I'll copy a couple of quotes over her, but when I raised the point in the Raise Your Hand for Key West thread that I believe SBI is one class short currently, a discussion started about why.

Quote Originally Posted by Ratickle View Post
By the way, my opinion, you are one "P" class short now. It takes too much power to get a 34' to 38' Cig, Scarab, etc. up to 95mph.... 85 was about right....
This is my opinion, still is.

Where do the old F2 type boats run? Jim Simmons, arguably the best running twin engine F2 still running, runs in an 85 MPH Class 4 OPA. Until this year, similar in SBI as far as maximum allowed speed.

It shocks me that the boat which I believe has won every P4 World's the last 3 years, and is also a duplicate Triple Crown winner, now has no class to run in.

But, my bigger concern, is that all of the similar type boats also have no place to run in SBI. As I said above, one class short in my opinion.

I would have zero issue with it being a spec class again. I'll also copy over a couple of the other quotes.

Keep it pleasant all.