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Hi,

While I agree with the general thrust of argument, that comparison is cherry picking, and you could pick any Monaco GP from the past 20 years or more and see something similar. Monaco is an outlier track, always has been, and no-one in F1 would even claim it is a good race as such - just look at the driver and owner comments from this year. And if anyone came up with the idea of a track like Monaco these days they would be laughed out of court. Just because it is tradition doesn't mean that it is a great idea.....

If you looked at any other track used this year, you would see something quite different, and if you strip Verstappen out of the equation then based on the criteria in the graphs then we've actually had good racing in F1. But I wouldn't claim that large numbers of overtakes and changes in position necessarily make good racing either, otherwise Formula E would be right up there. That said, the closer racing at the front of IndyCar and the larger pool of potential winners is certainly more compelling, but it would be interesting to see the same graphs done between the road, street, short oval and long oval within IndyCar, and see whether there really is a correlation between interest and overtakes, and whether the interest in races correlates with circuit type.

I'll now duck and run and get back to the 1948 US race season research.....

Cheers,

Darren Galpin

Bristol, UK