Muzik
I have a compliation album that I burned that I play to tune my stereo in my 94sc.
I must say that, for me, I choose Metal for racing purposes. Techno stuff works too, but the adrenaline seems to pump better for me with metal.
My favorite racing song is "AM I EVIL" by Metallica. I am not a big Metallica fan, in fact my first taste of music when I was 4 years old was my sister's Black Sabbath tapes and that turned me into a eternal OZZY (not Ozzie like Ozzie and Harriet) fan.
Am I Evil says it all and has that great start up to it after the repetative drum crap in the beginning. Kinda like the beginning of "Straglehold" by Nugent, but meaner and "recognized" as a true bad-ass riff.
On the other hand, Techno has it's place when racing the Imports. When I race an Integra or Eclipse, I tend to flip to CD #5 which consists of the Chemical Brothers and some other stuff that I liberated from Napster. That makes for some real high-speed handling soundtracks.
Country is probably the best for long drives through the midwest. Kinda sets the scene...
I guess I kinda think of my driving as being is the game "Need For Speed". There is a perfect song for every environment and just as NFS has a song for each track, each one of the Chicago expressways, for me, has it's own music...
Thank God for the Creative Nomad Jukebox...6 Gigabytes of MP3s...Never have to burn a CD and can plug right into the CD changer on Aux throught the Kenwood....to bad gas costs too much....