After I read through the posts, I started to think about the good ol' racing games I have encountered.
As a little kid I wasn't looking at the name, I was just saying : that game with those cars in it :P .We first had an Amiga (but then we didn't know what it was called but as it had two joystics wit big red buttons on it we just called it simply joystic =P [I was 5-6 years old !

] ). I think I have encountered my fist racing game on that platform . ( can't remember :o )
After that we bought a 386 . It was a lovely piece of hardware (I can still remember playing Commander Keen on it ^^) and I played a F1 game on it (as said above, can't remember the name, but everybody who had a PC at that time had the game on his HDD

) . All I remember is the accolade logo appearing when starting the game :P . I was playing it occasionally,as it used to freeze all the time.
After that came a long brake from racing games, until one day I discovered a newer F1 like game (some kind of Grand Prix...can't remember the name and it is a shame cause I would really love to try it on my new PC. I know it is in the first part of the "Taxi" (Emilien plays it on his computer :P ) and also that i was using a setup with such a high nose setting, that the front of the car was bouncing on the long straights ^^ ) Loved the game. Really.
The third game to mention here is GeneRally. An old saying says that the best things are for free. This game is for free

I used to play it with friends (3 in front of a 15' monitor


) and it was so damn fun. The game taught me to drive on the ideal lines on the track
So theese racing games ( oldies ) were the best to me. After theese came the NFS series, CMR series, and a bunch of other racing games ( Ignition , RoadRash (

) , carmageddon (1+2) and so on ... [damn my memory is so bad

] )
After discovering LFS i started to see the racing genre in a different way. I started to search for other sims to try out as many of them as i could, hoping there is something better than LFS. But after S2 , "Nothing else matters"
Thank You for reading this far and sorry for the spelling mistakes and typos !