Garrett Duke

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Taking the paper from his uncle, Bo nods as he glances down at it momentarily. Glad to have the excuse to put The General to work, even to go to town to get some supplies. He could always have a little fun while on his way back from the store. Which would only upset Jesse worse if he got in trouble while running errands for him. Especially with Luke and Daisy gone. But in order for him to get in trouble, the law would have to catch him first and everyone knew how great of a driver Bo is and the lack of driving talent the local law has. "OK Jesse," Bo nods as sweat tickles down his back and he places the paper into his pockets. "You need these right away or would it be OK if I stop by Cooter's on my way home?" Normally he wouldn't be asking, but without Luke and Daisy around, his help around the farm would be needed more than normal.

Enos Strait would probably agree with us as well. Probably would also be surprised to see the two of us agreeing with one another.

The Sprint Cup is the top series or top devision of NASCAR...the big leagues. It is the series that I watch and follow, so I know more of the drivers and races and info regarding the Sprint Cup than I do the Nationwide Series. The Sprint Cup is a little different than the Nationwide Series race in the fact they have what they call the Chase. The Chase is like the play offs and only the top twelve in points are able to be in the chase to race for the championship. Any driver outside of the top 12 is racing for 13 who wins a million dollars at the end of the season. The points are reset at the begining of the chase which is the final ten races of the season and with each win the drivers get during the regular season, they will get ten bonus points (per win) that will be added onto the points come time for the chase. As of right now, they have seven more races left of the regular season (including Indy this Sunday) before the Chase starts on September 11. I will be posting the top fifteen drivers of the Sprint Cup just because there is several drivers outside of the top twelve fighting to get into the top twelve. I will most likely post the standings on Monday or later when I get the time to do so. The standings shown after the races are unofficial due to NASCAR checking the cars after the race to make sure each car is up to NASCAR standards. Here is the top fifteen in points as of July 22. 2010: 1. Kevin Harvick 2. Jeff Gordon (-103) 3. Jimmie Johnson 4. Denny Hamlin 5. Kurt Busch 6. Kyle Busch 7. Jeff Burton 8. Matt Kenseth 9. Tony Stewart 10. Carl Edwards 11. Greg Biffle 12. Clint Bowyer 13. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (-15 points out of the top 12) 14. Mark Martin 15. David Reutimann

The Nationwide Series which use to be known as the Busch Series, is like what AAA (Triple A) baseball is to the MLB, to the Sprint Cup (Formally Winston Cup). If that make sense. Except that drivers from the Sprint Cup can also drive in the Nationwide Series races if they chose to do so. For example: Carl Edwards, Brad Keselowski, Joey Lagano, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch drive all or some Nationwide Series races but are also full time Sprint Cup drivers. There are others that do both, but just listed the ones that came to mind right away. Just fair warning, I don't normally watch or follow the Nationwide series race other than to make note of who won or if anything big happened (like last week's wreck between Edwards and Keselowski). So I am or will be getting my information from NASCAR.com. If anyone else has anything else to offer or to include, feel free to do so. I know more drivers and stuff when it comes to the Sprint Cup than I do the Nationwide Series race. Just figured I'd make a thread for the standings of the Nationwide series points so I myself and others can make note of up and coming drivers along with other cup drivers. With all that said, here is the point standings as of July 22, 2010: (I will probably only list the top twelve drivers. If you want more then let me know and I can look it up or post more here. Just thought it would be eaiser to do a certain number than to do all the drivers. Only 43 drivers can race, but there are part time drivers so there would be more than 43 point positions.) 1. Brad Keselowski 2. Carl Edwards (-168 points behind Keselowski) 3. Justin Allgaier 4. Kyle Bush 5. Kevin Harvick 6. Paul Menard 7. Steve Wallace 8. Brendan Gaughan 9. Joey Lagano 10. Jason Leffler 11. Trevor Byne 12. Brian Scott

