My dad and I used to race 1/5th scale, but now we dont. I think the rolling chassis for his car was about £1500, and mine was about £800, plus servos which were £100 each for the steering servos, and about £40 for the engines. Plus radio gear, my dad had the hot shit Futaba stuff which was about £300 for the set, and I had some good quality stuff too which I got for £120 second hand, so between us we had about £3k worth of kit :/ Then it got too expensive so we gave up I still have a little Yokomo all carbon fibre electric car, but the fuse always used to go on the speed controller when I raced it, plus all the little kids would get arsey if I was winning and they would smash into it I also had a Traxxas 1/10th scale nitro car which had upgraded everything, and an entire spare rolling chassis just incase. We used to race a lot http://www.mmmrc.org/ That was the track we used to race 1/5th and 1/10th on, about 10 mins from my house