The European Touring Car series is worth a look...same with the Australian V8’s.
If NASCAR was smart, they’d let the domestic marques race their 2-door RWD V8 cars like Mustangs, Camaros, Chargers, etc.
You’d see not only attendance/viewership spike, the sales of those models would increase as well.
They sort of are doing that in the Nationwide series...the cars are now stickered up to look like Challengers and Mustangs instead of Chargers and Fusions. They’re still the same car, though.
“Stock” cars haven’t been “stock” for about 30 years now.
Australian V8 Supercar racing is FANTASTIC. They’re still not “stock” cars but at least they more resemble their Holden and Ford counterparts than Sprint Cup cars do. And the road course racing they do is intense. (And at least Australia seems to be the only country other than us who ever really fell in love with the concept of the big-displacement V8.)
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