Garrett Duke

*Feeling all four tires hit the solid dirt ground on the other side of the gapped land, Bo lets out another rebel call before watching Enos' patrol car come to a dead halt a foot from the edge on the other side. Sighing in relief, Bo quickly presses on the accelerator on the opposite direction of where he had noticed the sheriff's car speeding off towards before he had ran into Enos. He'd be dead out of luck if the sheriff found him again.* Nice work, General. Now if only we can get home without getting caught. *After saying that, he begins to wonder if going home is the wisest choice to make. Afterall, everyone knows where he lives. But he has no where else to go. Sighing heavily, Bo races towards the dirt road that'll lead to the farm in hopes of the sheriff and deputy forgetting about the past half hour and of the legit charges that he has been caught with.*

Well things shook up a little bit in the points with the Sprint cup series. Here is the official points in the Sprint Cup (top 15): 1. Kevin Harvick 2. Jeff Gordon (-293) 3. Denny Hamlin 4. Tony Stewart 5. Jimmie Johnson 6. Carl Edwards 7. Jeff Burton 8. Kyle Busch 9. Matt Kenseth 10. Kurt Busch 11. Greg Biffle 12. Clint Bowyer 13. Mark Martin (-35 points) 14. Ryan Newman 15. Jamie McMurray Three more races until the chase starts. With Harvick's win on Sunday, he is officially locked in the chase. Though, everyone else is not locked into the chase, I think the top ten drivers will most likely be in the chase unless any of them or all have DNFs or horrible races for the last three races and someone else has three great races to take their place. (DNF -Did Not Finish). I could be wrong though... (Just FYI...I do tend to update or post on most of the NASCAR threads at the same time, so if interested, you may want to click on the NASCAR link to check the rest of the NASCAR threads as to not miss any of them. )

Well I guess I missed a little altercation that happened between Joey Lagano and Ryan Newman after the race. A person I work with at work said they did show it on the after race program, but I must have not been watching or listening at the time, because I missed it. I found it on NASCAR.com. I can't remember what lap it was on, but Lagano and Newman were racing eachother pretty hard for position, they went in the corner and when Lagano slightly lost control of his car, Lagano bumped Newman to spin Newman and flatten his tires. After the race Newman confronted Lagano about it...wasn't very happy. There was a little shoving going on between the two before they were seperated by a couple of NASCAR officials. According to Lagano, Newman races him way too hard and everyone feels that way about Newman. THat he was losing control of his car and Newman was too close and wouldn't back off. Think he also made a statement about how there was no need racing that hard that back in the field and so many laps left. (Newman didn't comment on it.) (Was said on ESPN...but read it on Yahoo! Sports' NASCAR Page.) OK perhaps I shouldn't put my two cents in here...I don't know, but here's my two cents worth on it. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't it the objective of NASCAR is to race hard to get the win? Why should it matter on how many laps are left or what position you are? As long as Newman or any other driver isn't driving aggressive when racing hard, what's the big deal? I am sorry for my venting here, I just don't see where Lagano has much room to be complaining about Newman or his driving. Newman was the one that got hit and has his tires blow out from under him...not Lagano. Also...it takes two to race, so if Newman was racing hard, then to me, it makes sense that Lagano was racing hard as well. There wouldn't be much racing to watch if they didn't race each other hard...but then again, maybe I'm wrong. What y'all think?

Brad Keselowski won Saturday's Nationwide Series race. Here is the official standings: 1. Brad Keselowski 2. Carl Edwards (-347) 3. Kyle Busch 4. Justin Allgaier 5. Kevin Harvick 6. Paul Menard 7. Steve Wallace 8. Trevor Bayne 9. Brendan Gaughan 10. Jason Leffler Well now looking at NASCAR.com Nationwide Series point page (where I get this from) looks like the top ten in standings didn't move or change at all from last week. Half of them are Sprint Cup drivers (Keselowski, Edwards, Harvick, Busch, and Menard).

People can go to the races on Monday if they are rained out. Perhaps if they don't get to go on Monday, the could get a refund. I don't know. Tickets range from seats and what track it is at. They have been advertising pretty cheat tickets this year. I think they are trying to get more people to come to the races as the number of people at the track and viewers on TV have went down a lot. It is pretty sad to watch races with half full stands. Especially the Indy race. Michigan, where they raced today, they said they had a pretty good attendance at. I hope that helps you any. They put covers on their cars when it does rain to protect the cars. They do have big driers to dry the track when it does rain, though it takes a while to dry the track if it does rain a lot.

Well Jack Roush was at the track for today's race and did talk to reporters. I guess he did not lose his left eye as it read in the article I read, but lost eye sight in the left eye. He said he should get everything back, except eye sight out of that eye. His drivers didn't win today, but they did good for him.

