my advice for what its worth would be to go up to Tims track(ndor) on a saturday for practice and run the hell out of it. I was there today running my engine in and it was great fun. Track seems massive after all the tenth ones that we run on but the 1/8 cars cover the ground very quickly and drive very differently to the tenth cars. I was surprised how nimble it was considering how heavy they are. Very impressed so far. May have caught the nitro bug.