you know what dude....

speed isn't everything.. you can have something that's ballistic and won't turn and the guy that has a great setup with average speed is going to smoke him..

never owning an RC10 (until last weekend) and never owning the Rustler my selling points would be that the Rustler I believe is electric start but the RC10 has the bad upgrades (different gear combo's, different hop ups). So, if you want complete ease, go Rustler, probably a great product... if you have an idea that you may want to race later, go check out the track, see what they are running, bet that you find quite a few are RC10's due to the upgrade ability..

just my 2 cents...