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IMHO the greatest advantage for F1 is the format. A race 1h30m long is easier to follow for the largest part of the people. So, this makes F1 more commercial than Endurance races. People who follows F1 don't understand Endurance races, because are longer, with cars of different classes, two or more driver each car, different strategies, and longer pito stops. This makes harder to understand this kind of races, and people who doesn't like this kind of format find it boring.
In shorter races like F1 ones, it's easier to understand strategies, there's only one drivers each car, there's a glamour atmosphere, and there's less mind commitment to understand what's happening, and how race will evolve.
Formula 1 format is more commercial, easy, is just like the take-away food in a fast food.
Endurance is just another story, and I'm proud to be from this side of the wall!
Formula 1 is the pinnacle of motorsport only for its followers, but it's undoubtable you find more variety of engines, fuels, specs and classes on the starting grid of Endurance races, instead of F1 ones. Formula 1 is only the most expensive single-brand championship. Cars have all the same engine displacement, number of cylinders, aerodynamic shape (measures are all defined by the rules), use all the same fuel...
Le Mans is quite different; and is clearly more spectacular.
In the last years, the gap between the winners and the opponents is closer and closer, and races are coming faster and faster.
From the performance point of view, P1s are very very close to F1 singleseaters, and the gap is basically for the air-restrictors and the higher weight. Removing air-restrictors, and allowing to manufacturers save more weight, we may have P1 as fast as F1 cars.
Then, I've seen more passionate challenges in Le Mans 24 hours (in all classes) than in the entire Formula 1 season.
At the end, between lovers of F1 and Endurance races, the difference is the same we find between the lovers of the american action movies, and the lovers of the author's movie.
Personally no way to win for action movies. I prefer author's ones.
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