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It was the Singapore Grand Prix this week which is both a street race and a night race held under floodlights. It's also very hot for the drivers. Lando Norris continued his run of good form by claiming pole position in his McLaren. Traditionally, this hasn't been a good track for Red Bull, and they struggled through the practice sessions, but Max Verstappen scored a great second place on the grid. His Red Bull team mate Sergio Perez only managed 13th. The Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell were third and fourth with the second McLaren of Oscar Piastri in fifth. Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz crashed in the final qualifying session and started in tenth, one place behind the other Ferrari of Charles Leclerc. Lando finally managed to get a good enough start to retain his lead through the first lap. Lewis started on soft tires, and nearly overtook Max at the first corner, but then had to follow in third. Lando then proceeded to dominate the race, pulling a lead of almost 30 seconds at times despite touching the walls at least twice. He still led by a large margin when he took the checkered flag to win. With only a few laps to go, Lando looked like he'd get the full house of pole, leading every lap, fastest lap and the win, but Daniel Ricciardo in Red Bull's junior team RB made a late stop for soft tires and got the fastest lap. Although he doesn't get the point for fastest lap because he finished outside the top ten, it took the point away from Lando. Lewis' gamble to start on the soft tires didn't pay off as for the first time in 15 races in Singapore there was no safety car (I think it's about the eighth race in a row without a physical safety car, although the last race finished under a virtual one), and he eventually finished sixth. Max did a great job in damage limitation by staying in second until the end. He was followed home by Oscar, George and Charles, of which the latter two had a great fight through the final laps. Carlos' in seventh was the last driver not to be lapped. Daniel's fastest lap may be particularly poignant as it could be his last F1 race, at least for this season. There are strong rumors that New Zealand driver Liam Lawson will replace him at RB for the final six races this year. Despite being the last running driver in 18th place, he was voted Driver of the Day by fans. You can see the 8-minute race highlights here. Lando has closed the gap to Max to 52 points in the Drivers' Championship, but McLaren have increased their lead over Red Bull to 41 points in the Constructors' Championship. We've now got three weeks off before the United States Grand Prix from Austin.

Legs ("Legs, 11", from the nicknames for numbers used in the British version of bingo - probably slightly more PC than "Two fat ladies, 88" )

The Dewey Hogg MEMORIAL Cllnic

General Hogg's Southern FRICASSEED Pig's FEET (From 'Enos in Trouble')

laboratory

I've just checked - he hasn't logged in since September 7. I hadn't realized it had been that long.

Judge CARTER (Mentioned in 'The Haunting of J.D. Hogg')

Tangled web "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott (or Cooter in 'Jude Emery')

Uncle Jesse drove a WHITE pickup.

fraud (from 'The Great Insurance Fraud' in season 5)

The Azerbaijan Grand Prix was on this afternoon, and it was a great race, but more of that below. In the build-up to the race it was being reported that McLaren would be favoring Lando Norris over his team mate Oscar Piastri as Lando has the best chance of catching championship leader Max Verstappen. That went out the window when Lando had to slow for a yellow flag during the first qualifying session and got knocked out there. He qualified 16th, but started 15th after Lewis Hamilton took a grid penalty for going over his annual engine allowance and started from the pit lane. Max wasn't happy with his setup and only qualified sixth, out qualified by his team mate Sergio Perez for the first time this year. At the front, Charles Leclerc followed his win in Monza with his fourth consecutive pole in Baku. Oscar Piastri started second. Charles held his position off the line and stretched his lead to about 4 seconds before the pit stops. A few drivers swapped places behind and Lando started to make up places before getting stuck behind the Williams of Alex Albon. Both were on the hard tires and going longer into the race, but when Alex pitted, Lando was able to make up time before he pitted. Soon after Oscar and Charles pitted, Oscar was able to take advantage of his fresh tires and made a great dive from a long way back to take the lead. We then had over 20 laps of Oscar battling Charles with Sergio only just behind. After driving in the dirty air of second place for so long, Charles' tires were done with about four laps to go and Oscar finally managed to break away a little. In the meantime, the other Ferrari of Carlos Sainz had caught up to the lead drivers. As they started the penultimate lap, Sergio went for second place, but ended up letting Carlos through. Carlos and Sergio then fought the next couple of corners before colliding at high speed on the next straight. The race finished under a virtual safety car with Oscar taking his second F1 victory ahead of Charles. The crash promoted Mercedes' George Russell to third with Lando overtaking Max with a few laps to go to take a great fourth. Both of the Williams cars scored valuable points in seventh and eighth with Franco Colapinto in only his second race after replacing Logan Sargeant mid-season becoming the first Argentinian driver to score point since 1982. Lewis came in ninth, just ahead of stand-in driver Oliver Bearman scoring a point for Haas when he beat his team mate Nico Hulkenberg. With only one Red Bull and one Ferrari finishing, McLaren take the lead in the Constructors' Championship for the first time since 2014. In the Drivers' Championship, Lando moves three point closer to Max. You can see the 8-minute highlights here. Next week is the Singapore Grand Prix which is a night race. Traditionally, Red Bull haven't gone well there, and the McLaren drivers were talking about Ferrari being their main rivals for the rest of the season.

Dance

He certainly does a better job than Willie Nelson!

Forks

Well done in the Basketball, Roger, although we ran you close.

Don't be saying that over here - Ireland usually play in green! BTW. England beat Ireland 2-0 earlier tonight.

derby

You need a few more golds to catch us up - Great Britain is currently 11 ahead of the US! England are playing Ireland at football (soccer) tomorrow in Dublin, so that'll probably more watched over here.

Alma VIATOR Ben Jones' spouse. I've mentioned this elsewhere, but this title always bugged me. It just seems lazy to make up a country by changing a single letter of Uzbekistan, or maybe they just misspelled it!

Marx Brothers (They made a movie called Monkey Business in 1931)

Banana

"Well, it looks like old Claibourne's fixing to gobble up Hazzard like a country PAC-MAN." Waylon in 'Cool Hands, Luke & Bo'.

Cream

Francis Ford Coppola