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Granny Annie

Are you suggesting that the drivers use the Nuremberg Defense, ie. the "we were only following orders" defense that many Nazis adopted in the post-WWII war crimes trials? As far as I'm concerned, it's OK to let your team mate past or make it difficult for a rival to pass, but not to intentionally spin-out to affect a race outcome. BTW. Are there no houses available in the US at less than $100,000 a month?

We could give it a try. What happens when we report a post - does it just send you notification? BTW. You might want to make the report icon a little more obvious than dark gray on mid blue (it seems to be "forums/images/buttons/report-40b.png").

If Vickers was on the same team as Logano, then I'd say fair enough. After a few controversial races a few years back, team orders are now legal in F1, so a driver can be told to let his team mate past. You also get situations like last year's US Grand Prix where Felipe Massa outqualified his team mate, Fernando Alonso, and Ferrari chose to break the seal on Massa's gearbox to give him a grid penalty, promote Alonso one grid spot and put him on the clean side of the track. I'm not saying I'm happy about this happening, but it's within the rules. I can't see any of the F1 teams helping out a rival team (apart from Toro Rosso possibly helping Red Bull as they have the same owner). I get the feeling that this isn't over yet.

Occasionally we have to remind y'all about drivers who can turn the steering wheel in both directions . Also, F1 tends to be harsher but more consistent with its penalties.

Both New York Street and French Street were used for Chickasw and Capitol City. French Street backs onto the courthouse building, and New York Street is the roughly triangular street just north of that. My old map shows the north-eastern end of French street labeled as New Orleans Street, but I think it was a car park by the time Dukes was filmed. For completeness, the street of three and four story buildings used in 'Big Brothers, Duke', 'The Dukes in Hollywood' and 'Hazzard in Hollywood' was originally Tenement Street, but later renamed Hennesy Street. Finally there's Brownstone Street, which I think only appeared during the bicycle chase in 'The Dukes in Hollywood'. BTW. In the picture of Cathy, I think Dixie is parked outside the church (not visible to the left of the picture). It must be an early shot because it still has the "Dixie" decals on the doors. It's about the spot where C.J. Holmes presented it to Daisy.

I'm still getting used to oval racing, and some tracks are definitely more entertaining than others. To be fair, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is no longer on the NASCAR circuit, but Watkins Glen is no longer an F1 circuit. I'm guessing you also missed Sonoma, the other road course. Personally, I'd like a couple more road courses. Did you see Lewis Hamilton and Tony Stewart swap cars at Watkins Glen a couple of years ago? BTW. You're right about Scott Speed driving for Scuderia Toro Rosso. Max Papis drove in seven races for Footwork in 1995.

My bad Looks like he competes in the Camping World Truck Series and Nationwide Series of NASCAR, but hasn't raced in the Sprint Cup Series yet. I think JPM is the only ex-F1 driver who's regularly in Sprint at the moment, although Max Papis got a race a few weeks ago and Scott Speed races from time to time.

I think I've mentioned this before, but something similar happened in F1 back in 2008. Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashed at the Singapore Grand Prix to bring out a safety car (similar to a caution) and help his team mate. The main difference is that nobody suspected anything until the end of the season when Piquet was dropped by the team and revealed what happened. Two of the team were given five year bans from the sport, and although these were subsequently overturned, they both agreed to leave the sport for a while. In addition, the team's main sponsored pulled out because they didn't want to associated with cheating. You can read the Wikipedia page about the controversy here. I can't find any punishment that was given to the team (Renault). I think it was decided that this was a scheme conconcted by the driver and two team members rather than being a team decision. They did get a suspended ban and were told they be kicked out of the sport if anything similar happened again. Piquet was given immunity for his evidence.

There's more info on the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race here. It's an annual charity event that's taken place since 1977. It used to have some association with the United States Grand Prix West (as the F1 race was known), and later with the IndyCar race. Here's Jenilee with the 1981 overall champion, Robert Hays ('Airplane' etc.). The later seasons of 'CHiPs' often used Long Beach as a filming location, and you can see the grand prix barriers in some episodes. Coincidentally, Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner, who replaced Erik Estrada in six episodes of 'CHiPs' during a contract dispute, won the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race in 1979. This year's winner was TopGear U.S. co-host Rutledge Wood. According to my old backlot map, the set is called "Jungle and Wooded Area", although the area just north is called "Doonevan Flats".

Getty Images again. Caption says: LONG BEACH,CA - MARCH 14: Actors Jenilee Harrison and John Schneider attend the Fifth Annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity Grand Prix on March 14, 1981 at the Long Beach Street Circuit in Long Beach, California. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage) I don't know Jenilee Harrison, but according to Wikipedia, she was "the replacement 'dumb blonde' roommate Cindy Snow on the hit sitcom Three's Company, between 1980 and 1982. She went on to play Jamie Ewing in Dallas from 1984 to 1986." As for your Rosco question, I'm not sure which episode/location that is - I'll look into it!

