electric and nitro racing together?

[Timee80]

Do people generally race their electric buggies in the same heats as the nitro guys now? or are the nitro guys still funny about doing this?
Id love to have a go at 8th but coming from 10th, electric 8th would probably suit me better. (i have no idea about maintaining nitro engines really either)
Some of the appeal of 8th is the noise the engines make but im just not sure about it.
If electric and nitro do commonly race together at club level then id probably get an electric version just to do the odd meeting.
Finally, if electric is the way to go, what do people really think of the hot bodies ve8 now that its been out a while and people have had chance to long term test them? The price seems too cheap to me
Thanks for any replies
Tim