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Office Depot Racing is giving FIVE lucky fans the chance to win a trip to Las the race in LAS VEGAS on March 11th, 2012!

Visit the Office Depot Racing I’m With Smoke website and enter in to win in the bar on the right. Five winners will receive: 2 tickets to the March 11th race (I will be there won’t you?), $750 dollars, $50 Office Depot gift card, and a 1:24 Autographed Diecast of the #14 Office Depot Chevy!

You can’t win if you don’t enter but you must enter by 2.23.2012, 11:59PM ET! Good luck!!

The winners in the BadGroove #Smokin2012 were chosen by random draw on Wednesday.

Aaron won the Tony Stewart/ SHR Sweatshirt.
Gina won the Smoke Brand T-shirt.
Mary Ann won the mystery “runner up” prize.

All prizes have been mailed (usps) as of yesterday! Congratulations winners!

So, I have been waiting for something to arrive so that I could give it away here on Badgroove and have this mega contest with FOUR Tony Stewart items to give away but that ONE item is still not here and I am getting impatient. I just can’t wait any longer to give away some goodies to you (don’t worry- when the wayward item comes in I will still have the give away for it). (more…)

I mentioned this in yesterday’s Chase Race post- but I fear that it may have gotten buried in the “YEY Tony won!” and “Look Tony went fishing” pictures and video: If you go to the I’m With Smoke Office Depot racing page you can enter to win tickets to Homestead-Miami race (along with some cash and other goodies). You only have until November 11th 2011 to do this- so enter today. FIVE people will win!! While there you can also download the I’M WITH SMOKE avatar for your Facebook/twitter accounts or the I’M WITH SMOKE Wallpaper to show your support for Tony and the #14 Office Depot/Mobil 1 race team!

I'm With Smoke...from the OfficeDepotRacing.com website

You also have through November 11th, 2011 to bid on the race worn Office Depot back to school paint scheme firesuit and/or a helmet of Tony’s.  Proceeds to benefit the Office Depot Foundation! Visit the Office Depot Racing Auction page for more information.

And you have until November 14th, 2011 to enter the monthly 14 for 14 contest from Office Depot Racing. This month it’s a 14 mouse pad autographed by Tony Stewart. You can’t win if you don’t enter!! Enter today!

Attention Tony Stewart Fans planning on being in Virginia on September 8th. Tony Stewart will be doing an autograph appearance at the Office Depot located in Midlothian Virginia THIS August 8th at 4:30 PM!  The address for this event is: 1230 Huguenot Road, Midlothian, VA.

You must have a wristband to get an autograph.  400 wristbands will be given out at the location starting at 8:00 am local time on September 8th.  One autograph per wristband, one wristband per person.

As always I strongly suggest getting there early- the wristbands can go quickly at some of these events. These events are always great fun. And remember if you go to remind Tony to #KeepDiggingTony! Have fun for me!

Tony Stewart will be signing autographs for fans at the Office Depot in Roswell, GA on Wednesday August 31st in Roswell Georgia at 4:30 PM Local time.  The Office Depot is located at 1580 Holcomb Bridge Road in Roswell, GA.

To get an autograph you will need a wristband. Four hundred wristbands will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis starting at 8:00 AM local time at the Office Depot located on Holcomb Bridge Road.  One wristband per person, one autograph per wristband.

There will also be a show car at the location starting at 1:00 pm.  Go and enjoy! These event are great fun and I highly suggest that you get to the event as early as possible- because wristbands tend to go quickly.

Someone give Tony a hug from us at BadGroove and tell him to #KeepDiggingTony!

Truth be told, I have a relatively small Tony Stewart collection  Just a couple of shelves crowded with stuff and another shelf in my office at work- plus a full-size Standee of Tony that stands in my office at work (because my poor dog was scared of the standee). That’s it.

That’s not t say that I don’t have some favorite items in that collection. I have two favorites…where if the house was burning down I would try to save first (after family and Roxy of course).  It’s funny because both of them are favorites of mine more because of the story involved in them then the actual item itself.

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You would have thought the results of the Indy 500 on Memorial Day weekend would have taught me something.  To help with getting my post-race posting out in a timely manner I had written the bulk of my first paragraph for the Brickyard 400 before the caution flag for the wreck that changed everything.  The problem in doing that, I learned, is that the whole mood of the race can change in an instant- thus rendering the article I started irrelevant.  My pre-caution paragraph was wrought with disappointing statements like “It’s always disheartening to me when Tony has a bad run but it’s especially disparaging when it’s at his home track of Indianapolis Motor Speedway” or better yet my favorite “The momentum from Tony’s first WoO win earlier this week was not enough to carry him through the Brickyard 400 weekend.” See those statements were definitely not written by Miss Sunshine that is for certain.

(ed.- I love this picture...LOVE it) AN INFRARED CAMERA WAS USED TO CREATE THIS IMAGE) Tony Stewart drives the #14 Mobil 1/Office Depot Chevrolet to the garage during qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 30, 2011 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo Credit: Chris Graythen/Getty Images North America)

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