Galletta's Karting Club

7/21/2013: Joe Sereno wins the 10-kart “Full Moon 45” in the Galletta’s #5!

SUNDAY, JULY 21st, 2013, OSWEGO, NY –  Joe Sereno wins the Full Moon 45 in the Galletta’s Greenhouse #5! Taking the lead in the fairly early going, then holding off challenges from Eric Woolworth and Matt Stevens proved a task not too difficult for our Popeye-armed / Bearded Brawler/ Husky Helper Joseph! More details forthcoming! Stay tuned! READ NOW, SON!

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Matt Stevens was quite proud to debut his fresh paint job and brand-new wing panels on the Galletta’s Greenhouse #33.

Start:
1st. Billy Truax (Truax #02)
2nd. Joe Sereno (Galletta’s Greenhouse #5)
3rd. Eric Woolworth (Raven Tavern #88)
4th. Brian Galletta (Brian Galletta Motorsports #28)
5th. Matt Stevens (Galletta’s Greenhouse/Chrusher.com #33)

Matt was his usual self charging in the Galletta’s #33, but thought the caution came out when Brian Galletta’s #28 spun out. He was highly frustrated that it did not, and as a result settled for an un-Matt-like 4th place. Eric Woolworth wound up pulling away for an unchallenged win in this one, showing that the #88’s plague of horrible breakdown problems may have been solved.

Finish:
1st. Eric Woolworth (Raven Tavern #88)
2nd. Joe Sereno (Galletta’s Greenhouse #5)
3rd. Billy Truax (Truax #02)
4th. Matt Stevens (Galletta’s Greenhouse #33)
5th. Brian Galletta (Brian Galletta Motorsports #28)
Makeup Credits\
—. Branden “Toomer” Matott (Inkings Tattoo/Woodchuck Saloon #781) – Earned 12th in both of 6/19/2013’s Twin-30s!

HEAT 2

Start:
1st. Branden “Toomer” Matott (Inkings Tatoo/Woodchuck Saloon #781)
2nd. Adam Lytle (Lytle Racing #33c)
3rd. Dave Spanfelner (DS Humphrey’s #54)
4th. Chris Stevens (Galletta’s Greenhouse/Chrusher.com/R&C Sushi #8)
5th. Melissa Stevens – w/Lilybeth Stevens (Scissors ‘n Fur #19)

Branden “Tumor” Matott debuted the brand-new Inkings Tattoo/Woodchuck Saloon #781, a kart that Joe Sereno purchased and partially rebuilt last season, but did not get it ready for Klassic. Being so hooked to the Galletta’s #5 (and with his own motor anyways), he sold it to Tumor. Here Chris Stevens pulls out his Galletta’s Greenhouse/Chrusher.com/R&C Sushi #8 out to stall again, wo parked it for the Galletta’s Greenhouse #0, again, a fast kart that people who are too pussy to show up don’t show up and race in it.

Finish:
1st. Adam Lytle (Lytle Racing #33c)
2nd. Dave Spanfelner (DS Humphrey’s #54)
3rd. Chris Stevens (Galletta’s Greenhouse/Chrusher.com/R&C Sushi #8, Galletta’s #0)
4th. Branden “Toomer” Matott (Inkings Tatoo/Woodchuck Saloon #781)
5th. Melissa Stevens – w/Lilybeth Stevens (Scissors ‘n Fur #19)
Makeup Credits
—. Joe Sereno (Galletta’s Greenhouse #5) – Earned 11th in both of 6/23/2013’s Twin 30s!
—. Billy Truax (Truax #02) – Earned 9th in 7/7/2013’s 45-Lapper
—. Brian Galletta (Brian Galletta #28) – Earned 10th in 7/14/2013’s 45-Lapper

45-LAP FEATURE EVENT

More helmet cam action from Oswego, NY’s all-time winningest dirt karter – “Master” Matt Stevens!

Start:
1st. Billy Truax (Truax #02)
2nd Branden “Toomer” Matott (Inkings Tatoo/Woodchuck Saloon #781)
3rd. Adam Lytle (Lytle Racing #33c)
4th. Joe Sereno (Galletta’s Greenhouse #5)
5th. Eric Woolworth (Raven Tavern #88)
6th. Dave Spanfelner (DS Humphrey’s #54)
7th. Brian Galletta (Brian Galletta Motorsports #28)
8th. Matt Stevens (Galletta’s Greenhouse #33)
9th. Chris Stevens (Galletta’s Greenhouse #0)
10th. Melissa Stevens – w/Lilybeth Stevens (Scissors ‘n Fur #19)

Lap one, three-wide into turn two with open-wheel  racing when Tumor (with a brand-new kart in it’s 1s-ever race) slowed, and Matt tried to get under him and Dave Spanfelner!

