Welcome!
Want to race go-karts? Affordably?
Then why spend $2,000-$5,000 to race when you can race like this for $200-$600?
Please watch some of our 200 newest race video uploads on YouTube. We have thousands of video clips edited into hundreds of complete race videos (and a few highlight compilations) from nearly every videotaped race that we have been able to unearth from our history (1998-up) on and embedded on each race page.
Galletta’s Karting Club, located in Oswego, NY, is a go-kart racing club that specializes on racing as professionally as we can for as economically as possible. We developed a style of kart racing that is different, but no less competitive than any national karting organization. Our biggest difference is affordability. Our club is free to join and race in, and the only thing anybody pays for is gas and parts. We are the largest and longest-running dirt karting class in the local area, as we were founded in the early 1990s and our average feature is 45-Laps usually consisting of 10-15 karts, with a 200-Lap “Klassic” Championship at Summer’s end deciding an Annual Points Champion.
This site hosts our Complete Race Archives dating back to the 1990s! Web pages (and complete race videos all now on YouTube and embedded here) to every single race held from 2005-up, and every Klassic and season from 1996-up are ALL HERE. To go to ANY race in our history and watch the race video to it, they are all listed on the side-scrolling frame on the left-hand side! Click on the thumbnail of the race you want and go!
ARCHIVES:
COMPLETE SEASON APPENDIX:
Enjoy each of our two decades’ worth of point-racing seasons with these over 200 race pages by clicking on the picture to each season. Each season will have its own list of full race descriptions and YouTube videos to each race:
2023
COMPLETE GALLETTA’S CLUB SEASON RACE AND COMPLETE VIDEO COLLECTION APPENDIX — 1990s-current:
Enjoy each of over two decades worth of our competitive point-racing seasons with hundreds of race pages and videos! Each season will have its own list of pictured race descriptions, point standings, driver profiles, and complete races on embedded videos to each race (as early as the 2002 Klassic and complete season videos dating back to mid-2005). This is exhaustively done, and I really hope you appreciate the work we put into the site and the hundreds of races we show you for no charge, just… all I ask is please don’t use ad-blockers to help cover the site and server costs (which it never does)! Thanks! – Chris
Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Seasonal Archives – Full Race Videos, Point Races & Descriptions
2021 Season -- The Season That Never Was:
Our 2021 season was unfortunately completely lost due to circumstances out of our control. Initially, head mechanic/track groomer Matt Stevens and his wife needed to repair severe damage (a giant hole) to the roof of their home, which occurred from snow and ice buildup over the long winter. The repairs took all Summer, as only after Matt's brother Chris, sister-in-law Rung, and mother loaned him the $4,000 so the job was to be completed before Fall, as his wife had other things to spend money on. Matt has kept the karts and track running strong for 25+ years for basically no pay. If anyone wishes to help Matt out and collectively help him pay his debt to his mom, brother, and sister-in-law, please help him out via this GoFundMe. We plan to return to regular racing in June 2022, and we are contemplating two Klassics (or maybe a Mid-Summer Championship) to make up for our lost season and have a 2021 Make-up Champion along with a 2022 Champion. Scroll lower to see HUNDREDS of our prior race videos dating between 1997-2020!Jun 23, 2019 | 6/23/2019 – 24th Annual Season Opener’s Twin-25 Wins Go To Steve Sixberry and Adam Lytle [+YouTube] |
Jun 10, 2012 | 6/10/2012 – 17th Annual Oswego Dirt Gas Flathead Karting Championship Season Opener (45-Laps/12-karts) |
Jun 07, 2010 | 6/7/2010 – Gary Miller Sr. Unretires, Wins 11-Kart/45-Lap Opener, Then Retires Again (+YouTube Videos) |
Jan 30, 2009 | Oswego Kartway & The Galletta’s Karting Club History (The 2008 – 09 Offseason Barring; 1/30/2009) |
That’s 275 race videos in 2008! TWO-HUNDRED & SEVENTY FIVE! Wow. Too big for one playlist, so here's a 2nd!
