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could add:

• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• hardpoints
  • composite techniques
• what this means for SES
• Common places to have the composite tub/tube frame split
  • Impact on weight dist/stiffness between the parts

p sure these all kinda fit into what Toaster said, just expanding a bit

All of these ideas sounds awesome! I tried looking through my old photos, but I don't have anything relevant.

Would a tube frame with bonded composite panels be considered a hybrid chassis? There are ways of SES-ing it as a tube frame, but the panels are structural, so I'm a bit torn.

we did this my senior year and submitted it as a tube frame, but im not to confident about the details, i know we still had steel side impact members. in my (close to 0 chassis experience) opinion, I think if you can submit the SES as a tube frame, its fair to cover under tube frame

I think it counts, I'm interested in how you bonded the panels to the tube frame and how effective they were