Should NASCAR ever expand to Italy, it may run up against some brand confusion. Nascar Studios is a Web advertising and marketing design shop based in Naples.

I’m hoping Nascar someday gets the Formula 1 account. I’d love to see F1’s website sporting the legend, “designed by Nascar”.

Since I don’t speak or read Italian, I can’t discern much about the company. From their Web portfolio, I can see they’re typical of design shops all over the globe in going overboard on Flash. In the case of Harmont & Blaine (home of the designer weiner dog), it makes for a bloated, practically unusable site.

On the plus side, they do maintain a blog. Again, it’s in Italian, so I can’t read it. But it appears to be updated frequently, which is always a good sign.