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March 22, 2025

McBride Top Qualifier at Asian Buggy Championships season opener

Kyle McBride is the Top Qualifier at the season opener of the Cayote supported Asian Buggy Championships. The Australian secured pole for tomorrow’s 45-minute Nitro Buggy A-Main when he took the fourth & final round of qualifying in New Zealand this morning. After yesterday’s 3-rounds of qualifying at the Counties RC Car Club track produced three different winners, it set the stage for a four way battle for the overall TQ between McBride, Sworkz’s Jayden Jamieson, Mayako’s Jayden Edmunds and WIRC’s Kasey Dawson. Having ended yesterday with a TQ run in Q3, mistakes costing him dearer in the opening two heats, McBride would make his intentions for Day 2 of qualifying very clear early on as he kicked things off with his first TQ run in the final eBuggy round. With the top heat of Nitro Buggy bringing a close to qualifying, McBride delivered the only 10-lapper to take Q4 ahead of Tekno’s Caleb Noble, Edmunds and Jamieson. Overall it will be Jamieson who will start from P2 ahead of Edmunds, Noble and Dawson with Logan Toia’s HB Racing buggy completing the top half of the starting grid which features buggies from 6 different manufacturers! While it was a double TQ run morning for McBride, Noble again his closest rival, the honour of Top Qualifier for the triple A-Main of eBuggy goes to Logan Toia with McBride starting P2 and Top Seed Dawson third.

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March 21, 2025

McBride finally delivers in Q3 in New Zealand

Kyle McBride finally delivered on the speed he has shown all day at Round 1 of the Asian Buggy Championships in New Zealand by closing out the first day of qualifying with a TQ run in Q3. Opening Friday’s action with a P2 and then a P3 in Q2, mistakes dropping him of the top of the timing screens in both, the former pro racer again didn’t have a clean run however on the third time of asking he had the pace to snatch back the TQ on the final lap. Behind the Aussie, the WIRC of Kiwi Kasey Dawson would also end the day with his best nitro run for a result that makes him one of four remaining contenders for the overall TQ going into Saturday’s fourth & final qualifier. An impressive drive by Mayako’s Dylan Toia saw him complete the Top 3 ahead of Q1 winner Jayden Jamieson. Having taken Q2, Jayden Edmunds was unable to back that up after he made a tyre change that resulted in his Mayako having too much grip and he was only P7 for the round. In eBuggy, HB Racing’s Logan Toia backed up his Q2 performance to claim another TQ run and only Q1 winner Dawson can deny him the overall TQ but in order to do so he needs to top Q4 in the fastest time of the weekend.

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March 21, 2025

Edmunds takes Q2 at Asian Buggy Champs

Mayako Youth Mentoring Program driver Jayden Edmunds has TQ’d the second round of qualifying at the Asian Buggy Championships in New Zealand, a switch of tyre completely elevating the Australian’s performance after he opened with a P8 in Q1. While a slower track, no one making 10-laps as they did in Q1, the second of the four qualifiers would prove a super close battle with the Top 3 covered by 6/10ths of a second. Once again it was Kyle McBride who had the fastest car around the Counties RC Car Club track but again it was a mistake that denied last year’s podium finisher from registering a TQ run he certainly has the speed for. Having taken the opening qualifier, Sworkz’s Jayden Jamieson backed that up with a strong P2 0.492 off Edmunds and a 0.099 ahead of McBride. In eBuggy, HB Racing’s Logan Toia went one better than Q1 to TQ the second round as WIRC’s Q1 winner Kasey Dawson ended up overheating his tyres dropping him back to P4. Tekno’s Caleb Noble would be second fastest in eBuggy with McBride completing the Top 3.

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March 21, 2025

Jamieson from McBride in opening Asian Buggy C/ships qualifier

Sworkz’s Jayden Jamieson has taken the first qualifier at the season opener of the Asian Buggy Championships, a last lap bobble costing Kyle McBride a TQ run at the New Zealand event. Opening the first of the four rounds of qualifying strong to set the early pace, a mistake on lap 3 cost around him 3-seconds and he dropped to 4th but laying down the fastest lap of the run he hauled himself back to the top of the timing screens to go back ahead of Jamieson. As the only two drivers to go 10-laps, as McBride came around for his final run down the straight his Team Associated got crossed up, enough for the Aussie to eventually cross the loop 7/10ths of a second in deficit to his Kiwi rival. Behind Top Seed Caleb Noble salvaged a Top 3, the Tekno driver’s set-up not ideal for today’s warmer midday conditions. In eBuggy, Top Seed Kasey Dawson carried his pace through from yesterday with his WIRC registering the first TQ run ahead of brothers Logan and Dylan Toia.

