On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 20:43:34 -0700, Alan Baker
<notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

It is apparently too difficult to see them in the places where they have >always been... ...even when approaching at much less than racing speed.

Here's George Russell commentating his own lap around Mugello:

<https://www.facebook.com/skysportsf1/videos/1018182935291563/>

The flags HE mentions are pretty far off the driver's eyelineubeing
elevated well above the racing surface...

...and he is not only looking to see them: he's figuring out in which >direction they're flying, so he can gauge the wind.

No real need to remind us that a driver who regularly finishes in the
bottom quartile has a bit more time on his hands to be looking around
him than the fastest driver out there.
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