Just tried to look through the games I have added here in the past and it seems you can't order them by genre, although the Game Stats does give me my favourite genre :/
First racing game I played was F-1 Race on the GameBoy. Was impressed with the pseudo 3D graphics you could pull off in 2D. Racing didn't really feel right to me until it went 3D, although I did enjoy some top-down 2D racing games such as MicroMachines or GTA2.
Nevertheless, after GameBoy and MegaDrive went into PC gaming back then NFS games such as Hot Pursuit or Most Wanted filled this genre niche for me but I hated getting stuck on the scenry. Later on I loved the OG TrackMania.
As you might notice my preference is with arcade racers and when I returned to console gaming Mario Kart took that spot. MK8 tracks has such course design, elevation and slopes that it didn't feel flat at all, such a blast.







