Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Hard Turn 1 crash leaves Jaxon Evans last at Hidden Valley

Friday, 20 June 2025

Hard Turn 1 crash leaves Jaxon Evans last at Hidden Valley

Original by Fox Sports, eidted byt me.

Jaxon Evans (#4 SCT Logistics Chevrolet) finished last for the fifth time of his career after a turn 1 crash. The finish came in Evans’ 43rd start.

Jaxon Evans is in his 2nd full-time season with Brad Jones Racing, having replaced Jack Smith in 2024 after outpacing him at Bathurst. Evans has also competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and finished 2nd in 2021 in the International Porsche Supercup. He was 21st in Practice 1 and leapt to 9th in Practice 2. Evans then plunged to 20th in qualifying.

Rylan Gray (#5 Koan Solutions Ford) started the race in the rear. At the exit of Turn 1, Jaxon Evans (#12 SCT Logistics Chevrolet) made wheel-to-wheel contact with Richie Stanaway (#62 Nulon Chevrolet), sending Evans hard into the wall. The collision ended Evans’ race.

Ryan Wood (#2 Mobil 1/NTI Ford) started leaking fluid because of an overheating engine.

On the restart, Wood’s engine died, causing a concertina that led to contact between Cameron Hill (#4 Supaglass Chevrolet) and Jack LeBrocq (#9 Tyrepower/SS Signs Chevrolet).

There was additional contact between Thomas Randle (#55 Castrol Ford), Hill, and Will Brown (#1 Red Bull/Amol Chevrolet), but they continued.

At turn 5, there was contact between David Reynolds (#20 Tradie Chevrolet) and Nick Percat (#8 Bendix Chevrolet). Percat then fired into Richie Stanaway (#62 Nulon Chevrolet), destroying the left-rear of Stanaway’s car.

The incidents combined ended the races of LeBrocq and Wood, and cost Stanaway 7 laps.

Rylan Grey (#5 Koan Solutions Ford) rounded out the Bottom Five.

The Bottom Five

Jaxon Evans	0 Laps	Crash
Jack LeBrocq	6 Laps	Crash
Ryan Wood	6 Laps	Engine
Richie Stanaway	34 Laps	Running
Rylan Grey	42 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Aaron Cameron	2	4	7
2	Jaxon Evans	2	2	2
3	Cooper Murray	1	5	7
4T	Richie Stanaway	1	3	5
4T	Will Davison	1	2	5
6T	James Golding	1	2	3
6T	Jack LeBrocq	1	2	3
6T	Macauley Jones	1	2	3
6T	Kai Allen	1	2	3
6T	Bryce Fullwood	1	2	3
11T	Aaron Love	1	2	2
11T	Cameron Crick	1	2	2
13	David Reynolds	0	1	3
14T	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	2
14T	Thomas Randle	0	1	2
14T	Nick Percat	0	1	2
14T	Cameron Hill	0	1	2
17T	Ryan Wood	0	1	1
17T	Chaz Mostert	0	1	1
17T	Brodie Kostecki	0	1	1
20	James Courtney	0	0	3

Team’s Championship

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

Constructor’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	15	9/15	23/15	38/15
2	Ford	11	4/11	16/11	27/11

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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.