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March 20, 2025

Hara confirmed for eSIC 2025

The organisers of the Electric Singapore International Challenge (eSIC) has announced that racing legend Atsushi Hara will be attending this year’s third edition of the annual race. This marks the first time the two-time World Champion will participate in eSIC which moves from September to an earlier date of July 12-13 in 2025. The brainchild of top Singapore touring car racer Nicholas Lee and Chhua Jookiah with the aim of bringing top level international competition to the country last year’s race attracted factory entries from Mugen Seiki, Awesomatix, Yokomo, ARC and Xpress. The previous two editions of the race were won by Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker. On the announcement Hara said, ‘I am very happy to joining Electric Singapore International Challenge for the first time! I haven’t race an EP touring car race in Singapore for a long time, so I am looking forward to racing with all of my fans and friends! Special thanks to who organizing this event as my friend Nicholas Lee and Team Cayote for giving me this opportunity!’

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March 20, 2025

Asian Buggy Championships underway in New Zealand, Noble & Dawson top seeding

With a new title sponsor in Cayote, the third season of the Asian Buggy Championships officially got underway today in New Zealand with Tekno’s Caleb Noble and WIRC’s Kasey Dawson topping seeding at the Counties RC Car Club track which once again plays host to the first stop on the championship’s 4 round calendar. Winner of the third round of the ABC in Australian last year, Caleb would set the fastest 2-consecutive laps in Nitro Buggy ahead of Kyle McBride and the Sworkz of Jayden Jamieson while a strong end to the day netted Mayako Youth Mentoring Program driver Dylan Toia P4. In eBuggy, local star Dawson had the advantage over Caleb thanks to his effort in the first of the two seeding rounds. Noble topped the second encounter but that effort was 2/10th slower overall. Behind them the older of the Toia brothers, Logan completed the eBuggy Top 3 as drivers now get ready for 3 rounds of qualifying in Pukekohe tomorrow.

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February 26, 2025

2025 TITC Chassis Focus Index

21 editions of the TITC have been completed and thanks to the support of Hobbywing, Red RC was once again able to make the annual trip to the Infinity RC Addict Circuit in Bangkok to cover this truly unique event. By far the greatest one yet in terms of all the pre-race hype, 2025 was the year the race got to play out moments that will forever be engrained in the sport’s history. Bruno Coelho’s first ever race with Infinity, Michal Orlowski’s first ever TITC. As the saying goes, ‘you only get one chance to make a first impression’ and wow was an impression Orlowski made on the ‘world’s toughest race’ – complete domination. We also have to mention A3 and the last lap between Marc Rheinard and Bruno Coelho, that pass was pure Rheinard gold and having been reporting on his racing at the top level for so many years it was brilliant to see he still has that magic. It was interesting to chat with a number of drivers for whom this was their first time experiencing the TITC, they didn’t actually need to tell us they were loving it because it was already written all over their faces, it was like they had rediscovered the joy of racing again. We get to go to our fair share of races around the world and none come close in terms of everyone enjoying themselves. The laughter in the pits and the enthusiasm of the crowd watching the racing is infectious, and we still get to see the best in the World race head to head for a title they all desire so much – it truly is the unofficial World Championships.

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February 17, 2025

Branson wins EWS Round 4

Kyle Branson registered his first win of the current EWS season taking victory at the fourth & penultimate round of the established British Winter series. In qualifying it was the Schumacher of reigning Champion Elliott Harper who took the TQ ahead of the Awesomatix of Round 1 & 3 winner Ollie Jefferies with Branson, top qualifier at the previous round, lining up P3. In the one day event’s single 5-minute A-main, that order got reversed at the 1 and a half minute mark with Branson going to the front where he would stay until the finish. 1.6-seconds back Jefferies would finish second with a 1-second advantage over Harper. In Pro Stock, Zak Finlay maintained his perfect record for the season with his fourth win in a row while in the FWD Adam Southgate was the winner.

Image: Kyle Branson