If you want a race to be an interesting spectacle what you don't do is give the fastest competitors a head start. They can piss about with the regulations as much as they like but until they address this fundamental issue the problem will remain.
The answer is simple. Scrap qualifying and line...
Amazing that a sport which features cars tearing round tracks at 200mph should get so many complaints that's it's 'boring'. Quite a feat, really.
Still, it only has itself to blame.