Where is ... Buckshot?

Quick. Hide the women and children, and slap a straitjacket on Randy LaJoie. Buckshot Jones might be headed back to the Busch Series.

After running the Snowball Derby in December, Jones is scheduled to make eight Hooters Cup races this season for DMT Motorsports owners David Bowen and Mike Phelps. It's not a full-fledged return to the sport, but there are plans for Jones to possibly enter a couple of Busch Series events later this year at New Hampshire and Bristol.

Somewhere, LaJoie just rammed his head against the wall at the mere mention of his former nemesis making even the most limited of returns. Here's a thought ... somebody ought to seriously consider putting LaJoie in a car for those races. The rest of us could just sit back and watch the fireworks.

Today, Jones is involved in residential land development in Atlanta and Greenville, S.C., and he maintains primary custody of his two sons -- Kolton, 5 and Levin, 4. It really wasn't all that long ago he came onto the NASCAR landscape. In the mid-to-late 1990s, Jones won races at Milwaukee and New Hampshire, and along the way, never backed down from another competitor. Ever.

Most notable among his scraps were a series of run-ins with two-time Busch Series champion LaJoie, circumstances that left in their wake a trail of mangled sheet metal, hefty fines and ill feelings. Their feud began during a 1997 event at Talladega, and then continued with a memorable incident at Bristol in which Jones rammed LaJoie's machine under caution. The next year at Nazareth, LaJoie's car was left in a heap following contact with Jones just five laps into the race.

Their confrontations were truly a sight to behold, and almost always resulted in comments that were, well ... interesting. When Jones and LaJoie started talking about each other, any kind of politically correct filtering went out the window.

Take, for instance, this exchange following their tangle at Nazareth:

"The kid's got the best race cars out there, and he can't drive a lick," said a seething LaJoie at the time. "I feel sorry for his race team because if they had a racecar driver in that car, it'd be hard to beat. It's just pitiful that we have to race against somebody with such good equipment [and] such little talent.

"I never had a feud. I just don't talk to him, I don't like him and he keeps running into me. I ain't done nothing to that idiot for a year and a half."

If LaJoie wasn't exactly at a loss for words, neither was Jones. In no uncertain -- and very colorful -- terms, Jones denied that he'd done anything intentionally. (Continued)