NASCAR is no stranger to dreaming big overseas. In 2025, it finally ran its first points-paying Cup race outside the U.S. in Mexico City, and it has been dipping its toes in Canada, Europe, and Brazil for years. There were even exhibition trips to Japan back in the late ’90s. But a random lawsuit filing just spilled the beans on something way wilder: the teams have been seriously cooking up a full-blown NASCAR-style spectacle in the Sultanate of Oman.

The overseas blueprint nobody expected

Deep inside the charter-lawsuit paperwork, the Race Team Alliance left a whole presentation about a possible exhibition race in Oman, and it’s not just a napkin sketch. Bob Pockrass pulled it out and shared the highlights, and once you read it, you realize teams have been thinking hard about taking N

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