Garrett Duke

Congrats Jami Lee! You are very well deserving of this honor...even if you keep stealing my points away from Bo in the Duke game. Congrats!

*Several minutes later, Bo finds himself parking The General in the parking lot of The Boar's Nest and hears himself mumbling under his breath as his bad mood continues to grow worse as the day grows on. As if things weren't bad enough lately, now he has been sent into town to check on Cousin Alice and Molly. If they were in town, it generally brought trouble to him and his family, but despite how he feels about them, he would never wish harm to them or anyone. Despite how he feels about them, he would do all he could to help them out in any way he could. That was how he was brought up and taught. Walking into the Boar's Nest it takes a while for Bo's eyes to adjust the smokey shadowy room and takes a deep breath to control his emotions. Spotting Alice and Molly at the bar, Bo makes his way over there and sits down next to Alice who seems to be oblivious to him.* Well Cousin Alice and Molly," Bo forces a smile as they slowly turn to face him "this is a pleasant surprise. What's the special occasion?" *Alice gives Bo a stern look before looking away and giving Bo her back and Bo is instantly relieved not to hear her famous question that is always directed at him *do you wanna wrastle?* but is quickly reminded of what Jesse had said that would mean if she didn't ask him that. Molly stares at Bo for a long moment and opens her mouth to say something before going silent in second thought. A moment passes she looks away from Bo and at Alice and says, "OK Alice, we're all done here. Let's get going while the day's somewhat young." *The two ladies stand up and move to the door. Molly looks over her shoulder at Bo and says, "Have a nice day now, Bo." *Before Bo could say anything, they leave.* "Well that was a waste of time," Bo states to himself before the bartender approaches him and he orders his normal water down beer as he waits for Jesse to arrive.

Ryne Sandberg is my all time favorite baseball player. He played second base for the Chicago Cubs before retiring and is now the manager of the AAA Cubs in Iowa.

Elliot Sadler and Kurt Busch are both lucky to be OK. They both had a hard hit, especially Sadler. Never saw an engine out on the track like that. Gordon had a hard hit in Las Vegas two or three years ago that sent car parts flying across the track, but not his engine like that. Luckily NASCAR has the car and the HANS device highly protective of the driver and most of the walls. Don't know if the walls they hit had the safety barrier that the outside wall has. Know Las Vegas' track's inside wall didn't have the safety barrier when Gordon hit it and they fixed it after his accident. Guess Pocono is in the process of fixing it up to be more safe, they were just waiting for this race to be done with so they could get it started. So hopefully next June when they return there won't be any more accidents like that one.

Interesting question. I have never heard of a NASCAR driver leaving to drive Formula 1...though you are right there has been several that has left to drive NASCAR.

Bo 43 Luke 48 Jesse 9

Either have I, I don't think, but am sure I'd love it since I love Waylon's music.

Official points as of 8-4-10 1. Kevin Harvick 2. Jeff Gordon (-189) Little FYI today is Gordon's 39th birthday (August 4) 3. Denny Hamlin 4. Jimmie Johnson 5. Jeff Burton 6. Kyle Busch 7. Kurt Busch 8. Tony Stewart 9. Matt Kenseth 10. Carl Edwards 11. Greg Biffle 12. Clint Bowyer 13. Mark Martin (-34 points out of the top twelve)

Here is the top ten in points after the Iowa race last Sunday: 1. Brad Keselowski 2. Carl Edwards (-231) 3. Kyle Busch (who won the Iowa race - the second race here in Iowa, and he won them both.) 4. Justin Allgaier 5. Paul Menard 6. Kevin Harvick 7. Steve Wallace 8. Trevor Bayne 9. Brendon Gaughan 10. Jason Leffler

Well, I wouldn't say for sure he is out. There is six more races. So if he has great six races (which means he'd have to improve from how he's been finishing the races thus far) and Martin and Bowyer or one of them have bad races, I am sure he could make his way into the chase. So mathematically, he isn't completely out of it right now. But he desperately needs his luck to change from bad to good with these six races that are coming up before the chase. Which I hope it does, but sadly, I don't realistically see that happening.

Bo 44 Luke 49 Jesse 7

Bo eyes the CB for a moment before setting the handle down and walks over to the phone and eyes Cooter momentarily who remains working under the truck. Looking back at the phone, Bo picks it up and says, "Yes, Mabelle. Please put me to the Duke farm." "Ah Bo Duke. I'd recognize your voice anywhere," the sweet voice of Mabelle returns on the other end and Bo is momentarily filld with impatience at his old flame. "Bet it's kinda embarrassing having to lean on little ol' me to help you out. Perhaps this should come at a price to you." Bo is about to hang the phone up on her but is quick to think otherwise at the thought of Jesse's anger directed at him for not listening to what he had told him to do. "I'm about to throw the phone at you if you don't do what you're paid to do. Now put the call through or I'm walking across the street to do it for you." "OK, OK, no reason to get all upset for," she lets out a long breath and Bo forces himself to breath in deeply as he hears the call go through; hoping Jesse would answer the phone and not one of his ex girlfriends as Mabelle had done to him last time when he tried calling Cooter. She had sent his phone call to the girl friend he had seen after Mabelle; not only had he had to listen to Mabelle's anger and resentment towards him, but also Liza's as well.

Ornery is the adjetive I'd use to describe you, Roger.

NASCAR and the Dukes seem to go hand in hand. If it wasn't for the Dukes, I'd probably still be viewing NASCAR or any form of racing as the most senseless sport. Afterall, it's just a bunch of men chasing each other in circles. They don't go nowhere...might as well as watch the dog chase it's tail. LOL. At least that is how I viewed it until I got into the Dukes back in '97 then I began to think differently. Now look at me... a huge fan! Thanks again for the forum!

