RVSC24 R10 Repco Bathurst 1000

[Alan52]

Originally Posted by chavez

The Safety Car is perhaps more similar to Sets in tennis. The winner of the set (or in our case the race leader) is still ahead in overall terms, with the result of the previous set (or in our case laps led) ignored for the next Set.

It doesn't help that the commentators were calling for a Safety Car to close the race up. Think of how many once-a-year watchers there are and for them to hear this.

I watch the Great Race each year with the car club I am a member of. It has become increasingly difficult to convince members who only watch Bathurst that the series in entertaining and Bathurst is not necessarily reflective of the general level of competition.

I’m not sure that analogy holds up.In tennis you get to keep the set you win on your scorecard and simply aren’t rewarded with the first serve in the following set.A better analogy is that they always play 5 sets and it doesn’t matter if you lost the first 4 if you win the 5th set you are the winner of the match.
I can agree with your statement about car club members watching the race as a group with low boredom thresholds.I spoke to someone who watched the 2019 race -the year of the Bathurst 6.213 rather than the Bathurst 1000 - in such a group and they mostly thought the race was “boring” until the late race Safety Car epidemic (aka the DJR Day Of Shame).Yet that race was great from the start with a constant mixture of the fastest co drivers going up against the Championship drivers and all sort of tactical switches.
Which returns to my original question about whether motor racing fans have uniquely low concentration spans.