# 2025 New Zealand Motocross Championship

The 2025 New Zealand Motocross Championship season, known for sponsorship reasons as the Yamaha New Zealand Motocross Championship, was the 51st New Zealand Motocross Championship season.
The series consisted of four rounds across the country, running from mid February to mid March.
Hamish Harwood was the reigning champion in the MX1 class, after picking up his sixth national title in the 2024 season. Ultimately, it was Maximus Purvis who took the title in the MX1 class, his fourth national title overall.
In the MX2 class, James Scott was the reigning champion, after picking up his first senior national title in the previous season. Madoc Dixon won two of the four rounds in the MX2 class to take his first senior national title.
The second and final rounds of the series were held at the Rotorua track, after the original venue for the final round pulled out of running it prior to the start of the season.

## Race calendar and results
### MX1

| Round | Date | Location | Race 1 Winner | Race 2 Winner | Race 3 Winner | Round Winner |
| 1 | 15 February | Tauranga | Maximus Purvis | Maximus Purvis | Maximus Purvis | Maximus Purvis |
| 2 | 22 February | Rotorua | Maximus Purvis | Maximus Purvis | Hamish Harwood | Maximus Purvis |
| 3 | 8 March | Pukekohe | Josiah Natzke | Maximus Purvis | Hamish Harwood | Josiah Natzke |
| 4 | 15 March | Rotorua | Hamish Harwood | Hamish Harwood | Maximus Purvis | Hamish Harwood |

### MX2

| Round | Date | Location | Race 1 Winner | Race 2 Winner | Race 3 Winner | Round Winner |
| 1 | 15 February | Tauranga | Madoc Dixon | James Scott | Madoc Dixon | Madoc Dixon |
| 2 | 22 February | Rotorua | Madoc Dixon | James Scott | Cobie Bourke | Madoc Dixon |
| 3 | 8 March | Pukekohe | Cobie Bourke | Madoc Dixon | Flynn Watts | Cody Cooper |
| 4 | 15 March | Rotorua | Cody Cooper | Flynn Watts | Cody Cooper | Cody Cooper |

### Circuit locations
## MX1
### Participants

| Team | Constructor | No | Rider | Rounds |
| Honda Racing Motul New Zealand | Honda | H | Haruki Yokoyama | All |
| Honda Racing Motul New Zealand | Honda | 30 | Josiah Natzke | All |
| Honda Racing Motul New Zealand | Honda | 41 | Curtis King | 1–2 |
| Tasman Honda/Alpinestars/Motul | Honda | J | Jesse Bishop | 1–2 |
| Tasman Honda/Alpinestars/Motul | Honda | M | Mitch Norris | 1–2 |
| CML KTM Racing | KTM | 1 | Hamish Harwood | All |
| CML KTM Racing | KTM | 192 | Reuben Smith | All |
| Bike Torque Taumaranui | Gas Gas | 5 | Luke Maitland | All |
| Makz Gear Tauranga/Vertex Oil | KTM | 7 | Seth Thompson | 1–3 |
| Phoenix Civil/Un4seen Decals | Gas Gas | 18 | Josh de Reus | All |
| Pumps & Filters | Yamaha | 24 | Liam Hutton | All |
| Altherm JCR Yamaha | Yamaha | 44 | Maximus Purvis | All |
| Underclass/AG Flow Solutions | Yamaha | 49 | Cody O'Loan | 3 |
| | Yamaha | 52 | Sam Bowers | All |
| BSH Race Team | Honda | 55 | Jack Symon | All |
| | Honda | 60 | Jacob Steel | All |
| Tasman Honda/Mahana Earthworks | Honda | 81 | Hayden Wilkinson | All |
| Central House Movers/Sixteen Graphic Co | Yamaha | 91 | James Kilpatrick | All |
| TSS Motocycles | KTM | 124 | Zak Nolan | 1, 3–4 |
| Degree Building Ltd | KTM | 141 | Cooper Smith | All |
| SMG All Build/Redline Earthworks | Yamaha | 143 | Josh Bartosh | 1 |
| Team MR Moto | KTM | 144 | Tyler Brown | All |
| MecaMoto.co/P1 Moto | Yamaha | 157 | Logan Maddren | 3–4 |
| | KTM | 188 | Lochie Birrell | All |
| | Yamaha | 255 | Luke van der Lee | All |
| P1moto/Mecamoto.co/Guts Racing NZ | Yamaha | 299 | Ben Lawson | All |
| Stihl Shop Hamilton East | Honda | 336 | Joel Hansen | 3 |
| AFC Motorcycles | KTM | 393 | Toby Winiata | All |
| LMC Husqvarna Racing | Husqvarna | 485 | Caleb Ward | All |
| LMC Husqvarna Racing | Husqvarna | 918 | Callan May | All |
| Blue Wing Honda | Honda | 614 | Peter Broxholme | 1 |
| AFC Motorcycles/MotoSR | KTM | 705 | Charlie Richardson | 1–3 |
| MR Motorcycles/bLU cRU/M.A.S.S. Seaforth Farms | Yamaha | 717 | Jayden McKenzie | 1, 3–4 |
| | Honda | 731 | Callum Dudson | 1 |
| Keen Solutions/TSS Motorcycles | KTM | 872 | Adam Moss | All |
| Bay Motorcycles/Shark Engineering HB | Kawasaki | 917 | Kieran Scheele | All |
| Honda Hub - Crown Kiwi Enterprises | Honda | 950 | Preeda Boon | All |