That’s right! 274 race videos to our 2nd Season at Oswego Speedway Kartway: (2007) & 12th Season at Galletta’s: (2007). So big, it needed TWO playlists!
Dec 31, 2004 | 2004 Season |
Nov 23, 2004 | 2004 Fall Frenzy Challenge Bonus Point Series |
Oct 31, 2004 | 2004 Season & 9th Annual Klassic 100-Lapper [+YouTube]! |
Dec 31, 2000 | 2000 Season |
Oct 31, 2000 | 2000 Season Recap & 5th Annual Klassic 80-Lap Oswego Dirt Karting Championship |
Nov 28, 1999 | 1999 Season & the 4th Annual Galletta’s Kart Klassic 80 [+Video] |
Nov 28, 1998 | 1998 Season & 3rd Annual Galletta’s Karting Klassic 80 |
Dec 31, 1997 | The 1990s Seasons – 1996-1997 Recaps |
BONUS: Our Pre-Historic Days
Dec 31, 1990 | 1980s Seasons |
Jun 01, 1986 | The Early Years – The 1980s! |
…and the net result of all-time points is…
ALL-TIME GALLETTA’S KARTING CLUB & SPEEDWAY ALL-TIME (2000-2020) POINT STANDINGS:
Drivers all-time stats at two of Oswego, New York’s Dirt Karting Tracks: Galletta’s Greenhouse Backyard Karting Speedway (2000-2020), and separately the Oswego Kartway [1-WD Mixed Motor Gas Division] (2006-2008). You can scroll the chart left, right, up and down to see all 371 different drivers on record. NOTE: In-season points are not added to this total until after the current season ends and pre-2000 Points & Wins are currently lost in storage (they will be added if located).
We race homemade 1-Wheel-Drive racing karts that can race on professional karting tracks and backyard speedways alike. We have karts rebuilt from used racing chassis, used yard karts and some built from scratch. We have ONE class to ensure a true overall track champion, and not have several smaller classes of divisional champions with no clear winner. We race used 5hp Briggs Flathead motors fueled by pump gas, sped-up by hand-shaved heads, and regulated by stock Fun Power-type carburetors instead of expensive prefabricated 2-WD chassis powered by high-priced methanol-fueled motors. On our own backyard oval speedway, we turn clockwise with our top speeds of approximately 45-50MPH. Although we all run in the same division, in addition to a minimum weight requirement, we have something unique to our inclusive class — a weight-to-power-allowance scale to allow heavier drivers more horsepower via stronger racing cams and more powerful gear ratios, a system proved to be successful as we have the tightest competition and most varied winner’s circle locally over the last few years. This way our one class is bigger, almost as fast, and more competitive than the higher-priced karting classes because heavier and lighter drivers can race equally and have the same chance of winning as the next guy. Racing experience, starting position, and a little bit of luck usually decide the outcome, and money and kart price play no role. To ensure this, we have an expert motor builder — club co-founder Matt Stevens – who oversees that all of the motors are legal, equalized, and competitive, and does so for no cost – just to have people to race with! Join us and find out what many people, including semi-pro drivers from local racetracks, say – we have the most fun and spend the least money of likely any competitive motorsport class in the world! Just because the track is not located behind a famous race track, and the karts don’t cost over a grand doesn’t mean this isn’t real racing with talented drivers and excellent competition. Earn your karting “street cred” at Galletta’s. Enjoy!
Galletta’s Karting Club – What we’re about:
- We founded the club to race go-karts more affordably than WKA, NKA, Champs, Clones, Quarter-Midgets, motocross, and/or whatever small engine motorsport is out there. We have succeeded in this since the 1990s.
- We race for points (which count for both a seasonal points championship and an all-time points tally added at the season’s end).
When do we race?
- Summer Point Races: We race every Sunday starting in June through August — with occasional mid-week rain dates or preemptive Friday or Saturday Rain Dates. Usually 45-70 green flag laps a week for points.
