CDH reaches a milestone

[dalyduo]

So the guy who has all the TJR birthdays on his reminder calendar and is often the first to post birthday greetings doesn’t post his own special day and only leaves bread crumbs for his absent minded friends to decipher. Well, the jig is up and even though we missed the actual date, (1/28 Sorry ol’ boy) we won’t miss this opportunity to celebrate a milestone for someone who does so much to make Team Juicy Racing a seriously fun place to visit and Skip Barber Race Weekends so vividly recalled.

Of course, I’m speaking of Doug Harrison. The guy who delivers to TJR a visual style and sense of humor that is both unique and familiar solely due to his creative hand. Doug regularly performs professional level photo-shop magic that is so good most of us laugh without realizing the many hours spent making his mischief look organic. (If you haven’t spent 20 minutes inspecting the detail in Doug’s LRP backwards map, you’ve really missed out.)

Doug also conceives, shoots, brilliantly edits and tweaks all those cleverly & professionally crafted banquet video’s that show, far better than we’ll ever find words for, why we cherish spending time with each other at Skip Barber Race weekends.

Easily lost in the fanfare about his photo and video mastery is his ability as a race driver. After almost a year of not turning a wheel at a Skippy event he joined us at Mt. Tremblant last summer and finished 2nd in both races. He did this in between shooting hours of video that would later become the Divi/Walt Grudge match, a touching salute to Divina, and the joint Eastern/Midwest race weekend highlight video from Mt. Tremblant. No wonder he overslept and missed his Sunday podium awards ceremony.

Doug’s sneaky good at everything he does which is also why he never calls attention to himself. He’s usually looking over our collective shoulders capturing moments we’d never remember a week after they happened until, when seen in one of his videos, they become treasured artifacts and special memories for family and friends. So we can’t let someone who takes such good care of us, cross the threshold of his 5th decade without making some noise.

Thanks Doug, for being the race weekend witness - documentarian who watches our back, catches us at our best, worst and funniest moments and blends them together with grace and style so that decades later we have a lot more than our faulty memories to invoke “The Good Old Days”.

Thanks for devoting so much of your skills as a racer, photographer, videographer and writer to improving the quality of TJR and Skip Barber life.  

Happy Birthday!

Let us raise a glass to Mr. Harrison ladies and gentlemen… 3 cheers for Doug!