta’s Karting Club at the time, (2) Chris remembers the sharp look of the Roger Treichler #74 NASCAR modified that raced at Oswego Speedway in the early 1980s, which was one of his favorite looking cars at Oswego at the time:
…and (3) the green-and-white New York Jets are Chris favorite football team since the late 1970s (to more sadness and seasonal despair than much joy; and hatred from Bills fans, like many of our racers are in the area):
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