lol the great debate.
I think thier will always be a place for both nitro & electric. Petrol heads will always like nitro, nitro just requires more input to begin with whilst learning how to tune the engine ect, where electric is alot more user friendly just plug & play.
Also thiers only so much you can do with a engine once you have brought a comp engine fitted a pipe maybe had a little porting done run it on the hightest nitro content fuel, maybe a little porting.
But with electric the sky is the limit you can play around with different KV ratings, volts, amps, c ratings ect.
I normally go petrol offroad & electric onroad.
Also for drifting electric would be better as the power is more controlable.

Now youve done it, Nitro is the most fun by far with sound, smell and power. I have a Nitro forced 15 with tuned pipe and turbo glow plug. it 4x4 with adjustable 2 speed gears, the best dounuts, burnouts and drifts its head off, Goes through tyres even more than my Datto

What i would suggest is to find a Super Nitro club near where you live and can go one afternoon to see these things in action. I went to the Penrith District Nitro Racing club. first Tue night of the month from 7pm

They have circuit racing for single speed and 2 speed pro, then different class motors and Drag racing top fuelers. 40mtr straight line punch instead of 400mtrs (Love it)
The latest craze is Drifting, its the same cars but they put special drift tyres on. Electric is alot cheaper and a better range of cars to choose from.
I went through a few parts at the start but now im alot better and dont cash hard very often.
I have attached a pic of my latest drift shell, just feed it nitro fuel and rip rip

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Thundertiger make a good brushless drift car its called the sparrowhawk and it retails for around $299

Hi friends

If you do go for a drifter, go for electric. Nitro is good but more suited for racing buggys monster trucks etc.
I would suggest you to get monster truck off road model there way more fun

Regards
Sid
Nitrotek

actually drifts really good once you take the time to set it up properly,everything is adjustable from straight from the box.exept castor but im going to install some adjustabe arms.50/50 and open diffs at the moment so its drifts good but just dosent look right cause you cant hold it on opposite lock for long,with some thicker oil in the rear diff to lock it will help a bit.so the good thing about belt driven ones is you can easily change the drive ratio and get more drive to the back wheels.and then you can hold it on opposite lock for longer so looks like a real drift car.main thing i like is its good for learning about suspension setups then applying the knowledge gained to setup your real car.

looks pretty good, i see you've spent some money on it! running a #OOPS# load of camber, you running very much counter steer?

mmm nice find mad shells on em dont how they would go but mik ,tamiya belt driven is the way to go but bit more pricey this is my cheapo:

jaycar ones are the same as flying fish i think they pretty good for the price fully adjustable sus,brushless motor,shit charger and shell but.and its shaft driven only thing is with shaft driven ones you cant get much counter steer going(opposite lock)i paid 250 for mine bit expensive compared to same car on ebay.ive spent a few hundred on better batts and charger,wheels and shell already.i put a hakosuka shell on mine its mad now.good fun but better with a mate for battles.

Wurzel got a good 510 one, I just did burn outs but that was my first go. He had some good skills. I've seen some guys in the dry in the drains next to freeway with then too, fully mini fast and furious races.