Stock Car racing in Australia may have its history changed had plans for oval tracks in NSW and Queensland got to be built.

Dennis Newlyn from Motorsport News reported on the plans for Parramatta City Raceway, 17-degree banking was going to be a feature of the track, and it would have been home to a host of racing series.

They were seriously thinking about it if plans were on the drawing board for 19 months, if only they had thought about it in 1988 to be made in time for the peak of Stock Cars.

In 2018, Rocketrod76 uploaded to YouTube a small segment about the Parramatta track, while the footage is short, it does give us a look at how things might have been.

Had this track been built, it would have expanded oval racing into NSW, Lakeside in Queensland was also considered to be home to an oval track and reportedly got to the stage that earthworks were being done.

The benefits of more oval tracks would have been the expanding of options for competitors who couldn’t travel to Melbourne five-six times a year for expenses reasons, or they didn’t like the option of partaking in the few rounds of Road Course racing as it would have required another car or refitting to and from configurations.

Thankfully we still have Stock Car racing in Australia on the circuits of Winton, The Bend, Calder Park Raceway and Sydney Motorsport Park but it sure would have been nice to have been racing at Parramatta and Lakeside as well as the Thunderdome and Adelaide International Raceway.