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Kaulig Racing is moving up to Cup series in 2022 with two cars after purchasing 2 charters from Spire motorsports. Justin Haley will be driving one car, 2nd driver tba. https://www.jayski.com/2021/06/18/kaulig-racing-purchases-two-cup-charters-for-2022-season-justin-haley-running-full-time/ Alex Bowman signed a contract extension through 2023 with Hendrick Motorsports. https://www.jayski.com/2021/06/18/alex-bowman-signs-contract-extension-with-hendrick-motorsports-through-2023/

GMS Racing will be going Cup racing in 2022 https://www.jayski.com/2021/06/17/gms-racing-to-compete-in-nascar-cup-series-in-2022/

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I don't know. He currently has a minority stake in the team. There's talk of Rick Hendrick semi-retiring and Jeff Gordon could kind of fill that role.

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Apparently the Neighbors section of the Ring app is useless now. I posted about what I seen last night to alert nearby neighbors and it got removed. Reason given to me was "We are changing what content is allowed in this section due to feedback from users. Previously this content was allowed but it is not now." I wondered why nearby neighbor notifications about anything besides "fireworks noise being mistaken for gunshots" dropped off a cliff the past few weeks. Used to get at least one 'suspicious activity' notification a day from nearby neighbors, now barely see one in a week or two. I feel for them too. Just because of a few bad apples that shouldn't have been cops to begin with, all of them get villified.

Might have witnessed a burglary tonight. Was chatting with a neighbor and noticed this guy park his old S10 and walk around the parking lot then leave. 5 minutes later he comes back parks next to my car walks to an apartment building clear across the parking lot. Then we hear dogs barking and see him running with a full garbage bag jump in his truck and take off. I called the police but the operator almost made it sound like I was calling on an innocent person. "What makes you think he's doing something?" "What's wrong with parking there and going to another building?" Think next time I'll just see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil unless it happens to a neighbor I know.

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Kyle Larson won his 3rd consecutive race last night at the All Star Race in Texas. This is his second All Star Race win. Hendrick Motorsports 4 cars all finished in the top 10 as did Penske's 3 cars. Top 10 1 Kyle Larson 2 Brad Keselowski 3 Chase Elliot 4 Joey Logano 5 Ryan Blaney 6 Alex Bowman 7 William Byron 8 Aric Almirola 9 Kyle Busch 10 Kurt Busch Now onto the latest rumors... Jeff Gordon might be leaving the broadcast booth for a bigger role at Hendrick Motorsports. Kurt Busch seems to be a hot commodity in the silly season. Both 23XI Racing and Track house racing have contacted him to drive a second car next season. Kurt says he will wait to hear from Chip Ganassi first before beginning talks with another team. Brad Keselowski and Roger Penske are keeping mum on Brad's plans for next year. Though if I was a betting man I'd say Brad is going to move to RFR for 2022.

Tony Stewart and Ray Evernham's SRX series kicked off Saturday night at Stafford Motor Speedway. It started off non dramatic as all the driver's where feeling out the cars. Greg Biffle led all the laps and won Heat 1. Heat two saw a lot more action and the local "superstar" Doug Coby win after passing Michael Waltrip who led most of heat 2. The Main Feature Race action got even more intense with several passes and bumping and moving. It was also won by the local guy Doug Coby who dominated from lap 65. Main Feature Race Results 1 Doug Coby 2 Greg Biffle 3 Tony Stewart 4 Helio Castroneves 5 Bobby Labonte 6 Ernie Francis Jr 7 Tony Kansas 8 Willy T Ribbs 9 Paul Tracy 10 Marco Andretti 11 Michael Waltrip 12 Bill Elliot. There were a few hiccups but they had a few backup cars to keep all the driver's in the race. The pace car was awesome, 1934 Ford coupe. The engine sounds reminded me of Nascar from the 90's. This Saturday night they'll be at Knoxville Raceway.

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I don't know which one is the best but I seen a new box set at Walmart this morning. Redesigned outer cardboard box with two more boxes containing the discs. Had Bo, Daisy and Luke on the front from original Season 3 DVD release photos. The General Lee was photoshopped behind them but barely visible. I guess if that's what it takes to keep the series for sale in stores so new generations can enjoy it then so be it.

This Saturday night at 8pm est on CBS stations the Camping World SRX series makes it's debut race at Stafford. Also on certain CBS stations Saturday afternoon will be highlights of the World of Outlaws race at the Bristol Dirt, check your local listings. It will be interesting to see if the SRX series comes close in TV ratings to Nascar's races this season.

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At 53 seconds the one model looks like she has her legs to the side of the front seat back. That's a funny video.

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This one had the 440ci V8. Even though it's considered a 2+2 there was barely any legroom for rear seat passengers.

That was definitely a strange F1 race.

After a year hiatus due to covid 19 the British invasion car show was back this year on Sunday. A couple of regulars didn't show up but some new cars did. For the first time in my life I seen a Jensen Interceptor mk III and I got to sit in it . The guy bought it at one of them dealership auctions before the pandemic struck. Said it was stored for the past 20+ years. Besides changing all the fluids, a tune up and new brakes the only thing he's modified is a new overdrive transmission to make it a better cruiser. There were a few SCCA race cars and a rare one of 600+/- marque, name escapes me at the moment. Only 3 motorcycles showed up this year, no Morgan's or Aston Martin's though. One guy put a turbo Saab motor in a MGB, another shoehorned a 350 Chevy V8 in one and added Corvette suspension.

I rented the game several years ago and was not a fan of the gameplay. Was just a lousy game put out to make a quick buck during the retro tv show game franchise craze.

Kyle Larson put on another dominating performance at Sonoma winning both Stages and the race. This was also the 4th in a row 1-2 finish for Hendrick Motorsports which ties a record that has stood since the late 1950's. Like in the F1 race in Azberbaijan tires were an issue with some teams in Sonoma with some tires delaminating with just 15-20 laps on them. CGR had a good finish with both cars finishing in the top 10 for a second time this season. Top 10 1 Kyle Larson 2 Chase Elliot 3 Martin Truex jr 4 Joey Logano 5 Kyle Busch 6 Kurt Busch 7 Ross Chastain 8 Denny Hamlin 9 Alex Bowman 10 Ryan Blaney

We'll Cancel Culture struck one of the other suburbs. They used to have a day that celebrated former president William Henry Harrison who was also a local 1812 war hero. The chamber of commerce got "woke" this year and changed the rally day name to the hopefully non offensive word "Positive" because Harrison either owned slaves or supported it or something, I didn't catch the whole news story on the evening news. Apparently it wasn't as inoffensive as they thought as there is a bunch of pissed off people that are not happy about the name change and have been voicing their opinions on social media and the local news outlets.

Boot sale? Almost sounds like what we call here in the states a flea market or swap meet.

Checked out a new park over the weekend. It was nice besides the noise, It was next to the airport and turnpike. The 180th was out doing maneuvers, those F16's are really loud. Did see a turkey, oriole, rare Karner Blue butterfly and some neat wildflowers. Those rare minutes of absolute quiet besides the birds made it feel like we were way out in the boony's especially considering the parking lot only had two spaces so it must be a rarely visited park. We also went to the farmers market downtown. First time we've been there since our grandparents took us as kids. Omg was it packed, I'm assuming it was because everyone wants to get out of the house and do anything after last year. On the way home we drove by the zoo and the traffic was a nightmare. Even though the zoo's sign said the parking lot was full people were still lined up about a mile in both directions trying to get in. I can imagine the staff there had a long day Sunday. Anybody else do anything interesting this past weekend?

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