### Riders Championship

Points are awarded to finishers of the main races, in the following format:
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th |
| Points | 25 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Pos | Rider | Bike | TAU | TAU | TAU | ROT | ROT | ROT | PUK | PUK | PUK | ROT | ROT | ROT | Points |
| 1 | Maximus Purvis | Yamaha | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 275 |
| 2 | Hamish Harwood | KTM | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 260 |
| 3 | Josiah Natzke | Honda | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 257 |
| 4 | Caleb Ward | Husqvarna | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 226 |
| 5 | Jack Symon | Honda | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 166 |
| 6 | Luke Maitland | Gas Gas | 9 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 5 | Ret | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 156 |
| 7 | Tyler Brown | KTM | 12 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 148 |
| 8 | Reuben Smith | KTM | 8 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 12 | Ret | 9 | 139 |
| 9 | Haruki Yokoyama | Honda | 7 | 9 | 5 | DNS | DNS | DNS | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 132 |
| 10 | Luke van der Lee | Yamaha | 10 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 120 |
| 11 | Seth Thompson | KTM | 5 | 28 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 10 | Ret | | | | 104 |
| 12 | Preeda Boon | Honda | 15 | 29 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 12 | Ret | 9 | 9 | 10 | 96 |
| 13 | Adam Moss | KTM | 16 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 82 |
| 14 | Toby Winiata | KTM | 11 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 18 | 14 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 75 |
| 15 | Kieran Scheele | Kawasaki | 17 | DNS | 21 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 25 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 70 |
| 16 | Callan May | Husqvarna | 13 | 13 | 17 | 22 | 18 | 21 | 19 | 18 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 62 |
| 17 | Hayden Wilkinson | Honda | 23 | 18 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 21 | 19 | Ret | 17 | 15 | 17 | 39 |
| 18 | Jacob Steel | Honda | 18 | 15 | 18 | 16 | Ret | DNS | 20 | 17 | 16 | 14 | Ret | 19 | 36 |
| 19 | Jayden McKenzie | Yamaha | 19 | Ret | DNS | | | | 12 | 13 | 14 | Ret | 16 | 16 | 36 |
| 20 | Jesse Bishop | Honda | 14 | 14 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 14 | | | | | | | 35 |
| 21 | Mitch Norris | Honda | Ret | 19 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 12 | | | | | | | 31 |
| 22 | Curtis King | Honda | 21 | 11 | 10 | 18 | 22 | 20 | | | | | | | 25 |
| 23 | Cooper Smith | KTM | 20 | 16 | 26 | 24 | 20 | 24 | 15 | 24 | 18 | 21 | 17 | 18 | 23 |
| 24 | Cody O'Loan | Yamaha | | | | | | | 13 | 30 | 9 | | | | 20 |
| 25 | Josh de Reus | Gas Gas | 25 | 20 | 22 | 19 | 21 | 18 | 22 | 23 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 20 | 14 |
| 26 | Lochie Birrell | KTM | 24 | 22 | Ret | 23 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 21 | 23 | 20 | 23 | DNS | 12 |
| 27 | Sam Bowers | Yamaha | 26 | 24 | 23 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 20 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 10 |
| 28 | James Kilpatrick | Yamaha | 22 | 21 | 24 | 25 | 24 | 19 | 27 | 27 | 25 | DNS | DNS | DNS | 2 |
| 29 | Logan Maddren | Yamaha | | | | | | | 23 | Ret | 21 | 23 | 20 | 22 | 1 |
| | Ben Lawson | Yamaha | 29 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 21 | DNS | 0 |
| | Joel Hansen | Honda | | | | | | | 28 | 22 | 22 | | | | 0 |
| | Charlie Richardson | KTM | 28 | 23 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 22 | Ret | 25 | 24 | | | | 0 |
| | Liam Hutton | Yamaha | 31 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 30 | 29 | 28 | 24 | 22 | 23 | 0 |
| | Zak Nolan | KTM | 30 | 27 | Ret | | | | 29 | 28 | 27 | Ret | DNS | DNS | 0 |
| | Callum Dudson | Honda | 27 | Ret | DNS | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| | Josh Bartosh | Yamaha | Ret | Ret | Ret | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| | Peter Broxholme | Honda | DNS | DNS | DNS | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| Pos | Rider | Bike | TAU | TAU | TAU | ROT | ROT | ROT | PUK | PUK | PUK | ROT | ROT | ROT | Points |

