Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship

Sunday, 2 August 2026

Formation lap Gearbox failure leaves Ryan Wood last at Wanneroo

Credit: Supercars

Ryan Wood (#2 Truck Assist/NTI Toyota) finished last for the 5th time in his career. The finish came after a blown gearbox on the formation lap ended his race before it began. The finish came in Wood’s 82nd start, and is his 3rd last-place finish of the year.

Ryan Wood had a tough start to his career, scoring back-to-back last-place finishes at Bathurst in 2024. Since then, he won Rookie of the Year in 2024, won his first race at Barbagallo in 2025, towards 10th in the Championship. This year his team switched to Toyota. Wood currently sits seventh in the championship with a win and four podiums. Wood was 21st in Practice 1, but rose to 20th in Practice 2. Wood improved dramatically in Qualifying and intended to start 8th.

Zach Bates (#10 Bendix Chevrolet) started last after a kerb breach at Turn 7 got his time disallowed.

But on the formation lap, Ryan Wood (#2 Truck Assist/NTI Toyota) retired with a blown gearbox.

Off the start, Jobe Stewart (#9 Spinifex Sheds/Vibe Petroleum Chevrolet) slid very wide at Turn 5.

Then Will Brown (#888 Red Bull/Ampol Ford) ran Rylan Gray (#38 Shell V-Power Ford) off the road at Turn 6. Gray would have a second excursion later in the race. Shortly after, mechanical and overheating issues would put Gray in the garage. Gray would lose 8 laps in repairs. Gray would eventually finish 13 laps down.

Lap 14 saw Zach Bates (#10 Bendix Chevrolet) hit Macauley Jones (#96 JBS/Blackwood Toyota) very wide at Turn 6. Both Brown and Bates would cop time penalties, and Bates would finish 22nd. Brown recovered marginally to 17th.

Macauley Jones (#96 JBS/Blackwood Toyota) and Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford) completed the bottom five.

The Bottom Five

Ryan Wood	0 Laps	Gearbox
Rylan Gray	67 Laps	Running
Zach Bates	79 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	79 Laps	Running
Jackson Walls	79 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jackson Walls	4	9	13
2	Cooper Murray	3	6	9
3	Ryan Wood	3	4	6
4	Aaron Cameron	2	4	10
5	Chaz Mostert	2	2	3
6T	Jack LeBrocq	2	2	2
6T	Brodie Kostecki	2	2	2
8	Jobe Stewart	1	8	13
9	Macauley Jones	1	8	10
10	Cameron Hill	1	3	5
11	Andre Heimgartner	1	3	3
12	David Reynolds	1	2	3
13	Aaron Seton	1	1	3
14T	Matt Payne	1	1	2
14T	James Golding	1	1	2
16T	Zach Bates	0	3	7
16T	Rylan Gray	0	3	7
18	Declan Fraser	0	3	6
19	Reuben Goodall	0	2	3
20	Kai Allen	0	2	2
21	Thomas Randle	0	1	2
22T	Broc Feeney	0	1	1
22T	Mark Winterbottom	0	1	1
24T	Will Brown	0	0	2
24T	Jayden Oeda	0	0	2

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Overdrive/RBR Racing	1	4	9	13
2	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	5/2	6/2	9/2
3	Erebus Motorsports	2	4/2	14/2	22/2
4	Blanchard Racing Team	2	3/2	5/2	12/2
5	Matt Stone Racing	3	3/3	8/3	13/3
6	Brad Jones Racing	3	2/3	10/3	15/3
7	Dick Johnson Racing	3	2/3	6/3	10/3
8	Grove Racing	2	1/2	3/2	3/2
9	Team 18 Racing	2	1/2	2/2	3/2
10	Premair Racing	2	0	5/2	9/2
11	Tickford Racing	4	0	4/4	5/4
12	Red Bull Racing	2	0	1/2	3/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	8	10/8	29/8	50/8
2	Toyota	5	6/5	18/5	19/5
3	Ford	11	9/13	28/13	34/13

Saturday, 1 August 2026

Early race clashes leaves Jackson Walls last for the 4th time this season

Credit; Supercars

Jackson Walls (#11 Overdrive Ford) finished last for the 4th time in his career. The finish came after finishing last, on the lead lap in the second race at Wanneroo. The finish came in Walls’ 24th start.

