Gobble, gobble, blog readers! Yes, it’s Thanksgiving, and I, for one, am completely thrilled. There is nothing quite like hanging out with the family, gorging yourself on turkey and dressing, taking a little nap, watching some football and then doing it all over again. As much fun as all of that is, the most important part, at least for me, is sitting back and being thankful for everything in my life; friends, family, my race family, my little dog Bandit, and everything in between. Oh, and the turkey and dressing, too…

As I sit here typing, the members of the Snap-on race team are headed out in various direction to celebrate the holiday, if they haven’t arrived already. There have been lots of things going on this week with the team, and needless to say, we are all jazzed up about next season. Shannon will head north next week to pick up the new car, and things are rolling, rolling, rolling. Watch out for us next year. The Snap-on team is ready to step it up!

Doug, as always, has been busy, busy, busy. He managed to quit working long enough to head uptown to the Checkers game. He had tickets to his buddy Scott Storick’s suite, and everyone that went had a great time. On Saturday, he took James and his friend Chris to TNT Motorsports Park in South Carolina for a little motocross action. He helped his buddy Bob celebrate his birthday the other day, too. A bunch of them headed over to Kobe’s in Cornelius, one of the best Japanese steakhouses on the planet, if you ask me. He had someone take a picture with his phone. It turned out fuzzy thanks to the dim lights, or I would share it with you, too. Bob had on some kind of silly hat, and every indication pointed to them having a pretty good time.

We would like to say congratulations to our friends from JR Thomas Motorsports out in Arizona! If you’ll remember, A.J. Thomas wrapped up the championship at Firebird Int’l Raceway, and now two more members of the team have claimed some prizes. Dannielle Trammell won the Jr. Dragster championship at Southwestern International Raceway in Tucson, and Cody Thomas won the Big Wheel championship at the same track. Man, if only there had been Big Wheel competitions when I was kid. I just wreaked havoc on the boys in the neighborhood with my Dukes of Hazard ride…Ah, well. I digress. Congratulations to Dannielle and Cody! We’ll see you soon!

I know this one has been short, but from all of us here at Doug Herbert Racing, travel safe if you must, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Until next time, be good,

LP