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Brownie and Dan

Brownie and DanSunday, July 29, 2007

Posted by: Doug Herbert, Herbert Performance/BRAKES

Hey, blog readers! LP coming at you bright and early Sunday morning from Sonoma. It sure is nice sitting in the No. 1 qualifying position! This is the fourth time in his career Doug has qualified at the top of the heap, and I know he plans on taking full advantage of it. There has been a little talk of the whole No. 1 qualifying curse -- no one has one a race from the top spot this season -- but hopefully that will change with us today!

As for the goings on of the Snap-on team, the Sacramento ABC affiliate (News10) came out on Saturday to hang out with Brownie. They covered the DragQuake we did on Wednesday, and wanted to do a feature on our hospitality area. For those of you who may not know, Brownie takes care of our hospitality area, drives the rig, and cooks for us and Gary Densham and his crew. Now let me tell you something about Brownie. He is one of the hardest working people I have met in my entire life, and I am so glad they came out to do a story on him. He works hard making sure our bellies are always full and our guests taken care of, and we try to tell him how much we appreciate everything he does, but sometimes we might take him for granted. So Brownie, thank you for taking care of us. You are the best! Just remember to please keep the pepper jack cheese and oatmeal raisin cookies in stock…

Our friends at WyoTech are set up at the end of the staging lanes, and yesterday some of our guys took a minute to go over and check out their display. Steve Johnson drives a ProStock bike for Snap-on Tools and WyoTech, and they have a bike set up for folks to try their hand at cutting a good light. Dan (pictured) and Mike were the only ones who actually tried. They didn’t win the contest that was going on, but they weren’t to terribly horrible either. The rest of the guys would probably have taken their chance if it hadn’t been time to move on up the lanes! We went on to make it down the track with another couple good solid runs yesterday. Maybe hanging out for a few minutes with WyoTech brought us good luck?

I know this has been a short one, but it’s time to get to work. We have lots of Snap-on guests with us this weekend, and it’s almost time to head up for driver introductions. If I hurry I might have time to grab one of Brownies BLTs.

Be good,
LP

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