You can't actually see Lorentz contraction, anyway, due to those same light travel time effects. If you look at the distance between the two legs of those gate thingies as you zoom past, you'll notice that it never changes no matter how fast you're going. What you get instead is rotation, distortion, and a change in position due to the aberration of light. Objects ahead of you appear to elongate, while objects behind you appear to contract (this is why everything seems to get farther away as you accelerate forward, but much closer if you look behind you after gathering the 100th orb).