Originally Posted by rccartips

That is just tires. Saw many mangled cars in modified and 13.5 boost from the best drivers. Easy $300 per hard crash.
Maintenance cost (e.g. DCJs, 0.4mm bodies) is also very high in modified.

And this horrible trend of $300 steel chassis that will mangle your bulkheads and entire car in a crash. Picture does not really even capture how bad it was, bent in 3 different places.


Photo credit: Pekko Iivonen RC (Winner of C-Main, very fast driver)

New talent will be few and far between. Retaining existing mod drivers will be a big challenge.