When four-time champion Jeff Gordon began rattling off names of drivers he expected to contend for the Sprint Cup championship this year, one surprising name stood out.

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The item: The Tony Stewart High-Back Bonded Chair, a mere $229.99 from Office Depot.

The deal: Now THIS is an office chair! Strap in and put your corporate competitors into the wall, baby! Because nothing says "serious office type" like a bright red embroidered chair! Hell yes! All this requires is a HANS device to keep you from having to turn your head to deal with that annoying shrew from accounting. Oh, and probably some seat straps too.

Overused bit alert: What do you think the models for other drivers would be like? Would the Dale Earnhardt Jr. one look great but fall apart as soon as you sat in it? Would the Jeff Gordon model do everything right, but everyone would still laugh at you? Would the Kasey Kahne model even allow you to see over the edge of the desk? The mind boggles.

The hat tip: Reader Patterson Belser, who wrote up the chair in CrunchGear with a bit of sarcasm — "I don’t know how in the world Office Depot managed to secure the rights
to this exclusive, limited edition ‘No. 14 Tony Stewart NASCAR
High-Back Leather Bonded Chair’ … " — that clearly went over the heads of some of his commenters.

If you’ve got a bit of NASCARiana for us to run here, hit me up at jay.busbee@yahoo.com and give us the goods.

They make it ’cause we buy it: The Tony Stewart office chair

What’s the big deal about fuel injection? Well, a better fuel-to-air mixture, better fuel economy, and "better throttle response," according to my husband, whose old muscle car we recently converted to fuel injection. (And my credit card did not spontaneously combust!) So, big improvement, right?

Perhaps not. Seems the nature of NASCAR racing may cancel out the efficiency argument.
"We spend so much time at wide open throttle that more than likely it will come with the fuel issues off-throttle," NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton, pictured at right, has said. Even if you add ethanol fuel, which is still being kicked around, that doesn’t help any, because ethanol provides less energy, and so you have to use more of it. There are also durability issues to consider, and most importantly, the problem of making sure that teams can’t use the new electronics to gain unfair advantage.

So, why is NASCAR really making the conversion? Political correctness, courting more foreign manufacturers, or just making sure the guys with deep pockets keep all the advantages? I’ll leave it up to you all to decide.

Time for a ‘greener’ NASCAR? Fuel injection is coming

Four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon stopped at Myrtle Beach Speedway to be part of a video spot for Extreme Makeover’s crews.

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Video of Jeff Gordon racing bulldozers/BMX bike @ the Extreme Makeover house on Sunday- http://bit.ly/7npI5z #NASCAR

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http://twitpic.com/yd9tl – @RobbyGordon & Carlos Sainz during stage 12 of the 2010 #Dakar Rally #NASCAR

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Gordon finishes eighth overall at Dakar Rally

Jeff Gordon signing autographs for his fans in Sprint FANZONE at #NASCARThunder http://tweetphoto.com/8795421

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