- Fall Race Series: We then switch to a driver-availability schedule every other Saturday/Friday/occasional Sundays from September through November (until the weather stops cooperating). Pre-Klassic Fall races usually count for regular annual point series, and post-Klassic Falle races usually count for the All-Time point tally.
- Klassic 200-Lap Championship: Occurs on a Saturday sometime in either late September or early October (dependent on weather and regular driver availability).
- Countdown: Check the countdown timer in the upper left side column of the page.
Prices – We are Free, and run on donations:
- Galletta’s Karting Club and Backyard Speedway is intended to be free and is operated on a not-for-profit, self-sustaining, basis that runs completely on donations and the time and work of the club members. We are NOT a pay racetrack facility, we are a backyard speedway that strives to make the racing as fun and competitive as possible. The vast majority of our members agree that we have succeeded in this since our founding in the early 1990s. Donations to race are listed below.
- This is a race at your own risk track that operates under NY State Recreational Use Law and charges no money other than nominal donations. You must sign a waiver in which you understand that there are risks of potential injury (including death) and that you will not pursue legal action against the owners of the property, or else you will not be allowed to race.
- Full face helmets and full body covering are absolutely required, as well as any racing clothing that provides as much bodily protection as possible (such as fire suits, tough pants, gloves, neck braces, and motocross armor for example) are all highly suggested by the veteran racers and the property owners alike. The racing is tough, accidents can hurt, and the more protection for your body, the better.
To enter a race:
- To enter a race, you must have adequate protective clothing. Mandatory would be a full-face helmet with a visor that has good vision. The second would be full skin coverage with tough clothing (a race suit or jeans and a long-sleeve shirt, shoes, and gloves with NO exposed skin). Not mandatory but highly suggested are neck braces and protective armor that absorbs impact (knee pads, elbow pads, shin pads, flak jackets, rib protectors… anything and everything that can protect you is highly smiled upon).
- You must sign a waiver agreeing to never hold anybody else liable for any injury sustained on our track. And this is serious racing with speeds between 35-50 mph depending on which area of our track. You can get injured, and must respect the kart’s power and race with SAFETY FIRST in mind.
- We have a standard $5-per-driver donation to head mechanic and track operator, Matt Stevens for all of his time and effort on his hobby that all of our club members enjoy.
- To enter your own kart, you must have a kart that meets our specs (if you do not have one, we occasionally have some for sale and you can have one custom-built for you from scratch or rebuilt from an existing kart. Our specs are on our rules page). What most drivers usually do is donate and use one of our Galletta’s karts until they get a feel for it, then make or buy their own.
- We have race-ready, multi-feature-winning, highly competitive arrive-and-drive Team Galletta’s Greenhouse karts on-site. Most of our regular drivers have their own karts, but if you do not, you are welcome to borrow one of these karts. They are a donation of $20 per regular race ($20 including your $5 per-driver donation to the track is $25). This covers the gas and part wear/replacement and has never ever made a profit. If we were a business, we’d be under. This is why it is called a donation. Veterans can arrange for less if they buy replacement parts, gas, and/or own their own engine and/or drive system, in which case the rental donation would just be a fraction of the cost (engine and drive system wear are the primary expenses in our club).
What we are NOT:
- We are not a kiddie kartway. We are an adult race club. Drivers should preferably be 18 or over, but we do allow younger drivers who have a driver’s license, and/or show enough physical strength to operate the karts safely or have prior RACE karting experience, and a parent or legal guardian sign for them. If you are looking for that, there are a few local pay tracks that you can go to but expect a lot of expense and occasionally some cutthroat drivers and track operators. Please do not call with such requests for kids – we’re not built for it. Sorry.
