Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: July 2025

Friday, 11 July 2025

First lap collision leaves Jaxon Evans last, and leading, at Townsville

Original by Speedcafe, edited by me.

Jaxon Evans (#12 SCT Logistics Chevrolet) finished last for the sixth time after a first-lap collision ended his race after 4 of the race’s 35 laps. The finish came in Evans’ 44th start. Evans currently holds the 2025 last-place championship lead; he achieved this via three last-place finishes.

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 18th in Practice 1, then dipped to 19th in Practice 2. Evans dropped to 23rd in Qualifying.

Macauley Jones (#96 Pizza Hut Chevrolet) started the race in the rear.

Entering Turn 1, the collision between Jaxon Evans (#12 SCT Logistics Chevrolet) and Cooper Murray (#99 Date Energy/Tropic Petroleum Chevrolet) wrecked Evans’ right-front suspension.

The incident would relegate Evans to the garage and to the bottom position. Towards the end of the race, Evans would exit the garage to do four laps, possibly to check the car was OK. But Evans would finish last.

Teammate Jones would remain 23rd for the early stages of the race.

James Couurtney (#7 Snowy River Caravans Ford) ran teammate Aaron Cameron (#3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford) off the road at Turn 5 on Lap 5, dropping him to 23rd.

Pit stops would be the only contest for the rest of the Bottom Five. The first pit stop was Ryan Wood (#2 Truck Assist/Mobil 1 Ford) on Lap 10.

Nick Percat (#10 Bendix Chevrolet) pitted on Lap 11. Percat would hold last until James Golding (#31 Nulon Chevrolet) pitted on Lap 18. Cooper Murray (#99 Date Charger/Tropic Petroleum Chevrolet) pitted on Lap 23. Aaron Cameron (#3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford) would pit on Lap 26 and remain 23rd for the rest of the race.

James Courtney (#7 Snowy River Caravans Ford) and David Reynolds (#20 Tradie Chevrolet) completed the Bottom Five.

The Bottom Five

Jaxon Evans	4 Laps	Suspension
Aaron Cameron	35 Laps	Running
Nick Percat	35 Laps	Running
James Courtney	35 Laps	Running
David Reynolds	35 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jaxon Evans	3	3	3
2	Aaron Cameron	2	6	10
3	Richie Stanaway	2	4	6
4	Cooper Murray	1	5	7
5	Will Davison	1	3	6
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	Cameron Waters	1	1	1
14	David Reynolds	0	2	5
15T	Thomas Randle	0	2	3
15T	Nick Percat	0	2	3
15T	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	2
18T	Cameron Hill	0	1	2
18T	Ryan Wood	0	1	1
20T	Chaz Mostert	0	1	1
20T	Brodie Kostecki	0	1	1
22	James Courtney	0	0	5
23	Rylan Gray	0	0	2

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Nulon Racing	2	3/2	6/2	10/2
2	Brad Jones Racing	4	5/4	7/4	9/4
3	Erebus Motorsports	2	2/2	6/2	10/2
4	Blanchard Racing Team	3	3/3	9/3	16/3
5	Dick Johnson Racing	2	1/2	5/2	8/2
6	Grove Racing	2	1/2	2/2	3/2
7	Matt Stone Racing	3	1/3	6/3	8/3
8T	Team 18	2	0	3/2	7/2
8T	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	3/2	3/2
10	Tickford Racing	5	1/5	3/5	6/5

Constructor’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	15	11/15	28/15	45/15
2	Ford	12	5/12	20/12	35/12

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.