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 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)
RACE SCHEDULE:
- NEXT RACE: 2024 Season Opener — Scheduled for a Sunday in June 2024! Hope to see you there!
10/28/2023 – The 26th Running of the Galletta’s Greenhouse Go-Karts Klassic!
Sorry, I’ve been behind — a combination of being busy with work and family functions, a long stretch of having not enough drivers to run, and the website developing some behind-the-curtain issues that took some time to resolve — but I’m catching up! Stay tuned:
2023 Galletta’s Greenhouse Speedway Point Standings – Sponsored by R & C Sushi Bar LLC
Totals tallied between 7/16/2023 – 10/14/2023
| 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 | CHRIS STEVENS (Galletta’s #8, 4) | 712.5 | 71.25 | 10 | 2 | 20% | 0/0 | 28th | 91 | 2023-10-14 | 1 |
| 2 | MATT STEVENS (Galletta’s #74, 33, 3) | 703.5 | 70.35 | 10 | 3 | 30% | 0/0 | 28th | 157 | 2023-10-14 | 2 |
| 3 | AJ Larkin (Galletta’s #9; 5) * | 537.5 | 53.75 | 10 | 1 | 10% | 0/1 | (R) | 1 | 2023-10-14 | 3 |
| 4 | Nicolas Olivares * (Galletta’s #1, 6, 5) | 518.5 | 64.81 | 8 | 1 | 13% | 1/1 | 2nd | 5 | 2023-08-06 | 4 |
| 5 | MELISSA STEVENS (SNFr #80, 19) | 458.0 | 45.80 | 10 | 0 | 0% | 0/0 | 11th | 8 | 2023-10-14 | 5 |
| 6 | Jeremy Burton (Galletta’s #2, 93) ** | 402.5 | 50.31 | 8 | 0 | 0% | 0/2 | (R) | 0 | 2023-08-06 | 6 |
| 7 | Steve Larkin (Galletta’s #7, 5) | 305.5 | 50.92 | 6 | 0 | 0% | 0/0 | (R) | 0 | 2023-10-14 | 7 |
| 8 | Andrew Hook (Galletta’s #0, 39) | 262.0 | 65.50 | 4 | 1 | 25% | 0/0 | 2nd | 2 | 2023-07-23 | 8 |
| 9 | David Hartpence Jr. (Galletta #2, 0) * | 238.5 | 59.63 | 4 | 1 | 25% | 1/1 | 2nd | 2 | 2023-07-30 | 9 |
| 10 | Bob Failmezger (Galletta’s #6) * | 236.5 | 59.13 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/1 | (R) | 0 | 2023-07-23 | 10 |
| 11 | John Mathis (Galletta’s #83c) * | 183.0 | 45.75 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/1 | (R) | 0 | 2023-07-23 | 11 |
| 12 | Adam Lytle (Galetta’s #33c) * | 182.5 | 45.63 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 1/1 | 7th | 10 | 2023-08-06 | 12 |
| 13 | Randy Baldwin (Galletta’s #9) * | 182.0 | 45.50 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/1 | 1st | 1 | 2023-07-23 | 13 |
| 14 | Nathan Powers (Galletta’s #6) * | 172.0 | 43.00 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/1 | (R) | 0 | 2023-07-30 | 14 |
| 15 | Stacie Wells (Galletta’s #78) * | 159.0 | 39.75 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/1 | (R) | 0 | 2023-08-06 | 15 |
| 16 | Matt Bubenhausen (Galletta’s #93, 7) * | 156.0 | 39.00 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/1 | (R) | 0 | 2023-07-30 | 16 |
| 17 | Devon Tonkin (Galletta’s #93) * | 115.0 | 57.50 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 0/0 | (R) | 0 | 2023-10-14 | 17 |
| 18 | AJ Nason (Galletta’s #43, 83c) | 109.0 | 54.50 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 0/0 | 1st | 0 | 2023-07-16 | 18 |
| 19 | Tyler Thompson (Galletta’s #78, 2) | 99.0 | 49.50 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 0/0 | (R) | 0 | 2023-10-14 | 18 |
| 20 | Tucker Wells (Galletta’s #6) | 98.5 | 49.25 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 0/0 | (R) | 0 | 2023-10-14 | 18 |
Totals tallied between 7/16/2023 – 8/6/2023
| Pos. | Name (Karts Driven) / * = Makeups | Total Points | Average Points Per | Features | Feature Wins | Feature Win % | Won / Makeup Heat Ran | Seasons: 17 Races | All-Time Wins | Last Race Entered | Last Week |
| 1 | CHRIS STEVENS (Galletta’s #8, 4) | 598.5 | 74.81 | 8 | 1 | 13% | 0/0 | 28th | 90 | 2023-08-06 | 1 |
| 2 | MATT STEVENS (Galletta’s #74, 33, 3) | 586.5 | 73.31 | 8 | 3 | 38% | 0/0 | 28th | 157 | 2023-08-06 | 2 |
| 3 | Nicolas Olivares * (Galletta’s #1, 6, 5) | 518.5 | 64.81 | 8 | 1 | 13% | 1/1 | 2nd | 5 | 2023-08-06 | 3 |
| 4 | AJ Larkin (Galletta’s #9; 5, 7) * | 448.5 | 56.06 | 8 | 1 | 13% | 0/1 | (R) | 1 | 2023-08-06 | 6 |
| 5 | Jeremy Burton (Galletta’s #2, 93) ** | 402.5 | 50.31 | 8 | 0 | 0% | 0/2 | (R) | 0 | 2023-08-06 | 10 |
| 6 | MELISSA STEVENS (SNFr #80, 19) | 386.0 | 48.25 | 8 | 0 | 0% | 0/0 | 11th | 8 | 2023-08-06 | 4 |
| 7 | Andrew Hook (Galletta’s #0, 39) | 262.0 | 65.50 | 4 | 1 | 25% | 0/0 | 2nd | 2 | 2023-07-23 | 5 |
| 8 | David Hartpence Jr. (Galletta #2, 0) * | 238.5 | 59.63 | 4 | 1 | 25% | 1/1 | 2nd | 2 | 2023-07-30 | 7 |
| 9 | Bob Failmezger (Galletta’s #6) * | 236.5 | 59.13 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/1 | (R) | 0 | 2023-07-23 | 8 |
