ORIGINAL: HerrSavage
Exactly - the only place an electric really wins in speed is on a 1/4 mile stretch of straight pavement..
I've only ever been a slacker club racer at the local track, but more power is the last thing I need to become faster racing. Maybe the top %5 of buggy racers can really take advantage of the power of the higher end nitro engines. The rest are spinning tires, and getting out of position, making mistakes, etc.. from too much power.. - nitro power. Insofar as you're talking about 1/8 buggy offroad racing, most nitro engines are TOO poweful to get the best laptimes.
The only place? So Adam Drake couldn't beat you in a nitro if he was driving an electric?
Thank you very much for making my point for me, although you seem to think it indicates the opposite...the tracks impose the limits, not the powerplants. Nitro doesn't suddenly get better jsut because a track is short and technical, all it does is remove the electric advantage. Electric still has more power. You can keep telling me that you don't care about power because its not usable on a track or that you would sacrifice power for sound and smell, but all of that is your opinion, the fact remains electric is more powerful.
I can't be bothered with this anymore, let me make it real simple. Electric=more power. More power=better, whether or not you can always 'use' that power.
A go-kart is faster round a go-kart track than a Bugatti Veyron. Therefore Go-karts are just as good as bugattis! Yay.