ORIGINAL: Nik.
just imagine a guy with a $250 rtr shows up to a race full of guys with $1500 in their equipment

that's only, what, 4 minutes? Little joke there.
Precisely my point! You don't need to put $1,500 into a buggy/truggy to win a race, you have to drive better with a less expensive buggy/truggy. I'm not saying it would be the ONLY class, but should be a seperate class that pits driver against driver - not a mega-dollar machine against a bone-stock RTR without penalty.