When watching sportscar racing, I usually time my run to the kitchen to grab some snacks or drinks during the pitstops, because more of the excitement happens on the track. While watching F1 it's the other way round. Barely anything happens in between the pitstops.
It's funny to read people complaining about refuelling ban, because there's no excitement for them left in F1 now. Even
Sidepodcast website nearly got wrapped up after the first few races because of this! They just lost interest.
That really highlights the problem of Formula 1. The aero vs. close following problem aside, if you have each of the 24 cars taking all the corners and straights pretty much the same speed as the cars directly in front or that cars behind for the whole race without making serious mistakes, where the would the overtaking come from? And everything in the sporting and technical rules is written so that they'd have to have similar speed in every bit of the track, use similar setup, strategy and be driven in similar way.
Now think when was the last time you've seen spectacular overtaking moves in the last few races. Kamui at Suzuka? Kubica's run through the field at the end of Singapore GP? Why was that? Ah... different tire condition.
