Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Cameron Crick finishes last in the first race of 2025.

Friday, 21 February 2025

Cameron Crick finishes last in the first race of 2025.

Original by V8 Sleuth, cropped by me.

Cameron Crick picked up the 1^st last-place finish of his career when his #35 Dormer/Able Door Services Chevrolet finished under power, on the lead lap in the first race at the Sydney Motorsports Park. The finish came in Crick’s 3^rd start.

Cameron Crick is an up-and-coming driver in motorsport, having had some solid results in Toyota 86's and SuperUtes. He is the son of six-time Australian Truck Racing Champion Rodney Crick and has run two seasons in Super 2. He scored his first Top 10 in the Supercars last year driving alongside Cameron Hill at Matt Stone Racing during the Bathurst 1000. This year Crick is running a wildcard campaign for Matt Stone Racing, piloting the #35. He was 23rd in Practice but qualified slowest. However, he wouldn't start last due to a very close call between James Golding in the #31 Nulon Chevrolet and Macauley Jones in the #96 Pizza Hut Chevrolet.

The near-miss would result in a grid place penalty for Jones, leaving him starting last instead. Jones would hold last for the first lap. Starting Lap 2, however, wildcard Camron Crick in the #35 Dormer/Able Door Services Chevrolet was overtaken by Macauley Jones, dropping him to last. Pitstops start on Lap 5, and Kai Allen in the #26 Penrite Oils Ford pitted first and fell to last. Lap 7 saw Richie Stanaway in the #62 Nulon Chevrolet pitted for four tyres and dropped to last.

On lap 10, Nulon Racing teammates Stanaway and Golding got together and knocked each other to the last two, with Golding holding last.

Lap 12 Broc Feeney in the #88 Red Bull/Ampol Chevrolet punctured a left-rear tyre, forcing him to pit. Combined with a cross-threaded wheel nut, it dropped Feeney to last. Finally, on Lap 14 Cameron Crick pitted and returned to last place. Aaron Love in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford would finally pit on Lap 16 and drop to last. It would take until the final lap before Love would overtake Crick, leaving the latter last.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Aaron Love in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford, Richie Stanaway in the #62 Nulon Chevrolet, James Golding in the #31 Nulon Chevrolet, and Will Davison in the #17 Shell V-Power Ford.

The Bottom Five

Cameron Crick	27 Laps	Running
Aaron Love	27 Laps	Running
Richie Stanaway	27 Laps	Running
James Golding	27 Laps	Running
Will Davison	27 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Cameron Crick	1	1	1
2T	Aaron Love	0	1	1
2T	Richie Stanaway	0	1	1
4T	James Golding	0	0	1
4T	Will Davison	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Matt Stone Racing	3	1/3	1/3	1/3
2	Nulon Racing	2	0	1/2	2/2
3	Blanchard Racing Team	2	0	1/2	1/2
4	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	0	1/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	15	1/15	2/15	3/15
2	Ford	10	0/10	1/10	2/10

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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.