| 10 | Steve Larkin (Galletta’s #7) | 221.0 | 55.25 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/0 | (R) | 0 | 2023-07-23 | 9 |
| 11 | John Mathis (Galletta’s #33c) * | 183.0 | 45.75 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/1 | (R) | 0 | 2023-07-23 | 11 |
| 12 | Adam Lytle (Galetta’s #33c) * | 182.5 | 45.63 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 1/1 | 7th | 10 | 2023-08-06 | N/A |
| 13 | Randy Baldwin (Galletta’s #9) * | 182.0 | 45.50 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/1 | 1st | 1 | 2023-07-23 | 12 |
| 14 | Nathan Powers (Galletta’s #6) * | 172.0 | 43.00 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/1 | (R) | 0 | 2023-07-30 | 13 |
| 15 | Stacie Wells (Galletta’s #78) * | 159.0 | 39.75 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/1 | (R) | 0 | 2023-08-06 | N/A |
| 16 | Matt Bubenhausen (Galletta’s #93, 7) * | 156.0 | 39.00 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 0/1 | (R) | 0 | 2023-07-30 | 14 |
| 17 | AJ Nason (Galletta’s #43, 83c) | 109.0 | 54.50 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 0/0 | 1st | 0 | 2023-07-16 | 15 |
* = Ran in a Makeup Points Heat Race (and scored in last place in an event that the driver missed).
Hyperlink = Driver has a Galletta’s Racer Profile.
ALL-CAPS = Drivers started every race event this season.
(R) = Rookie; 1st Season at Galletta’s.
NEXT RACE:
Races are always late afternoon/early evening, and check in to be sure. And, remember, as always:
- – Driver attendance: At least 3 visiting drivers are required to hold a race for the bare minimum of 6 (we always have 3 home drivers every event).
- – Weather dependent: Some rain is good for the track, but too much (or not enough) isn’t.
- – Timing: Check the start time with track and kart operator Matt Stevens. Summer starts tend to vary between 5-8 PM, Fall starts tend to vary between 2-6 PM. Don’t come too early (and leave mad about waiting too long), and don’t come too late (and make other people mad waiting for you), but check in with Matt! 🙂
- – Unexpected Returning & 1st-Timer Drivers: Please arrange in advance to ensure the kart assignments are arranged and we don’t start the race too late. We always welcome new drivers, but please plan ahead!!!
- Summer we prefer either Sundays, but starting in late August, Sundays will be impossible (Chris & Rung Stevens’ work schedule). Starting then, we are more open to scheduling races on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, or *LATE* Sundays (Like Midnight. So no, probably none. We aren’t in our teens & twenties — we used to midnight race a lot back then).
In the meantime, why not get a refresher on the storied history of our annual Championship Race — including hours of videos from almost every single one since 1999?
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!
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:
Welcome to our Complete Race Archive + 1.5K Full Race Videos!
2018 Season
![2018/06/10 – Josh Arnold wins the 23rd Annual Galletta’s Karting Season Opener [+YouTube]](https://karting.gallettasgreenhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180610_204908-josh-arnold-large-768x432.webp)
2018/06/10 – Josh Arnold wins the 23rd Annual Galletta’s Karting Season Opener [+YouTube]
6/10/2018 – Josh Arnold wins the 23rd Annual Galletta’s Karting Season Opener [+YouTube] Sunday, June 10th, 2018 – Well, our 23rd Season Opener at Galletta’s Greenhouse Backyard Speedway occurred. And while the racing was close and competitive (as usual), it…
2016 Season
7/2/2016 – Chris Stevens Survives a Bumpy 21st Annual Independence Day 45! +YouTube
7/2/2016 – Week 4 of Galletta’s Backyard Karting Season! Chris Stevens with his lovely wife (and heroic camerawoman) Rung “Aou” Stevens, and their daughter Faith Marie Stevens! Saturday, July 2nd, 2016 – A refreshing change of pace…
2015 Season
![7/26/2015 – 20th Annual HarborFAST Championship won by Chris Stevens! [+YouTube Video]](https://karting.gallettasgreenhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20150726-harborfest-karting-champ-chris-stevens-1080.jpg)
7/26/2015 – 20th Annual HarborFAST Championship won by Chris Stevens! [+YouTube Video]
SUNDAY, JULY 26th, 2015, OSWEGO, NY – For twenty of the event’s twenty-eight years, the undisputed champion of Oswego’s Harborfest has been decided at Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Speedway – usually the Sunday night when Harborfest dies a slow death and the city’s streets…
2014 Season
6/14/2014 – Eric Woolworth takes the 1st two features of 2014 in the Raven Tavern #88!
