Well, when it works and your on the track... its just Awesome! Very smooth... unfortunately for me, I've had a number of failures with it lately. Extremely frustrating to say the least. I own a Castel/Mamba system too... it too has failed in the past... but seems to be able to take more abuse (at least from my experience). Both Tekin & Castle have fantastic cusomer service. Tekin has been exceptionally understanding and flexible with one of my out of warranty ESCs. The absolute solution to all this is really to have a back-up kit ready and waiting when your at a race. It seems sooner or later any ESC on a 1/8th Electric Buggy will give out at some point. I've been too busy lately to build my 2nd RC8BE which is in my closet. After this weekend's failure, you can bet I'm going to start getting it put together soon. Send Randy a PM. Hopefully he can help sort things out for you. If not, just know your in good hands if you do have to send it in. Factory defects do happen on a production line and some do get passed quality control...

I'm curious to know how Novak's 8th Scale buggy stuff will do once its out... If they figured out a way to be both reliable and smooth... they may just get the edge on the rest...