sherrod, as a life long nascar fan what do you make of this?ow i am down with it. >> i know. >> what do you want them to do? use cheaper gas to go slower? i thought the whole thing was to use advanced fuel and we can use different octanes in our regular life. so no, it is dumb. i think nascar is doing the right thing. >> so how is it dumb? >> because people get angry because they are not -- >> oh people getting angry. >> why would you try to use a cheaper one when you are trying to advance it? >> i guess i am just waiting for a joke. >> because nascar is close to may heart. >> you don't joke about something. greg, it is easy to laugh at this. even if the cars themselves are not green what is wrong with nascar doing other things? >> it is symbolic bs. it is the equivalent of a dentist going to a strip club and justifying -- giving the money to helping a girl through school. it means absolutely nothing. >> how does that mean nothing? it means everything. >> by the way, let's attack that word sustainable. sustainable is the biggest nonsense cal ph

as the drivers on the nascar -- i happen to be a big nascar fan. i confess that right up front. the drivers on the nascar circuit say you make your own luck. you make your own luck. in other words, we're hard to put yourself in a position to win. you may not win, if you're not close to the front with two laps to go, you're probably not going to finish first. so get yourself positioned. thomas jefferson actually said it this way, he said, i'm a great believer in luck and i find the harder i work the more of it i have. well, i've won my share of legal and political arguments because i was better prepared than my opponent and you can too. this leads to my second point. most of you have a minor in bible studies so you know that an important principal in scripture is that humility comes before honor. our religious and moral sense make us aware that as human beings we have limitations. flesh and blood can never attain perfection. raul matthew, whoever exalts himself will be humbled. whoever humbles himself will be exalted. thus humility is in order. and it helps us learn important less

but the nascar fans aren't really interested in seeing a car on biofuel or electric car.you don't hear the engine. you have want to hear the roar of the engine. if you put biofuel in gas engine, ethanol or the other biofuels number one performance will go down. race would be slower. more importantly you will ruin multimillion dollar engines. there is so much water. so they said we'll plant ten trees. they're smart. they are doing their part. don't mess with the cars. >> kimberly: i like trees. >> greg: bob loves nascar. >> bob: i like to go to races. but i wish i had chewing gum concession and the bufont hairdo concession. after that, it's fine. i enjoy it. have you ever sat -- >> kimberly: like our hair. >> bob: really, not like that exactly. >> greg: you chew gum with meeting of executive and stash gum under the desk. >> kimberly: did you put it under the table. dana saw that. you and i missed it. >> bob: you know the 24 hours of lamans? what you ought to have is have all electric cars and have 24 years of lamans. >> greg: that would be funny. >> bob: imagine car with r

how bus president obama appeal--i'm a huge nascar fan, i% have been long before i was in government. hat people call the nascar vote, white middle class lower-month old class folks, as mia-malika said, folks who work with their hands. >> rather than appeal, you hear the obama campaign talk more about trying to suppress that vote. they believe that white middle class voters are the ones successible, and would stay home on election day so they can raise the voting rates among women and latinos as nia just said, and keep down the voters from going to the polls, that's a victory. >> eliot: you said the white house was trying to suppress the vote? is this some sort of-- >> let me be perfectly clear. the negative ads, we're going to see a barrage of negative ads, that's not designed because we want to energize the energize the obama voters, it's to lower that category of voter from going to the polls and that will help president obama. >> eliot: i never thought that the white house would stoop to that level. nia, you always want to play on the other turf. george romney, going back decades t

so do nascar fans want to see more racing or crashing?tewart nickname smoke was blowing smoke after sunday rac race. stewart got caught in a big wreck just before the finish. if you go back to the past 6 races there are relatively few accidents. some fans find endless journey around the oval a little bit boring. stewart said after race yes you know what, there really should be more crashing. >> they deserve to see us run 500 miles and lake i said if we don't crash half the field by the end of the race they really need to extend it because that's what the fans want. they want to see that excitement. i feel in bad that as drivers we couldn't do a better job of crashing enough cars for them today. i think we to the make it a figure 8. we could make it a figure 8 perfect. absolutely be perfect here. and/or we can go to top of the halfway make break and turn around and go backwards the rest of the way. >> actually do like the figure 8 concept. patriots quarterback brady seen sporting a new look at last night party in new york. styling what is

that might be more effective way rather than mitt romney acting like he is a huge nascar fan.lue of plastering barack obama's image or mitt romney's image on the hood of a car. that will not necessarily win you a lot of votes in november, is it? >> well, i don't think so but i must say i think ralph reed always has been a very smart political strategist. what he is really pointing to here, if you look at barack obama's numbers with white men, they have been going down. in fact, that's a big drag on his re-election bid. i think in '08 he won about 39% of white men. now it is down to about 30%. that has been the biggest source of loss in terms of his constituency. never been a great one but what you're seeing there is substantial loss because there is a large number of white men. i would pick up on something mary katherine was saying so delicately. i don't think mitt romney has a lot of populist appeal to white southern males. that is rich guy. i don't think he can understand what my life is like. jon: chevy is battling out with ford but ford didn't take the bailout but gm did.