Matt is always looking to get the pass and is willing to use a low groove – even when it puts him or others in danger. This time it caught him, as his drive tire caught with Dave in the Galletta’s #7, who started spinning – ala Super Mario Kart. Chris had nowhere to go and also wound up hitting Dave’s drive-wheel rim.

Closeup of Matt going airborne from the above wreck.

Most of the race was Joe Sereno holding a strong grip on the lead followed by Eric Woolworth and Matt Stevens. Chris Stevens kept them in sight, but a faltering clutch and a loose turn  was keeping him at bay from the top three.

The battle rages on! What is amazing with our races? We seem to have perfected a bizarro scale of Oswego Speedway Supermodifieds. It is, what Matt and Chris grew up on and what they based their whole club on, so it’s not really a surprise. Our races play out almost exactly like Super races do with the exception of (1) we are go-karts, (2) we are on dirt, and (3) we go the opposite way. This is something the pay kart tracks are incapable of doing, as most are smaller and self-limited by divisions and time. But if you watch them and watch us, our races play out nearly identically, while we can’t say the same for the pay tracks. We’re very proud of this, and most people who view us are amazed at what we do… all for FREE. Now if we could only get more people out to race with us!

Late in the race, a failed pass attempt by Eric opened up a split second of space, which was all Matt needed to get a pass. Once in second, he tested Joe on several occasions, but the Galletta’s #5 with a fresh motor owned by Joe was more than up for the challenge, as he took his 5th career feature win in his third season of racing at Galletta’s (and if not for Joe breaking while in the lead on  handful of occasions, he may have very well had a handful more!). Chris Stevens had to drop out with a few laps to go due to the absolutely DESTROYED clutch and brake on the Galletta’s #0, and recovered in his Galletta’s/Chrusher.com/R&C Sushi #4 for 6th. Awesome shot of our scoreboard, huh?

Keep in mind that Joe’s  brother Justin Galletta – who joined at the same time and they were on equal credentials through their 1st two years – quit while into his 2nd season at a measly 2 feature wins, right before he quit as the starting middle linebacker of the Syracuse Shock football team! Joe has now more than doubled the win total of his quitter brother. What an atrocious blot on the sports career of one Justin Galletta! In an abysmal expose in absolute cowardice, Justin dared comment on Joe’s victory pic on the social media giant website known as Facebook!:

Yes, it is true. No, not the sex-change jokes (although Justin makes us wonder sometimes) rather the other thing. 😉 😛

Now, this small tirade below is not really against Justin — he’s our nephew (technically our cousin’s son, otherwise cousin once removed), he’s a great guy with an always-running sense of humor, we love him, we always just joke with him, and not to mention that he’s pretty damn tough — a semi-pro linebacker who’s into martial arts, so it’s not like we want him mad at us, lol! — but he did stop racing with us (kinda’ hurt, pal :'() and brought up a point that we sometimes like to address just in case a reader got the wrong idea by his joking (we know he’s ribbing us, but maybe bystanders do not). This is about something that many people say: Not very many people winning all the time.

Why do we seem to have so many repeat winners?:
If someone thinks that a few guys win all the time, stop to think why?

• Firstly, some guys do have more experience than others. You don’t expect very many raw rookies beating 20-year pros in any sport, particularly in motorsport racing, where experience goes a long way, even more than other sports where age slows physical speed and possibly reaction time down. We (Chris and Matt) have raced pretty much every summer/early fall weekend since the early 1990s. That’s a LOT of racing experience. Most local pay tracks have only been around for 3-7 years! Chris and Matt have more karting experience than THE ENTIRE TRACKS. So, give us some respect, people.
• But secondly, and even more importantly, some guys show up to race every week and some people don’t. You can’t win unless you are on the track.
• People think the same guy or two or three wins all the time? Come on up and beat those guys! Unlike local pay tracks that have seventy people showing up and paying good money to squeeze into 3-10 kart races that last five minutes, we have the potential to put over twenty karts on track, pay only gas-and-parts money, and race for an hour or more every week! And every week we only have 8-10 people show up. We think that some people who race on pay tracks think we’re a joke (we saw some of it when we raced on one and read their message boards). Come on up and we’ll show you something funny, like you’re overrating your driver skills!

This club is already the longest-running karting division in Oswego. It also already holds the mark of most laps and racing time per week BY FAR. And it still holds the mark of the biggest (mainly because pay tracks have harsh weight/motor/age divisions), but the fact of the matter is that it could DESTROY the pay tracks in number if people actually just showed up and race! For a tiny fraction of the cost and get MORE fun for LESS money!

When it comes down to it, it appears as if some people just don’t race with us because they are one of two quite humiliating things – they are snobs (who think they and/or their karts are better than us), wussies (afraid of racing against us and/or on our track), or both. Because if they did, our division would b the biggest in the area. People just don’t show. And when only 8-10 drivers are there every week, that’s a smaller pool of potential winners. Then, when you only have two guys who have raced more than a couple of years?

