The current design is half-half.
V at the top, NASCAR-ish at the bottom.
The incident in question saw a fair portion of a substantial part of the #34 car, i.e. the left rear wheel assembly, penetrate the apature where the driver enters and exits the confines of the roll cage.
The essence of V8SC racing is the two-driver endurance races. Making the apature smaller may be detrimental to the endurance concept. Mr Stuart of SBR/Erebus made mention in a recent video clip, that the implementation the E-Cell did in fact hamper the efficiency of driver changes, but in my opinion, it would be a compromise the whole field would accept.
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