If you’re a devoted fan of The Simpsons, you already know the most important question about crossing the Equator into the Southern Hemisphere: When you flush a toilet, does the water swirl the opposite direction of Northern Hemisphere toilets? Bart Simpson made a $900 collect call—remember those?—to find that answer out and while the real answer is “No,” the corollary to the Coriolis Effect in racing is that in Australia, stock cars do (or at least did) run the opposite direction of their American and European cousins on oval tracks. This is the highlights package of a 1988 AUSCAR race, which was in effect similar to NASCAR’s Xfinity Series today, and for the American racing audience, it’s positively bizarre to see NASCAR-style cars turning right on ovals.

There was a top “NASCAR Australia” class that featured imported chassis from America running 6.0-liter V8s, while the AUSCAR class ran right-hand-drive Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores with smaller 5.0-liter V8s. Legendary Australian racer Bob Jane brought stock car racing to Australia in the late 1980s and it stuck around for more than a decade. Most of the races were held on the two ovals in the country: Calder Park Raceway’s “Thunderdome,” because of course it was named that, with a few held at the Speedway Super Bowl at Adelaide International Circuit. If you can find better names for ovals, I’d like to hear them.

A few rounds were held on road courses and street circuits, but the overlap with V8 Supercars meant that there was little room for races with turning in both directions. AUSCAR held its last round in 1999 while NASCAR Australia hung on for another couple years until 2001. Among the drivers who competed in those series are now-familiar names in Australia: V8 Supercars driver Russell Ingall, current Supercars team owner Brad Jones, and Touring Car Masters regular Andrew Miedecke (who was a Supercars regular, as well).

That’s all ancient history in the fast-moving world of motorsport, but let your brain to try to cope with all right-hand turns in this highights show.