Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Front Bodywork collapse leaves Murray last at Adelaide

Saturday, 16 November 2024

Front Bodywork collapse leaves Murray last at Adelaide

Original by Erebus Motorsports, edited by me.

Cooper Murray picked up the 2nd last-place finish of his career when his #9 Tree Cleanup Specialist/SS Signs Chevrolet finished under power, seven laps down in the first race at the Adelaide Street Circuit. The finish came in Murray’s 5th start.

Cooper Murray was a wildcard for 2024 and the primary driver alongside Craig Lowndes at Sandown and Bathurst. Cooper Muray qualified tenth but finished last after being awkwardly mounted by Andre Heimgartner in the #8 R&J Batteries Chevrolet. Murray would replace Jack LeBrocq aboard the #9 because the latter was expecting the arrival of his first child. Cooper Murray would be 17th in Practice 2 when he took over for Jack LeBrocq and remained 17th in Qualifying, which was abandoned after 5 minutes due to heavy crashes for Richie Stanaway in the #26 Penrite Oils Ford, the resulting concussion ruling Stanaway out of Race 1, Cameron Hill in the #4 SP Tools Chevrolet and David Reynolds in the #20 Tradie Chevrolet.

Dale Wood in the #19 Penrite Oils Ford started the race in the rear after he replaced Richie Stanaway and slowly lost touch with the rest of the field in the early laps. However, he would not remain last for long.

Cooper Murray in the #9 Tree Cleanup Specialist/SS Signs Chevrolet pulled into the garage on Lap 11 after the front bumper completely collapsed on car #9, dropping him to last and losing six laps in repairs. Over the next fifteen laps, Cooper Murray would remain last. Murray was the only driver laps down until David Reynolds in the #20 Tradie Chevrolet would challenge Cooper Murray for last place when he pulled into the garage on Lap 23 with an exhaust issue, losing six laps in repairs and falling behind Murray for last place.

However, twenty laps later, the right-front panel would fail again, necessitating Murray to pit twice to fix it, falling behind Reynolds for last place and losing another lap in repairs.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Dale Wood in the #26 Penrite Oils Ford after sliding off into the gravel at Turn 5 on Lap 38. Wood managed to escape the bunker without causing a Safety Car or a Full Course Yellow, Aaron Love in the #3 REDARC Ford despite a 6th place qualifying position and Tim Slade in the #23 Nulon Chevrolet.

The Bottom Five

Cooper Murray	70 Laps	Running
David Reynolds	70 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	77 Laps	Running
Aaron Love	78 Laps	Running
Tim Slade	78 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jack LeBrocq	3	5	6
2	Jaxon Evans	3	4	9
3	Anton De Pasquale	3	3	4
4	Cooper Murray	2	2	3
5	Brodie Kostecki	2	5	5
6T	Ryan Wood	2	5	6
6T	Matt Payne	2	2	3
8	Richie Stanaway	2	2	3
9	Aaron Love	1	6	15
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
19	Cameron Waters	0	2	2
20	Bryce Fullwood	0	1	5
21T	Mark Winterbottom	0	1	2
21T	Lochie Dalton	0	1	2
21T	Andre Heimgartner	0	1	2
24T	James Golding	0	1	1
24T	Chaz Mostert	0	1	1
24T	Todd Hazelwood	0	1	1
24T	Kai Allen	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	5	6/5	6/5	8/5
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	7/4
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	12/4	23/4
8	Team 18 Racing	4	1/4	8/4	8/4
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	22	11/22	3722	51/22
2	Chevrolet	30	13/30	35/30	62/30

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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.