Originally Posted by
speedog
NASCAR's Energy Energy Cup series race at the Sonoma road course saw over 2,000 overtakes in just that one race for 40 drivers. Not sure how IndyCar stacks up but F1 saw just over 1,000 overtakes in the whole of the 2016 season for 21 drivers. Dirt track - who knows but it's also not really fair to make these comparisons because of the differences in these different forms of auto racing.
But still, would there be more excitement to a F1 race if there was more on-track passing - 21 drivers, let's say maybe several hundred passes in a race? IndyCar - is the amount of overtaking/passing similar to F1, I'm not sure but Indycar's oval races do see a lot of on track passing.