Best tracks in the entire genre of racing games

[Apteryx]

What are your top 3 favorite tracks in the genre of racing games? I'm curious if there are some tracks we can all agree on being awesome. For me it's

1: Nova Split (BallisticNG)
2: Coconut Mall (Mario Kart: Wii)
3: Australia GP (literally every formula 1 game ever since Australia got a spot on the calendar)

Edit: I meant racetracks not music tracks

[Tiberius]

i like the gauntlet in fh5

[Original Cast Recording]

Laguna Seca

[WarHeRo]

https://youtu.be/bS98ZrSfwQA?feature=shared

[Sixtyfivekills]

Do licensed songs count? Because that's majority of NFS MW 2005 for me, it had Disturbed, Celldweller, Static X, Styles of Beyond and others, I love it.



If not:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt2s8_ym6qg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWKwbjj020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVKzRVX-xd4


Yeah if you couldn't tell I'm not much of a racer, and the only one I actually like is dead series.

[Apteryx]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Sixtyfivekills:

Do licensed songs count? Because that's majority of NFS MW 2005 for me, it had Disturbed, Celldweller, Static X, Styles of Beyond and others, I love it.



If not:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt2s8_ym6qg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWKwbjj020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVKzRVX-xd4


Yeah if you couldn't tell I'm not much of a racer, and the only one I actually like is dead series.

I mean racetracks. Not music tracks

[Sixtyfivekills]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Apteryx:

I mean racetracks. Not music tracks

oh, LMAO my bad.


can't really give an answer because again, I ain't much of a racer, its mostly casual Ridge Racing for me.

[Xautos]

Always liked F1 Challenge 99-02's Hybrid Gravastar remix at 3 minutes and a half. Of course the non-remixed version from Hybrid is almost 10 minutes long and sounds a little different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yajev--HHbA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_lEhZsawpg


Before this i used to listen to the entire Megarace soundtrack, Stéphane Picq, the composer of the music track certainly was ahead of his time with the music technology of the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhT-X43p5M

[Nikalykos]

TrackMania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYtoM-rwW60
Ah dang, still the best racetracks in my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjmzsOOrEnQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPt2h1lsJlo

[Hobbit XIII]

The Cardigans, absolutely gorgeous in real life too.

My favourite game, Gran Turismo 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thPMZ82NYQA

[LexAnimex]

https://youtu.be/g_wmwazYnrA?si=-IBaAQ_u-C8aMb7S

https://youtu.be/iKv5ys8ZI34?si=uN5purAroBrGnnFe

https://youtu.be/goS6jFffgBI?si=q8x89Pcf2reEEdQ1

Edit: Apparently not what you meant. Whatever. I will leave this here

[Mina]

“Paninaro, Caninaro, Let’s Fly!” - Need for Madness.

It’s racetrack dedicated to jumps. It’s an old “Java-based arcade-style online Vehicular Combat racing game”

Their music “track” remixed from the Petshop Boys “Paninaro” was also nice. Inspiring the racetrack title too
https://youtu.be/1L5hUw4GPs0?si=UrRIwSo9dkxAWF_N

[Xautos]

As for actual racetracks?

Love sim racing around Oscherslaben because very few other racers can get the very fast McDonald's sequence of corners right and a awful lot of time can be found there. you need the right amount of aggression and pin point accuracy to thread the needle, then slowing the car just enough to make it through the corner to the backstraight. On Project CARS about a decade ago, i was one of the fastest around the track, as there was a leaderboard, i usually posted somewhere in the top 5 racers of all time.

The Track also tended towards my racing style and setup approach oddly, because my racing style is generally aggressive but measured and my personal setup style tends towards light understeer on the front and a neutral but stable rear end.

[Hobbit XIII]

I'm gonna add

Chocobo racing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOPAX2jidUk

everything wipeout , skip to 3 minutes in to avoid intro and loadings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SJ27_uIHKs


GTA2 intro, just because its a good intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaS_pCjHTgY

GTA Original theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Lvm1tv1mE

[Alliesaurus]

Coconut Mall is goated, crazy good

[Incarnate]

Glen Helen in MXGP3 absolutely destroys noobs. But is rewarding when you've mastered the game. I think that's the definition of a good track.

I've never seen a racing game with a "final boss" until I played that game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZxGtS5cOXw