Nascar Step Aside...Professional Chair Racing is Here

Have you always dreamt of becoming a professional athlete...but lacked the whole 'athlete' part?  Do you have fond memories of sliding down hallways and spinning endlessly in swivel chairs?  If you answered yes to either question, we have the sport for you.  Thanks to our friends in Germany, we now have a whole new genre of sport: professional chair racing.

In order to compete with the best of the best though, you'll have to work hard on your downhill 200-meter chair times.  The current record, which was just set, is held by Luxembourger Pierre Feller, who raced down the course in an astonishing 26.95 seconds...which is about 22 miles per hour.  

I don't know if professional chair racing will hit it big in America, but thanks again to our wonderful European friends, we have a new sport to awe and laugh at.