I’ve been looking at the hobbywing 1900kv with one of the variants of their XR8 ESC, seems a popular choice in the 1/8th buggies.
The G2 pro seems to be the latest one with some tweeks over the earlier version.
I think a mixture is surfaces would be good.
The track in this video look, has pretty much every component mentioned above plus different surfaces.
https://youtu.be/VXc-ToRNoMg
Apologies, I’m not sure how to embed the video.