Some of you are missing the point. These rides are not to get from point A to B in our fastest time so increasing aerodynamics doesn't gain us anything because the pace is set at the beginning to xx mph based on the weaker riders ability. However, giving maximum shelter from the wind to these riders so they can keep going does benefit the group, allowing us to keep riding with minimal stops. So there's no argument that you can still get a draft off of someone in the drops but there's also no argument that you get a better draft off of someone who is on their tops or on the hoods. It should be noted that paceline rules are not universal and maybe shouldn't have been proposed as such but as I tried to clarify in my earlier post this is how our group does business. The guy on the front eats the wind, that's what we do, When the time comes that we have a core group of riders that can do metrics and full centuries without assistance we can shift our focus to going faster and working on aerodynamics and double pacelines.