Greetings, blog readers! LP here, back in North Carolina, still waiting for it to sink in that the season is actually over. It’s Saturday, and I feel like I should be at the track, bugging Barb, Darla and Pam at Will Call, or making runs on the golf cart to pick up guests and bring them to the pit area. Instead, I am here at the shop, wondering what the next few weekends will be like…

Maybe one of these days I won’t be playing catch up when I sit down to write a blog, but for now, I must again bring you up to date on the doings of the Snap-on Tools team. Once again, so much has happened in the past week! We had a pretty good day on Sunday, making it to the second round, but the Snap-on dragster put a hole out early against Vandergriff and brought our season to an end.

Now that all is said and done for the season, the Snap-on Tools team had a pretty good year. Sure, we had some ugly weekends, but we had some especially excellent ones, too. And who can forget that one Wednesday thrown in there when Doug brought home the Wally? We ended up finishing sixth in points, tying for Doug’s career best point’s finish. Not too shabby! Which prompts me to mention the celebrating that went on Sunday evening.

Wilber and Berserko put all the rest of us to shame with their regular blog entries, so I know you have seen and read about the annual shindig that happens over in the Worsham camp. While I didn’t get to witness most of the festivities (I hear the band truly was great), from what I understand, the Snap-on Tools team did their fair share of celebrating the end of the season.

On Monday night, Doug, myself, Marty and his wife Shirley, Jim and Carol Brissette, and our good friend Major Phil Toretti headed out to L.A. for the Awards Ceremony. The ceremony went very well, with wonderful, touching tributes to Wally Parks and Eric Medlen. Doug took his place on stage with other top finishers in Top Fuel, and the drag racing fan in me couldn’t help but be a little awed by it all. Perhaps a highlight of the evening, for me, anyway, was getting to see everyone dressed. Not that everyone runs around naked at the track or anything, but everyone runs around dressed in their team uniforms. Seeing everyone all prettied up and smelling good was simply fabulous. But…it did make it a little harder to recognize everyone.

Today Doug and Beasley had lunch with Joe Sakowski from Snap-on Industrial Tool Sales and Cliff Mervine from Snap-on Equipment Tool Sales. They had a really good time at lunch, and got to talk about ways to use the race team to help increase business for Snap-on. Just like us, they can’t wait for a track to be built in the Charlotte area. Hopefully it happens sooner rather than later.

I’m off to figure out what to do on a Saturday evening away from the track. I’m sure I’ll find something to get into, but it still feels like I should be hurrying up to wait for the second pass of the day…

Until next time, be good,

LP