is one of america's top nascar race team leaders. the past ten years he worked as crew chief for championship teams. most recently he led bill davis racing which won the daytona 50 500. >> i was the guy that was running up front part of great teams, had great people, great race car drivers, great sponsors, running up front week in and week out. we didn't help anybody. >> reporter: top nascar teams have always had plenty of money to hire talent like his. that is until the economy stumbled. the sponsors fled, and baldwin's boss was forced to sell the team. >> there was a handful of us that were hoping that the people that bought the race team wasn't going to liquidate it. was going to try to keep if going. they had some sponsors. we were hoping and praying that wasn't the case. i would still be there today if it was. >> was something that was hard on everybody, i think. not to mention unexpected. but, you know, it was a tough thing to handle. >> reporter: like salaried workers in so many industries, tommy baldwin lost his job this past

the 2010 season of nascar on fox begins february 14th with the daytona 500. washington has been tremendous at home. 13-1 in seattle. their only loss to oregon. yet they are 0-6 away from b of a. >> miles: out of this time-out, look at these match-ups. they have isaiah thomas guarding klay thompson and justin holiday their longer defender guarding koprivica and a great job by ken bone, he recognized that and goes right to klay thompson on the side line out of bounds. >> steve: they'll be sg hrow we ack. >> steve: we come to you from seattle, washington. cougars lead by tlohree. klay thompson, the leading scorer in the conference, he has yet to score. >> miles: it's not going to be one guy that shuts down thompson, it will be a group of defenders. the cougars end up going away from thompson, not able to find him or get him going. >> steve: and you really felt that he had to have one of those 20, 25 point games for them to have a chance against washington. yet they lead and he hasn't scored. >> miles: his teammates have done a great job of picking up the slack.

. >> she's no longer an indie car driver. 13 respected nascar races they're anticipating. frankly she came into the nascar world at the right time. sponsorship wise and attendance wise. she's going to do for nascar what hannah montana did for disney. we'll have to see. >> nfl. how are they promoting the pro bowl this year? >> big deal. pro bowl, super bowl together in miami back to back. the head of the super bowl host committee says $5 million. they're going to keep people in town for the second week. dolphins eliminated from the playoffs today. never fear, they head to south florida at the end of january. >> $1.76 billion for the winter olympic games in vancouver. >> not an all-time high but it is for the winter games. after the super bowl we have 5,000 athletes, don, from 58 countries heading to vancouver. $2 billion of cost. the open, closing ceremony already sold out. hockey game already sold out. good to know in this economy it's a big event and doing well. >> world cup, too, another event. prize money $420 million. >> well, the $420 is one story, but the fact that s

say let's go to a nascar race. trust me. don't. [laughter] it's going to be hard to fight the temptation but at the end of the day you will have these people registered and 99.9% of them won't even live in brooks's district. you will take them back to the office and be happy and start their fighting addresses and be like brooks. up, op, brooks. [laughter] and throw them all up in the air. i was guilty of that, let's go to the track because what is it? 100,000 people that literally come off the mountain. [laughter] you don't have to move, you literally sit there and they are cutting something up. i don't want to know -- i am a nascar guys. i go to fight to increase is a year. that is why i can joke. but they do literally come off the mountain and everybody sits in the office and they are like this is going to be great. absolutely great. but usually 80 or 90% of them don't live in brooks's district. don't throw them away because if you have a candidate that is running in those other districts you can do them a favor,

think the next ruling has to be we have to make sure they look like -- congress people look like nascarbe strips over every piece of their clothing as to who actually bought them. you know, i think this is a horrible decision obviously and, you know, this is what happens with a george bush republican-packed court. i think it's ironic we elected this man of the people who drives a truck in massachusetts who the big wall street bankers were very much behind and, you know, this is who won in this decision. this is -- this is not about the people, larry. this is about the fat cats again. >> larry: miss cup, unions can now give more, too, can't they? >> exactly. this really kind of splits it down the middle. i mean, corporations generally give more to republicans but the unions get to give and generally give more to democrats. this is not a, i think, a big deal. i mean, corporations and unions are both going to have to take a risk in whether they decide to become political. they can -- they risk losing revenue if they become openly political. it's a risk either way. frankly, money has always

if you start putting in nascar, it's more people. [laughter] >> but it's stunning. the arts are flourishing in the united states. in this country, nationwide were almost -- london has tears orchestras. but here in the united states, in small cities, and yes, during the economic downturn a lot of those orchestras have been in trouble and had to cut back. they are suffering. but the truth is, these are institutions that by and large are supported by corporate largess that the whole idea of creating wealth is if you like the good things come if you like place, if you like concerts. if you like paintings, if you like sculptures, if you like beautiful homes, not of this can exist unless wealth is created and accumulated. and then used wisely by people who actually want to support it the government idea of great artistic expression usually tends to be -- is one of the reasons, one of the things that so peculiar, the national endowment of the art was created in 1967 by president johnson. and if you look at the record of great artistic achievement in the united states since

if you start putting in nascar it is more people. [laughter] the parts are flourishing in the united states. nationwide london has peerless orchestras but here in the united states in the small cities during the economic downturn they have been in trouble and have had to cut back and suffering but the truth is these are institutions that by and large are supported by corporate largess. the whole idea of creating wealth if you like the good things paintings and sculptures nine of this can exist unless wealth is created and accumulated and then used wisely by people who want to support a big government idea. it usually tends to be one of the things of the peculiar national endowment for the arts was created by president johnson. if you look at the record of great artistic achievement since 1967 it is very, very few of those achievements i greatly appreciate people coming out today i will be glad to speak to you or sign copies of this booker answer any questions you may have. thank you for being part of this audience and part of this lo

how will this work in the nascar industry? guest: oh, boy., this is very interesting because in formula one, we are actually seeing the diffusion of this technology, but i would need to know a lot more about how it mary's up with the engine itself to be able to explain how that works. -- how it comes together with the engine itself to be able to explain how that works. there is an instantaneous work with an electric motor, that has always been true. one of the things that you see, for example, in the tesla -- the original tesla roadster is a very fast sports car. i have also had the privilege of driving that car and you know that you are driving a performance car when you get in that car. that is just as important when you are doing start and stop with a large refuse collection vehicle. this is a technology that can be utilized across the board. exactly how it plays for nascar, i'm not clear. host: you mentioned trash collection. we also see them around other cities as buses, etc.. what is the result in maintenance and affordability guest: on