RE: bad pics
The cage in that car is made of T45 and the tubing is pretty thin. I never put a caliper on the tubes so I don't know exact dimensions, but I remember being very surprised by how thin and light each tube was before being welded in. The engineers designed it that way so that the cage would crush and absorb some of the energy from impacts instead of transfering it to the occupants inside. It might look bad, but the fact is, that car took 6-7 very large impacts and both inside lived to tell about it. Yes, the cage deformed a lot, but not enough to kill or injure the co-driver. I would say that the engineers did their job and probably saved two lives in the process. A much stiffer cage would have deformed less, but the higher g-loads could have caused all sorts of problems, spinal compresion, base skull injury, etc.
Alin