Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Massive lap 1 crash and near flip leaves Golding last at Townsville

Saturday, 12 July 2025

Massive lap 1 crash and near flip leaves Golding last at Townsville

Original by Fox Sports, edited by me.

James Golding (#31 Nulon Chevrolet) finished last for the 5th time after a multi-car crash ended his race without completing a single lap at Townsville. The finish came in Golding’s 150th start.

James Golding has been in and out of Supercars, debuting with the other four in 2017: Richie Stanaway, Jack LeBrocq, Todd Hazelwood, and Anton De Pasquale. He would be a co-driver in 2017 and run a few wildcard races for Garry Rodgers Motorsports before debuting. Golding would race for 2 years, with Garry Rodgers Motorsport closing shop at the end of the year, leaving Golding out of a ride. He would spend the next two years as co-driver for Team 18. Golding replaced Garry Jacobson at Premiair Hire Racing halfway through 2022, where he had raced since. Golding was 22nd in Practice 1, and 23rd in Practice 2, where he would qualify.

Ryan Wood (#2 NTI/Mobil 1 Ford) started the race in the rear, but at the exit of Turn 3, there was contact between

James Golding (#31 Nulon Chevrolet) nearly flipped after contact with Thomas Randle (#5 Castrol Ford), Jaxon Evans (#12 SCT Logistics Chevrolet).

Cameron Waters (#6 Monster Energy Ford), Thomas Randle (#55 Castrol Ford), Ryan Wood (#2 NTI/Mobil 1 Ford), Nick Percat (#10 Bendix Chevrolet) and Richie Stanaway (#62 Nulon Chevrolet) were involved.

Jaxon Evans would pull into the garage with suspension damage while Waters would pit twice with toe damage. Evans would lose 10 laps in repairs. Evans would return to the Garage on Lap 26 and retire shortly after.

Randle’s car would start heavily smoking shortly after the restart, after a Shock Absorber failure, causing the car to porpoise. Repairs would take 5 laps.

Will Davison (#17 Shell V-Power Ford) copped a heavy hit in the rear on Lap 13 from Will Brown (#1 Red Bull/Ampol Chevrolet). James Courtney (#7 Snowy River Caravans Ford) blew an engine on the same lap. Andre Heimgartner (#8 R&J Batteries Chevrolet) spun Davison as the latter attempted to reach the pits.

Lap 30 saw Macauley Jones (#96 Pizza Hut Chevrolet) banged with Kai Allen (#26 Penrite Oils Ford), sending Allen into the tires. Allen bounced off the tires and continued.

Teammates Thomas Randle (#5 Castrol Ford) and Cameron Waters (#6 Monster Energy Ford)

The Bottom Five

James Golding	0 Laps	Crash
James Courtney	11 Laps	Engine
Jaxon Evans	13 Laps	Steering
Thomas Randle	65 Laps	Running
Cameron Waters	70 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jaxon Evans	3	4	4
2	Aaron Cameron	2	6	10
3	Richie Stanaway	2	4	6
4	James Golding	2	3	4
5	Cooper Murray	1	5	7
6	Will Davison	1	3	6
7T	Jack LeBrocq	1	2	3
7T	Macauley Jones	1	2	3
7T	Kai Allen	1	2	3
7T	Bryce Fullwood	1	2	3
11T	Aaron Love	1	2	2
11T	Cameron Crick	1	2	2
13	Cameron Waters	1	1	2
14	David Reynolds	0	2	5
15	Thomas Randle	0	2	4
16	Nick Percat	0	2	3
17	James Courtney	0	1	6
18T	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	2
18T	Cameron Hill	0	1	2
20T	Ryan Wood	0	1	1
20T	Chaz Mostert	0	1	1
20T	Brodie Kostecki	0	1	1
23	Rylan Gray	0	0	2

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Nulon Racing	2	4/2	7/2	11/2
2	Brad Jones Racing	4	5/4	8/4	10/4
3	Erebus Motorsports	2	2/2	6/2	10/2
4	Blanchard Racing Team	3	3/3	10/3	17/3
5	Dick Johnson Racing	2	1/2	5/2	8/2
6	Grove Racing	2	1/2	2/2	3/2
7	Matt Stone Racing	3	1/3	6/3	8/3
8T	Team 18	2	0	3/2	7/2
8T	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	3/2	3/2
10	Tickford Racing	5	1/5	3/5	8/5

Constructor’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	15	12/15	30/15	47/15
2	Ford	12	5/12	21/12	38/12

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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.