I agree with your friend, Roger. NASCAR had to do something, but they should have fined both drivers. Not just Edwards. These two drivers have been at each other for the past year now and as far as I can remember, Brad starts it with bumping into Edwards. I think Edwards is just plain tired of it. My opinion of course. NASCAR had put in a boys have at it mentality this year where they can police themselves, but Edwards flipped Keselowski in Atlanta to take it too far and now he caused a big wreck that could have also hurt Keselowski. So yeah, NASCAR had to step in. All I am saying is, is that they need to punish them both the same. It's not just Edwards that's doing it...they need to look at 'why' Edwards went back at Keselowski like that. I am just hoping that this doesn't boil over to the Cup races this Sunday or any other races...they took out a lot of cars last Saturday night, would hate to see them do that in the Cup series race (especially if they took out Gordon or Johnson...) which is probably why they put them on probation for the Cup series as well. Hopefully it will help them both not to attempt to try anything. . . I will be glad to start a point standing thread. I think I will make two of them. One for the Cup series and one for the Nationwide Series. I could make one for the truck series too if you wanted or if anyone is interested. Don't watch the Nationwide or the Truck series, but can look it all up and follow it on NASCAR.com and all. Perhaps I could do one for the race results and happenings. Something like that. Have to think of the title. Unless you want to do that. Don't want to hogg all the threads here. Tell me what you think. Hey Roger, what you think about the penalties for Keselowski and Edwards? As I said, all that is what I think and is of my opinion. Am sure a lot of people would disagree with me. I'd just have to disagree with them. LOL.

"Well Jesse," Bo Duke broke the silence as he eyes his uncle and then eyes the impatient mule before glancing back up at Jesse. "I finished Luke's job on the fence and fed the animals." He goes silent as he switches from foot to foot. "You want me to take over here for you?" He eyes his uncle inquistiviely as he silently pleads his uncle to be done for the day. The General could use a tune up and deep down he yearns to just take The General for a drive. A long fast drive. A drive in The General seemed to ease all the problems that had bugged him in the past. Except for when he got caught in one of Rosco's speed traps, though, Bo had to admit that despite the feelings the Dukes and the law had for one another, he enjoyed the car chases. Enjoyed finding ways to escape from the law. Enjoyed driving away with the law stuck or lost knowing he had out drove them and out smarted them. But if he got caught, both the law and Jesse were bound to be mad. The law for giving them a hard time and Jesse for getting himself into trouble and having to find the money to bail him out or pay for the ticket. Money they didn't have. But with Luke and Daisy gone, he'd love to take The General for a ride. Perhaps egg the law on a bit to go on another fast car chase. To see how far The General could fly today. But family, chores, and the farm came first no matter what Bo thought or wanted to do and he would respect his uncle's wishes no matter what. The General and the law could always wait for later or another day.

At last, a statement I understand and can agree with. No better place than ol' Hazzard.

I feel like NASCAR was too harsh on Edwards. I am not big on retaliation and all, Edwards did deliberately wreck Keselowski where Keselowski bumped into Edwards, but at the same time, Keselowski bumped him on the last lap to take the lead away. Any driver in Edwards' spot, I feel, would have came back at Keselowski to take the lead back. If Brad is going to drive people like that, he needs to expect that they may repay him for what he done. Especially on the last lap, especially when it is with someone like Edwards who he has wrecked in the past like that. Edwards I feel is not an overly aggressive driver, he just races other drivers the way they race him and Keselowski seems to find ways to run into him and other drivers. NASCAR needs to look into what starts it all, not just how it ends. They need to punish everyone the same. As I said, Edwards did take it a bit over board with how hard he hit Brad and he admitted to wrecking Keselowski on TV afterwards, but at the same time, it all started with Brad bumping into him to get the lead. I am just glad that NASCAR, this time, has also put Brad on probation as well (Both of them on probation on both series through 12/31/10), but they shouldn't have docked or fined Edwards for what he did. I feel probation for them both would have warranted the whole ordeal. That is my two cents worth on the topic. Reading online other people's reactions, I know there is a lot of people that feel differently, but that is how I feel about it. Anyone else watch it? (I didn't watch the race, but did watch what happened on computer) What you think of it and NASCAR's punishment?

Reality shows that Jimmie and Jeff are as good as Bo Duke himself, even as good as your Dale Sr.

