Visitor’s Kart #42
Galletta Bros./Platt-Num Racing #42: Brian Galletta and Randy Platt created a kart from scratch around Brian Galletta’s design of being encased in the cockpit with many metal bars. It is a VERY sturdy kart, but also very big and heavy, and has been unable to crack victory lane because of it.
Despite being built to be safe, it has been involved in a handful of crazy bad accidents (most of which can be viewed on Brian’s driver profile), including a Tower bounce-and-smash, a greenhouse-busting crash, a front-stretch mishap, a fiery flip crash involving Lytle and Woolworth, and finally retired when two girls crashed so badly that both were injured, and the driver suffered fractured vertebrae.
Since the kart was involved in some of the worst and most painful crashes in our track history, it had been retired and sits idle at the track until it can be rebuilt safer.
Brian passed away from lifelong kidney disease on Christmas Day 2019. His kart remains at Galletta’s and will be rebuilt by Randy Platt Jr. in Brian’s honor. Except… it still isn’t rebuilt yet…
– Races tagged as wins in #42
Historical Notes
Brian deemed it “cursed until rebuilt” due to its incredible streak of odd and scary accidents!
8/18/2013 – Brian Galletta’s Steering Column breaks leading to a funny wreck during Eric Woolworth’s 2nd career Win!
SUNDAY, AUGUST 18th, 2013, OSWEGO, NY – Brian Galletta had another funny wreck! More here.
6/7/2014 – 19th Annual Season Opener early leader Brian Galletta gets into DEVASTATING crash, then T-Boned by cousin Matt Stevens!
NOTE: Video starts where Brian hunts down and passes eventual leader Eric Woolworth. Click to 5:39 to see the moment of the actual accident.
MATT’S COMPLETE HELMET CAM FOOTAGE (+multi-angle Wreck rewind):
