DONATIONS / FEES / RENTAL KARTS:
Arrive-and-drive karts may be rented. Rental donation is bare-bones, covering gas and parts wear only! Galletta's operates on a nominal "donation fees to keep the track ready and karts running. Anything you can donate to the track and karts helps. We also allow drivers to race with us provided they agree to sign a waiver, and the land owner allows recreational karts to run under the New York Recreational Use Statute.
We run 1-wheel-drive gas flathead motors with some racing enhancements all done on site.
Bring your own kart:
- $5 donation to enter your own kart (donation to Matt for his track work, donation waived if you bring multiple racers to rent). If Matt or Wes works on YOUR owned kart, please give him MORE than this $5 bare bones tip. It's worth it, as you will NOT find another karting division ANYWHERE where the top driver and mechanic will help you have a kart capable of beating them on any given race day for so little.We LOVE racing, and we sacrifice our own karts by helping our friends, relatives and total strangers to compete against us!
Galletta's Team Kart for Regular Event (40-70 laps):
We have over 15 arrive-and-drive karts on-site, all competitive feature winners and waiting for drivers to pilot them.
- Regular Driver / Returning Veteran: $20
- Newbie Driver / Rookie Driver: $25
Ask Matt about a full-year membership rental, or rent a kart with your own motor/drive system, which would be considerably less than weekly AND have that kart reserved for you every week.
Galletta's Team Kart for Regular Event (200 laps + qualifiers):
Klassic rental will be more. Contact Matt, as deals can be made, depending on how many laps you run and if you don't break the karts!
We can help you build your own Galletta's-style kart for only a few hundred dollars. From time to time, some drivers sell their Galletta's-style karts for $200-300 as well. You will NOT be able to spend that little on a competitive, feature-winning kart in any other karting division around. Period.
Spectators:
- Spectators are free to watch! (But stay safely away from the track!)
- Pose with a kart and be counted in our points race via 1 lap? Free! Just ask!
The above countdown is usually updated as soon as news breaks (rain-dates, postponements, reschedules, etc.), so pay attention to this sidebar.
If you have not raced with us before, you are welcome to join! We have many arrive-and-drive karts available, and you will not race with a more talented karting group, empirically proven on this website (and erased from the local pay track website because of how good of a show we put on for bottom dollar)! Even if just a lap to earn points, or race in a newbie qualifier... give it a shot. 99% of the time, people love it! 2014 will now have membership, which will help regular drivers race the full season. Contact us.
Friday, July 6th, 2018 - Hooray! We finally got enough people for a race! And Kelly Miller took advantage of sputtering leader Eric Woolworth to pick off both Woolworth and Chris Stevens to take the lead and hold on despite losing a header!
START:
1. Eric Woolworth (Team Galletta's Greenhouse #78)
2. Adam Lytle (Team Galletta's Greenhouse #33c)
3. Earl Miller (Team Galletta's Greenhouse #5) (R)
4. Kelly Miller (Team Galletta's Greenhouse #9)
5. Chris Stevens (Team Galletta's Greenhouse/OswegoSushi.com/Chrusher.com #8)
6. Matt Stevens (Team Galletta's Greenhouse #74)
7. Colton Duell (Team Galletta's Greenhouse #2)
8. Melissa Stevens w/unborn Sarah Stevens (SNF #19)
So... if you haven't realized by now... PHOTOBUCKET SUCKS.
Have to host it myself:
<-This site used Photobucket from 2006-2018 for our pictures. That changed when they decided to extort users top-dollar to use their own photos on their own website. I could see a light watermark, or small, yet reasonable fee to go ad-free… but this is blurring stampage crap as seen above is ridiculous. Bye, Photobucket. Treat people like shit by extorting them for a service you provided for over a decade is not a good business model. Now Flickr, don't fail me now... 
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7/7/2018 Update
Due to a lack of a camera person, the video editing and point scoring is going fairly slow. Worked on it a few hours today, and not done yet.
7/8/2018 Update
Due to a lack of a camera person, the video editing and point scoring is going fairly slow. Worked on it a few hours today, and not done yet.
7/9/2018 Update
Due to a lack of a camera person, the video editing and point scoring is going fairly slow. Worked on it a few hours today, and not done yet. Races threatened to get shut down because I have a problem with getting the videos and points done due to a lack of assistance when asked.
7/10/2018 Update
Due to a lack of a camera person, the video editing and point scoring is going fairly slow. Worked on it a few hours today, and not done yet. Races again threatened to get shut down over my inability to get videos and points done.
7/11/2018 Update
Due to a lack of a camera person, the video editing and point scoring is going fairly slow. Worked on it a few hours today, and not done yet. Family harassed and threatened on the phone, accused of not cutting the lawn, not working enough, OH, and have child protection services called on me for imaginary reasons by insane person in Wolcott who I never see and barely know–other than her being a very judgemental, petty, nosy, manipulative, gossipy and vengeful person who abuses authorities with false complaints.
