2025 Asian Buggy Championships Rd 1, New Zealand – Chassis Focus Index

Last weekend New Zealand played host to the opening round of the Cayote backed Asian Buggy Championships.  Now in its third season, the 2025 four round championship kicked off at the Counties RC Car Club track in Pukekohe where almost 200 entries took part in the four day event.  The weekend would prove a major break through for Mayako’s Jayden Edmunds as the talented 19-year-old who saw off the challenge of 2024 Asian Buggy Championship race winner Caleb Noble to secure the biggest win of his career to-date.  In terms of manufacturer representation, the team photo session ahead of Day 1 of qualifying clearly showed HB Racing to be the most popular chassis of choice among the Kiwi’s thanks to efforts of Shane O’Connor, the same guy who was also instrumental in bringing Scotty Ernst’s Asian Buggy Championships to the country the last two years.  Another standout was the variety of buggy brands with qualifying seeing buggies from 6 different manufacturers filling the top half of the 12 car grid.  We got the chance to photograph 8 buggies from 6 different manufacturers including the podium finishers in both Nitro Buggy and eBuggy.  In case you missed any of the Chassis Focus’ during our coverage of the race, we have compiled them all in our latest Chassis Focus index.

Nitro Buggy

Jayden Edmunds (Q3/Winner) – Mayako

Caleb Noble (Q4/P2) – Tekno

Jayden Jamieson (Q2/P3) – Sworkz

Kyle McBride (Top Qualifier/P12) – Team Associated

Kasey Dawson (Q5/P4) – WIRC

eBuggy

Kyle McBride (Q2/Winner)- Team Associated

Logan Toia (Top Qualifier/P2) – HB Racing

Kasey Dawson (Q3/P3) – WIRC