My take on the subject is the RC needs new people with better attitudes coming in and experienced racers need better attitudes towards the new guys. Money is usually not as big of a issue as people make it out to be, otherwise Vegas would have gone under a long time ago. Point is RC have to be a great experience for you and for other people sharing the same track. Last last week a new comer at my local track was very upset when people where yelling at him for parking the car in the middle of front straight and causing people to crash into it and such. Needless to say nobody win in this situation. The new person never asked people what is the right and wrong things to do on the track and the experienced guys didn't exactly try to approach him afterwards to explain to him either. It's things like these that prevent people from having fun and stick with RC more so than the price of the cars and equipment.

However I'm fully onboard with a well designed class for newbies that is cheap, fun, fair, and low maintenance.