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Buggies are the F1 of off road. They are the toughest in terms of damage (shorter arms catch less and less leverage on bad landings and impact), more agile, less weight, less rotational mass (meaning less worn drivetrain), faster spool up, more people in mains means more competition. We race for the challenge, both the thrill of the drive and the competiton of other good drivers. Truggy is growing but it hasn't been around as long as buggy. Truggy seems to be the transition for the monster truck guys to step up, and a second class for buggy guys so it's mixed.

Monster trucks just break, big heavy and tons of rotational mass. And it's becoming more of a liesure class, and newbies often start there, then move on to buggy or or more likely truggy.

1/10 around here is starting to come back, but only electrics. I think I saw 2 or 3 gt's all year last year. We are promoting 1/10 electric bigtime right now and it's making a big come back, but again, we have monster truck/novice (emaxx, pede's, rustlers, a brushless revo.... just about anything goes), 1/10 stadium and 4wd mod...

I race a brushless 1/8 buggy, nitro 1/8 buggy and a brushless 4wd 1/10. Why, because they are similar, super fast, and I get to race against some of the fastest guys around here that if I can ever beat, then I know I am on my game.... wish I had more game though as I usually get it handed to me. I was happy being 3rd of 12, and might have ended 4th if one guy didn't smoke his esc lol