Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Early race collision and complete mechanical failure leaves Ryan Wood last at Hidden Valley

Saturday, 20 June 2026

Early race collision and complete mechanical failure leaves Ryan Wood last at Hidden Valley

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Ryan Wood (#2 Truck Assist/NTI Toyota) would finish last for the 3rd time in his career. The finish came after a total mechanical failure after 4 of the race’s 70 laps. The finish came in Wood’s 74th start.

The last time Wood finished last was back-to-back last-place finishes at Bathurst in 2024. Since then, he won Rookie of the Year in 2024, won his first race at Barbagallo in 2025, towards 10th in the Championship. This year his team switched to Toyota. Wood currently sits seventh in the championship with a win and four podiums. Wood was 17th in the only practice session, and after brake failure late in qualifying, Wood would start 17th.

Macauley Jones (Dormer HVAC Toyota) started the race last. Rylan Gray (#38 Shell V-Power Ford) got pushed off the road exiting Turn 1, dropping to last.

Lap 2 saw Cameron Hill (#14 FGI Toyota) run off at Turn 1, dropping to last.

The race for last place would end 4 laps in, after Declan Fraser (#777 Nulon Chevrolet) collided with Ryan Wood (#2 Truck Assist/NTI Toyota). The collision completely took out the mechanics of the car, sending him to the garage and ending his race.

The rest of the Bottom Five would take all race to decide. However, penalties and pit-road issues would fill two spots.

Pit stops would cycle 23rd through several drivers. But after the first round, Jobe Stewart (#9 Solo Energy/7-Eleven Chevrolet) would drop to second-last. Stewart would finish there.

Zach Bates (#10 Bendix Chevrolet) went off at turn 5 after attempting a pass on James Golding (#7 Adventure Industries Ford).

Bates unsafely returned to the track. That led to Declan Fraser (#777 Nulon Chevrolet) spinning off the track on the ripple strip at Turn 6.

This would be the start of Bates’ problems. His team wouldn’t serve the penalty correctly at his second pit stop. Stewards would penalise him a further 5 seconds. This meant Bates lost 34 seconds in total and finished 22nd.

The bottom five filled up with Aaron Cameron (#3 Liqui Moly Ford) and Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford).

The Bottom Five

Ryan Wood	4 Laps	Mechanical
Jobe Stewart	69 Laps	Running
Zach Bates	70 Laps	Running
Aaron Cameron	70 Laps	Running
Jackson Walls	70 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jackson Walls	3	7	11
2	Cooper Murray	3	5	8
3	Aaron Cameron	2	3	8
4	Jack LeBrocq	2	2	2
5	Jobe Stewart	1	8	12
6	Ryan Wood	1	2	4
7	David Reynolds	1	2	3
8	Cameron Hill	1	2	2
9T	Matt Payne	1	1	2
9T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	2
11	James Golding	1	1	1
12	Brodie Kostecki	1	1	1
13	Macauley Jones	0	5	6
14T	Declan Fraser	0	3	5
14T	Rylan Gray	0	2	6
16	Zach Bates	0	2	3
17T	Kai Allen	0	2	2
17T	Andre Heimgartner	0	2	2
19T	Thomas Randle	0	1	2
19T	Broc Feeney	0	1	1
21	Will Brown	0	0	2
22	Jayden Oeda	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Overdrive/RBR Racing	1	3	7	11
2	Erebus Motorsports	2	4/2	13/2	21/2
3	Blanchard Racing Team	2	3/2	5/2	10/2
4	Matt Stone Racing	2	2/2	5/2	6/2
5	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	2/2	3/2	5/2
6	Brad Jones Racing	3	2/3	7/3	10/3
7	Grove Racing	2	1/2	3/2	3/2
8	Team 18 Racing	2	1/2	2/2	3/2
9	Dick Johnson Racing	2	1/2	4/2	8/2
10	Premair Racing	2	0	5/2	7/2
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	8/8	27/8	42/8
2	Ford	11	7/11	18/11	30/11
3	Toyota	5	3/5	8/5	14/5

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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.