It is true. Mugen or serpent 1/8 are real fast. But I am certinly
not good enough to drive them! Me and my buddy got street
force duratrax cars as our first onroad gas cars. They go pretty fast
out of the box, 50 or so. But we broke something everytime
we drove.
Now we have nicer ones. He has a trinity reflex 1/10 and
I have a mugen mtx-3. We rarley break parts now but the point
I want to make is that we have been driving every chance we
get for 6 months or so and we are still not all that good at driving.
We did a test last week. He went as fast as he could around the
track and I went about 1/3 throttle. I whipped his but because
he couldnt keep his car on the track at that speed. At 1/3 throttle
I was able to stay on course and take the turns exaclty how I
planned them. Classic tourtise and hare...

Point being learn how to drive. It is much more impressive than
a fast car.