You can't have watched for very long. There is overtaking all the time, albeit of slower cars by much faster cars. With 60 cars on the circuit (well, there were at the start!) a lap of just under 8.5 miles and over half a minute between the fastest and slowest lap times (at the moment) there is bound to be cars passing each other regularly.
There have even been some reasonably spectacular "offs" which normally add to the appeal, so long as they aren't life changing for anyone. There's also some tactics in play, and that
I remember taking a few F1 fans to LM some years back and mostly their short attention span wasn't suited to endurance either, but a couple now prefer endurance over sprints.
I get that from here that the quality of motor racing is determined by the amount of overtaking, and I understand that it makes more of a spectacle of a race, but there's more to racing than that. The predictability seems to be an issue for some but there aren't many sports in which the likely outcome can't be foreseen in advance.
F1 have made some efforts to falsely level the playing field and come into criticism for it, including from this who say it is boring. What do people want?
But I understand that motor racing isn't for everyone and what surprises me is that people still tune in and watch a race so they can have a grumble about how boring it is!! :-)
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