Our karts:
- Our karts are hybrid single-wheel drive racing karts that we build ourselves and usually cost between $300-$1,000 total, and used ones can be bought for $200-250. They are not yard karts. They are not prefabricated race chassis. They are a hybrid of both, which means they are nearly as fast but are FAR more affordable and durable than your average racing kart (that costs well over $1,000-$4,000 0 and although less precise, yet far more rangy than prefabricated race karts, which can only race on the flattest, smoothest race surfaces). For example, our speeds are MUCH faster on our home track than the higher-priced karts local pay track (the track is smaller) – we approach 50 MPH at the end of our straights, and the local pay track is lucky to approach 40 MPH (we raced at both, we know). We can (and have) raced on both backyard speedways and pay race tracks alike. We can do both if we want. And nearly as fast for just a fraction of the cost without losing any of the competitive ability. Our drivers are on equal footing as any pay track kart driver, and the wily vets are far more experienced than nearly all local track kart drivers. This website shows almost twenty years of experience if you don’t believe us and think that just because you drive a 2-WD prefabricated kart on a pay track that you are instantly better than any and all of our drivers. Show up on race day and you’ll see what’s up.
- Our motors are gas-powered Briggs & Stratton L-block Flatheads with race cams and shaved heads restricted by “Fun Power” 1990’s-style carbs. We allow heavier drivers to experiment with bigger cams, gear ratios, and/or gas Clone motors – provided all drivers approve and the integrity of the sport is not compromised with unfair advantages for one kart/driver over another.
1st-Time Drivers:
- People are invited to join us racing, but you must understand basic racing rules, have full body (tough clothing covering all exposed skin) coverage, full-face helmet protection, and obey and respect all rules and regulations of the property owner, flaggers, kart owners, and your fellow karting competitors – with veteran and regular drivers taking more seniority over newbies.
- 1st-time rookies are allowed more races and practice to get accustomed to the track and karts, and also tend to cause more kart and track damage than vets, and if the fellow veteran drivers and track officials deem that you are damaging karts, being a hazard, or causing multiple cautions, you will be asked to sit for the remainder of the event until either after the race has completed or next weekend to get your full laps in. If you are angry and belligerent to other drivers and/or track officials, you will be asked to leave the premises and recommended to return without an apology and agreement to drive safe and stay calm.
- Drivers, especially new ones that need practice, should come on time or early to help get the track and karts ready to race.
One class fits all:
- Yep. No dozen or more divisions here. One class for ALL. Yes, no matter your age or weight, we weigh down the lightest drivers and give the heaviest drivers extra horsepower via bigger race cams and gearing. The system is open to evolving each week to help as many of the drivers as humanly possible, and, for the most part, it works very, VERY well. It makes for some highly competitive racing, winners between 16 and 56 years old, drivers between 135-250 lbs… all in the same class, and all racing bumper-to-bumper. And, it is one of the reasons we no longer race at the local pay track. They didn’t understand and straight-up HATED our one-class-fits-all allowances and tried to force us to either conform to a WKA-esque “strict age, weight and motor divisions” system OR race against open motors that were higher horsepower than our weight-to-power scale allowed. We are neither, and never will be, which is why we don’t like pay tracks anymore, and some of the don’t like us either. It would make our club be enveloped into everything against what we founded the club to be – an affordable and equal footing race club with musical karts that anybody can drive and win with provided they have the talent and experience. It is also how we stay so affordable and equally competitive. It’s also why we have the biggest karting division with the biggest point listing, the biggest wins list, and the most competitive, most veteran, and most varied points and winner’s circle of all local karting divisions. How could we not be both the longest-running, fairest, and most affordable kart class? Think pay tracks getting 60-70 karts a week is more? That’s about 10 divisions! Most divisions are 3-9 karts because most drivers are intimidated by a lot of drivers wand want the glory of winning a smaller race. Our division is ONE division. And we have had for years now the most drivers in it. Don’t believe us? Look here.
Our rules:
- …are simple, yet painstakingly written out. Most are common sense race rules that most tracks abide by. Whatever isn’t already mentioned or painfully obvious is listed here. (NOTE: Our rules are subject to change based on the active drivers. They are all common sense racing rules.
