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One thing that was incredibly noticeable to me, at least from a watching on TV perspective (and very much heightened by how much the whole Vegas thing had been hyped) was how little of anything distinctive you could actually see in race shots.
This is kind of the problem with this type of track and modern safety approaches. All you really see most of the time is track surface, concrete walls, and a tunnel of high grey catch fencing. You might get a glimpse of building or lights in the background, but generally, that's all your getting. From that perspective, most of the lap could have been Singapore, or Macau, or any of the other places where they stick a big race on public roads. It's not inevitable - the architecture of somewhere like Baku means that you're running through quite open and wide streets which changes the environment a lot, but around somewhere like this, you could have put it anywhere. Caesars Palace carpark? It might as well have been.
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