Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: 2025

Sunday, 14 September 2025

Early race contact leaves Heimgartner and Fraser last at Tailem Bend

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Andre Heimgartner (#8 R&J Batteries Chevrolet) picked up the 12th last-place finish of his career. His co-driver was 2023 LASTCAR Champion Declan Fraser, who picked up the 4th last-place finish of his career. The last-place finish came after early-race contact left them 4 laps down. The finish came in Heimgartner’s 294th start, and Fraser’s 34th.

Andre Heimgartner is one of four New Zealand drivers in the Supercars series. He’s racing in his 10th full-time season. After he started with Super Black Racing in 2016, he lost his ride in 2017 and only drove as a co-driver for Brad Jones Racing. Heimgartner competed for Kelly Racing for four seasons, two in Nissan and two in Ford. He would switch manufacturers and raced a Holden for Brad Jones Racing starting in 2022, and will switch to Toyota with the team in 2026.

Heimgartner has two race wins, one at Tailem Bend and the other at Taupo.

Declan Fraser, meanwhile, only ran one full-time season with Tickford Racing in 2023. It was a struggle, as he would claim the last-place championship. He overhauled Cameron Hill after finishing last in the last race by 1 lap over Shane van Gisbergen. He finished last 3 times, winning by a single Bottom 3 finish over Cameron Hill. Fraser’s best finish was as co-driver, with an 8th at Bathurst.

Heimgartner finished Practice 1 in 17th. Declan Fraser steered the cat to 5th in Practice 2. Andre jumped to 7th in Practice 3.

Fraser kept the promising pace with 6th in Practice 4. However, they’d slip to 14th in Practice 5. Andre would remain 14th in Qualifying.

Rookie wildcard Lochie Dalton (#5 World Gym/Clip Limes Gym Ford) would start last. He would battle with Craig Lowndes (#888 Supercheap Auto Chevrolet) for last during the first lap of the race.

However, Brad Vaughn (#14 Alpha Theta/Electro-Voice Chevrolet) would soon slip behind both.

Lap 2 saw Nash Morris (#62 Isuzu Trucks/Nulon Chevrolet) pit with a punctured right-rear tire, dropping them to last place. Seven laps later, contact. This was between Lowndes and Aaron Seton (#35 Sherrin Rentals Chevrolet), causing the latter to spin.

Seton’s #35 would suffer car damage that would leave them struggling in 2nd last for the duration of the race.

The race unravelled for the #8 at a similar time after contact with Aaron Cameron (#3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford). Steering damage would cost the #8 4 laps.

With no safety cars, last is where they stay. However, a big name would enter the discussion.

During the first pit stop, Jamie Whincup (#88 Red Bull/Ampol Chevrolet) would have little fuel put in their car because of a fuel nozzle issue. This stuffed up their race. Having to pit shortly after for a proper refuel.

This put them off-strategy, blowing half of Feeney’s championship lead. However, they escaped the bottom five.

After a pit-lane limiter breach, James Golding (#31 Isuzu/Nulon Chevrolet) would cop a pit lane drive-through penalty, which would leave them 25th.

Aaron Cameron and Zak Best (#3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford) would split the Nulon drivers.

