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MUGGLY-wuggly, MUGGLY-zeer. Little fat buddy, reappear. Rosco's last chance at getting Boss back.

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The Mexican Grand Prix definitely turned out to be a race full of incidents. Max Verstappen won the drag to the first corner to take the lead, but there was a crash in the midfield which ended the races of Yuki Tsunoda and Alex Albon. After a few laps behind the safety car, the race restarted, and it didn't take long for Carlos Sainz to retake the lead. Lando Norris then caught Max and last week's battle between the title rivals resumed. The outcome, however, was different this week as Max's aggressive driving earned him two 10-second penalties for separate incidents on the same lap. The fighting also allowed last week's winner, Charles Leclerc, to slip through to second. Fernando Alonso sadly had to retire from the race in which he was celebrating his 400th F1 weekend. After Max served his penalties he was out of contention for a podium place, but recovered to finish sixth. Lando managed to overtake Charles when the Ferrari driver nearly lost his car coming onto the start/finish straight, but no one could catch Carlos who took his fourth F1 victory and became the first native Spanish speaker to win in Mexico. Lewis Hamilton is taking Carlos' place at Ferrari next year, so the win should help Carlos to secure a drive for 2025. Speaking of Lewis, he and team mate George Russell traded places a couple of times with Lewis coming out on top in fourth and George in fifth. Both Haas cars finished in the top 10, continuing their recent good form for a team with one of the smallest budgets. Lando's McLaren team mate Oscar Piastri finished in eighth, up from 17 on the grid. The same wasn't true for Max's team mate Sergio Perez. The Mexican driver started 18th, got a penalty for starting outside his box, got side pod damage from a racing incident and ended up being the last running driver after going for the fastest lap at the end (it was taken by Charles Leclerc). You can see the highlights here. Max still leads the Drivers' Championship, but Lando has cut his lead by 10 points. Max and Sergio's poor finishing positions also mean that Red Bull have slipped to third in the Constructors' Championship behind McLaren and Ferrari. Next week it's the Brazilian Grand Prix at the Interlagos circuit.

KEEP it 'tween the ditches.

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Yesterday's F1 qualifying for the Mexican Grand Prix has set the grid up for what should be a great race later today. Championship rivals Max Verstappen and Lando Norris both had their team mates eliminated in first qualifying session, so Oscar Piastri will start 17th and local hero Sergio Perez one place behind him in 18th. The second qualifying session ended slightly early when Yuki Tsunoda's crash brought out a red flag and stopped a few drivers from completing their flying laps. Max set an early fast lap in the final qualifying session, but it was deleted due to exceeding track limits. In the end, it was in-form Ferrari that claimed the top position with Carlos Sainz claiming his first pole of the year. Max pulled a great lap out of the bag to get second, and Lando will start third. Third is actually a good starting place as the driver should get the slipstreams of the two lead cars down the long starting straight. Also, the pole sitter hasn't won in Mexico since 2016. If you're not familiar with F1 qualifying, you can watch the highlights here.

HOBY Willis

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The FEDERAL Reserve in Atlanta (Mentioned in a few episodes)

Rhuebottom's General DELIVERY & DRY Goods

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I'm not sure if this is blooper or not. In 'Sittin' Dukes', Luke says, "Must be a fire over at Bearlake Woods." The guy in the helicopter then sees the General and reports, "I think I've got them spotted over Miller's Meadow and Bearcreek Woods." It just seems odd that there would be two places with such similar names on top of each other.

Bearlake WOODS

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In 'Deputy Dukes' Boss says he's "Real nice-looking, maybe... but not beautiful." After the door closes, Rosco replies "Ain't that the truth. He's a mess of UGLY." As a side note, the closed captions say "He's a Miss Ugly.", but this doesn't make much sense, and I'm pretty sure of my version after listening to it several times.

After a short break, F1 was back at the weekend with the US Grand Prix from Austin. Following a run of comparatively poor results for Max Verstappen, he returned to the front by winning the sprint race. For the main race Max qualified second behind his championship rival Lando Norris. Both got good starts, but by tussling at the first corner they let through Ferrari's Charles Leclerc who started fourth. The safety car came out for the first time in quite a few races after Lewis Hamilton got stuck in the gravel on lap 2 two after he'd made a great start from near the back of the grid, but it didn't change the order at the front. The other Ferrari of Carlos Sainz Jr got past Max at the only pit stops that most teams made. Lando went long on his first stint and quickly caught Max after getting new tires. That set up several laps of close racing, but when he finally got past it was by leaving the track limits. Lando got a 5 second penalty and only finished 4.1 seconds ahead of Max, so ultimately the places were reversed. It was a mildly contentious decision by the stewards as it involved the two title leaders and the rule enforcement seemed to vary slightly through the race. Despite the title rivals getting most of the TV coverage, it was Ferrari's race with a dominant 1-2 finish for the first time at the US Grand Prix since Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa did it at Indianapolis in 2006. Liam Lawson scored 2 points in his first race back in F1, and mid-season replacement Franco Colapinto also scored a valuable point for Williams. Max extended his lead in the Drivers' Championship, but McLaren now lead Red Bull by 40 points in the Constructors' Championship and Ferrari are only 8 points behind. You can see the race highlights here. This was the first race in two triple headers to end the 2024 season. Next week the teams will be in Mexico.

RAFE Logan - Public Enemy Number Two

Seeing as the US Grand Prix is in Austin this weekend... Austin - Dasha

I don't know if there'll ever be another Dukes Fest, but Ben Jones and John Schneider still organize Dukes themed events. There was one at Cooter's Place last weekend with Catherine Bach and Jeff Altman as special guests - https://cootersplace.com/hazzard-run/

Doc Petticord drove a 1950 OLDSMOBILE 88 Futuramic.

Soccer Dribbling is one way to move the ball around. Officer Dibble was in 'Top Cat'.

LORI LETHIN Played Lori in 'Southern Comfurts' and also appeared in an episode of 'The A-Team' I watched last week.

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In 'Happy Birthday, General Lee', the boys tell Boss that they couldn't be speeding ("This thing won't do the speed limit."), so he tells Rosco to write them up a ticket for IMPEDING traffic.