## MX2
### Participants

| Team | Constructor | No | Rider | Rounds |
| Altherm JCR Yamaha | Yamaha | 1 | James Scott | 1–2 |
| Honda Motul Racing New Zealand | Honda | 14 | Cobie Bourke | All |
| Honda Motul Racing New Zealand | Honda | 41 | Curtis King | 3–4 |
| Honda Motul Racing New Zealand | Honda | 110 | Rian King | 1–3 |
| LMC Husqvarna Racing | Husqvarna | 15 | Hayden Smith | All |
| LMC Husqvarna Racing | Husqvarna | 96 | Hayden Draper | All |
| Yamaha Whangarei/FXR Racing New Zealand | Yamaha | 20 | Logan Denize | All |
| Team MR Moto | Yamaha | 22 | Flynn Watts | All |
| Team MR Moto | Yamaha | 809 | Tyler Cooksley | All |
| Team MR Moto | KTM | 999 | Jared Hannon | All |
| Promoto/Un4Seen | Yamaha | 28 | Tyler Steiner | All |
| Watson Motorcycles/Crown Kiwi | Kawasaki | 29 | Maz Parkes | All |
| Yamaha NZ/Yamalube/The Riders Circle | Yamaha | 32 | James Rountree | All |
| Nelson Motorcycles/Nelson Brake Services | KTM | 43 | Luke Heaphy | All |
| Kawasaki New Zealand | Kawasaki | 47 | Jack Coleman | 1–2 |
| Kawasaki New Zealand | Kawasaki | 338 | Brad Groombridge | All |
| Extreme Motorsports/Workshop Graphics | Yamaha | 80 | Jono Hill | All |
| Bike Torque Taumaranui | Gas Gas | 93 | Alex Maitland | 1–3 |
| Yamaha Motor Company/Yamaha New Zealand/JCR | Yamaha | 100 | Junya Tanaka | All |
| Yamaha Motor Company/Yamaha New Zealand/JCR | Yamaha | 215 | Souya Nakajima | All |
| Team Rees Motorcycles | Honda | 100 | Aydan Hall | All |
| Pumpn/Boyds Motorcycles/Troy Lee Designs NZ | KTM | 112 | Cooper Phillips | All |
| CML Gas Gas | Gas Gas | 121 | Cody Cooper | All |
| CML Gas Gas | Gas Gas | 722 | Phoenix van Dusschoten | 1 |
| Motorcycle Performance/Murray Thorn Motorcycles | Yamaha | 122 | Wills Harvey | All |
| P1 Moto/Meca | Husqvarna | 137 | Leo Copping | 1–3 |
| Powerzone/Jack Refrigeration Ltd | Husqvarna | 226 | Max Pagan | 3 |
| Rae Emerson Motorsport Developments | KTM | 278 | Yanni Emerson-Rae | All |
| JMR/Yamaha NZ | Yamaha | 309 | Nixon Parkes | All |
| CML KTM Racing | KTM | 318 | Madoc Dixon | All |
| Craig Stevens Motorcycles | Yamaha | 321 | Cody Griffiths | All |
| KTM Offroad Racing Team | KTM | 486 | Ryan Hayward | 1, 3–4 |
| Kawasaki NZ Team Green | Kawasaki | 488 | Riley Soutar | 1 |
| CNC Profile Cutting Services | Yamaha | 554 | Oliver Ayre | 1–2 |
| Blackwood Yamaha/Crown Kiwi Enterprise | Yamaha | 972 | Carlin Hedley | All |

