Thanks, hotrod and dre for the replies. I will get myself a copy of 2.6A for further guidance. 2.4C will never apply to this chassis. Not even in my dreams. Sub 7.50 is WAY out of reach.
Dre, I find it interesting about airfoil tubing filling that gap, seems certainly no aerodynamic advantage to that, possibly just using up drops from wing struts to fill the gap for cool factor?
It just seems logical to me that if the main hoop should be entire, so should the secondary hoop, from a structural standpoint, interrupted only by the existence of the back braces, and my inquiring mind still does not know what the reasoning there is.
So, again, any thoughts?