SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th, 2011: In honor of the Oswego Speedway’s Supermodified Classic 200 -a race which we shaped our own karting club’s season and 200-lap “Klassic” championship after – we originally planned to race on Labor Day Monday. However, due to the Oswego Classic being moved up three hours to avoid rain, only getting caught in a few minute shower, and seeing that we had a small window before more rain came in later, we tried to race Sunday after Classic knowing that Sunday night and Monday could very well rain-out our race. Kenny Lindsley III flew off the track while leading most of the show, which set up Justin Galletta to lead late. But on turn 4, Justin’s clutch teeth literally gave out on the spot and his father Tim Galletta took the Labor Day 45-Lapper! (Oddly, a bit of a mirror image of Otto Sitterly passing his teammate on the last turn to win the Oswego Classic 200). Our own 16th Annual Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Klassic 200-lapper (that’s right, not a 40-50 Lapper, that’s our regular weekly race, not a championship) will be at either the end of September or the start of October. Racers – please help us plan ahead and lock down a good date by giving us dates that you can and cannot do. Thanks! Sory that the pics, descriptions, results & points took so long (my new work schedule has put me WAYY behind… sorry!). Check back soon for videos!

DVD Highlight YouTube Video

Posted on August 31st, 2011 by ChrusherComix Studios

45-LAP FEATURE EVENT:

The race begins with Quick Kenny Linseley III leading in the Galletta’s #2.

Kenny was dominant early on, and slowly pulled away from the rest of the pack. Oddly enough, his weight bar came off and took out Joe Sereno’s Galletta’s #5 kart’s drive system via bending the drive wheel axle, which just piles on more and more kart changes and DNFs for poor ol’ Joe!

Kenny led until he flew off the track in turn 3 while leading. He then crashed into the tower’s protective tire walls while trying to make his way back up through the field attempting to pass both Matt and Chris on the outside in successive laps. He almost did, but flat out ran out of room!

Tim Galletta (#54) worked his way up through the field to second (#54) and kept his son Justin Galletta (#7) in sight for a last-lap challenge while Melissa, Chris, Matt, Ken and Joe all tried to get them both.

Melissa Stevens (#19) in her patented middle-groove, holds off both her brother-in-law Chris (#8) in his patented high-groove and her husband Matt (#3) in his patened low-groove. She did so for the whole race in fact.

The racing was pretty much this close for most of the way. On a big track, that’s saying a lot. Don’t you wish all races were this close? Haha, and we spend just a few hundred dollars to build these things that are so competitive! Maybe that’s why we aren’t the most popular amongst local race fan folk?

So Justin had the lead on lap 44 in turn 4. But the clutch sprocket on the #7 burned out literally in turn 4, and lost two positions as he glided to a 3rd place finish, getting passed by his father for the win. But Justin wasn’t the only one to have a mechanical problem lose him positions on the last lap…

Here is another angle of the same deal. Justin raises his hand in frustration as his father burns by him for a last second win. At the same exact time, Matt Stevens, who made his way up to 4th by trapping his brother Chris on his wife Melissa with a couple laps to go, broke a throttle cable in turn 3, and like Justin also glided to a finish, losing two positions before reaching the finish line (pushing his kart along by hand). A crazy end to a good all-around race. (Unfortunately, this angle could not be processed for YouTube.)

Matt believes that both problems would have been prevented if he had more time before the race to replace the clutch sprocket on the #7 and the throttle cable on the #3. But due to us rushing to get a race in after the Oswego Speedway Classic 200 and before rain set in was essentially the reason why both Justin and Matt lost two postions each on the last lap and why Justin narrowly missed getting his 2nd career feature win, while his father aquired his 3rd on 2011 alone. Oh, and Timmy gloated about his triumph on facebook during the next few days…

Next race should be Friday or Sunday, but please check back. After Labor Day, our schedule is more adjustable and less predictable, but we try to race Fridays or Saturdays over Sundays (NFL Football).

Ogie apparently got a hold of a camera a couple days after the race and did an interview.

2011 Point Standings after 9/4/2011’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 2011 season to date. Our complete All-Time Points Standings from 2000-to-‘the-last-completed-season’ are found on this webpage, our complete 2006-08 standings on Oswego Speedway’s Kartway on this page, and our 2000-to-‘the-last-completed-season’ wins are on this page. At season’s end, the current totals will be added into the below.

Pos.	Name (Go-Karts Piloted) [Most drivers have clickable Driver Profiles]	Total Points (Place)	Average Points Per Feature	2011 Events	2011 Features	2011 Heat Wins	2011 Feature Wins	Career Feature Wins (2000-up)	Years Pro at GKC
1st	Chris “Chrusher” Stevens (Galletta’s #4, 8)	2,008.5	111.58	13	18	0	2	56	16th
2nd	Master Matt Stevens (Galletta’s #33, 3, 80)	1,972.0	109.56	13	18	0	6	104	16th
3rd	Tim Galletta (Galletta #54, Galletta’s #6, 9)	1,945.5	106.19	13	18	1	3	6	3rd
4th	Melissa Stevens (Scissors ‘n Fur #19, 80, Galletta’s #7)	1,872.0	104.00	13	18	0	2	6	5th
5th	Justin Galletta (Galletta’s #7, 6) @@@	1,867.5	103.75	11	18	0	1	1	1st
6th	Joe Sereno (Galletta’s #5, 1, 2, 9)	1,810.5	100.58	13	18	2	1	1	1st
7th	Randy “Bobandi” Platt (Platt-num #28, 187, Galletta’s #2, 0) @@	1,004.0	100.40	5	10	4	1	4	3rd
8th	Jeff Tetro (Galletta’s #9, 0) @@@@	941.5	94.15	4	10	2	2	3	3rd
9th	Brian Galletta (Galletta’s #1, 7, 9, 28) @@@	543.0	77.57	3	7	0	0	2	5th
10th	Kenny Lindsley III (Galletta’s #0, 2) @@@	391.0	78.20	2	5	0	0	0	3rd
11th	Jason Platt (Galletta’s #2) @	367.5	91.88	3	4	2	0	0	(R)
12th	Chris Doviak (Galletta’s #1, 9) @@	328.0	65.60	1	3	0	0	0	(R)
13th	Arnold “AJ” Nason (Nason #35, Galletta’s #1)	283.0	94.33	2	3	1	0	1	2nd
14th	Chase Sereno (Galletta’s #6, 9) @	283.0	94.33	2	3	0	0	0	(R)
15th	Mike Howell (Galletta’s #6) @	199.5	99.75	1	2	1	0	0	2nd
16th	Rob Clarke (Galletta’s #2) @	194.0	97.00	1	2	0	0	0	2nd
17th	Harold “Hal” Borland (Galletta’s #6) @	177.0	59.00	1	3	0	0	0	(R)
18th	Ken Lindsley Jr. (Galletta’s #1) @@	143.0	71.50	1	2	0	0	0	2nd
19th	Andrew Pullen (Galletta’s #1) @	80.0	80.00	1	1	0	0	0	(R)

Handicap Start Order for the Next Race:

As usual with all GKC Regular Season events, starts are handicapped via (1) Wins and then (2) Points-per-race. Exceptions are:
(a) 2nd of a Twin-Feature [Starting Grid for 2nd will be inverted from finish of the 1st, except wins still take precedent], and
(b) Annual Klassic Championship 200 [Starting Grid is set via time trial speed, time trial order is set by total points].

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