What's your favorite Race of all time?

Donington 1993!!!
Ayrton Senna started in 4th under heavy rain, driving an outclassed McLaren, dropped to 5th, and in 1 min 14 Secs, passed four cars and took the lead, and won the race. That first lap became a legend in F1. His drive in Monaco in 1984 was the first sign that an icon had been born.
There is a clip in youtube , "Lap of life" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9qZu7h5ys0, where starting at 4:04 you can the expressions on the faces of the other drivers, icons themselves, in pure awe of the driving skills demonstrated in his pole position lap. The last driver shown, Prost, looks like a kid whose favorite toy has been taken away!
 
My favorite race is not even on 4 wheels.

2012 AMA Daytona 200. Jason DiSalvo (#9 Gary Nixon Commerative Triumph)has a problem, He comes in, gets it fixed, and then goes beast mode, and passes 40 bikes, to finish 2nd. Loses by 1 bike length (margin of victory was .048s). Only race to ever make me lose my voice from yelling.
 
My favorite race is not even on 4 wheels.

2012 AMA Daytona 200. Jason DiSalvo (#9 Gary Nixon tribute Triumph) has a problem, He comes in, gets it fixed, and then goes beast mode, and passes 40 bikes, to finish 2nd. Loses by 1 bike length (margin of victory was .048s). Only race to ever make me lose my voice from yelling.

Last 15 minutes of race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOWUjO-fkvI

Entire race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DIk2hBTils

2nd favorite would probably be 1991 Indy 500, with Rick Mears going on the outside of Michael Andretti with 8 laps to go.
 

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