Well the race at Michigan has just finished and for all the Kevin Harvick fans, it was a great race. He won his first Michigan race today to clinch his spot in the chase...plus now has 30 bonus points to go into the chase. Kurt Busch's engine blew early in the race to take him out of the race, Mark Martin ran into the wall early on as well to put him a lap down. Martin finished 28th and a lap down and is still struggling to get into the chase. They have two or three races left until the chase starts. As for me, it started out as a great race. Gordon started 36th and passed 16 drivers in ten laps. He had the fastest car on the track in the first half of the race. He got up to high of second at one point. But with 50 laps or so to go on a restart he was five wide and his front right tire blew to get bumped from behind by Jeff Burton. He ended up the last driver on the lead lap at 27th. Talk about disappointing...there is always something it seems to take that win away from him. (All that is of my opinion of course.) Jimmie Johnson finished 13 after leading a lot of laps in the first half of the race, but didn't do anything after that. Here is the top ten finishes: 1. Kevin Harvick 2. Denny Hamlin 3. Carl Edwards 4. Greg Biffle 5. Matt Kenseth 6. Tony Stewart 7. Juan Pablo Montoya 8. Martin Truex Jr. 9. Elliot Sadler 10. Joey Lagono The next race is at Bristol next Saturday night at 7:30 EST (I think...) and will be on ABC. I am assuming the rest of the races of the season will be on ABC. (So no more ESPN...)

Bo 41 Luke 35 Jesse 24

*Bo smiles as he begins to quickly zigzaging in between the trees, barely missing a couple, while watching Enos' car slowly inch farther away as the deputy struggles from keeping from hitting the thick trees. Looking ahead he sees where he'll be able to execute his idea and he shoves the accelerator forcefully tighter to the floor as the large gap between the two lands that is seperated by a thick creek ten feet below; only a few miles to the south of where he had jumped the broken bridge to escape from the sheriff. If he can escape the sheriff that way, he'll be able to lose Enos the same way. Without the dirty white sheriff's car no where in sight across the creek, Bo knows he'll be escape the law if only he can fly The General one more time.* OK General. Grow them wings and lets go for a fly *Bo speaks up to break through the silence of within the car before he feels the tires below him hit another lump of dirt before the dirt and ground evaporates from under him.*

In 2008 Carl Edwards won 9 races (I think the last one of those was either the last race of the season or the race before that. Though I could be wrong, just seems like he won one of those races...) but hasn't won a race since then. So there is 36 point races in a year, we have raced 22 races thus far this year...so his winless streak is 58 races long. Jeff Gordon's is 51 races long. And Michigan is a track that they are both good at, so maybe, one of their winnless streaks will be broken. I can always hope (that last part is of my opinion, of course. )

I went with blonde. It looks more natural on him...the blond or the gray. In my opinion.

Well I missed the shower, but did hear someone at work talking about it. They are fun/interesting to watch. Am not big into astronomy myself, though do keep up with when there is a full moon. A week before the full moon is when the kids at work start acting up the most so I do tend to take note when the full moon is, especially when having a hard day at work.

Had a feeling you or someone would say that. Oh well...don't matter, in my part of Hazzard, I think The General Lee is the best and the fastest.

