That Russian race is actually surprisingly engrossing. There's some actual suspense! Even tiny grids can be kind of fun. I think the worst I've known (thinking of some British F3 races I saw at Brands in the really low turnout years) were about 6 cars, which all proceeded to spread out from turn 1, and finished spread over about a minute. No action, nobody catching anyone. Qualifying had worked perfectly, they started in order of speed, and... yeah. A "race".
Pretty sure I saw something on Motors TV a few weeks ago about a British LMP3 championship, which was at Snetterton. From memory that had about 4 cars, and a similar crowd. What a waste of good machinery!
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