IMO, I just don't think you become a diehard based mainly on whether you can see a drivers arms or not. As a fan, I've never really thought about that a whole lot. A lot of those changes have come along to keep flying objects from getting into the cockpit and to keep the drivers arms from extending out of the cockpit in the event of a crash. My uncle spent the last 40 years of his life with a steel plate holding the bones in his forearm together after getting them smashed by a roll cage in an old time sprinter. In fact, one of his sons and 2 of his daughters were at the Haubstadt Hustler to commemorate the 50th anniversary of that crash there. And I think Bob Christian lost an arm because of a piece of wooden guard rail that came into the cockpit. If you didn't tell them that they could see the driver working the wheel, then maybe they wouldn't go to the track expecting to see that and wouldn't leave disappointed when they didn't and would notice all the other things that make this the best form of racing. And there are so many.

Jerry