Complete Seasons are now available on our YouTube Channel!
During the last few months, webmaster (and 2015 Points and Klassic 200 Champion) Chris Stevens has been busy uploading all of our HUGE video library of race tapes to our personal YouTube Channel. We have videotaped every single race we have ever held at Galletta’s Backyard Speedway between mid-2005 to current (including every Klassic from 1998-up and a few here and there between), along with every Oswego Speedway/Kartway race we were in from 2007 – 2008). Most are from standard DVD (a few early ones from even VHS!), but 2013-up are almost all available in stunning HD. Most races have two or three camera angles! We are still in the process of processing and uploading a handful a day, but around 85-90% of the videos are now up and ready to view, and in SEASON-centric playlists to boot! Yep, you can watch an entire season all in a row! This is thousands of video clips compiled into hundreds of races recorded over a decade, tallying hundreds of hours of our fun, clean and affordable racing action.
YouTube Season Playlists
| 2022 | 2021 (Lost Season) | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017| 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 pt.2
| 2008 pt.1 | 2007 pt.2 | 2007 pt.1 | 2006 | 2005 | 2002-2004 | ’99-’01
I am Christopher Galletta Stevens, the Galletta’s Karting Club co-founder, racer, documentarian, statistician, video producer, video narrator, and webmaster. I have written all of these pages and put up all of these pictures and videos for your enjoyment (and mine… none of us get paid for doing this, and the website COSTS money to run out of my own pocket, so if I didn’t enjoy doing it, this site wouldn’t exist). I hope you come back often to get entertained, and heck… maybe even join us! Real drivers race with us. See you on the track!
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GALLETTA’S GREENHOUSE KARTING CLUB ALL-TIME POINTS (2000-2021)
All-time points scored by every driver who raced in our club on Galletta’s Greenhouse Backyard Speedway and Oswego Speedway’s Kartway between 2000-2021.
2022 Season will be tallied into this after the conclusion of the 2022 season.
Pos. | Driver (Karts Piloted) | Galletta’s Kartway Points | Galletta’s Point Average | Galletta’s Features | Galletta’s Feature Wins | Galletta’s Feature Win % | Seasons (17 Races) | Years Active | Oswego Kartway Gas 1WD Points: 2006-08 | Oswego Kartway 1WD Features: 2006-08 | Oswego Kartway 1WD Wins: 2006-08 |
1st | Matt Stevens | 50,263.0 | 118.83 | 423 | 151 | 36% | 25th | 1990-2020 | 2,951.5 | 31 | 12 |
2nd | Chris Stevens | 48,844.5 | 116.85 | 418 | 85 | 20% | 25th | 1992-2020 | 2,385.0 | 27 | 4 |
3rd | Melissa Stevens | 25,469.5 | 102.70 | 248 | 8 | 3% | 15th | 2007-2020 | 442.5 | 5 | 0 |
4th | Wesley Stevens | 15,858.0 | 87.13 | 182 | 20 | 11% | 12th | 1990-2014 | 1,926.5 | 22 | 3 |
5th | Adam Lytle | 12,158.5 | 98.85 | 123 | 10 | 8% | 7th | 2011-2019 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
6th | Brian Galletta, The Late | 10,606.5 | 96.42 | 110 | 7 | 6% | 7th | 1994-2015 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
7th | Kevin Galletta | 9,722.0 | 110.48 | 88 | 7 | 8% | 5th | 1997-2020 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
8th | Tim Galletta | 8,741.5 | 116.55 | 75 | 8 | 11% | 4th | 2009-2018 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
