find out what your local clubs race before you pick a class.. no good picking Nitro off-road if the nearest clubs to where you live are all racing electric touring cars
big, powerful fast motors do not make you a better driver.. learn to drive the car by going slowly & then progress from there. when you can get a car round a track without crashing, flipping over or slamming into the barriers then consider upgrading to a faster motor & keep climbing the ladder until you know your limits & how the speed increase changes affect the way the car behaves.
always buy a kit instead of an RTR (by all means buy an RTR, but consider a kit at some point).. if you know how to build a car you automatically learn how to repair a car when something breaks or needs adjustment & understand what all the parts are doing.
try driving round a couple of cones in an oval to get a feel for the car, sounds boring but you will begin to know by instinct when the car reacts & the trick is to learn how to get round them faster without going wide.. then consider doing figure 8's or using a 3rd cone to make a slalom & watch how the car behaves & how confident you can get, in time you will see how your reactions sharpen. even some of the top drivers do this from time to time to polish their skills or simply to see how a car is reacting to set-up changes.
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