The Bottom Five

Andre Heimgartner/Declan Fraser	98 Laps	Running
Cameron Crick/Aaron Seton	100 Laps	Running
James Golding/David Russell	102 Laps	Running
Aaron Cameron/Zak Best	102 Laps	Running
Richie Stanaway/Nash Morris	102 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Aaron Cameron	3	6	12
2	Jaxon Evans	3	5	5
3	Richie Stanaway	2	4	7
4	James Golding	2	4	5
5	Jack LeBrocq	2	3	5
6	Macauley Jones	2	3	4
7	Cameron Crick	2	3	3
8	Cooper Murray	1	6	9
9	Will Davison	1	4	8
10	Cameron Hill	1	3	4
11	Bryce Fullwood	1	2	4
12	Kai Allen	1	2	3
13	Aaron Love	1	2	2
14	Cameron Waters	1	1	2
15T	Andre Heimgartner	1	1	1
15T	Declan Fraser	1	1	1
17	David Reynolds	0	3	7
18	James Courtney	0	2	7
19T	Thomas Randle	0	2	4
19T	Nick Percat	0	2	4
21T	Chaz Mostert	0	2	2
21T	Brodie Kostecki	0	2	2
23T	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	2
23T	Ryan Wood	0	1	2
25T	Cameron Crick	0	1	1
25T	Aaron Seton	0	1	1
27	Rylan Gray	0	0	2
28T	Will Brown	0	0	1
28T	Zak Best	0	0	1
28T	Nash Morris	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Nulon Racing	4	4/4	9/4	15/4
2	Brad Jones Racing	8	8/8	12/8	15/8
3	Erebus Motorsports	4	3/4	8/4	14/4
4	Blanchard Racing Team	5	3/5	11/5	21/5
5	Matt Stone Racing	6	3/6	11/6	13/6
6	Dick Johnson Racing	4	1/4	7/4	11/4
7	Grove Racing	4	1/4	2/4	3/4
8	Tickford Racing	6	1/6	3/6	8/6
9	Team 18	4	0	4/4	9/4
10	Walkinshaw Andretti United	4	0	4/4	5/4
11	Red Bull Racing	5	0	0	1/5

Constructor’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	31	18/31	44/31	68/31
2	Ford	23	5/23	25/23	47/23

How Juniorgeneric defines a Last-Place finisher

Australian V8 LASTCAR'S Official Definition of a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF)

For the purposes of the Australian V8 LASTCAR championship rankings and statistics, a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF) is a driver(s) who, after qualifying for a V8 Supercars Championship Points-Paying race, the result must be confirmed from official sources, or unofficial sources failing that. Only one driver (or two in a endurance race) can be classified as the LPF for that race.

Meeting those requirements, the LPF can be any driver classified as such for any reason, including, but not limited to.
1) A "did not start" although it should be noted that there is a difference between my definition of "did not start" and Brock Beard's definition of "Did not Start".
For example, in Bathurst 2015 Chazz Mostert and Cameron Waters' #6 Pepsi Max Ford had a huge accident during practice that injured Mostert and all but wrote off the car. Car #6 was withdrawn, and therefore I don't count Mostert and Waters as finishing last. Under Brock Beard's definition, however, Mostert and Waters would have finished last instead of David Wall and Chris Pither.
2) An entrant who encounters an event once the race has started which prevents the driver(s) from finishing ahead of any other qualified entrants, including both DNFs and drivers who finish under power but laps down*

*Only when all the cars in the race are running ahead of the LPF

3) A decision to “start and park” the driver’s entry (Extremely rare in V8 Supercars)
(4) a disqualification handed down by V8 Supercars and/or track officials that subsequently classifies the driver(s) in the final position behind the unofficial LPF.

Australian V8 LASTCAR shall not consider the LPF as anything else, including but not limited too
1) Any DNQ's
2) Any driver's who's car withdrew before the race start.
3)The lowest-ranked driver who finishes the race under power (unless all cars finished under power, actually quite common in V8 Supercars)
4) A driver(s) who finished last initially, however post-race disqualifications usurped the spot.
5) A driver(s) who may be catagorised as finishing last for exhibition events (I may bring these back at some point in the near future, I need more accurate numbers for the events before I start them up again)
6) Anything in non-V8 Supercar Main game (again, insufficent historical data)
7) A driver who was running last when the checkered flag fell, however because they greeted the checkered flag but a drive who was in front of them at the end of the race, however was not running at the end of the race. In that instance the driver who doesn't finish the race will fall behind the driver whom is still running at the end of the race.

In the rare event where official results or a preponderance of unofficial results are later updated with more accurate information about who was the LPF for that event, Australian V8 LASTCAR rankings and statistics shall be updated to reflect that change.