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Are smoke flares a problem for Formula 1?
Looking back on the 2022 Austrian Grand Prix orange smoke, and plenty of it too, undeniably spectacular and adding to the buzz of the first laps, how safe is it for drivers engulfed in the cloud as they were at Red Bull Ring. The start of the race on Sunday, coincided by design with an explosion of flares around the circuit, billowing thick plumes driven by the whim of winds made it, at times, almost impossible to see the cars, not only from the grandstands where the fumes had root but also on the TV. Granted trackside TV cameras, with telephoto lenses, tend to exaggerate the thickness of the ‘fog' hence the orange haze that the smoke caused for several laps after the start before it...
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