Jackson Walls came out of nowhere in 2018, jumping up to Formula 4. He would ascend the Formulas until he switched to the Toyota Racing Series in 2019. He won 1 race there, in 2020 at Pukekohe. Walls moved to Super 2 and Porsche in 2025, and SCT Logistics Racing promoted him to the main game in 2026 when they switched teams. But the introduction has been rough, with last-place finishes at Albert Park, Taupo and Ruapuna. Walls was slowest in Practice 1 but improved to 22nd in Practice 2. Walls improved again to 21st in Qualifying.

Aaron Cameron (#3 Liqui Moly Ford) started the race last.

At the end of Lap 2, Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford) half-spun Cooper Murray (#99 Total Energies Chevrolet), dropping Murray to last.

Murray would spend the next few laps battling with Aaron Cameron for last, eventually getting ahead.

On lap 10, trying to make a move on Murray, Jackson Walls hit Murray, half-spinning him. Zach Bates (#10 Bendix Chevrolet) tried to take advantage, only to hit Walls and almost go off the road. Moments later, Murray and Aaron Cameron (#3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford) collided. Those incidents left Bates last.

Pit stops start on Lap 17. Chaz Mostert (#25 Optus/Mobil 1 Toyota) pitted first and fell to last.

Cooper Murray pitted the following lap and dropped behind Mostert and De Pasquale, the latter having also pitted. Murray would fall a lap down.

It would be Lap 26 before Murray would leave last place. Macauley Jones (#96 JBS/Blackwood Toyota) pitted and dropped behind Murray.

The following lap, Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford) pitted and dropped behind Jones.

Walls would hold last for the rest of the race, though Macauley Jones would drift to 23rd by race end.

The bottom five filled up with Zach Bates (#10 Bendix Chevrolet), Aaron Cameron (#3 Liqui Moly Ford) and Cameron Hill (#14 Statewide Bearings Toyota).

The Bottom Five

Jackson Walls	50 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	50 Laps	Running
Zach Bates	50 Laps	Running
Aaron Cameron	50 Laps	Running
Cameron Hill	50 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jackson Walls	4	9	12
2	Cooper Murray	3	6	9
3	Aaron Cameron	2	4	10
4	Ryan Wood	2	3	5
5	Chaz Mostert	2	2	3
6T	Jack LeBrocq	2	2	2
6T	Brodie Kostecki	2	2	2
8	Jobe Stewart	1	8	13
9	Macauley Jones	1	8	9
10	Cameron Hill	1	3	5
11	Andre Heimgartner	1	3	3
12	David Reynolds	1	2	3
13	Aaron Seton	1	1	3
14T	Matt Payne	1	1	2
14T	James Golding	1	1	2
16	Zach Bates	0	3	7
17	Declan Fraser	0	3	6
18	Rylan Gray	0	2	6
19	Reuben Goodall	0	2	3
20	Kai Allen	0	2	2
21	Thomas Randle	0	1	2
22T	Broc Feeney	0	1	1
22T	Mark Winterbottom	0	1	1
24T	Will Brown	0	0	2
24T	Jayden Oeda	0	0	2

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Overdrive/RBR Racing	1	4	9	12
2	Erebus Motorsports	2	4/2	14/2	23/2
3	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	4/2	5/2	7/2
4	Blanchard Racing Team	2	3/2	5/2	12/2
5	Matt Stone Racing	3	3/3	7/3	12/3
6	Brad Jones Racing	3	2/3	10/3	14/3
7	Dick Johnson Racing	3	2/3	5/3	9/3
8	Grove Racing	2	1/2	3/2	3/2
9	Team 18 Racing	2	1/2	2/2	3/2
10	Premair Racing	2	0	5/2	9/2
11	Tickford Racing	4	0	4/4	5/4
12	Red Bull Racing	2	0	1/2	3/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	8	8/8	29/8	50/8
2	Toyota	5	5/5	12/5	18/5
3	Ford	11	8/13	22/13	34/13

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.