Finish:
1st. Joe Sereno (Galletta’s Greenhouse #5)
2nd Matt Stevens (Galletta’s Greenhouse #33)
3rd. Eric Woolworth (Raven Tavern #88)
4th. Dave Spanfelner (DS Humphrey’s #54, Galletta’s Greenhouse #7)
5th. Adam Lytle (Lytle Racing #33c)
6th. Chris Stevens (Galletta’s #0, Galletta’s/Chrusher.com/R&C Sushi #4)
7th. Brian Galletta (Brian Galletta Motorsports #28)
8th. Billy Truax (Truax #02)
9th. Branden “Toomer” Matott (Inkings Tatoo/Woodchuck Saloon #781)
10th. Melissa Stevens – w/Lilybeth Stevens (Scissors ‘n Fur #19)

Now to the points:

2013 1-WD Gas Flathead Karting World Championship Point Standings after 7/21/2013’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 2013 season to date,  scored in this manner . Our club’s complete All-Time Points Standings from 2000-to-‘the-last-completed-season’ are found on  this webpage , and our division’s complete 2006-08 standings on Oswego Speedway’s lil’ dirt track out back Kiddie Kartway (before our class was  barred from, mocked and threatened ) on  this page . At season’s end, the current totals will be added into the below:

Position	Name (Go-Karts Piloted) [Hyperlinked Borders have Driver Profile] ®=Retcon (#) =Timeout	Total Points (Place)	Average Points Per Feature	Events	Features	Heats	Heat Wins	Feature Wins	Galletta’s Feature Wins 2000-up	Years Pro at Galletta’s
1st	Master Matt Stevens (Galletta’s #33, 3, 74) (#)	1333.5	121.23	8	11	3	0	3	118	18th
2nd	Chris “Chrusher ” Stevens (Galletta’s #4, 2, 8, 0, 74)	1321.5	120.14	8	11	3	0	4	68	18th
3rd	Brian Galletta (Brian Galletta #13, 28) ®	1149.0	106.78	7	11	3	2	1	4	7th
4th	David Spanfelner (D. S. Humphrey’s #54, 81, Galletta’s #28, 9)	1137.0	103.36	8	11	3	0	1	2	2nd
5th	Eric Woolworth (Raven Tavern #88, 78)	1089.5	99.05	8	11	3	2	1	1	2nd
6th	Adam Lytle (Adam Lytle #33c) ®	975.0	88.64	6	11	2	1	0	0	2nd
7th	Melissa Stevens (Scissors ‘n Fur #19)	810.0	73.64	8	11	3	0	0	7	7th
7th	Lilybeth Rose Stevens (Scissors ‘n Fur #19)	810.0	73.64	8	11	3	0	0	0	®
9th	Billy Truax (Galletta’s #7, 1, 02) ®®	805.5	80.55	4	10	1	0	0	0	1st
10th	Joe Sereno (Galletta’s #5) ®	731.0	104.43	4	7	2	1	1	5	3rd
11th	Branden “Toomer” Matott (Galletta’s #2, 9) ®® (#)	666.5	83.31	4	8	2	0	0	0	1st
12th	Kevin Galletta (Galletta’s #7, 9) ®®	426.5	71.08	2	6	0	0	0	0	1st
13th	Mark “Gooner Gilligan” Groesbeck (Galletta’s #1) ®®	394.0	78.80	1	5	0	0	0	0	®
14th	Marc Sgarlata (Galletta’s #7) ®	207.0	69.00	1	3	0	0	0	0	®
15th	Gary Miller Jr. (Galletta’s #6) ®	203.0	67.67	1	3	0	0	0	1	2nd
16th	Scott McGroty (Galletta’s #1) ®	196.0	65.33	1	3	0	0	0	0	®
17th	Collin Miller (Galletta’s #0) ®	182.0	60.67	1	3	0	0	0	0	1st
18th.	Davey Hamilton (Galletta’s #6) ®	144.5	72.25	1	2	0	0	0	0	®
19th.	Alex Ermand (Galletta’s #1) ®	140.5	70.25	1	2	0	0	0	0	®

Speaking of quitters… 😉

Wow! We’re hoping that this picture is proof that one of the quitters is on his road to return. Randy Platt, who has been on hiatus since the 2012 Galletta’s Klassic last October, has been spotted on 7/24/2013 building a new Plattinum (or is it Plattitude?) chassis for Brian Galletta down the road from us, and part of the deal is Brian funding the Baby-Making Bobandi’s return as well! That is, if he can escape his brood for a few hours a weekend.

But… they appear to be not alone….

Can’t wait to see Randy AND Brian both n the track! 😀

Next Race’s Handicap Starting Order

Our system puts the least-winningest and least-point-earning drivers up front and progresses to the highest win and point earners. The more drivers, the harder it is to win, even for someone who has won a lot. Chris and Matt are there every week, and have been since the 1990s. How about you?