6/14/2014 – Eric Woolworth takes the 1st two features of 2014 in the Raven Tavern #88! SATURDAY, JUNE 14TH, 2014, OSWEGO, NY – Another tremendous race with a lot of passing,…
2013 Season
7/7/2013 – Chris Stevens wins 3rd Straight Feature at 18th Annual Independence Day 45! +YouTube
7/7/2013: Chris Stevens wins 3rd Straight Feature at 18th Annual Independence Day 45! SUNDAY, JULY…
2012 Season
7/15/2012 – Twin 30s Night: The Brian Finally Got One…
7/15/2012: Twin 30s Night – The Brian Finally Got One 60 Posted on July 17th, 2012 by ChrusherComix Studios
7/10/2011 – 50-Lap Feature Taken by Matt Stevens (+YouTube Video)
JULY 10TH, 2011: Seven competitors battled it out on 7/10/2011, and although we have had the smallest summer fields in our recent history, the racing is as close and exciting as ever, and perhaps cleaner. Where else can you see open-wheel…
2010 Season
7/26/2010 – Kelly Miller wins 12-Kart/45-Lapper passing Matt Stevens for his 1st Galletta’s Victory! (+YouTube)
7/26/2010 – Kelly Miller wins 12-Kart/45-Lapper passing Matt Stevens for his 1st Galletta’s Victory! Kyle Reuter goes apeshit celebrating! Eric Connors and DJ Mike Howell…. help him celebrate? (+YouTube) [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="725"] KELLY MILLER WINS HIS 1st AT GALLETTA’S!!…
2009 Season
7/27/2009 – Flippin’ Freddy Collins & Nick Dann win 15-kart Twin 30s to become 8th and 9th different winners in 10 features thus far in ’09! (+YouTube)
Galletta’s Karting Club – 2009 Season, Week 7: The Gas Flathead Championship Series of Oswego, NY continued on Monday, July 27th, 2009 at John J. Galletta Memorial Speedway (Rain Date for Sunday, the 26th): July 27th, 2009, Oswego, N.Y. –…
2008 Season
8/7/2008 – Final Mixed Motor Race & Oswego Kartway Fight Video (AKA Thursday Night Smackdown at Oswego Speedway’s Dirt Track!) – Hayden and Chris Stevens win! +YouTube!
WEEK IN OSWEGO DIRT KARTING 2008 VOLUME #12: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="160"] It was Forbidden! But then they booted us, so….
2007 Season
8/5/2007 – 17 Large, Dick Dann Penetrates the Threshold of Victory Lane after flipping on his head, wins 17-kart/45-Lap 10,000 Rocks-To-Win race! (+YouTube)
Galletta’s 2007 Race #10: 8/5/2007 45-Lapper: Surviving a 1st lap flip onto a woman’s backside, a seemingly concussed Dick Dann (in his Dickhead-Destroyer #86) penetrates Victory Lane to become the winner of the Mr. Galletta Speedway’s 10,000 Rocks-to-Win 2007 (He is joined here by…
2006 Season
8/6/2006 – Chris Stevens ties Billy Kuykendell at the stripe to sweep this week’s features on both Oswego Tracks! +YouTube
Galletta’s Go-Kart Speedway 2006 Event #9 results: Sunday, August 6th, 2006 (Two 10-lap Heats and 40-lap Feature) A great evening of hard racing action was in store for the Galletta’s Go-Kart association. The racing was fast and furious, as were…
2005 Season
8/7/2005 – A 15-Kart/Mixed-Motor 40-Lap LOST RACE won by Matt Stevens! +YouTube
8/7/2005 – LOST RACE! A Mixed-Motor 15-Kart 40-Lapper won by Matt Stevens! +YouTube One of the biggest races in track history…
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.
What Do We Race?:
We race mostly custom-built ‘arrive-and-drive rental’ but also allow ‘run-what-you-brung’ karts (classed only by motor type with weight handicaps; our fleet is completely race-modified Briggs 5hp flathead engines, see Matt for details on work done to each motor and what is allowed based on weight and/or experience). Our class is a maximum of 20 qualifiers on track, and we’ve never had too many racers, rather we rarely have enough drivers to fill all of our open karts. Come on up! Keep in touch for more details. Read on to see our twenty-year history of weekly points racing (with COMPLETE race videos and complete rundowns of each season since 1995 – and race from 2005) every June through October in Oswego, NY! Enjoy!
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