Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Start line crash leaves Reynolds last at Ruapuna

Friday, 17 April 2026

Start line crash leaves Reynolds last at Ruapuna

Credit: Supercars

David Reynolds (#20 Snowy River Caravans Chevrolet) finished last for the 15th time in his career. The finish came after a 3-car crash at the start/finish line ended his race. The finish came in Reynolds’ 500th start.

David Reynolds is a Supercars veteran and has been racing since 2009 full-time and 2007 as a co-driver. His best Championship result of 3rd in 2015. In 2021, he became infamous for lying about his vaccination status, which got him barred from several rounds of the championship. Reynolds’ first full-time season was with Walkinshaw Racing, then moved to Kelly Racing for a year after only doing endurance events in 2010. Reynolds then moved to Rod Nash Racing from 2011 to 2015 before he moved to Erebus Motorsports in 2016. He stayed until 2021, when he moved to Kelly Grove Racing, which then became Grove Racing in 2022. In 2024, Reynolds would replace Mark Winterbottom at Team 18 Racing. Reynolds was 18th in Practice 1 and qualifying.

Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford) started the race last. The first incident of the race happened almost immediately.

David Reynolds (#20 Snowy River Caravans Chevrolet) and Macauley Jones (#96 JWL/Coregas Toyota) collided. The crash got worse as they hit Cameron Hill (#14 Electro-Voice/Jayco Chevrolet). Reynolds’ and Hill’s cars suffered terminal damage, although all three cars limped back to the pits. Hill briefly returned to the racetrack, which left Reynolds last. Jones would lose 2 laps in repairs.

There was chaos in the crash's aftermath. A flag marshal thought the Safety Car was out and waved the yellow flag. Confused drivers did not know whether they could race, causing drama. Several drivers lost positions, and Aaron Cameron (#3 Liqui Moly Ford) suffered damage in the aftermath. Cameron would finish 20th. Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford) would also finish in the Bottom Five.

The Bottom Five

David Reynolds	0 Laps	Crash
Cameron Hill	5 Laps	Crash
Macauley Jones	35 Laps	Running
Jackson Walls	37 Laps	Running
Aaron Cameron	37 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Cooper Murray	2	4	6
2	Jackson Walls	2	3	4
3	Jobe Stewart	1	5	6
4	Aaron Cameron	1	1	4
5	Matt Payne	1	1	2
6T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
6T	James Golding	1	1	1
6T	David Reynolds	1	1	1
9	Macauley Jones	0	4	5
10	Kai Allen	0	2	2
11	Declan Fraser	0	1	2
12T	Andre Heimgartner	0	1	1
12T	Thomas Randle	0	1	1
12T	Broc Feeney	0	1	1
12T	Zach Bates	0	1	1
12T	Cameron Hill	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	Erebus Motorsports	2	3/2	9/2	12/2
2	Blanchard Racing Team	2	2/2	3/2	6/2
3	Overdrive/RBR Racing	2	2/2	3/2	4/2
4	Grove Racing	2	1/2	3/2	3/2
5	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
6	Team 18 Racing	2	1/2	1/2	1/2
7T	Brad Jones Racing	3	1/3	4/3	6/3
7T	Premair Racing	2	0	3/2	4/2
9T	Red Bull Racing	2	0	1/2	3/2
9T	Matt Stone Racing	2	0	2/2	2/2
11	Tickford Racing	2	0	1/2	2/2
12	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	0	3/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	8	5/8	18/8	24/8
2	Ford	11	4/11	10/11	17/11
3	Toyota	5	1/5	3/5	7/5

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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.