There's more than a grain of truth in that.
I remember well, an interview between Darrell Waltrip & Dale Earhardt Jnr / Tony Stewart when DW got back to America AFTER his trip around Bathurst in a V8Supercar with Jason Bright a couple years ago, and they played that clip to the NASCAR drivers, who said they'd LOVE to experience something like that.
Imagine going in to support a Sprint Cup NASCAR Road Race like at the Glen, and involving perhaps NASCAR drivers as co-drivers for an endurance event, to assist in promotion for V8Supercars not just here but in the US - potentially a hugely lucrative market as the traditional 'Home of the V8'.
The fans would love it, the NASCAR drivers would also be in it in a flash .... practical logistics aside for the moment, if V8Supercars could tie up an arrangement like that (and with friends like Roger Penske & his possible involvement here with a V8Supercar team potentially in the future) I think it would be a very exciting possibility and a pointer to perhaps future support status for the biggest form of Motorsport in the US.
Seriously, if you're going to go overseas, and if it were possible, you might as well tie in with the biggest, most popular form of Motorsport in that country - none bigger than NASCAR and with Australia already having a competing driver with Marcos Ambrose there, along with bit parts played by other drivers over the years, it would fit really well with our theme - V8's, big noise, exciting road racing.
Just a whimsical thought, that's all ...
