One thing I was remarking while watching, is how comparatively safe the sport has become. There was a hard bump between a couple cars near the beginning of the race, but nothing like a crash.

Have you seen the 1966 movie Grand Prix? Apparently of the 32 professional racing drivers who participated or were seen in the film, five died in racing accidents within two years and another five in the following ten years. That is the way the sport used to be, due to the flimsiness of the cars I guess, they were described as "death traps." But now there have been no fatalities since 2015, and the last one before that was in 1994. I don't think Vegas would have allowed Grand Prix if the race were still as dangerous as it used to be. The idea of a car careening off the course and landing on people doesn't sound too palatable.

A 1957 Ferrari crashed into a crowd during the Mille Miglia race on May 12, 1957, near the town of Guidizzolo, Italy. The crash, caused by a tire failure at high speed, killed the driver Alfonso de Portago, his navigator, and nine spectators, and led to the permanent end of the Mille Miglia as an open-road race. The crash was memorialized in the 2023 Ferrari movie.