Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Defending Champion last after mid-race crash at Albert Park

Friday, 6 March 2026

Defending Champion last after mid-race crash at Albert Park

Credit: Supercars

The defending last-place champion Aaron Cameron (#3 Liqui Moly Blahst Ford) finished last at Albert Park for the 6th time in his career. He finished 2 laps down after exhaust damage. The finish came in Cameron’s 40th start.

The Blanchard Racing Team drafted Aaron Cameron to replace Aaron Love after the first round of the 2025 Supercars season. Winning the 2023 S5000 Australian and Tasman series and taking second in the Super 2 Championship shows his strong racing record. He was Aaron Love’s co-driver in 2024, where they finished 17th at Sandown and 23rd at Bathurst. Several last-place finishes marked his rookie campaign. Cameron finished last in Adelaide, crashing from contention nine laps into the race. This crash secured his last-place championship.

Since then, the Blanchard Racing Team gained a technical alliance with Red Bull Racing.

The first race of 2026 saw Aaron Cameron finish on the podium.

Unfortunately, incidents have left Aaron Cameron without the results to back up his speed.

He was 20th in Practice 1, then soared to fastest in Practice 2. He would qualify 8th.

Rylan Grey (#38 Shell V-Power Ford) started the race last after disqualification from qualifying.

Two incidents happened at the same time. Jobe Stewart (#9 Solo Chevrolet) spun Macauley Jones (#96 Alpha Theta Toyota) at Turn 3.

While that happened, Jayden Ojeda (#31 Mr. Umamji Chevrolet) spun Zach Bates (#10 Bendix Chevrolet).

The double incident left Jones last and Bates 23rd. Later that lap, Will Brown (#888 Red Bull/Ampol Ford) would lock up at Turn 11 and run Cooper Murray (#99 Total Energy Chevrolet) off the road. Stewards penalised Brown 15 seconds for the incident, leaving Brown in the bottom five.

On Lap 11, Jones would relegate Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford) to last.

A Lap 14 incident would seal the last-place battle.

Battling for the 4th place at Turn 14, Broc Feeney (#88 Red Bull/Ampol Ford) bumped Aaron Cameron (#3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford) wide.

Cameron would immediately bump Feeney in retaliation.

Immediately after, Kai Allen (#26 Penrite Oils Ford) would dive under Cameron, spinning both out.

Allen would recover to 5th. Cameron pitted with exhaust damage and lost 2 laps. This relegated Cameron to last.

Damage, penalties, and incidents would mark much of the bottom five.

A late race pit stop would leave Cooper Murray in 23rd. A last lap suspension issue left Jobe Stewart (#9 Solo Chevrolet) in 22nd. Will Brown (#888 Red Bull/Ampol Ford) finished 21st.

After David (#20 Snowy River Caravans Chevrolet) bumped Jobe Stewart (#9 Solo Chevrolet) into Macauley Jones (#96 Alpha Theta Toyotas), Jones would finish 20th.

The Bottom Five

Aaron Cameron	17 Laps	Running
Cooper Murray	18 Laps	Running
Jobe Stewart	19 Laps	Running
Will Brown	19 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	19 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Cooper Murray	1	2	3
2T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
2T	James Golding	1	1	1
2T	Jackson Walls	1	1	1
2T	Aaron Cameron	1	1	1
6T	Macauley Jones	0	3	4
6T	Jobe Stewart	0	3	4
8T	Andre Heimgartner	0	1	1
8T	Kai Allen	0	1	1
8T	Aaron Cameron	0	1	1
11	Rylan Gray	0	0	2
11T	Jayden Ojeda	0	0	1
11T	Ryan Wood	0	0	1
11T	Declan Fraser	0	0	1
11T	Will Brown	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Blanchard Racing Team	2	2/2	3/2	3/2
2	Erebus Motorsports	2	1/2	5/2	7/2
3	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
4	Overdrive/RBR Racing	2	1/2	1/2	1/2
5	Brad Jones Racing	3	1/3	3/3	5/3
6	Premair Racing	2	0	2/2	3/2
7	Grove Racing	2	0	1/2	1/2
8	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	0	2/2
9	Red Bull Racing	2	0	0	1/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	8	2/8	9/8	13/8
2	Toyota	5	1/5	3/5	5/5
3	Ford	11	2/11	4/11	5/11

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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.