out there trying to be a racer >> reporter: in fact it wasn't until 2000, his first year in nascar, that fansthat wasn't for a win. it was for a wreck. he was coming off turn one at watkins glen in new york at 160 miles an hour when he was lost his brakes >> as i came across the racetrack and i was airborne off the wall that i could see was white. i assumed it was concrete. and the angle and the speed that i had at the wall, i knew then and there that i wasn't going to survive it. >> reporter: but the white wall wasn't concrete. it was styrofoam and cushioned the below. to this day the mangled hood of that car hangs on on the wall in his shop >> the guys were nice enough to give it to me >> reporter: he can laugh about it now. it all seems a long way from this. the team he drives for now is like the new york yankees of nascar. its gleaming state-of-the-art garage is the envy of other teams. jimmy has nearly 100 engineers and mechanics behind him keeping his cars in shape. so how many cars do you end up building every season? >> it depends on how much i crash or we crash. but on average, you g

. >> reporter: it had the feel of nascar for bicycles, fans mingled with riders and crews and the occasional psycycling celebrity sighting. >> i got a really good one right with levi. i turned around and he was coming right at me. >> reporter: it wasn't just the fans impressed. rider joe dombrovski was taking part as his first race as part after temt in development. >> i was thinking yesterday, you get to look around and you're riding with the best guys. these are the guys just a few years ago i was watching on tv and thinking maybe some day i'll be there and now we're here. >> reporter: for all the waiting around, fans were treated to about 30 seconds of riding as the team pedaled out of the marina green. an hour later they cruised through half moon bay. >> it's hard to get to see them, so it's really good to see a big race here in california. >> reporter: it may not have all the hype and following as european cycling racing but here the course along the diverse landscape held its own with any place. joe rosato jr., nbc bay area news. >> a colorful event and it continues to go down towards

as the drivers on nascar -- i happen to be a big nascar fan, i will confess that right up front -- the drivers on the circuit say you make your own luck. in other words, work hard to put yourself in a position to win. you may not win, but if you're not close to the front with two laps to go, you will not finish first. give yourself position. thomas jefferson said it this way -- "emigrate believer -- i am a great believer in luck, and the harder i work, the more that i have a." i want my share of arguments because i was better prepared than my opponent, and you can, too. most of you have a minor in bible studies, so you know that an important principle in scripture is that humility comes before honor to our religious and moral sense make us aware that as human beings, we have limitations. flesh and blood can never attain perfection. matthew -- "whoever installed himself will be hobbled, and whoever, will some self -- whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted ." hubris causes carelessness, but humility creates caution. caution breeds thoughtfulne

. >> he may also be a key to bringing fans back to nascar. >>> and presidents' pooches' politics goneogs. all on "in focus." >>> welcome. i'm tom foreman. with both voters and politicians tired of the campaigns these days, you might expect a highly divisive issue. think again. a startling report from a reputable group here says america has in its grasp just such a success on the issue of illegal immigration. and yet washington right now seems to have no idea what to do with it. despite the protests and counter-protests, the conservative outrage and liberal unrest all along the 2,000-mile u.s. border with mexico, raw numbers say the war on illegal immigration is largely over. the number of people trying to slip into america unnoticed has plummeted so drastically in recent years, it is now likely that more native-born mexicans are leaving the u.s. to go home that are trying to come here. at least, that is the startling finding of a new analysis of u.s. and mexican census data, arrest records and interviews by the pew hispanic center. jeff laselle led the search. >> we've actually seen t

as the drivers on nascar -- i happen to be a nascar fans. the drivers on the nascar circuit say you make your own luck. in other words, or cards to bridge yourself in a position to win. -- work hard to put yourself in a position to win. do-it-yourself position. thomas jefferson said it this way, he said i am a great believer luck and i find that te harder i work, the more of it i have. i have won my share of legal and political arguments because i was better prepared than my opponent. and you can, too. this leads to my second point. most of you have a minor in vital studies because you know the important principle is that humility comes before honor. our religious and moral sense make us aware that as human beings, we have limitations. flesh and blood can never attain perfection. whoever exults himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. thus, humility is in order. and it helps us learn important lessons in life. in build on my first point about preparation. hubris causes carelessness. but humility create caution. cau

it used to be bigger than nascar before the split, unfortunately. so when that happened, i mean, some fans lost interest. but we're on a total upswing right now. things are looking pretty good right now for us. and a lot of sponsors, a bunch of engine manufacturers now with chevy coming on board especially with us. we're lucky to have chevy behind us actually this month if you look at the grid so far. but, yeah, i mean a lot of tough competition. it will be tough. he's starting right next to me too. >> everyone always looks in the u.s. sense how's it doing in the u.s. and compares it to the coca-cola 600 or whatever, look at the ratings, but there is obviously demand especially in brazil, adding a race in china. so how does the sport broaden out and go everywhere where it's wanted and at the same time someone look at the indy 500 starting grid and be able to know a name here? how -- that's a push/pull there. >> it's a balance, man. i think we're doing a good job. they have enough americans in it and competitive americans to generate that interest. but obviously, yeah, you said it, man. i m

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. >>> nascar is fighting to regain its traction. the bad economy hit its blue collar fanvery hard, and attendance at races fell dramatically in recent years. but now a new star is rising on the truck racing circuit with movie star good looks, quick reflexes and a brain for business like the sport has never seen. lizzy o'leary caught up with him in north carolina. >> reporter: it's not unusual to see a nascar driver do 185 miles an hour. he can turn without a trace of fear. or break down a problem with his crew chief. >> better than it was before! it felt tight right after the center. >> reporter: but strip away the sponsorships and all the engine noise, and it is most unusual to find a driver like this one. >> we're sharpening your understanding in both parts and lumen, make the similarities and differences between the two of them. >> reporter: welcome to the double life of pauly hirocca, professional nascar driver and senior at duke university. >> it's a very exciting time. >> you wanted to be a driver for how long? >> i started racing when i was seven and i wanted to do