Originally Posted by DS Motorsport

A 1/10 electric will already beat a 1/10 nitro on any track.
My home track is a quite open fast track and with the ets they were doing 15,3 lap times (if i remember correctly) and 120 km/h on the straight.
With nitro the fastest ever is a 15,4 and 110 km/h on the straight.

For 1/8 it's a completely different story, the biggest challenge is finding electrics which will run reliably at those speeds, plus the electric versions are a lot heavier compared to the nitro ones.

But this might change next year, this winter I will design an electric 1/8 inroad from the ground up, aim is to be as fast as a nitro for a 10 minute run.