2025 SIGP Offroad Chassis Focus Index

China’s top annual international offroad race, the 2025 Sunpadow International Grand Prix (SIGP) once again earned itself a reputation of being ‘challenging’, the 3 Circles track one where suspension set-up is critical.  Only the second edition of the race since its return to the former 1:10 Offroad World Championship venue following a 4-year break, World Champions Bruno Coelho and David Ronnefalk returned knowing what to expect.  For newcomers like Kouki Kato, who would go on to take the nitro win, Pekko Iivonen, and young Korean talent Jung Hyunkyu, the track would be a completely new experience that would test their set-up skills on a new level.  Ronnefalk summed up the SIGP track very well when he said, ‘You’re not justing battling the other guy, I feel like more here you are battling the track out there so that’s offroad.  It’s not many times you race on a track like this anymore so it’s good to feel what it used to be like in the old days I guess.’  With shocks the big focus of drivers, Belgian shock components specialist brand TRC busy assisting many drivers with getting their buggies dialled in, getting our hands on buggies for our Chassis Focus proved a little more challenging than normal as drivers switched shocks between Nitro and eBuggy.  In the end we managed to feature 10 buggies from 6 drivers and 4 different manufacturers and we have compiled them in our latest Chassis Focus Index.

Nitro Buggy

Kouki Kato – Infinity (Winner/Q2)
David Ronnefalk – Xray (Top Qualifier/P2)
Bruno Coelho – Infinity (Q3/P3)
Pekko Iivonen – Mayako (Q4/P4)
Jung Hyunkyu – Team Associated (Q5/P5)
Adrian Wicaksono  – Team Associated (Q8/P8)

Electric Buggy

Bruno Coelho – Infinity (Top Qualifier/Winner)
David Ronnefalk – Xray (Q2/P2)
Kouki Kato – Infinity (Q3/P3)
Pekko Iivonen – Mayako (Q4/P4)