Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Massive first-lap crash leaves Jack LeBrocq last at Ipswich

Saturday, 9 August 2025

Massive first-lap crash leaves Jack LeBrocq last at Ipswich

Original by Speedcafe, cropped by me.

Jack LeBrocq (#9 Tyrepower Chevrolet) picked up the 18^th last-place finish of his career after a first-lap crash ended his race. The finish came in LeBrocq’s 254^th start.

Jack LeBrocq is in his 8th full-time season, one of five 2018 rookies alongside Richie Stanaway, Anton De Pasquale, Todd Hazelwood, and James Golding. Jack is one of only two drivers who have had a ride through his eight years. Stanaway and Golding spent time out of the sport. Hazelwood has been out since replacing Brodie Kostecki at Erebus Motorsports for the first two races of 2024 because of mental health issues. Jack LeBrocq debuted with Tekno Autosports. He moved to Tickford in 2020 and won his first race with them. LeBrocq then moved to Matt Stone Racing in 2022. In 2023, he won his second race before moving to Erebus Motorsports in 2024.

James Courtney (#7 Snowy River Caravans Ford) started last, Cooper Murray (#99 Erebus Chevrolet) went over the right-rear of Thomas Randle (#55 Castrol Ford) off the start. Then at Turn 1 Aaron Cameron (#3 Adventures Industry Ford) tangled with Cooper Murray (#99 Erebus Chevrolet).

Others involved include Cameron Crick (#35 Dormer HVAC Chevrolet), Cameron Hill (#4 Sinopec Chevrolet) and Kai Allen (#26 Penrite Oils Ford).

Brodie Kostecki (#38 Shell V-Power Ford), Jaxon Evans (#12 SCT Logistics Chevrolet) and Jack LeBrocq (#9 Tyrepower Chevrolet) would cop the worst of the incident.

The crash would put Evans, Kostecki, and LeBrocq in the garage and knock Aaron Cameron a lap down.

Kostecki would lose 6 laps in repairs. Evans would get back out, but too many laps down to be classified.

Why would Brad Jones Racing send Jaxon Evans back out when they’re too many laps down to be classified?

To prevent Evans from finishing last for the 4th time this year, and to get more points for the Pirtek Pitstop challenge. Evans would run 5 laps before retiring.

Damage from the lap 1 crash would cause a slow stop for Cooper Murray (#99 Erebus Chevrolet) on lap 27. Murray would lose 2 laps in the garage starting Lap 33.

The Bottom Five

Jack LeBrocq	0 Laps	Crash
Jaxon Evans	5 Laps	Crash
Brodie Kostecki	32 Laps	Running
Cooper Murray	36 Laps	Running
Aaron Cameron	38 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Aaron Cameron	3	6	11
2	Jaxon Evans	3	5	5
3	Richie Stanaway	2	4	6
4T	Jack LeBrocq	2	3	5
4T	James Golding	2	3	4
6	Macauley Jones	2	3	4
7	Cooper Murray	1	6	9
8T	Will Davison	1	4	8
8T	Bryce Fullwood	1	2	4
10T	Kai Allen	1	2	3
10T	Cameron Hill	1	2	3
12T	Aaron Love	1	2	2
12T	Cameron Crick	1	2	2
14	Cameron Waters	1	1	2
15	David Reynolds	0	3	7
16	Thomas Randle	0	2	4
17	Nick Percat	0	2	3
18	Chaz Mostert	0	2	2
19	Brodie Kostecki	0	2	2
20	James Courtney	0	1	6
21T	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	2
21T	Ryan Wood	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	6/4	10/4	13/4
3	Erebus Motorsports	2	3/2	8/2	14/2
4	Blanchard Racing Team	3	3/3	10/3	18/3
5	Matt Stone Racing	3	2/3	7/3	9/3
6	Dick Johnson Racing	2	1/2	7/2	11/2
7	Grove Racing	2	1/2	2/2	3/2
8	Tickford Racing	5	1/5	3/5	8/5
9	Team 18	2	0	4/2	9/2
10	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	4/2	4/2

Constructor’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	15	15/15	36/15	57/15
2	Ford	12	5/12	24/12	43/12

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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.