Back at the farm, Bo sets the pile of mail on the table to only be picked up a moment later by Luke as he walks into the kitchen to see who it was entering the house. Luke snorts a few times while shaking his head and throwing the bills on the table. A moment later he finds the flier Bo had earlier looked at and excitement momentarily enters his eyes. "Now look at this Bo," he shoves it front of Bo to see who only nods and steps back, knowing what is to come, "See if you didn't go and wreck The General the other day, we could have entered and won this thing. Would have helped some to pay off these here bills. Plus Chicasaw has that big annual race we could be entering in to win. But can we?" He looks up accusingly at Bo. "Don't think I already know that, cuz?" Bo is quick to snap back at him, not in a mood to hear one of Luke's 'I told you sos.' "I thought we all went over this yesterday. I did what had to be done in order to prevent getting falsely arrested. I do believe it was you that pointed out that if I hadn't done that, we'd be in jail and the farm would be left for Jesse and Daisy to tend after. Now you're changing your mind over a damn flier?" Luke shakes his head while running a hand through his hair. "I know," he sighs heavily, "but it don't mean I have to like it none. If there was some way to get the money to rebuild The General back into shape," looking down at the flier for a long moment he goes silent as an idea instantly falls into place. Looking up at Bo, he puts on a smile to receive a questioning look from Bo. "I got it!" he pauses as he puts a comforiting hand on Bo's tense and sweaty shoulder, "Let's go Bo!" "Let's go?" Bo questions, "Where?" "Never mind now. I'll explain on the way," Luke quickly makes his way to the door where he grabs Jesse's keys that hang on the key holder. "Jesse! We're borrowing your truck!" Luke opens the door just as Jesse quickly makes it into the kitchen with a bewildered look. "Where on earth are you two going? It's already five and the animals have yet been fed, the fence still needs tending and we need to fix that leak in the ceiling in the living room! Y'all promised me you'd fix the leak today and yet it's still dripping away from yesterday's shower!" Jesse yells, looking at the boys with stern blue eyes that demand a proper answer, "Where you going that's more important than taking care of this farm?!" Luke comes to a dead halt at seeing Jesse's anger, yet through the anger, Luke is able to see clearly the root behind the anger. It's not his asking to borrow the truck or them leaving now. His anger is rooted in deep intense fear and panic at the situation they are now in. They have always been poor and they have struggled and fought hard in the past to keep the farm as well as pay off bills and put food on the table. But nothing as severe as how it seems now. With mortgage due in a few days they have yet to come up with only half of the mortgage payment and that is without paying for food or groceries or gas or anything else that daily living costs. Losing the farm has been the devastating thought that has kept their beloved uncle up worrying about. "Calm down Jesse. I know we promised and I apologize for that. If we don't get to it today, we'll do it first thing in the morning. Something has come up," Luke pauses as he glances over at Bo who still seems lost and taken aback to Jesse's anger outburst on them. Looking at Jesse he continues, "that I feel may help us with paying off the mortgage in a few days. If I didn't feel it important, I wouldn't be running off on you like this. Especially after promising to take care of it today. Besides," Luke goes silent for moment as he looks outside at the darkening sky, "it's getting late as it is. We couldn't start on it now as it is without it getting dark on us." Jesse eyes his nephews for a long time, surprised by Luke's sense of calmness that seems to build guilt down within him for losing his temper at them. Sighing heavily, he slowly nods. Luke wouldn't back up on his word without a good reason or if he didn't know what he was doing. Trusting Luke, he states, "OK, take the truck. But I'll be execting you and Bo up on the roof first thing in the morning. Rain or shine. Got that?" "Yes sir," Luke stiffly agrees while bo quietly nods, looking at Luke for guidance and reassurance. "We'll be back shortly." Jesse watches his two nephews walk out onto the porch and climb into his old truck before Luke starts it up and slowly backs up onto the dirt road. After they drive away and out of sight, he slowly takes a step back to pick up the bills only for his eyes to fall upon the dropped flier. "That's how he's planning on paying the mortgage," Jesse speaks aloud to himself as he picks the flier up and reads it, "but how you plan on fixing up The General, Luke?" Hearing himself question aloud to no one, he slowly makes his way over to the window to look out at the ailing General only for more guilt and sadness to plague him. Guilt and sadness at seeing the beloved car sit out there ailing and having no way to fix him up or to get him feeling better. The General was as much a part of the family as his nephews are, the car almost seeming human at times, and with how much The General has done to save and rescue his nephews, he deserved the best treatment. Not to be sat in front of the farm house and abandoned as he has been the last couple of days. If that thought didn't break Jesse's heart, the thought of how badly it's been killing the boys to leave their beloved car parked and ailing as they have due to the lack of money, broke Jesse's heart the rest of the way. (CUE DANEY)

Thank-you Daney! I am having fun doing this.

I guess if you want to get technical she makes sense and is perhaps right, but here in Hazzard, I think The General is pretty fast and can out run anyone.

Bo 42 Luke 36 Jesse 22

*Bo kept his right foot tightly upon the gas pedal as he drove in between the maze of trees, his concentration half way on the darkening path ahead of him and the bright red and blue strobe lights behind him. His thoughts bounce back and forth to how Jesse will kill him if he is caught or once he hears about what he had done. Afterall, the charges were legit this time; he was speeding, but he never thought he'd be arrested for it. Before his thoughts bounce back to what Luke would do or tell him to do in a situation like this. But Luke wouldn't find himself in this sort of trouble, trouble just found him. Luke didn't find trouble as Bo always seemed to do. Only to underline to Bo the differences between Luke and himself; Luke was too smart to be caught with legit charges.* Damn it! *Bo cusses aloud and hits the steering wheel as he sees the gap between the bumper of The General and the patrol car shrinking slowly. Normally by now he'd have ran Enos into a tree or lost him some other way. Yet Enos remains stuck on his rear, never flinching or shying away. First Enos' different attitude towards him and now he can't lose him as he normally would have.* C'mon General. You can do it! *Bo attempts to push confidence into The General. Looking ahead, a bold idea hits him to send his dread into excitement of his new plan.*

Hoss thanks for posting that! That was very interesting to watch...do like Starsky and Hutch, but haven't seen it in a very long time. I am a much bigger Dukes fan. That was interesting info on Glaser's dislike of the Torino. Being a fan, I never saw anything wrong with it. LOL. Though was VERY glad with who won the race between The General and the Torino. Though does leave me questioning her question..."What was Boss driving, a mule?" I highly have to disagree with her implications of The General being slow...or maybe I am reading too much into what she was saying!

