Last season, NASCAR broke new ground with the series’ first points race outside American soil. The inaugural Cup race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico was a big hit. However, once upon a time, the stock car racing series had a different foreign destination in mind. Now, NASCAR is no stranger to competing outside America, though most of those races were often exhibition or non-points races.

Typically, most of the non-American tracks were concentrated in Canada, with one race in Australia and two in Japan. There have been five races in Canada, mostly in Ontario, and one in Montreal. Meanwhile, NASCAR paid a visit to Calder Park in Australia, as well as Motegi and Suzuka in Japan. However, if circumstances had played differently, Japan could have beaten Mexico to hosting a point

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