NASCAR fans interest in NASCAR's other interest

[Joe Fan]

As you may be aware, NASCAR owns the Grand-Am road racing series which has the Daytona 24 Hours as its crown jewel event. I wonder what interest the average NASCAR fan would have in this series which emphasizes non-factory sports car teams with attempts by the series to level the playing field.

I like the concept of this series as it seems to address the issues that have caused other sports car series to fail.

NASCAR has the bucks and marketing expertise to grow this series as well as the ability to create road courses in the infield of most of their (ISC) tracks a 1.5-mile or bigger.

Now, what do you think would be the level of interest of the average NASCAR in seeing a Chevrolet Corvette go up against a Ford Mustang ala the Trans-Am series of the late 60's and 70's along with an exotic sports car class? Or is this what the current Trans-Am and American Le Mans series is for?