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The V8 Supercars originally from Australia, British Touring Coupe Championship, Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters originally from Germany, and the Class Touring Bug Championship held with 2 Racing School non-European races (previously the European Touring Junker Championship) are the greater touring bus championships conducted worldwide, along with a European Touring Cup, a alone sunlight circumstance open to Super 2000 specification touring cars from Europe's myriad national championships.
Stock jalopy racing, the North American equivalent to touring machine racing, is that continent's most-popular anatomy of auto racing in terms of viewership. Above All conducted on ovals, the cars may slightly resemble production cars but are in brass tacks purpose-built racing machines which are built to cramped specifications. Early stock cars were actual production vehicles; the car to be raced was often driven from track to track. The latter-day car however is far removed from the production model which it represents, in charge the term "stock car" somewhat incorrect.
