Galletta's Karting Club

WTF?! OSwego racers are all pussies? C’mon, there’s gotta’ be some passionate, non-snob racers out ther SOMEWHERE!
With only six people to start the night, something’s wrong. How, in the alleged “race town” of Oswego, NY – with all the buzz about the Steel Palace getting new owners and a facelift (odd… we went there weekly for the better part of the past three decades to see people slowly stop going, why only now are people going back when the same things happen there now that happened there for the past three decades plus?), and many people who are then getting the race-bug and looking into karting – we can only get 6-8 people to show up to race? With several arrive-and-drive karts sitting idle? Any of which a veteran driver could hop in and win any given feature? With flexible rules that allow bigger people to race evenly with smaller people instead of splitting it into dozens of meaningless divisions by weight, motor and age? Really? Even when we purposefully schedule around local tracks in order to try and squeeze a few local race-lovers in? Really? There are people out there, likely reading this, who know one reason why. But former friends/failed racers with childish and warrant-less vendettas who become disgruntled, gossipy back-stabbers aren’t the only issue, although it doesn’t help. Holding Sunday races to get a few Oswego fans out (that don’t care to stop by, and/or are too wussy to, one of the two if not both), is getting nowhere, because people out of town have work the next day and can’t make it. So, now we are willing and able to attempt some Friday Night and Saturday races in order to get some people from outside of Oswego to race, because it appears that too many local race fans are looking lustily at a converted swampy parking lot as a dreamy stepping stone to the Steel Palace — and getting utterly fleeced for five minute races while having absolutely no pull on the big track, which you need money and sponsors to do, not a 5-minute race a week on a kiddy kart track and WE have just as many graduates to the big track than they do — instead of looking at evenings of good, clean, affordable racing with good drivers and equal equipment. We understand people racing SBS or Supermodifieds… of course that takes time and money. But others? No excuse.

Wait… hold on… you can’t be talking about that good ol’ time family entertainment track, right? Yes, I am. This does include Oswego Kartway. We’ve been there and done that. If you race there and believe that just because you do race there that this makes you a better driver than us, then we have zero respect for you, and if you came out on race day you would for sure hate us because ignorant arrogant drivers are the ones who come up here, get their asses handed to them, then never come back and badmouth us like little broken-hearted girls or grumpy lil’ old ladies. If you race there to gain race experience on a small safe track, then good for you, tis doesn’t pertain to kids. It IS a Kiddie Kartway. But any adult racing there is quite sad in our eyes. Why? Read on. The ones who come out here with open minds and love pure racing in economically-built karts on a free backyard track LOVE us and race. Many who race among you also raced here and will tell you, these are real races and these are real racers. They may have not liked that we aren’t a race facility that can run a fast show without a hitch. and that losing to Matt so much, but the kid was built for karting, short, stocky, all muscle with about 20-years experience building and racing karts. Respect what we do and show up on race day… we have more than 5 minute kiddy-kart races on a little bull**** track. Every single week, our races are bigger and longer than their “BIG” Classics, while one of our Klassics is more race experience than an entire year racing there. We get more race experience FOR FREE in 1 week than any racer on Kartway does for a month of HIGH-PRICED racing. Yet, snobbery and cowardice make it so we have feature-winning arrive-and-drive karts sitting idle (karta that Matt or Chris can hop into any given week and score at least a top-3, if not win in), and karts can be built from scratch for $500-800, yet people go spend a few grand PLUS weekly entrance fees to race 5 minutes in back of a real track. Give me a break. We’ve been there and done that – we raced in a mixed-motor class for three years, always had smaller motors and still swept all of the points and Classics, so do no think we don’t know that track or are disgruntled that the track operator booted us over a personal grudge against us dating back to before the Kartway was built, we excelled when we were there. Nice race surface, nice location, beautiful karts, but overpriced and overrated racing. Period. Come up and we’ll show you what IRONMAN racing with long-time drivers is all about.