[DeTomaso] Dumb question - why aren't steering wheels round anymore?

[CharlesMcCall]

I suppose that in F1 cars a round steering wheel wouldn't fit due to their
legs, but I'm seeing Le Mans cars that don't appear to have the same problem
and their steering wheels are sort of rectangular - a bar with two vertical
grips for the hands. 

 

Whatever happened to round?. 

 

Charles McCall
Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe
1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375
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