[Stern]@ESPN -2 got 920,000 viewers for Saturday's @F1 race from Saudi Arabia, down 40% from 1.523 million viewers last year, though that event was on the main ESPN channel and held on a Sunday.
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People see the past with rose tinted glasses. The only reason races used to have several different winners in the past was because reliability used to be atrocious which meant that even in a season with a dominant car, others would win a several times through attrition.
What used to worse was that the field spread used to be massive (4-5 seconds) and only the top 6 used to get points so even the midfield used to boring.
Yes while we are seeing more dominant runs and less variation in winners, the general quality of racing has improved.