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SRX Series was back on asphalt this week at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indiana. SRX had a little fun with Paul Tracy by having him show up in the back of a police car for security . Scott Speed dominated the 1st heat race leading all the laps and winning. Helio Castroneves won the 2nd heat race after passing Paul Tracy on the 5th lap. Ernie Francis Jr won the Main Feature Race leading all but 11 or 21 laps, typo on SRX website not sure which number is correct. Main Feature Race Results 1 Ernie Francis Jr 2 Bobby Labonte 3 Scott Speed 4 Marco Andretti 5 Bobby Santos 6 Michael Waltrip 7 Tony Stewart 8 Paul Tracy 9 Helio Castroneves 10 Tony Kanaan 11 Willy T Ribbs 12 Bill Elliot

Nascar Cup series returned to Road America for the first time since 1956. Chase Elliot won holding off hard charging Gibbs teammates, giving Hendrick Motorsports it's 10th win of the season. I still think they should have kept Daytona on the July 4th weekend. Top 10 1 Chase Elliot 2 Christopher Bell 3 Kyle Busch 4 Kurt Busch 5 Denny Hamlin 6 Chase Briscoe 7 Ross Chastain 8 Tyler Reddick 9 Martin Truex jr 10 Matt Dibenedetto Kurt Busch already had talks with Trackhouse Racing so he's rumored to be the top candidate to drive the 2nd car when they take over Ganassi's Nascar teams at the end of the season.

Finally got some sleep last night, only a few fireworks were shot off nearby. At least it was nothing like this... this happened on the other side of town. And people wonder why I say don't move to Toledo. To top it off Ohio legislators just legalized fireworks though the governor has yet to sign the bill. Had a busy weekend myself. Was planning on relaxing and watching all the races on NBC but ended up only watching the last half of the Cup race Sunday afternoon. Laid a second coat of paint on a lady's patio Saturday after the local home depot worker snookered her and said she needed a 2nd coat even though on the can it says one coat paint. She really only needed a small can of touch up paint to touch up a few little spots where the wind blew a few leaves on after I laid down the first coat a few weeks ago. Sunday I "helped" (did all the work) my dad with patching the concrete wall by the steps leading to the basement outside door. Not sure which Home store he went to but a goofball worker strikes again, sold him a 50lbs bag of fence post concrete. I didn't feel like going back to the store and getting the correct stuff so I made do, if it holds up good if not I don't care. I only ended up using a few inches of the bag to patch all the areas so a 10lbs or smaller bag would have worked. Wife was real happy about that because I ruined her Sunday plans to hang out with some of her family. I'm getting real sick of every time my uncle mentions this or that needs to be taken care of at my dad's house then my dad whining/harassing me till I do it instead of him doing it himself which he is entirely capable of doing.

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Gonna have to pick your chin up off the floor after reading this...Chip Ganassi is leaving Nascar and sold team charters to Trackhouse Racing https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/06/30/trackhouse-purchases-chip-ganassi-racing-nascar-operation/ Trackhouse will run two cars next year one driven by current driver Daniel Suarez and the 2nd driver tba. Ross Chastain will probably be the 2nd driver though.

Offendaphobic that's a good one. I nominate that for a new word in the Webster's Dictionary. CNN used to be a great news network way back in the day now it's become way too biased like Fox News.

This whole "woke" thing is getting more absurd by the day. On the local news yesterday they did a story on "weight bias". Some 400+/-lbs lady was on there saying fat jokes are offensive. Next thing you know gassy people are going to say fart jokes are offensive.

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The SRX series was at Eldora this past Saturday night and the action was hot. Tempers flared and the cars got used up and most of them will need new body panels for the next race this Saturday night. If you missed it you can watch it here Tony Stewart won the first heat. Marco Andretti shocked everyone winning the 2nd heat. Tony Stewart won the main Feature after passing local racer Kody Swanson and Paul Tracy who led the most laps. Bill Elliott got a new car although they did find the gremlin in his other car from the previous two races but they wanted to give him a new one just in case any issues popped up. This race was the most watched too date with 1.38 million viewers tuning in. It almost matched Saturday's Pocono cup race on NBCSN and beat both Xfinity and Truck series races on NBCSN and FS1 respectively. Main Feature results 1 Tony Stewart 2 Kody Swanson 3 Helio Castroneves 4 Marco Andretti 5 Paul Tracy 6 Scott Speed 7 Tony Kanaan 8 Ernie Francis Jr 9 Willy T Ribbs 10 Michael Waltrip 11 Bobby Labonte 12 Bill Elliot

Roush Fenway Racing allegedly told it's partners and investors that the deal with Brad Keselowski is a done deal https://www.jayski.com/2021/06/25/report-brad-keselowski-to-roush-fenway-with-ownership-role/ neither RFR, Penske Racing or Brad Keselowski has confirmed it yet though. Nascar's uptick in tv ratings this season is over, Pocono saw the lowest viewership since races in the 2000 season.

