Hi poe,

Thanks for asking. It could come in as low as $200 or so, depending on what you have lying around your shop. $400-600 is a good baseline to field a bracket car. We had a lot more than that in our R1E bracket truck. However, that was a conversion from a stadium truck. We don't recommend that. Purchase a drag-specific car. It's much cheaper in the long run. Talking electric here. Nitro, we can't comment on. We don't know. Our R2E bracket / index rail comes in at around $1200, give or take. But, we had to make a number of costly modifications to get the performance we desired. You can come in cheaper than that.

Types? Down and dirty simple: Bracket, Index and Extreme classes. Bracket is a starting line dial-in. Index is a break-out class. Extreme is wide open. These are combined classes, meaning electric and nitro compete against each other. There are other classes specific to electric and nitro.

We recommend you attend a RC drag race near you. Differing geographic locations seem to favor one type car over another. For example, broad brush here, East Caost is Nitro-oriented toward ProMod; Texas a mix of electric and nitro, for the most part rails (dragster chassis). Midwest-MN and IL favor electric FC, TF and Extreme. West Coast, electric FC (Funny Cars and rails). Again, check in with your local race track before you buy. OR, just show up and run bracket. That class is always full and a great place to start.

Hope this helps.

//AC//