Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Early race collision leaves Matt Payne last at Adelaide as Jack LeBrocq becomes Last-Place Champion again

Sunday, 17 November 2024

Early race collision leaves Matt Payne last at Adelaide as Jack LeBrocq becomes Last-Place Champion again

Original by Fox Sports, Edited by me.

Matt Payne picked up the 3rd last-place finish of his career when his #19 Penrite Oils Ford finished under power, four laps down in the final race of Season 2024. The finish came in Payne's 57th start and secured the last-place Championship for Jack LeBrocq, the 2nd of his career.

Matt Payne is in his 2nd full-time season in the main game, all of his starts being for Grove Racing. Payne was 8th in Practice 1 and slipped to 9th in Practice 2. Payne returned to 8th in Practice 3 and Qualified 11th, barely missing out on the Top 10 shootout.

Bryce Fullwood in the #14 Middy's Electrical Chevrolet started the race in the rear, but before the end of the first lap, Kai Allen in the #26 Penrite Oils Ford fell to last. On Lap 6, Matt Payne in the #19 Penrite Oils Ford had wheel-to-wheel contact with Nick Percat in the #10 Bendix Chevrolet at Turn 11 on Lap 3, sending Payne into the tyre barrier, damaging the front and costing Payne 3 laps in repairs. Payne would hold the entire race last despite many incidents.

Firstly in Second-Last was Will Brown in the #87 Red Bull/Ampol Chevrolet after being turned by Brodie Kostecki in the #1 Tree Cleanup Specialist/Hope Energy Chevrolet at Turn 7 on Lap 9, then Tim Slade in the #23 Nulon Chevrolet after being spun by Mark Winterbottom in the #18 DeWalt Chevrolet, then Coper Murray in the #9 Tree Cleanup Specialist/Chiko Chevrolet fell to 2nd last after winding up in the tyres at Turn 9 on Lap 10 after a bump with Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford.

Pitstops started on Lap 20 with James Golding in the #31 Nulon Chevrolet pitting and falling to 2nd last, then Ryan Wood would pit and fall to 2nd last on Lap 22, with Aaron Love in the #3 REDARC Ford pitting the following lap and falling behind Wood. Cooper Murray pitted two laps later and dropped to second last, followed by Mark Winterbottom on Lap 29, the latter serving a time penalty for spinning Slade.

Kai Allen in the #26 Penrite Oils Ford suffered rear bumper damage that forced a pitstop on Lap 42, dropping him to 22nd, a lap down.

The final three wouldn't be filled until the end of the race. Rounding out the Bottom Five was Aaron Love in the #3 REDARC Ford, Mark Winterbottom in the #18 DeWalt Chevrolet, and Ryan Wood in the #2 Mobil 1/Truck Assist Ford after a post-race penalty for pinning Anton De Pasquale.

The Bottom Five

Matt Payne	74 Laps	Running
Kai Allen	77 Laps	Running
Aaron Love	78 Laps	Running
Mark Winterbottom	78 Laps	Running
Ryan Wood	78 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jack LeBrocq (CHAMPION)	3	5	6
2	Jaxon Evans	3	4	9
3	Anton De Pasquale	3	3	4
4	Matt Payne	3	3	4
5	Ryan Wood	2	5	7
6	Brodie Kostecki	2	5	5
7	Cooper Murray	2	2	3
8	Richie Stanaway	2	2	3
9	Aaron Love	1	6	16
10	David Reynolds	1	5	5
11	Tim Slade	1	2	3
12	Dale Wood	1	2	2
13	Will Brown	1	1	1
14	James Courtney	0	5	8
15	Thomas Randle	0	4	4
16	Cameron Hill	0	3	5
17	Nick Percat	0	2	5
18	Will Davison	0	2	3
19T	Cameron Waters	0	2	2
19T	Kai Allen	0	2	2
21	Bryce Fullwood	0	1	5
22T	Mark Winterbottom	0	1	3
22T	Lochie Dalton	0	1	2
24T	Andre Heimgartner	0	1	2
24T	James Golding	0	1	1
24T	Chaz Mostert	0	1	1
24T	Todd Hazelwood	0	1	1
24T	Matt Chada	0	1	1
24T	Brad Vaughn	0	1	1
24T	Warren Luff	0	1	1
31	Macauley Jones	0	0	7
32T	Broc Feeney	0	0	1
32T	Dylan O’Keefe	0	0	1
32T	Dean Fiore	0	0	1
32T	Aaron Cameron	0	0	1
32T	Jaylyn Robotham	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Penrite Racing (CHAMPION)	6	7/6	8/6	10/6
2	Erebus Motorsports	6	6/6	11/6	13/6
3	Shell V-Power Racing	4	3/4	6/4	8/4
4	Walkinshaw Andretti United	4	2/4	6/4	8/4
5	Brad Jones Racing	8	3/8	6/8	25/8
6	Red Bull Racing	6	2/6	2/6	3/6
7	Blanchard Racing Team	4	1/4	13/4	24/4
8	Team 18 Racing	4	1/4	8/4	9/4
9	Premair Nulon Racing	4	1/4	3/4	5/4
10	Matt Stone Racing	4	0	5/4	13/4
11	Tickford Racing	6	0	7/6	8/6
12	Matt Chada Racing	2	0	1	1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Ford	24	12/24	40/24	54/24
2	Chevrolet	30	13/30	35/30	64/30

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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.