I mean, you could technically even make a Traxxas vehicle competitive, and how difficult that is depends on the class. The JATO was competitive in 1/10th scale nitro truck pretty much out of the box (and apparently still is, even against the Ignite Designs conversions) and the Slash 4x4 LCG can hang with higher-end 4WD SCTs at a club level, but something like a Bandit, well, you've seen how much work MXAcres had to put into the Bandito to get it to run with the full-on race cars.

😂

Think I heard him asking "for racing"

There wasn’t any there that day.

@@mxacres That's a shame, those brands make really good cars - in particular, Schumacher makes THE best stadium truck on the market and Yokomo's buggies can literally be described as "Associated but slightly faster, at the cost of being slightly less durable". And Serpent makes RTRs of their racing kits that are competitive right out of the box. But I guess at the end of the day what sells is generally what you can get parts for at the track. And that creates a feedback loop where the shop only carries parts for the cars their customers run.

For 1/8th scale, definitely. Kyosho might be for 1/10th scale but outside of touring cars HB only ever made one 1/10th scale platform in the past and Mugen doesn't make any.