"Young" is a Kenny Chesney song.

*Looking up at the bottom end of the truck, Bo calls out to Cooter* Did you check or see if someone replaced PART of the fuel line with copper tubing?* *Bo hears Cooter mutter something a few feet away as well as the scuffing of his feet.* Uh no *Cooter goes silent and Bo looks back at the copper tubing once again and a smile forms on his face. Perhaps for once, it'll be him who saves the day.* I didn't. I guess I didn't even think to look. *Cooter slowly finishes up, embarassed at not even taking a look at the copper tubing. He was certain it had to be something else and had been too proud to think it could be something else that was wrong with the old truck. Taking an audible loud breath, he forcefully asks. * Why you askin' for, Bo? *A proud smile seems prominant on Bo's face as he eyes the problmatic tubing* Only because there is some running up in the front of the firewall that has a large kink in it. *Bo can't help but to give a small laugh* That there may be your problem *With that he slides out from under the truck, giving Cooter a large smile just as he hears his uncle's voice calling out to him from the CB. *Guess that's for me. Mind if I take it? *Cooter shakes his head while eyeing the truck, frustrated at himself for not noticing what was wrong with the truck. He was suppose to be the best mechanic in town, not Bo. As Bo walks past to the CB, he slowly crawls under the truck to have a see for himself.* *Taking the mic from the box, Bo pushes the buttons and says* Yes sir, Uncle Shepard. This is lone Sheep *he goes silent. With Luke he was always lost sheep 2, now he's the lone sheep. * I got ya loud and clear. What can I do for you? *He lets go of the button and watches Cooter's legs under the truck and was glad to be the one to be of some help for once.*

Wow that was quite the race there. Rain delay at the beginning and then with thirty laps or more to go Jimmie Johnson tries bump drafting Kurt Busch that sent Busch into Clint Bowyer and into the wall and across the track to eventually hit the other wall and lose his tire under neath him. At the moment, I thought that was horrible. That was before seeing Elliot Sadler's car...and engine on the track! Didn't see a good view of his accident. Guess he slowed down or checked up due to Busch's accident and the guy behind him didn't...sent him hard into the corner. He climbed out of the car, you could tell he was hurting, and laid down on the track. He took a hard hit and is very lucky he is OK after that. He said he got the wind knocked out of him as well as the belt into him. With all the debri on the track after that, they red flagged the race for a half hour. When they went into caution, it started to rain. Before all that, Jeff Gordon had the car to beat and was winning. Sam Hornish Jr gambled with the weather while Gordon and others went into pits...Gordon went in first came out thirteen. They parked them for the rain for a while as well before it cleared out and went green again. How frustrating it has to be for Gordon to have the most dominant and best car out there and come back in thirteenth place! He could have won it if he had more laps to race on...spent most on caution. I think they only had thirteen laps left when they went green. Gordon finished sixth and Greg Biffle won the race to break through his race drought. A win for Jack Roush. Here is the top ten finishes of Pocono: 1. Greg Biffle 2. Tony Stewart 3. Carl Edwards 4. Kevin Harvick 5. Denny Hamlin 6. Jeff Gordon 7. Mark Martin 8. Jeff Burton 9. Martin Truex Jr 10. Jimmie Johnson

Looks like AJ Allmindger started racing in 2007 as a part time driver as well as in 2008. First full time season was last year and now this year. He drives for Richard Petty. I bet it would be horrible to be caught in traffic after any race. Especially the bigger ones! Too bad you're going to miss it today, Roger. Hope you are doing something fun and relaxing and I'll keep you up to date when you return.

Bo 44 Luke 51 Jesse 5

First of all, how did you get my name for an answer? I am deeply insulted that you think that my writing is bad! Well I guess what they say is true...the truth hurts. LOL.

Sounds like a good idea Roger...I just didn't want people thinking I was hogging the board or all that kind of stuff. I don't mind answering the questions. Wow...don't 'think I have ever been considered or thought of as an expert in anything. I guess my obsession with NASCAR has finally paid off. Thanks for the compliment. As for your question Roger, I really don't know why they don't have an 01 in the field. I know NASCAR gives the owners a number and they hand them out. If memory recalls correctly, when Mark Martin was driving for Earnhardt Inc and shared a ride with Aric Almorila I think their number was 01. I could be wrong. It was the Army car. Jamie McMurray is 1, but no 0 in front of it. That is as close as there is now. I'll go check on NASCAR.com and see if any of the part time start and park cars has that number. Then I think Joe Nemechek sported 01 after Mark Martin/Almorila, but now he has some other number. Hate to say that the first question I get, I don't know the answer to. LOL Well I hope your insomnia cleared up Hoss. And there is no such thing as dumb questions. I am glad to answer any questions I can. When I first started watching NASCAR, I knew nothing of the sport and at first I had an online friend I could ask and she would eventually get back to me. Then she stopped writing back and I had to resort to keep watching it to get a hang of it. I dislike the chase, but I think that helped a lot for me to understand it all with the points and all. If that makes sense. But as I said, no such thing as dumb questions so ask away!

Octopuses have eight legs.

Well I don't want to be hogging the NASCAR forum here, but Roger came up with an idea for a question and answer page for NASCAR and thought it was a great idea. Thought we could post our questions here and whoever who has the answer can answer it. Wish I could say I had all the answers, but I don't. So if there is a question on here that doesn't get answered, I could try to look the answer up. Thanks Roger for the great idea!