There was a period in the late 80s and 90s where Australian touring car racing sucked, our own V8s couldn't win a race against turbo cars that you couldn't buy here. Group A was replaced by 2 series, one for V8s and another 2 2 litre tourers, both of which tried to run seperate series. During this time NASACR and an Australian offshoot AUSCAR were popular, we had 2 tracks, a purpose built 1.2 mile tri-oval at Calder Park and a tiny slap-up .375 mile unbanked oval at Adelaide. We also had NASCAR and AUSCAR supporting the first couple of Gold Coast Indy events. Then in 1997 V8 Supercars launched itself with V8, slew the 2 litres and sucked the popularity out of NASACR/AUSCAR.
So WI NASCAR remained popular in Australia? Or failing that oval track racing gained a foothold perhaps with a permament V8 supercar oval race?