Well, this isn't about which is better, that's just personal preference. I know racers that do both. I just do Nitro. But I did find out just how equal they really are in performance. Sure, in the past electrics couldn't keep up with nitros or run long enough, but batteries and motors sure have improved. At my local track we have a 2 wheel drive open class which is a mix of electric and nitros, mostly electrics. The nitros have been disappearing around here in 1/10 scale as a many of those drivers have moved up to 1/8 4WD nitro, that's why we mix the electric and nitro in 1/10 2WD. And I'm one of the Nitro 1/10 drivers.

So a few weeks ago when my Nitro truck (Losi XXX-NT AD2) was out of order because I had stripped the idler gear one of my friends lent me his 1/10 electric which was also a Losi, so it was essentially an electric version of my truck. It has a brushless motor in it so it was fast too. I don't know what kind as I am not at all knowledgeable about electrics. I had to alter my driving style a little bit as electric motors have different torque curves than nitro engines. Anyway I had good racing with it and the car didn't seem much slower than my nitro truck. Two weeks later at the next race after I fixed my truck I found out that the electric truck wasn't slower at all. My friend and I are both skillful drivers. We can drive a full race clean without crashing. I should add that when I race my Nitro against the Electrics I take one warm up lap and stop right behind everyone and bripp my throttle a little as the count down starts and I also like to let everyone else crash into the first corner while I cut a tight turn inside and pass most of them. So this particular race my friend and I were lined up on the inside with him in front. The start beep goes off and he gets a hole-shot (that torque curve difference) at the start. We both make it clean through the first turn. Anyway we ran lap after lap together like that. I got closer on the infield area and our driving was just getting tighter and tighter. We were having a great race together. So that is what proved to me just how equal they are. But his electric suddenly stopped 4 minutes into a 5 min. race. I'll stick with nitro. Most of the electrics seem to drop out for one reason or another. So I'll stick with Nitro.

We do have a small track and my truck really never reaches top speed either. So I don't really know which has a higher top speed but we sure can have equal racing together.