It depends whether you have a view to starting racing, or whether you just want to bash around.
If it's just for bashing, the Lazer is a decent choice, although you might find that a few parts don't stand up to hard abuse. If hard abuse is your thing you are better of with something more truck-like or 1/8th scale.
If you are racing, you will probably find that you'll replace a lot of the equipment in it quite soon - the motor is sensorless system which isn't well suited to racing, and you might also find yourself replacing a few parts to get better reliability when racing. The readyset Lazer is several generations of development behind the current racing Lazer's.
That probably comes across as a bit negative - it isn't intended to be - the Lazer is a good package to learn to drive with but you'll soon reach it's limits for bashing or competitive racing. For a quick start in racing, I'd actually be tempted to go for the brushed motor version at first, and save the rest of the money for a sensored brushless system, tyres and tuning parts to get the car working on your track.
Another model well worth considering as a potential racer is the Associated B4.1 RTR. That also has a sensorless brushless system in it nowadays (unfortunately), but the chassis is very close indeed to the car that is used to get into national A-finals.
Unfortunately there aren't a huge numbers of RTR's that are easy to prepare for racing these days. If you just like bashing, there are LOADS of them around.
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