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Originally Posted by Taxi645
Personally I reckon this is a false argument that is dragged into the discussion far too often.
I almost never see people say that competition used to be much closer. Just that having it closer would make F1 more interesting NOW. Making it live up to it's potential more in a world where a lot more things fight for people's attention and interest.
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Every single survey about F1 in recent years has resulted in "bring back overtaking" and "it was better in the year XXXX" without any hard facts or statistics to back up the assertions. Hell, we ended up with DRS as a response to endless "there isn't enough overtaking" comments in the media.
Your latter comment is a salient point, though: lots of things in the worlds of the arts, entertainments and sport are fighting for people's attention, interest
and money. Consumers of such things have decreasing attention spans, perhaps in part because there's so much stuff vying for their attention. F1 races are long, the season is long, and it isn't necessarily going to deliver thunderingly exciting entertainment every minute of every race in every year...
So for the sake of argument: what is the "potential" of Formula 1?