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Formula 1 was back this weekend after its summer break with the Dutch Grand Prix. Since it returned to the calendar in 2021, Red Bull's Max Verstappen has dominated his home race with pole and the win each year, but McLaren's upgrades seem to be working better than Red Bull's at the moment, and Max had to line up behind Lando Norris on the grid. Lando's team mate, Oscar Piastri started in third with George Russell the first of the Mercedes cars in fourth. Ferrari were sixth and tenth, but Lewis Hamilton failed to make the final qualifying session and also got a grid penalty for impeding another driver, so started 13th. Alex Albon had a great qualifying for Williams to initially put his car in eighth, but had to start from the back after the floor of his car was found to be illegal. Lando continued his unfortunate record of poor starts from pole and was overtaken by Max into turn 1. Max stayed ahead until Lando retook the lead on lap 18. Lando then held the lead over Max until the checkered flag to take his second win and the point for fastest lap. He ended up with a winning margin of 23 seconds - the sort of lead that Max used to get. The Ferraris seemed to have had better race pace than they showed in qualifying, finishing in third and fifth and separated by McLaren's Oscar Piastri. George Russell slipped back to finish in seventh with Lewis Hamilton catching up to eighth. McLaren are now catching Red Bull in the Constructors' Championship, but they may be regretting swapping their drivers in the last race as Lando could've been closer to Max in the Drivers' Championship. You can see the race highlights here.

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Boss Hogg looks at his sheriff in hopes of finding some answer to escape his dilemma. "Hey Boss," Garrett yells out from the upstairs jail cell behind them, "you better not leave ol' Jesse waiting for too long. You know he's getting older by the second. He may just forget the deal he's thinking about if you wait much longer. Plus," Garrett pauses to smile evilly at the two city officials, "Jesse don't like having to wait." "You hush it, Garrett," Rosco is quick to snap at him, "this is between us citizens of the law. Not some lowly criminal as yourself!" Boss rolls his eyes impatiently at both of them. "I told you, you nimwit to put him downstairs!" Boss yells before the sound of Jesse on the other line catches his attention. "Dang it Jesse Duke! Why you go play so low on me for? Weren't we friends?" Boss whines into the phone as he blows cigar smoke into Rosco's face. "Were is the important word, Boss. That means you were in the past. Not the present," Rosco reminds Boss who only looks angrier at him. "Maybe," Rosco says with enthusiasm, "if you and ol' Jesse were still friends, y'all wouldn't be in this predicament." "Rosco!" Boss yells before Jesse clears his throat on the other side of the CB to bring him back to his conversation. "Oh hi Jesse. I'm sorry. My nitwitted sheriff was distracting me." He forces a smile and fake kindness in his voice as he talks over the CB. "What's this little deal you have in mind?" Taking his fat fingers off of the CB buttons to await for Jesse's response he glares over at Garrett who stares coldly back at him. "Rosco," he whispers to his sheriff, "you know dang well what he is going to say. We had all this in the grasp of our hands and thanks to you, we are going to lose it all! You better hope his deal is to give your criminal's tape back out of the goodness of his heart for a slice of pizza. Because if we lose all of this and your criminal gets to walk, well," Boss blows more smoke in his face, "I may have to find myself a new sheriff. One I can trust!" "Great idea, Boss," Garrett says from his cell, "you could trust me. I can be your sheriff and ol' Rosco can be in charge of cleaning the sheriff's station and the toilets around here." "You hush it Duke!" Rosco yells at him. "You are the wise one who put him up here," Hogg grins at him before the CB starts to hiss and Hogg puts his fingers up to his mouth to hush his sheriff to hear his enemy's response.

five GENERATIONS of dukes have lived on the farm