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Dude, you forget, I live in the land where NASCAR is the only motorsport that exists to most of the population. If it doesn't look exciting on-track, they don't give a crap, and they won't care enough to bother looking it up online. There are quite a few Americans who take a lot of pride in their willful ignorance of anything that isn't spoon-fed to them. And they do NOT want anything new put in front of them that takes them out of their comfort zone; there are those who still think Lotus should have been kicked out of Indy when they showed up with something other than a roadster.
Even in Europe, do you honestly think most fans who watch racing take the time to look up the technicalities of the sport in any particular detail? Of course not. Racing is a diversion for most fans; it is supposed to be entertainment in their eyes, and as such, should require no real effort to understand or get enjoyment from it. How do you think 'modern" fans would react to a race run on the simple principle of an aggregate result? They wouldn't be happy, because they'd be confused, unless the guy who won overall was the one who crossed the line first.
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