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A Tissot watch was collected as a prize alongside the International Motorsports Hall of Fame Driver of the Year Trophy by drag racer Tony Schumacher last week.Schumacher, who races for the US Army National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Top Fuel team, won the 2008 Driver of the Year in Talladega Alabama.He is the third NHRA driver to win the award, after John Force captured the award in 1996.Schumacher said: "While we've already turned the page to the 2009 season, it's nice to be able to reflect on what was truly a historic season."When I look back to last year, I feel blessed I was part of such a great team. I'm not sure we'll ever see that kind of dominance again in drag racing."Tissot watches were recently mentioned alongside another award, when Ryan Newman picked up the NASCAR Sprint Cup Tissot Pit Road Precision award earlier this month.

For my friends over at WatchUseek, I wrote an article on Tissot's Veloci-T Automatic Chronograph. A very impressive timepiece which retails for $895 at your local Tissot dealer.If you are looking for a nice mechanical timepiece below the magic $1000 USD price, this Tissot sports watch is definitely worth checking out. I really love the small peek hole to enable the owner to look at the mechanical movement. This watch jumps in the gap that exists between quartz watches and mechanical (non-chronograph) timepieces of less known brands and the mechanical watches of the mid-segment brands like Longines, Tag Heuer, Sinn and so on. Tissot is member of the Swatch Group (that has brands from Flik-Flak to Breguet) and has a rich history of watch*** over the last 150 years.