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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Another quick F1 update - the US-based Haas F1 team has announced Toyota as a "technical partner" and that the two companies would "share expertise and knowledge, as well as resources". However, Toyota will not be supplying engines as Haas already has a contract with Ferrari until 2028. Toyota have not been part of F1 since they withdrew their own team at the end of 2009, and feel that they have been losing opportunities to Japanese rivals Honda. Toyota branding will appear on the Haas cars starting at this weekend's US Grand Prix in Austin.

Jasper FENWICK (The biggest 'shine distributor around)

It seemed like an unconventional first couple of posts, but I let it go as they seemed vaguely plausible and there was no immediate linking to sites selling pills etc. like I see from time to time. The moderation of the first few posts may be a slight inconvenience to new users, but it does a great job of protecting Hazzardites from scams and spam.

Boss' 'shine running car was a CHEVROLET CAMARO

Dance I'm guessing that you're referring to Dick Van Dyke's song from 'Mary Poppins' (with the hilarious Cockney accent) rather than 'Feel It' by The Tamperer featuring Maya.

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