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If they find that Bowyer did something wrong, maybe NASCAR should set Mike Skeen's girlfriend on him .

The picture's from Getty Images. They list it as being from "Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes" (makes sense with the logo on Cathy's shirt), and date it as 22nd March, 1980. IMDb doesn't list the 1980 event, but I found the whole lineup on TCM.com. I also found and advert for the show (below) on pmsimon.com. There's a load more of the Getty pictures of Cathy, including a few more from the same event, here (you'll need to scroll down). There's hundreds of pictures of Tom here, and pictures of John here. There aren't many of Sorrell, but I like the one below (NB. unless you buy them, all Getty Images have the info panel on the right): 1974: Actors George C. Scott and Sorrell Booke in a scene from the movie 'Bank Shot' in 1974. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

There were debris cautions on laps 135, 267 and 343 (I still have my "lap-by-lap" window open!), although I don't remember seeing the debris on-screen this week. I'd forgotten about the alleged jump start at the end. In my defense, it was really late here .

"Did you spin on purpose to help your team mate?" "No, I think we had a flat tire or something." Bowyer doesn't seem too keen to make eye contact as he gives his answer. It also looks like he's basically saying "There was a good reason for my spin, honest. As soon as we've thought of it, we'll tell you". I noticed the commentators were also dubious of one of the debris cautions, saying that certain drivers (sorry, I forgot which) were calling in debris reports because they needed to pit.

I'm sorry that JG missed out, but I'm happy with this result. Ricky had a solid race (even though I hardly saw him on screen), and was never off the lead lap. He seemed to struggle slightly after the start and each restart, but made up places just before the stops. I found it hard to keep up with all the position changes over the last 20 laps, with drivers slipping in and out of The Chase. I even thought Ricky would be denied a top ten finish when he fell to twelfth after the Bowyer caution, but he must've made up two places on the last lap.

Don't know if you saw 'Mock the Week' this week, but they had a round something like 'Unlikely things to hear on a motoring show'. Andy Parsons came up with "This car has a fail-safe anti-theft device: It's a Vauxhall Corsa".* * For non-Europeans, Vauxhall Corsa is the UK equivalent of CD's Opel Corsa. Vauxhall and Opel are the main European brands owned by GM. A very limited range of Chevy's is sold here, but we don't get Buick or GMC. I'm not sure if Cadillac is officially sold here anymore.

You could also use a gromit: Sorry, I mean grommet : BTW. The horn sounds a little fast. Can you change the speed?

Could it simply have been a "choice" of the weather? When I was watching 'CHiPs' earlier this year, I noticed that the stars mainly wore short-sleeved shirts, but not always. Maybe some cold Santa Ana winds were blowing when they filmed the last season . You could add a couple of screengrabs to this thread - I think there's only two different outfits shown here at the moment.

I know football games last about three days, but your game doesn't start until 1:00 PM ET. The Grand Prix starts at 8:00 AM ET, and will be over by 10:00 AM - you'll have to think of a different excuse now .

Well Garrett, it looks like it's your turn to be happy with the qualifying results this week. 1. Jeff Gordon 2. Kurt Busch 3. Brad Keselowski 4. Clint Bowyer 5. Matt Kenseth 6. Denny Hamlin 7. Jamie McMurray 8. Joey Logano 9. Greg Biffle 10. Regan Smith (Jimmie Johnson will drive car) 11. Martin Truex Jr. 12. Juan Pablo Montoya 13. Kyle Busch 14. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 15. Aric Almirola 16. Mark Martin 17. Kevin Harvick 18. Kasey Kahne 19. Jeff Burton 20. Brian Vickers 21. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 22. Paul Menard 23. David Ragan 24. Ryan Newman 25. Casey Mears 26. Carl Edwards 27. Josh Wise 28. Landon Cassill 29. David Stremme 30. Michael McDowell 31. Joe Nemechek 32. Marcos Ambrose 33. Travis Kvapil 34. AJ Allmendinger 35. David Reutimann 36. Danica Patrick 37. David Gilliland 38. Ryan Truex 39. Reed Sorenson 40. Dave Blaney 41. Tony Raines 42. Ken Schrader 43. JJ Yeley The Federated Auto Parts 400 at the Richmond International Raceway starts at 6:30 PM ET tomorrow (Saturday) on ABC. If you still want a race to watch on Sunday, don't forget the Gran Premio d'Italia (or Italian Grand Prix if you prefer) from Monza - one of the oldest and fastest tracks on the calendar.

I've lightened the image to show the Road Runner a little clearer.

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Is this the picture you were after? I don't normally go to Instagram because I thought it was full of pictures of people's food . I think you tried posting the address of the page as an image. In Firefox I can right-click the image and select 'View Background Image', then use that address. In Chrome it's not so easy - right-clicking and selecting 'View Page Source' or 'Inspect Element' will reveal the name of the image if you can find it hidden in all the other info. NB. Normally it's easier to insert images - maybe there's an easier way to hotlink Instagram images (as I say, I don't use it).