Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Club & Backyard Speedway – Welcomes You to the 2023 Season!
Welcome to the Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Club & Backyard Speedway’s website!
Over 23 arrive-and-drive Karts are available. All-time trialed less than 1 second apart on a large track. Drivers needed to fill them in 45-60 lap point races every weekend between June through all Summer, culminating with our season finale in late September – the 200-Lap Galletta’s Karting Klassic!
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.”
The Next Race:
June 2023 | Either the 26th Annual Klassic 200-Lap Championship, or 27th Annual Season Opener… or Both?! This Year? Next Year 2023? …Up to YOU!
Some Weekend in June 2023 – The 26th Annual 200-Lap Point Championship Klassic, which would be set to run in the afternoon after the completion of the Time Trials and the Starting Grid Klassic pictures in Fall 2022… IF weather and racers cooperated! …weather held up, but not enough drivers showed! We have either cancelled the 2022 Klassic or postponed it to the 2023 Opener. Again… Driver dependant! Stay Tuned.- Postponed to… whoever weather and drivers allow:
Despite the weather being unbelievably excellent for all but one weekend all Summer and Fall, our race season has been sporadic due completely to poor driver attendance, but the show must go on. Fortunately, enough drivers have agreed to show up for our Klassic Championship, which is usually our point season Finale. Sadly, not enough of our drivers were unable to cooperate and show up for any of the great weather weekends we had that could’ve run a 200-Lapper in the DAYLIGHT. It deeply puzzled founders/racers Matt and Chris, who had been ready to roll the entire season, but then it dawned on us… most of our guest racers are Buffalo Bills fans, and we know they never show up to let alone win Championships or back up all the bragging we hear from them! Aaah!!!! Now it all makes sense!
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!
