"Yes that was the name, don't laugh."

Too late

I worked as a race engineer in ASCAR in 2003. I was on Rob Speak's car, number 5. Good times.
I just noticed that I'm in the photo in the Wikipedia entry for Rob Speak in ASCAR in 2003. At the rear of the car, pushing the car after we broke down, are Teena Gade and I.

Even despite the big flaws and mismanagement that didn't lead to the series elevating like initially hoped, it's still the series I hold dearest to my heart for kickstarting my love for Oval Racing, and expanding my discovery of more forms of Motorsport when I first when to the races as a 6 year old in 2003. Also glad to have had footage recorded of most of the series you used for this video too :)

0:31 I'm gonna laugh

The grid at 2:15 - Ben Collins (aka the stig) is shown, as well as Michael Vergers, who was driving the Mosler in the crash with Hammond in the Top Gear 24h race in the BMW

I was a Technical official for the ASCAR series, I must say it was a great experience to be involved in back in the day. Nice video.

Let's not forget that Colin McRae was in the series driving a #67 RAC/Top Gear Magazine "Ford Taurus" despite being a Pontiac Grand Prix entirely.

You need to get some coverage on brisca f1 😉

Nascars brutal British cousin

Amazingly colin white still races these old cars at raceway venray alongside other former ascar cars and newer late models

Outside of the NASCAR Umbrella, the UK still has some level of Stock Car racing.

The Pickup Truck racing championship in the UK, held by the BARC, use pickup truck silhouettes on tube frame chassis similar to the NASCAR truck series, but they're styled after smaller EUDM trucks (the Ford Ranger and Isuzu D-Max, the latter re-badged as a Vauxhall by some teams) and powered by a 2-Litre Ford or GM four cylinder dependent on the body.

Australia had a good attempt at NASCAR in the 80's to late 90's as we had AUSCAR which was two series' one was American built stock cars that ran like normal and Australian built stock cars based on the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon. The difference besides cars was the Australian built cars ran clockwise as the cars were RWD as opposed to the typical anti-clockwise seen in NASCAR.
Racing legend and tire shop mogul Bob Jane built a Charlotte style oval calling it the Thunderdome.

Went to every race. John Mickel did make it the Craftsman Truck series for a few races as well as ASA style racing.

Great memories of Collins' camo Territorial Army car, in scalextric form mind!!!!!

Also shoutout the Pickup Truck Racing, Nascar fans should give that a look as they are more or less scale-down NAStrucks but 4cyl. a far more sustainable formula and still going strong today.

I think the biggest flaw was that they didn't have 4 RIGHT turns.

Unfortunately, NASCAR in Australia also went belly-up too.  I say "unfortunately", although I'm probably in a minority.
Personally, I thought the series was promoted to the wrong people.  Only fans of dirt track speedway (simply called "speedway" in Australia) would have understood that all left turns on an oval gave you the opportunity to see the entire show.
The cars don't disappear around the corner, leaving you waiting for them to complete another lap before you saw them again.  
Thankfully sprint cars, midgets and other dirt oval categories still survive in Oz, but it still gets ignored by a lot of Australians who believe the only motorsport worth bothering about is road racing with V8 Supercars.

2:18 Ben Collins before he was the stig 🤣

I took my boys to Rockingham to watch Ascar, a really fun day out for us all. And Rockingham was a great circuit

I used to regularly go and watch. Initially had some great sponsors decals on the cars, good drivers, races where often short though. Such a shame it never really took off.

Also fun fact,t he ASA was involved at the time and whgat was ASCAR became SCSA which absorbed bits of the ASA as well, and somehow is,IIRC, I always felt Roland Rehfeld's car was one of the best looking out on the track, somehting about the Chicago Pneumatics livery just worked. Also Ben Collins was in it, that 2002-05 era was peak ASCAR, and the races were flag to flag live on TV, on...okay yes,Motors TV but also others, too. We have a huge club racing scene here but it rarely gets any TV time,but ASCAR was the exception. You even had international names like Nic Minassian in the series, Michael Vergers, Roland Rehfeld (merc affiliated at the time) and so forth, the cars ran cleanly and were raced hard but very fair and clean with really close but always fun and exciting racing, I think a part of that was to do with how British drivers are vs Americans, but even the European drivers were in on it too, Vergers, Rehfeld, and company were absolutely clean and bloody quick. The cars were wildly fast at the lausitzring too though

EDIT: As for the not getting recognition point.
NASCAR was arguably super insular still n 2002,if you did not come from the USAC ranks or had a huge name vouching for you, nobody cared

There was also a crack at starting a British V8 Supercars Championship. After Two Litre Super Touring finished, some Aussie bloke came up with the idea. Shame it didn't work out, I'm a big Supercars fan. I go to Bathurst every october, it would've been nice to see a Supercars race without having to travel to the other side of the Planet!