9th | Kelly Miller | 8,211.0 | 132.44 | 62 | 8 | 13% | 4th | 2006-2020 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
10th | Gary Miller Sr. | 8,186.0 | 113.69 | 72 | 6 | 8% | 4th | 2005-2010 | 763.0 | 11 | 0 |
11th | Eric Woolworth | 7,296.5 | 99.95 | 73 | 5 | 7% | 4th | 2011-2020 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
12th | Keith Raymond | 6,972.5 | 114.30 | 61 | 8 | 13% | 4th | 2012-2020 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
13th | Russ Hockey | 6,884.0 | 137.68 | 50 | 3 | 6% | 3rd | 2007-2010 | 1,119.0 | 14 | 0 |
14th | Randy Platt | 6,540.5 | 110.86 | 59 | 7 | 12% | 4th | 2003-2017 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
15th | Fred Collins | 6,275.5 | 104.59 | 60 | 2 | 3% | 4th | 2004-2009 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
16th | Josh Arnold | 6,159.5 | 116.22 | 53 | 6 | 11% | 3rd | 2014-2020 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
17th | Dick Dann | 6,093.0 | 114.96 | 53 | 4 | 8% | 4th | 2006-2017 | 1,167.0 | 16 | 1 |
18th | Jason Mills | 5,999.0 | 98.34 | 61 | 3 | 5% | 4th | 2002-2010 | 180.0 | 3 | 0 |
19th | Kyle Reuter | 5,948.5 | 212.45 | 28 | 6 | 21% | 2nd | 2006-2015 | 533.0 | 6 | 0 |
20th | Joe Sereno | 5,872.0 | 101.24 | 58 | 5 | 9% | 3rd | 2011-2016 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
21st | Rob Jimenez | 5,141.0 | 122.40 | 42 | 1 | 2% | 3rd | 2006-2007 | 420.0 | 7 | 0 |
22nd | Nick Dann | 5,089.5 | 113.10 | 45 | 2 | 4% | 3rd | 2006-2017 | 452.0 | 7 | 1 |
23rd | Buddy Cottom | 4,727.0 | 163.00 | 29 | 3 | 10% | 3rd | 2007-2009 | 646.0 | 7 | 0 |
24th | Ed Maynes | 4,660.0 | 108.37 | 43 | 6 | 14% | 4th | 2004-2007 | 340.0 | 5 | 1 |
25th | Dave Spanfelner | 4,387.0 | 99.70 | 44 | 3 | 7% | 3rd | 2011-2013 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
26th | DJ Mike “MC” Howell | 4,310.0 | 126.76 | 34 | 1 | 3% | 3rd | 2007-2010 | 602.5 | 6 | 0 |
27th | Steve Sixberry | 3,666.0 | 114.56 | 32 | 2 | 6% | 2nd | 2017-2020 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
28th | Justin Galletta | 3,560.0 | 111.25 | 32 | 3 | 9% | 3rd | 2011-2013 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
29th | George Russell | 3,381.0 | 130.04 | 26 | 2 | 8% | 3rd | 2010-2011 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
30th | Oscar Berry | 3,241.5 | 111.78 | 29 | 0 | 0% | 3rd | 2005-2008 | 742.0 | 10 | 0 |
31st | Shadoe Russell | 3,178.0 | 122.23 | 26 | 1 | 4% | 3rd | 2007-2010 | 316.0 | 0 | 0 |
32nd | Jeff Tetro | 3,125.0 | 107.76 | 29 | 3 | 10% | 3rd | 2007-2011 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
33rd | Jason King | 2,850.5 | 118.77 | 24 | 1 | 4% | 1st | 2015-2016 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
34th | Larry Phillips | 2,848.5 | 98.22 | 29 | 1 | 3% | 3rd | 2008-2009 | 335.0 | 4 | 0 |
35th | Branden “Tumor” Matott | 2,814.5 | 100.52 | 28 | 1 | 4% | 2nd | 2010-2015 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Galletta’s Karting Club » Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Club & Backyard Speedway | Oswego, NY (est. 1990)
So many races, I can’t watch them all. Wish I lived closer and run with you guys! Even if you do go “the wrong way!”
Galletta’s Karting Club » Galletta’s Greenhouse Karting Club & Backyard Speedway | Oswego, NY (est. 1990)
Great site!