Newt Gingrich is wooing NASCAR voters.

As he charts a possible course to the Republican nomination, aides say Gingrich will paint frontrunner Mitt Romney as the candidate of the PGA golf tour while the former House speaker pursues the blue collar mantle of Dale Earnhardt.

It's a strategy that exploits the class warfare Gingrich professes to oppose.

Still, it could pay dividends once the GOP race again swings south.

Gingrich sees delegate-rich Texas as a firewall in April.

But he must slog through more than 30 contests before that.

"Our commitment is to seek to find a series of victories which would end at the Texas primary, which will leave us about at parity with Gov. Romney," Gingrich said at a press conference in Las
Vegas following caucus results which showed him placing a distant second behind Mitt Romney.