Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Race Long battles end with last-place finish and lead for rookie Jackson Walls

Friday, 17 April 2026

Race Long battles end with last-place finish and lead for rookie Jackson Walls

Credit: Supercars

Jackwon Walls (#11 Overdrive Ford) picked up the 3^rd last-place finish. He finished last, on the lead lap, in the second race at Ruapuna. The finish came in Walls’ 12^th start. This last-place finish means Jackson Walls takes the lead of the 2026 Repco Superlastcar Championship.

Jackson Walls came out of nowhere in 2018, jumping up to Formula 4. He would ascend the Formulas until he switched to the Toyota Racing Series in 2019. He won 1 race there, in 2020 at Pukekohe. Walls moved to Super 2 and Porsche in 2025, and SCT Logistics Racing promoted him to the main game in 2026 when they switched teams. But the introduction has been rough, with last-place finishes at Albert Park and Taupo. He Practiced 21^st and qualified last.

Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford) started the race last. But Macauley Jones (#96 JWT/Coregas Toyota) fell to last before the end of the first lap. Jones would hold last until Lap 11, when Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford) ran off the road and fell behind everyone. Pit stops start on Lap 13, with Cameron Hill (#14 Electro-Voice/Jayco Toyota) pitting and dropping to last. Aaron Cameron (#3 Liqui Moly Ford) spun out Cooper Murray (#99 Total Energies Chevrolet) on Lap 14 at Turn 4. Cameron would cop a 15-second time penalty for the contact, which he took at his pit stop. The penalty dropped Aaron Cameron to last.

Declan Fraser (#777 Nulon Chevrolet) pitted and fell to last. Followed by Macauley Jones (#96 JWT/Coregas Toyota) after his pitstop. Aaron Cameron would relegate Macauley Jones to last on Lap 29. Then, on Lap 34, Jones would relegate Walls to last.

The Bottom Five went to Macauley Jones (#96 JWT/Coregas Chevrolet), Declan Fraser (#777 Premair Hire/Nulon Chevrolet) and Jobe Stewart (#9 Erebus Chevrolet).

The Bottom Five

Jackson Walls	37 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	37 Laps	Running
Declan Fraser	37 Laps	Running
Aaron Cameron	37 Laps	Running
Jobe Stewart	37 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jackson Walls	3	5	6
2	Cooper Murray	2	4	6
3	Jobe Stewart	1	5	7
4	Cameron Hill	1	2	2
5	Aaron Cameron	1	1	5
6T	Matt Payne	1	1	2
6T	David Reynolds	1	1	2
8T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
8T	James Golding	1	1	1
10	Macauley Jones	0	5	6
11T	Declan Fraser	0	2	4
11T	Kai Allen	0	2	2
13	Andre Heimgartner	0	2	2
14T	Thomas Randle	0	1	1
14T	Broc Feeney	0	1	1
14T	Zach Bates	0	1	1
17	Rylan Gray	0	0	3
18T	Will Brown	0	0	2
18T	Ryan Wood	0	0	2
19	Jayden Ojeda	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Overdrive/RBR Racing	1	3	4	5
2	Erebus Motorsports	2	3/2	9/2	13/2
3	Brad Jones Racing	3	2/3	7/3	9/3
4	Blanchard Racing Team	2	2/2	3/2	7/2
5	Grove Racing	2	1/2	3/2	3/2
6T	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
6T	Team 18 Racing	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
8	Premair Racing	2	0	4/2	6/2
9	Matt Stone Racing	2	0	2/2	2/2
10	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	1/2	4/2
11	Red Bull Racing	2	0	1/2	3/2
12	Tickford Racing	2	0	1/2	2/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	8	5/8	18/8	2688
2	Ford	11	5/11	11/11	18/11
3	Toyota	5	2/5	6/5	10/5

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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.