"This is a projection of three to five years," Enesta Jones, a media relations officer with the EPA, said in a telephone interview. "We're in that five-year period now. We're continuing to work with them and we feel confident they are taking this seriously."
O'Donnell is not so confident.
"NASCAR is such a behemoth that if it decides it wants to stonewall, it may well get away with it," O'Donnell said in a telephone interview. "It's not for lack of technology, it's inertia on NASCAR's part in part because the government is asleep at the switch."
Nelson, who is working on projects involving the car of the future and the engine of the future, bristled at suggestions that NASCAR was not trying hard enough to eliminate leaded fuel from racecars.
"I don't think it's fair to say that somebody who hasn't invented something to improve in any area can be criticized for not coming up with the idea that fixes it yet," Nelson said.
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