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Kimi Antonelli took his second pole position in a row as the Mercedes cars continued to be the team to beat at this week's Japanese Grand Prix. They may be quick in qualifying, but other teams are getting better starts, and Kimi slipped to sixth with Oscar Piastri making the most of his first start of year to take the lead. Oscar and Ferrari's Charles Leclerc made early pit stops, but lost out when their rivals got to do their pit stops under a yellow flag brought out by Oliver Bearman's crash into the wall. The new rules this year have led to a lot of yo-yo overtaking, and the front three teams now seem to be fairly evenly matched in race conditions. At the checkered flag, Kimi took his second win of the year to become the youngest leader of the championship. Oscar was second with Charles in third. Their team mates repeated the pattern with George Russell fourth, Lando Norris fifth and Lewis Hamilton sixth. Max Verstappen qualified 11th and only recovered to eighth. You can watch the race highlights here. In the Drivers' Championship, it's now Mercedes, Mercedes, Ferrari, Ferrari, McLaren, McLaren. The debate about the new rules continues with a meeting set to take place after the race. While we're getting a lot more overtaking, the 50-50 power setup with the electrical energy means that cars are dropping speed before the end of long straights because they're saving/harvesting energy. Understandably, the drivers and fans don't like this. They have plenty of time to sort things out as due to the previously mentioned war in the Middle East, the next two races have been cancelled, costing F1 an estimated $100 million. That means that the cars won't be out again until the Miami race weekend starting on May 1st.

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Dukes is all about KINFOLK.

Since December 31, 2023 - he was 84.

Rashers are what the Irish call slices of bacon (back, streaky etc.) that you'd have for breakfast, so they're actually mentioned twice in the fillings. Unless it's related to breakfast, bacon in Ireland usually refers to the boiled meat served in dishes such as bacon and cabbage.

Hands up, I know nothing about archery, but I found a discussion about the Dukes of Hazzard bows at www.archerytalk.com. They said, "The original Warthog had a deerslyer [sic] 300 sight on it."

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For a change, here's a bit of Brit funk from 1981. Linx - Intuition

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Of course it counts. Any songs with one word titles are welcome. I've just been concentrating on Irish songs around St Patrick's Day. Incidentally, Abba won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with 'Waterloo', and Christy Moore wrote 'Lisdoonvarna' for the 1978 contest, but it didn't make it through to represent Ireland.

This song didn't make the top 100, but I heard it emanating from a pub on Paddy's Day and it got stuck in my head for a while. It's about a town in Co. Clare. Christy Moore - Lisdoonvarna

Japan

After a last minute invite, I got to walk in the St Patrick's Day parade today. It's fun being in it, but it does mean that I didn't get to see many of the other participants. Luckily, the weather stayed dry, but it turned cold afterwards. Combine the cold weather with the busy pubs and I decided to delay my Guinness.