Todd R. Thomas

In 1985 Thomas attended his first sprint car race at the famed Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, Iowa, and fell in love with the sport. Six years later the avid fan found himself as a pit crew member on Jerry Crabb's sprint car pit crew, and he served in that capacity for 15 years. After Crabb retired from sprint car racing in 2006, Thomas compiled the notes he took over the years and attempted to put them in a book-like format. It sat on his computer for 10 years until he came across it again in 2017. He continued working on the project and eventually published Racing With "The Doctor": Recollections from a Member of Jerry Crabb's Sprint Car Pit Crew in March of 2018.