Hobie's white lightning has a bit of a (hiccup) kick lol took me a day to recover. This past weekend was the Pocono doubleheader. Saturday's race the Hendrick brigade dominated. It looked like Kyle Larson was going to win his 5the consecutive race until his left front tire blew going into turn 3 on the last lap which gave Alex Bowman his 3rd win this season and Hendrick Motorsports 6 consecutive wins and 9 wins total so far this season. Top 10 1 Alex Bowman 2 Kyle Busch 3 William Byron 4 Denny Hamlin 5 Ryan Blaney 6 Kurt Busch 7 Joey Logano 8 Kevin Harvick 9 Kyle Larson 10 Brad Keselowski Race 2 ended up being a fuel mileage race. Kyle Busch had transmission issues that left him with only 4th gear which turned out to be a good thing for fuel mileage since he didn't down shift in the turns. His car handled superbly which allowed him to run almost as fast as the leaders who ran out of fuel. Top 10 1 Kyle Busch 2 Kyle Larson 3 Brad Keselowski 4 Kevin Harvick 5 Bubba Wallace 6 Ryan Blaney 7 Alex Bowman 8 Ryan Preece 9 Tyler Reddick 10 Joey Logano This weekend Nascar heads to Road America with Xfinity and Cup and some Cup drivers will also run in the Trans Am race there this weekend as well. Both races will be on NBC stations.

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Fitbits work great now that they put out a software update. Mine said I did 20,000 steps today while mowing, though that might be a bit off as no electronic pedometer will be 100% spot on. On the way home this afternoon I took a shortcut through a nearby neighborhood thinking it would be safer than the main road after an incident I had yesterday with a jerk in a work van. It was until I came across a few hooligans recklessly riding ATV's doing donuts in the street. The one took off down a side street and the other two about ran into the side of my car as I drove past. Hooligans like this have become a problem in the inner city lately, even blocking traffic for their stupid stunts, and now it looks like they've spread out to the suburbs. I'll never forget the motorcyclist I seen on the road with his head split open. My grandma chewed my grandpa out for taking me over to the accident scene. The cop took me over to the body and said "that's why you should wear a helmet when you ride you're bicycle." I don't remember how young I was at the time though, 6 or 7 I think.

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Jeff Gordon is leaving the broadcast booth to become Vice Chairman/2nd in command at Hendrick Motorsports https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/06/23/jeff-gordon-named-hendrick-motorsports-vice-chairman/ he will do the rest of his Fox contract duties till the end of the year. Wonder who they will get to replace him. Dale Earnhardt Jr is locked into a multi year deal with NBC and to be honest he's really not good at calling the races. Chase Elliot's 13th place finish at Nashville has been disqualified, for of all things , 5 loose/missing lugnuts. Chase vented his frustrations on Twitter with a pretty good observation that if the wheel would have come off and he wrecked he would have been able to keep his points. I can understand DQ'ing because of skirting the rules on the car but for too many loose lugnuts is absolutely absurd. Just when I think Nascar Officials have done the most ridiculous thing they do something else even more crazy.

Had a good birthday yesterday. Went to a park to watch the sunrise and see what creatures were out early, mostly red winged blackbirds but the surprise was fish swimming in the ditch that goes through the park. Never seen fish in there before. Then went mini golfing, flipped the rules to most strokes wins my putting was way off lol. Only complaint is I took advantage of Amazon Prime day and had a local Best buy match the price on a pair of Fitbits but apparently Fitbit is having a software issue at the moment so they're basically $60 paperweights at the moment. If they don't get the issue resolved in a week I'm returning them. On the weather front we were in a drought locally but the almost 3 inches of rain we got Sunday night-Monday morning really soaked the ground. Our tomato's shot up a few inches taller already.

It was the new box set that only takes up about 3 of the original Season release DVD sets on a shelf, and yes 'sanitized' with no confederate flag artwork.

The new box set is on sale for the cheapest price ever $49.99, that's just 35cents an episode. it's part of the Amazon Prime day sale and it ends in 8 hours or whenever it sells out https://www.amazon.com/Dukes-Hazzard-Complete-Repackaged-DVD/dp/B08DC69DDK?ref=deals_primeday_deals-grid_slot-6_1329_mw_dcell_img_96_d5cdd67c

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SRX series was on the dirt at Iowa's Knoxville Raceway. Tony Stewart dominated winning the first heat race and main Feature Race. Indycar stars Marco Andretti and Helio Castroneves seemed giddy as kids playing in the mud racing on dirt first time since they began they're racing careers. Helio would have finished 2nd in one of the heat races if he didn't get the laps mixed up at the end. Michael Waltrip was a strong contender despite not racing on dirt for well over a decade if not two. Bill Elliott's car suffered another similar malfunction in this race as at Stafford. Paul Tracy and Michael Waltrip played bumper cars again. The third race this Saturday night should be interesting between those two. Main Feature results 1 Tony Stewart 2 Hallie Deegan 3 Ernie Francis Jr 4 Helio Castroneves 5 Michael Waltrip 6 Bobby Labonte 7 Marco Andretti 8 Brian Brown 9 Scott Bloomquist 10 Willy T Ribbs 11 Bill Elliot 12 Paul Tracy

1984 was the last cup race at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway. Geoff Bodine won the final cup race there. The last Xfinity and Truck series races were held there in 2000. Kyle Larson won his fourth consecutive race in dominating fashion leading most of the laps and winning stage two. Ross Chastain kept the Hendrick teams from another consecutive 1-2 finish. Ricky Stenhouse Jr also had a good race racing in the top 10 all day and finishing 6th. Top 10 1 Kyle Larson 2 Ross Chastain 3 William Byron 4 Aric Almirola 5 Kevin Harvick 6 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 7 Daniel Suarez 8 Kurt Busch 9 Christopher Bell 10 Joey Logano