I’m totally unfamiliar with this division, and really don’t follow racing at all, so maybe I’m missing something but...

An old episode of Fifth Gear covered how this sort of thing could happen.

Happens all the time...

What about safety? Does unibody provide more/better energy absorption/dispersion versus BoF?

Yup. I haven’t a clue what a MB 1836 is...

Can you do this animated with John Madden’s voice?