### Riders Championship

Points are awarded to finishers of the main races, in the following format:
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th |
| Points | 25 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Pos | Rider | Bike | TAU | TAU | TAU | ROT | ROT | ROT | PUK | PUK | PUK | ROT | ROT | ROT | Points |
| 1 | Madoc Dixon | KTM | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 235 |
| 2 | Cobie Bourke | Honda | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 226 |
| 3 | Hayden Smith | Husqvarna | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 207 |
| 4 | Flynn Watts | Yamaha | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | Ret | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 199 |
| 5 | Cody Cooper | Gas Gas | 19 | 2 | 2 | 7 | Ret | DNS | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 185 |
| 6 | Brad Groombridge | Kawasaki | 6 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 176 |
| 7 | Jared Hannon | KTM | 10 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 136 |
| 8 | Junya Tanaka | Yamaha | 11 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 7 | Ret | 12 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 129 |
| 9 | James Scott | Yamaha | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Ret | | | | | | | 112 |
| 10 | Rian King | Honda | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 15 | DNS | | | | 108 |
| 11 | Hayden Draper | Husqvarna | 8 | 9 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 105 |
| 12 | Logan Denize | Yamaha | 5 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 19 | 13 | 18 | 14 | 100 |
| 13 | Wills Harvey | Yamaha | 18 | 22 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 98 |
| 14 | Souya Nakajima | Yamaha | 25 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 13 | Ret | Ret | DNS | DNS | 96 |
| 15 | Cody Griffiths | Yamaha | 14 | 20 | 19 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 83 |
| 16 | Nixon Parkes | Yamaha | 21 | 18 | 23 | 21 | 21 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 69 |
| 17 | Cooper Phillips | KTM | 12 | 21 | 14 | Ret | 16 | Ret | 8 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 68 |
| 18 | Luke Heaphy | KTM | 22 | 17 | 28 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 67 |
| 19 | Tyler Steiner | Yamaha | 20 | Ret | Ret | 10 | 9 | 8 | 25 | 19 | 14 | 16 | Ret | DNS | 51 |
| 20 | Carlin Hedley | Yamaha | 27 | 19 | 32 | 24 | 13 | 13 | 19 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 13 | 42 |
| 21 | Ryan Hayward | KTM | 15 | 16 | 18 | | | | 16 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 14 | 18 | 40 |
| 22 | Jack Coleman | Kawasaki | 17 | 14 | 13 | 16 | Ret | DNS | | | | | | | 24 |
| 23 | Phoenix van Dusschoten | Gas Gas | 13 | 13 | 15 | | | | | | | | | | 22 |
| 24 | Maz Parkes | Kawasaki | 16 | 27 | 29 | 20 | 22 | 17 | 17 | Ret | 23 | 19 | 19 | 22 | 18 |
| 25 | Aydan Hall | Honda | 28 | 25 | 22 | 18 | 20 | 14 | 22 | 16 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 21 | 17 |
| 26 | Tyler Cooksley | Yamaha | 23 | 23 | 21 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 20 | Ret | 21 | 23 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| 27 | Curtis King | Honda | | | | | | | 18 | 23 | 11 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 14 |
| 28 | James Rountree | Yamaha | Ret | 24 | 27 | 25 | 23 | Ret | 23 | 21 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 3 |
| 29 | Yanni Emerson-Rae | KTM | 30 | 29 | 26 | 27 | 25 | 19 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 20 | 3 |
| 30 | Leo Copping | Husqvarna | 26 | 28 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 20 | Ret | 25 | 25 | | | | 1 |
| 31 | Oliver Ayre | Yamaha | 29 | Ret | 20 | Ret | DNS | DNS | | | | | | | 1 |
| | Alex Maitland | Gas Gas | 24 | 26 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 21 | Ret | DNS | DNS | | | | 0 |
| | Jono Hill | Yamaha | 32 | 31 | 30 | 28 | 27 | 22 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 25 | 24 | 24 | 0 |
| | Max Pagan | Husqvarna | | | | | | | 27 | 26 | 26 | | | | 0 |
| | Riley Soutar | Kawasaki | 31 | 30 | 31 | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| Pos | Rider | Bike | TAU | TAU | TAU | ROT | ROT | ROT | PUK | PUK | PUK | ROT | ROT | ROT | Points |