Here are all the goats [UPDATED] 

"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy) 07/05/2018 at 09:30 • Filed to: Listicles, Take, Greatest of All Time, Racing, Oppo is a goat farm now, GOAT, Musings

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Because Drew Magary cannot into racing (unless he steps foot on this forum), I have taken the opportunity to name some GOATs in select classes of motorsport. My takes are captioned.

WARNING: The takes here will be piping hot. Prepare yourself.

Note: this is just the opinion of one man and one commenter, and does not reflect the views of this forum or Jalopnik.

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All-time Greatest Racing Driver/F1: Ayrton Senna

Triple Crown of Racing: Graham Hill

Endurance prototypes: Tom Kristensen

Rally: Sebastien Loeb. Someone will hate me for this: https://oppositelock.kinja.com/sebastien-loeb-is-kind-of-a-dick-498821123

Greatest Woman to Race: Michele Mouton

Touring Car: Andy Priaulx (and GOAT touring car maker is BMW)

Australia Supercars: Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup (tied)

Hillclimb: Nobuhiro Tajima (hillclimb purists say dirt and mixed-surface Pikes Peak is the best, and with Tajima-san’s record on the surface it’s hard to find a better driver)

Drift: Keiichi Tsuchiya

GT: [honestly this is hard to list because GT is just so damn tight]

NASCAR: Richard Petty (this was tough, and why I held off adding a NASCAR slot. It was either him or Dale Earnhardt Sr. I think they’re tied.

Drag racing: John Force (again, another tough choice)

MotoGP: Valentino Rossi (unless Marc Marquez can get to 10 titles before Rossi gets his 10th)

Greatest Motorcycle Rider: Joey Dunlop

Motocross: Ricky Carmichael

Car + Bike: John Surtees

And now special shoutouts to the following:

Sir Stirling Moss, the greatest non-champion

Sir Jack Brabham, who became champion driving his own car

Jean Rondeau, who created his own car, one that bagged him a Le Mans win

Alex Zanardi, who makes me unworthy

And finally, Leena Gade, who’s simply the boss.

This list is created entirely to start some shit-talkking, so stir shit, y’all, and tell Stef or anyone else back at Jalopnik to rip my picks to shreds. More will be added in the comments area.

DISCLAIMER: not all of the goats and GOATs are in this list. You were misled, bitch. Clickbait FTW!!!

Wheelerguy > Wheelerguy 07/04/2018 at 06:24

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Greatest F1 team: Ferrari

Greatest LMP1 team: Audi Sport

Greatest endurance prototypes team: Porsche

Greatest rally team: Citroen

Greatest IMSA prototypes team: Action Express Racing

Greatest GT team: Porsche

Greatest Super GT team: apr (the ones who run a Prius in GT300)

Greatest DTM team: Alfa Romeo (lol joke it’s BMW)

Greatest V8SC team: 888 Racing

Greatest non-F1 privateer racing team:

Greatest MotoGP team: Repsol Honda

Greatest Dakar Rally manufacturer: Mitsubishi

Best racing truck of all time: Kamaz Dakar truck

pip bip - choose Corrour > Wheelerguy 07/04/2018 at 06:28

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Whincup is a wanker!

McLaren is the greatest F1 team.

:)

Wheelerguy > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/04/2018 at 06:30

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This is what I like: t akes. Keep ‘em coming, the rest of you.

. . > Wheelerguy 07/04/2018 at 06:35

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What do you mean you can’t point out the GOAT GT driver?

It’s clearly Vadim Kogay

Wheelerguy > . . 07/04/2018 at 06:38

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OMEGALUL

Nom De Plume > Wheelerguy 07/04/2018 at 07:07

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Faith in OPPO sorely misplaced by dint of omitting GOAT goatee (in racing).

You certainly knocked it out of the park with sheer number of goat images though.

Wheelerguy > Nom De Plume 07/04/2018 at 07:30

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Did you read the disclaimer?

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Wheelerguy 07/04/2018 at 09:07

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Goat curry is the best.

AfromanGTO > Wheelerguy 07/04/2018 at 11:39

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You left out the most important Goat on the 4 th of July....  

Nom De Plume > Wheelerguy 07/04/2018 at 15:25

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Sure, make me the scapegoat.

pip bip - choose Corrour > AfromanGTO 07/05/2018 at 09:34

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Aussie Goat.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Wheelerguy 07/05/2018 at 09:54

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I dare you to insert either Duterte or Trump half way through.  

gettingoldercarguy > Wheelerguy 07/05/2018 at 10:07

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There can be only Juan G.O.A.T.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Wheelerguy 07/05/2018 at 11:54

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Petty is overrated. Earnhardt and the Wonder Boy are both better. 200 wins, blah blah blah, they ran like 60 races a year. It wasn’t top tier talent. Petty would unload sometimes over a second faster than the rest of the racers and this was on mostly short tracks.

AfromanGTO > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/05/2018 at 12:27

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I had more than the Aussie Goat. Kinja didn’t post the 5 other GTOs......

RPM esq. > Wheelerguy 07/05/2018 at 13:34

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I’m this one.

interstate366, now In The Industry > Future next gen S2000 owner 07/05/2018 at 23:06

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David Pearson too. The only reason he has “only” 105 wins is that a lot of the time the Wood Brothers didn’t run the full season when he was their driver.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Wheelerguy 07/05/2018 at 23:07

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dogisbadob > Wheelerguy 07/05/2018 at 23:10

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those goats are cute

aquila121 > . . 07/05/2018 at 23:16

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The announcers ripped him apart--and I love it.

Chariotoflove > Wheelerguy 07/05/2018 at 23:25

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I’ve never heard of any of these people.  Except that Petty guy.  I think I saw him hawking some car care products on TV one time.

aquila121 > Wheelerguy 07/05/2018 at 23:31

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Pretty much all of the driver names I recognized, I agreed with. The one exception, though, was that I’m unsure about Tsuchiy a for drifting—I realize that he was a pioneer of the discipline, but I wonder how he’d fare in competition against a number of other drivers these days: Nob Taniguchi, for example, or if we’re looking at talent in America’s Formula Drift series, Frederic Aasbo or James Deane are fantastically consistent. You know what? N evermind. Tsuchiya is the originator responsible for the popularity of drifting, and I’m sure that his talent hasn’t waned, he gets it.

But rather than Richard Petty, the NASCAR pick is a no-brainer:

sdwarf36 > Chariotoflove 07/05/2018 at 23:58

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Glad you’re here. Glad you shared.

Chariotoflove > sdwarf36 07/06/2018 at 01:03

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Dammit, I thought I was trolling pretty well. Now you ruined it.  :)

sdwarf36 > Chariotoflove 07/06/2018 at 08:37

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Whatsamatta-ain’t you got Facebook?

Chariotoflove > sdwarf36 07/06/2018 at 10:22

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I don’t the facetube, or that youbook thing. When that yourspace thing came out, I saw where this was all going and wanted no part of it. 

Wheelerguy > gettingoldercarguy 03/16/2020 at 06:09

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Come to think of it, Ayrton did look up to Fangio.