I saw Rob shortly after these photos were taken and he seemed to have command of all his faculties. Understandably he mentioned he was a bit sore.

To underscore Marc's point, the cage did it's job. The forward downtube did bend as Kirk mentioned, but the weld held up perfectly. More to Kirk's point, I had the same thoughts as I was inspecting the damage, but after looking at my own car last night, it may be more difficult to add after-the-fact as opposed to being incorporated into an original design.

The halos on the RX7s are very short, which extends the length of the downtube and closes up the angle. The steeply raked windshields factor into this also, as well as the deep dashboard. The downside to adding a bar as Kirk showed is that it puts it in very close proximity to the driver's head, arms, etc. This may be one of those "lesser of the two evils" things however.

I personally don't know if Rob is a religious man, but it's plain to me that God was looking out for him that day.