Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship

Saturday, 25 October 2025

Tire failure and chicane crash leaves Cooper Murray last on the Gold Coast

Original by SpeedCafe, cropped by me.

Cooper Murray (#99 Hope Energy Chevrolet) picked up the 4th last-place finish of his career after crashing out of the first race after 18 of the race’s 85 laps. The finish came in Murray’s 33rd start.

A strong driver, Cooper Murray, finished 4th for Eggleston Motorsports in 2023 in Super 2, achieving 2 wins and 4 podiums. He was a 2024 Sandown and Bathurst co-driver. At Hidden Valley, Heimgartner’s first-lap contact relegated a wildcard Murray to last-place. With Jack LeBrocq withdrawing from the Adelaide race for the impending arrival of his child, Cooper Murray replaced him in the #9. He got his 2nd last-place finish here after a mechanical failure left him several laps down. For 2025, Murray would be a teammate to Jack LeBrocq, replacing the departing Brodie Kostecki. The rookie period presented difficulties for rookie Murray, given two last-place finishes. But he finished 4th at Bathurst and was competing for the win until James Golding bumped him with 5 laps left.

Macauley Jones (#96 Pizza Hut Chevrolet) would’ve started the race in last. However, Nick Percat (#10 Bendix Chevrolet) suffered a starter motor failure, forcing them to start from the pits and would join the race last.

On Lap 2, Turn 11, Kai Allen (#26 Penrite Ford) spun Will Brown (#1 Red Bull/Ampol Chevrolet), dropping the latter to last. By Lap 5, Brown had dropped Jones to last.

A fuel cell failure for Ryan Wood (#2 Truck Assist/Mobil 1 Ford) would put Lap 15. He would pull into the garage on Lap 16, losing 8 laps in repairs.

Cooper Murray (#99 Hope Energy Chevrolet) contacted Aaron Cameron (#3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford) at Turn 4 on Lap 18. Cameron bounced back into

While racing through Turn 10, Murray’s right-rear tire went flat because of the contact from Turn 4, sending Murray into the wall. The collision broke the suspension, with the detached wheel hitting Evans’ car. The collision did heavy damage to Evans’ car, sending it to the garage. Evans would lose 10 laps in repairs. Shortly after, Evans would retire from the race.

Cameron would cut his left-front tire on Lap 47, bumping the fence and damaging the left-front. A pit stop would drop Cameron to 20th.

The final retirement came late. Cameron Hill (#4 Supaglass Chevrolet) retired on Lap 77 with brake failure.

Completing the bottom five was Richie Stanaway (#62 Nulon Chevrolet). After a lockup behind teammate James Golding, Stanaway blew his right-front tire at Turn 1 the following lap. The tire failure destroyed the right-front corner of his car and cost him 5 laps.

The Bottom Five

Cooper Murray	18 Laps	Crash
Jaxon Evans	30 Laps	Crash
Cameron Hill	76 Laps	Brakes
Ryan Wood	77 Laps	Running
Richie Stanaway	80 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Aaron Cameron	4	6	12
2	Cooper Murray	3	7	10
3	Jaxon Evans	3	6	8
4	Richie Stanaway	2	4	8
5	James Golding	2	4	5
6	Jack LeBrocq	2	3	5
7	Macauley Jones	2	3	4
8	Cameron Crick	2	3	3
9	Will Davison	1	5	9
10	Cameron Hill	1	4	5
11	Nick Percat	1	3	5
12	Bryce Fullwood	1	2	4
13	Kai Allen	1	2	3
14	Aaron Love	1	2	2
15	Cameron Waters	1	1	2
16T	Andre Heimgartner	1	1	1
16T	Declan Fraser	1	1	1
16T	Tim Slade	1	1	1
19	David Reynolds	0	3	7
20	Chaz Mostert	0	3	3
21	James Courtney	0	2	8
22	Thomas Randle	0	2	4
23	Brodie Kostecki	0	2	2
24	Ryan Wood	0	1	3
25	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	2
26T	Cameron Crick	0	1	1
26T	Aaron Seton	0	1	1
26T	Tony D’Alberto	0	1	1
26T	Fabian Coulthard	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
28T	Jack Perkins	0	0	1
28T	Jack Smith	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Nulon Racing	4	4/4	9/4	16/4
2	Brad Jones Racing	8	8/8	13/8	18/8
3	Matt Stone Racing	6	5/6	14/6	15/6
4	Erebus Motorsports	4	4/4	9/4	15/4
5	Blanchard Racing Team	5	3/5	11/5	23/5
6	Dick Johnson Racing	4	1/4	9/4	13/4
7	Grove Racing	4	1/4	2/4	3/4
8	Tickford Racing	6	1/6	3/6	8/6
9	Walkinshaw Andretti United	4	0	6/4	7/4
10	Team 18	4	0	4/4	9/4
11	Red Bull Racing	5	0	0	1/5

Constructor’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	31	21/31	47/31	76/31
2	Ford	23	5/23	30/23	54/23

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.