7/12/2018 Update
Due to a lack of a camera person, the video editing and point scoring is going fairly slow. Worked on it a few hours today, and not done yet. Races again threatened to get shut down over my inability to get videos and points done.
7/13/2018 Update
Due to a lack of a camera person, the video editing and point scoring is going fairly slow. Worked on it a few hours today, and not done yet. Races again threatened to get shut down over my inability to get videos and points done. A handful of drivers leave the group chat.
7/14/2018 Update
Due to a lack of a camera person, the video editing and point scoring is going fairly slow. Worked on it a few hours today, and not done yet. Races again threatened to get shut down over my inability to get videos and points done.
7/15/2018 Update — RESULTS & POINTS… DONE!
Points finished at the start of race time. Thank God
What happened to the video and the points rant:
Unfortunately, our usual camera person was recovering from a c-section exactly one week earlier (and not allowed to climb steps–doctor’s orders) and another declined to help record for the 2nd week in a row (this time because of being weak due to a blood test, but wasn’t too weak to strap on a helmet and take a lap). And last week we had a guest star driver at the track. But… other than a picture, we have no record of it though. No help on the video.
SO… this means two stationary cameras and lots of editing with an expensive program is needed before you get a halfway decent video, and we need a quality video to get pictures, tell a story, and score points. It’s fairly important to our club.
Thus, because of this, I have contemplated concluding the go-out-for-a-lap-and-get-points-and-contribute-nothing-else and makeup race rules, as has been warned many times for those who choose not to contribute but benefit and make a stink if one thing about them is wrong on the site and demand their points and wins be accurately scored or threats and other manipulative things will occur.
Wait, what?! Why?
The video is just as important to the club as the karts, the track, and the drivers, and without the video, the club does not exist.
Why?
Because:
1. I make the website’ videos from it, and without it, THE WEBSITE HAS NO VIDEOS.
2. I make the website’s pictures from it, and without it THE WEBSITE HAS NO PICTURES.
3. I count the laps and the driver’s places from it, and without it, THE POINTS DO NOT GET SCORED FOR ANYBODY.
4. If all of the above don’t happen, there si no record of anything, and THE WEBSITE HAS NOTHING ON IT.
5. If the website has nothing to report, nobody knows we even exist, and it’s my passion to do it all for everyone (and make it cool, comprehensive and attempting to make it also funny–although some disagree about my humor and have been angered with me about it), so without it, I have no need to continue, I can quit racing, video, stats, and website, and free up countless hours of my free time and spend it on other things. I seriously put a fairly large chunk of my not-at-work time on the site. Why? Just to get attacked? Ignored? Mocked? Fun stuff! (It isn’t getting more drivers, is it? We used to have 10-15 a week several years ago. Now we’ve been only 3-8.)
In order to make anything out of our stationary cameras, I had to buy software where I could attempt to edit it together. Firstly, free apps have limited use and/or are ineffective at doing halfway serious video editing. They work for short clips for social media purposes and that’s it. To do a halfway decent video, you need a reasonably good program, and those cost money. I had such a program once, but my old PC is broke, and the program is not transferable. I was now forced to buy one, out of my own money–just like the website’s hosting (which is over $100 a year out of my own pocket). Do I expect to be reimbursed?
Chris’s Donation Fund for his websites since 2005:
$0.00
Hell, I used to make money on ads that used to at least partially pay for the site hosting, but between Adblockers and people not checking them out regardless, it is nothing, now.
The videos tell a story, report the race, provide a record of our races and a source for pictures, stats, point counting, and all of the above. We do not have spotters or transponders. We have bare bones… karts, a track, a few racers and everyone contributing their own thing to make the club work. We all contribute to the club in one way or another: Our time, our work, our energy, our money… we all contribute and by doing so the club exists. We don’t charge money to anybody for our work. Matt maintains the karts out of his own time, money and nominal rentals for the karts (that do not cover the kart wear and gas), I maintain the website and do videos completely out of my own money and time (and I get $0.00).
So if we don’t contribute anything, and decline help when asked maybe once or twice a year, but demand a name on the website or make your husband, brother and sister in law’s lives uncomfortable, sell karts that belong to the club (we can’t make anymore, our track welder has Parkinson’s and can’t make karts like he used to, and you never paid for that work, just the materials), so it’s a slap in the face and an arrogant diva act to me. Then, I got attacked for not making it to the track sooner because I was BUSY SETTING UP STATIONARY CAMERAS BECAUSE NOBODY COULD RECORD THEM.
But… I’m the bad guy. I’m picking on someone.
So, yeah, there’s the story. Some tell me I shouldn’t post it publicly? Some people talk and post shit about me and my wife on Facebook, their mom calls our co-racer/friends and lies about us so they never come back and we get a bad name, and someone reports us to authorities at our job for doing nothing wrong, but still knew personal stuff about us that only immediate family would know, so yeah, to me it’s fair game. Boo-hoo.
Rant over. Our regular camera person should be back for next week. Hopefully that will be the last I have to depend on anybody to do something ever again.
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