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Bo swore silently to himself as he feels the heat seeming to pound deeply within him to send his attention up towards the sky. It was only April and yet it was already feeling this hot. Feeling this hot only has seemed to help worsen the irritated feeling that seems to have him complaining about every small thing, things that would normally not bother him at all. The past couple of days he has been irritated and easily upset and it was no secret to the cause of it all. Luke and Daisy had been the ones that had earned the trip to their aunt's house a couple of hours away to help their cousins take care of their large farm while looking over their ailing aunt. Which wasn't that big of deal to Bo other than the fact that RoseAnn lived fifteen minutes away of whom he had met the last time he was down there and fell instantly in love. They all knew he was excited at the prospect of going down there to see if she still felt the same for him, but Jesse had picked him to stay in Hazzard to help on the farm. For reasons he has yet to disclose to Bo. And it wasn't just that that had bothered Bo, but it also left their farm quiet, their room quiet. Without Luke around, life just wasn't as fun or as real when Luke was around. It made him feel just as alone as he felt when Luke was off at war. Just this time, Bo knew that Luke would sooner or later be returning home alive. Looking away from the sky and across the farm, Bo slowly begins to make his way to the large field where he could see Jesse and his mule hard at work. Only to remind Bo, that without Luke and Daisy around, it'd be him left to do their chores as well. Life just couldn't get much worse, in Bo's mind.

May I wonder aloud how anyone may wish to put Gordon or Johnson down like that? Their statistics speak for themselves. Though must admit, I do believe Gordon, Johnson, and Bo Duke's talent in racing equals one another.

Well thought now was good as time as any to start another thread. And with the NASCAR season in full swing right now, there is plenty of news to go around. As of now, don't really have any for the Sprint Cup series as news related, but do have a bit of news for the Nationwide Series race. They raced in St. Louis last Saturday night where Carl Edwards (also a cup driver) won the race, though has sparked a lot of controversay with it. On the last lap, Edwards passed Brad Keselowski (another cup driver. Brad and Carl have a history of wrecking each other and so forth. Brad flipped Carl last year at Talledeg and Carl flipped Brad at Atlanta this year after Brad knocked him out of the race for several laps. Carl went back and hit him for retaliation to send Brad air born.) Anyway, Brad went back and hit Carl to take the lead back. Carl got upset and went back and hit Brad that sent caused a big accident - Brad got hit pretty bad by other cars as Carl went on to win the race. Luckily Brad and everyone involved in the accident was OK afterwards, it looked really bad. NASCAR has placed both drivers on probation for the rest of the 2010 year in the Nationwide series. Carl got fined twenty-five thousand dollars as well as sixty Nationwide Series points. And Carl being second in points behind (you guess it) Brad Keselowski who is leading the Nationwide Series in points, probably is a pretty big hit to him.

Hey it looks great MeadoMuf'n. Thanks for the subforum for NASCAR . Think I died and went to heaven. Think you are right Roger...the boys would love this! Those sound like good threads to start. Updates, Q&A, point standings, NASCAR news. . .LOL. Think the list can go on and on.

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M&M's sponsor Kyle Busch in the 18 car while Dupont sponsors Jeff Gordon in the 24 car and Lowe's sponsors Jimmie Johnson in the 48 car.

Thank-you Roger for your excitement! I was surprised to see this thread while going through here and am very excited about it! More room to talk about NASCAR!!! Though, I don't know if I would consider the NASCAR (or nascar) thread to be all mine to begin with. Think of it to be our thread. Thank-you to the Supreme Commander for this thread/forum to be dedicated to the world of NASCAR! As stated above, was and am excited to see this. I am glad to see the NASCAR thread be that popular and that I didn't or haven't bored everyone to death with my NASCAR ramblings. As I often say, once I get started talking about NASCAR, I can talk forever about any little thing containing NASCAR. HA HA. Just think of all I can talk about now...hmmm, where to start? Thanks again!

Noble Country woman.

Guess what, Roger? Five more days until Indianapolis! LOL. (Wait until the off season when my countdown officially starts. LOL) Want another fact...Jeff Gordon won the inaugural race at the Indianapolis for the Sprint Cup in 1997! Last year Juan Pablo Montoya (who is use to be a Formula one driver and had won the Indy 500 once) led most laps, but got caught speeding on the last pit stop and got penalized a drive through pit lane which is the customary penalty for speeding on pit road and Jimmie Johnson ended up winning the race. Should make for a good race on Sunday! Before I forget to mention, don't go looking for the race on TNT on Sunday. It will be shown on ESPN starting Sunday until the chase starts. Once the Chase starts, the races will be on ABC until the end of the season. So it will be on ESPN 1:00 EST (I think) on Sunday. Dale Jarrett, Rusty Wallace will be a couple of the announcers on that channel.

Sorry, I meant Johnny Lightning.

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