Well they will be racing at Michigan International Raceway tomorrow at 1:00 PM EST on ESPN. Michigan is a 2 mile oval shaped track. It is a track that Rousch drivers are good at...and tomorrow being Carl Edwards' birthday and five year Sprint Cup anniversary perhaps he'll break his winless streak with a win. (Since he's my top fanatsy pick driver, I am hoping he'll win. LOL! If not him, then it better be J. Gordon ) Here is the top ten drivers that'll be starting tomorrow's race: 1. (pole) Kasey Kahne 2. Jimmie Johnson 3. Clint Boywer 4. Tony Stewart 5. Juan Pablo Montoya 6. Greg Biffle 7. Matt Kenseth 8. Kevin Harvick 9. Martin Truex Jr. 10. Paul Menard Well Dale Earnhardt Jr and Jeff Gordon will have their hands full tomorrow. Jr will be starting 38th and Gordon will be starting 36th. Luckily they'll have the entire race to work on their car and race towards the front.

Well I got some good news about Jack Roush. He got released from the hospital on Thursday and I guess he is at the track in Michigan this week. He says he fractured his back, broke his jaw, and lost his left eye due to his plane accident - he tried to land his jet at an overcrowded airport. Roush said that his two main problems are with his back and his nose that they got nose packing in it and he is left having to breathe through his mouth. As for his eyes...his right eye he said was the better and more prominent so he said that he'll be seeing more than he should. (I got all that from an article on NASCAR.com)

Wow...you do know your F1 racing and cars! I know more about the racing aspect for NASCAR than I do the cars...I do know some with the cars, but not everything. They do have different tires for different tracks, but no rain tirs. So if sprinkles or rains they either put a yellow out for sprinkles or red flag it for rain. Rains too long they'll end the race if they are at half way or over halfway of the race. Or postpone it to Monday if it rains before or before halfway.

I like challenging tracks as well, just like the tracks more where I can go into the race knowing he'll have a good finish. Though he has a win at all but one track so far, so that only means he has one challenging track left to face. Hopefully he can get it this year. Goodyear supplies the tires for each race so they don't bring the tires...well they might, but they don't get a choice as to what tire they want to race. Though Goodyear and the drivers seem to communicate as to which tire works best at what track and so far. Just like Sunoco supplies the gas...they gas up or refuel several times during the race. Interesting to hear the difference between the two racing leagues! Never knew much about F1 other than their cars look different. LOL .

Sounds like you have an exciting race to watch. Glad both your guys or drivers are doing well. I prefer the oval tracks over the road courses because they go faster and there tends to be more action on the track. The road courses are fun and exciting in their own right, just it is hard for them to pass one another so they seem to stay in the same position for awhile. Of course that makes it more challenging for the drivers...LOL. Each track is different than one another, there are half mile tracks to two mile tracks and the lengths of the race varies as well. Pocono's track is in the shape of a triangle. I like the longer tracks...the mile, mile and a half tracks. Though I do love Bristol and Bristol is the shortest track out there...Bristol is just a short track full of action, lot of emotion on that track. Don't know if you feel this way with your F1 races, but I tend to like the tracks that my favorite driver is good at. LOL. F1 only puts caution or yellow flag on that section of the track where there is debri or an accident at? I'd think that would be hard to slow down in time. NASCAR yellow flags the whole track for a few laps until the accident or the debris is all cleared. They have a pace car setting the pace for everyone and after a lap or two around the track, pit road opens up and a lot of drivers will make their pit stop. The only way they can pass under yellow is if they beat another driver out of pit road and they have a slow speed for pit road - they get caught speeding, they have to serve a drive through penalty. If an accident is real bad, they will red flag it and everyone has to park and no one can work on the car or do anything with the car. They also will throw a caution or yellow flag if there is any sort of debri out on the track as well which can get frustrating depending on where your driver is at and if they need a pit stop or not. Then once the track is all cleaned and set, they will drop the green and they have a double file restart to start the race again. This year they have done something different...if the yellow falls before the white flag falls, they give them three more laps to race to the white. Once the white flag falls, it's set...the caution comes out, they just stop the race and whoever is leading, wins...or everyone races around the 'accident' to the finish line. Hope that helps. Too bad they don't show it...the pit stops are interesting to me to see how much time they take, what strategy they use, and of course, who gets out of the pits fastest. LOL