Greatest Racers in History

It's no doubt I like racing. Everyone that knows me know I've been an avid race fan my entire life. I enjoy attending and photographing races. So in this down time I've had I started thinking about all the great racers I've seen (and there is a brief disclaimer: I had to have seen them race at least once in person to have made the cut) and there have been more great NASCAR drivers I didn't quite put on this list. This was a very difficult list and I had to stretch my memory as to who I can remember seeing in person. I also base it off the versatility of each driver outside of NASCAR. So with that being said, here's the list.
NASCAR (My primary go-to form of professional racing for 28 years but did not start attending Cup series races until 2007)
Jeff Gordon--never saw him win in person, but 4 championships and over 90 career wins. Record speaks for itself.
Jimmie Johnson--saw ALL of his Texas wins. 7 championships and over 80 career wins.
Tony Stewart--saw his 2011 Fall Texas win along with an IROC win at Texas in 2006, 3 Cup championships and 49 wins. Also saw him race in Nationwide, IROC, and sprint cars. One of the greatest wheelmen in history.
Mark Martin--never saw him win in person, but he won 49 career races as well, and won several IROC championships, one of the best and most underrated drivers in history.
Rusty Wallace--again, never saw him win in person, was retired when I attended my first race, but did get to meet him a couple times. 50 career Cup wins and a championship.
Kyle Busch--Seen him win in every series he's run. One of the greatest wheelmen of all-time. No further discussion needed.
Kevin Harvick--saw him win races at Michigan and Texas in person. 1 championship and 50 wins. One of the best ever and he's only getting better.
Denny Hamlin--seen him win races at Homestead and Texas, best to never win a championship.
Bill Elliott--awesome Bill. Never saw him win a race in person, by the time I saw him his winning days were behind him.
Matt Kenseth--it was a toss-up between he and Kurt Busch on this for NASCAR, but Kenseth gets the partiality nod for me. I was an unashamed die-hard Matt Kenseth fan (and still am) now that he's back. Never saw him win in person, outside of my first ever Busch race.

Indy Car: I've been to one Indy Car race in person, but would attend their practice/qualifying/autograph session for a few years.
Will Power (has the best name ever)
Scott Dixon (won the only Indycar race I attended in person)
Helio Castroneves
Juan Montoya (saw him in both NASCAR and Indycar) world class driver who almost seems underrated.
Simon Pagenaud
Tony Kanaan
Alex Rossi
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Takuma Sato
Josef Newgarden
(There may have been more that ran F-1 but I only started paying attention to Indy car full-time last season)
Sprint car (I have only attended 3 410 sprint car races along with maybe a handful of 360, because they don't run them here a lot)
Steve Kinser* (I only saw him run an IROC car, I've met his son Kraig a couple times)
Donny Schatz
Kyle Larson (saw him at Devils Bowl last month, he's as good as advertised on dirt)
Daryn Pittman
Sammy Swindell (prior to last year I only saw him race a truck on the road course at Topeka in 1995)
Brad Sweet
Jason Johnson (saw him race a few times and 2 months before he died in a crash 2 years ago)
Sam Hafertepe Jr (saw him win in ASCS 360 and run All-Star 410)
Shane Stewart
Aaron Ruetzel (saw him in both ASCS 360 and All-Star 410 sprints) Fast in both.

Misc: world-class drivers I've seen race a little bit of everything, I think there's more guys on this list than everywhere else...)
Tanner Faust (met/saw him race Global Rally 4 years ago) Maybe the greatest driver on the planet???
Scott Speed--ran F1, NASCAR, and Global Rally. World Class driver with one of the best names ever
Steve Arpin--Canadian driver I saw race USMTS modifeds and global rally. Also ran ARCA, truck, and nationwide cars. Very versatile driver.
Brian Deegan--better known as Hallie's dad, has raced off-road and global rally. Saw him run Global rally.
Ken Schrader. Nuff said. Only saw him run outside of NASCAR twice, both in dirt late models. As good as advertised. Had a chance to see him in his modified last year at my home track, but rainouts forced his schedule to change.
Robby Gordon--saw him in NASCAR and stadium super trucks. One of the most diverse racers of all-time.
Christopher Bell. I'm a bit biased here. I'm a BIG fan of this guy. One of the absolute best in midgets and sprint cars, I've only seen him in NASCAR, though.
Rico Abreu--see description for Bell.
Sebastian Bourdais--saw him in IROC and Indy car, French driver. Very diverse and versatile and underrated. Has also run Formula 1 and I think is currently running IMSA or some kind of road racing series.
Max Papis--saw him in NASCAR and IROC. Also met him several times. GREAT guy. Raced everything from Formula 1 to NASCAR.
Scott Pruett--as far as I can recall, I only saw him in NASCAR and IROC. One of the best road-racers of all-time.
Travis Pastrana. Is there anything this guy hasn't raced? Saw/met him his one year in NASCAR. Awesome guy.
Ricky Carmichael. He's called the GOAT for his Supercross record. I saw him his one year in trucks. Very nice guy.
Nelson Piquet Jr. Ran F-1. Met him his few years in NASCAR.
Narian Karthikeyan. Unknown name, I'm sure. F-1 driver from India. Ran the truck series in 2010. He was good. But was gone after that year and I have no idea what he ever did after that. Was hoping he would get a fair shot in NASCAR. If you can drive in F-1 you can drive. Period. And kinda cool to have a guy from India trying his hand in NASCAR.
Lastly--Dave Blaney. Only saw him in NASCAR. Would love to see him race sprint cars. One of the greatest sprint car drivers of all-time.

I'm excluding all the weekend warriors that show up every week, wheel their car for all its worth, and don't get the glory or the money that these guys do.

Blessed to have seen so many amazing racers in 35 of attending races.