. >> george poteet has been coming here to set speed records for 20 years. >> bonneville is my hobby. don't belong to a country club. i don't have a boat. i don't play golf. this is what i do. >> and what he does is race the speed demon, a type of four-wheeled vehicle called a streamliner that looks more like a jet than a race car. >> i've been over 400 miles an hour 32 times. nobody else can make that claim. >> okay, george. >> good luck, george. >> he is trying to break his personal record, a blazing 462 miles an hour, that makes speed demon one of the fastest race cars on the planet. ♪ he may not look like one of the world's fastest drivers, but then again, you don't know george poteet. he has loved racing ever since he learned to drive a tractor at his father's knee. >> on a bicycle, red wagon, whatever he had, from as long as i can remember, he has wanted to go fast. >> you had to learn to work on automobiles. and then on the weekends, you raced them. >> at his mississippi farm, he has assembled a dream car collection. >> this is a '61 ford that i built and run on the bonneville