As a result, AUSCARs are right-hand-drive and race clockwise on oval tracks, compared to the left-hand-drive, anticlockwise NASCAR vehicles - the theory being that the driver is located at the furthest point possible from the outside retaining walls.

Although they weighed less, as a result of using smaller, less powerful engines and the road tyre, AUSCARs were generally around 15 mph (24 km/h), or around four seconds per lap, slower than the NASCAR stock cars around the Thunderdome.

Though it was Albury panel shop owner and Group E/Group A driver Brad Jones who would come to dominate the category, winning five consecutive titles during the peak of the series popularity, all in various model Commodores.

Brewer, Gregg Hansford, Terry Wyhoon, Garry Rogers, Russell Ingall, John Faulkner, Steven Richards (the son of inaugural champion Jim), Tony Kavich, Nathan Pretty and his sister Nicole, Jason Whylie, Eddie Abelnecia and Leigh Watkins who was the only driver to win the championship driving a Falcon.

To his credit, Brock later admitted that he wasn't comfortable racing on the high-speed ovals and his time in the category only lasted a couple of meetings.

[3][4] Due to the returning popularity of the Australian Touring Car Championship, relaunched as V8 Supercars in 1997, as well as financial difficulties and other problems such as Bob Jane's long-running "feud" with the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS), which saw CAMS ban its members from competing in the series, robbing it of a number of leading drivers, AUSCAR was quietly shut down and the drivers dispersed into other national racing series.