Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Mid-race contact leaves Ryan Wood last at Townsville

Friday, 10 July 2026

Mid-race contact leaves Ryan Wood last at Townsville

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Ryan Wood (#2 Truck Assist/NTI Toyota) would finish last for the 4th time in his career. The finish came after mid-race contact left him 8 laps down in the 2nd race at Townsville. The finish came in Wood’s 78th start, and his 2nd last-place finish of the year.

Ryan Wood had a tough start to his career, scoring 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. Ryan Wood was 8th in practice, then rocketed to 3rd in qualifying. Wood slipped to 4th in the Top 10 Shootout.

Declan Fraser (#777 Nulon Chevrolet) started last. But shortly after the start, Aaron Seton (#30 Superior Cranes) slipped to last.

James Golding (#7 Cooldrive Distribution Ford) suffered major right-rear damage on the exit of Turn 2. By Turn 11, Golding blew the right-rear tire, forcing a pit-stop that dropped him to last.

By lap 5, Golding was 43 seconds behind 25th place Cameron Hill (#14 Sinopec Toyota), who was another 4.5 seconds behind the tail end of the field.

Reuben Goodall (#5 MG Plaseteres Ford) left the track and gained an advantage on the opening lap. Then, on lap 11, he spun Zach Bates (#10 Bendix Chevrolet) at Turn 13, plunging Bates to 24th.

Pit stops started on lap 19 with Rylan Grey (#38 Shell V-Power Ford). However, Gray rejoined the track just in front of Golding.

Cameron Hill (#14 Sinopec Toyota) suffered major front-end damage on Lap 1. Hill would drop a lap while the team worked on his car.

By half-way, all 26 cars were still running. Hill was last, 31 seconds behind Reuben Goodall, who was a further 20 seconds behind James Golding. All three are a lap down.

Will Brown (#888 Red Bull/Ampol Chevrolet) copped a tire rub after contact from Ryan Wood (#2 Truck Assist/NTI Toyota)

Kai Allen (#26 Penrite Ford) collided with Ryan Wood (#2 Truck Assist Toyota). The collision broke the steering on Wood’s car. The collision cost Wood 7 laps. With no retirements or other mechanical issues, Wood finished last.

Cameron Hill (#14 Sinopec Toyota) lost a second lap late in the race and finished 25th.

Reuben Goodall (#5 MG Plasterers Ford), Aaron Seton (#30 Superior Cranes Chevrolet), and James Golding (#7 Cooldrive Distribution Ford).

The Bottom Five

Ryan Wood	60 Laps	Running
Cameron Hill	66 Laps	Running
Reuben Goodall	67 Laps	Running
Aaron Seton	67 Laps	Running
James Golding	67 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jackson Walls	3	8	11
2	Cooper Murray	3	6	9
3	Aaron Cameron	2	3	8
4	Ryan Wood	2	3	5
5	Chaz Mostert	2	2	3
6	Jack LeBrocq	2	2	2
7	Jobe Stewart	1	8	13
8	Cameron Hill	1	3	4
9	David Reynolds	1	2	3
10T	Matt Payne	1	1	2
10T	Aaron Seton	1	1	2
10T	James Golding	1	1	2
13	Brodie Kostecki	1	1	1
14	Macauley Jones	0	6	7
15	Declan Fraser	0	3	5
16	Rylan Gray	0	2	6
17T	Kai Allen	0	2	2
17T	Andre Heimgartner	0	2	2
17T	Reuben Goodall	0	2	2
20	Zach Bates	0	1	5
21	Thomas Randle	0	1	2
22T	Broc Feeney	0	1	1
22T	Mark Winterbottom	0	1	1
24	Will Brown	0	0	2
25	Jayden Oeda	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Overdrive/RBR Racing	1	3	7	10
2	Erebus Motorsports	2	4/2	14/2	23/2
3	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	4/2	5/2	7/2
4	Blanchard Racing Team	2	3/2	5/2	11/2
5	Matt Stone Racing	3	3/3	5/3	10/3
6	Brad Jones Racing	3	2/3	8/3	11/3
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	3	1/3	4/3	8/3
10	Premair Racing	2	0	5/2	7/2
11	Tickford Racing	4	0	4/4	5/4
12	Red Bull Racing	2	0	1/2	3/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	8	8/8	27/8	45/8
2	Toyota	5	5/5	11/5	17/5
3	Ford	11	7/13	21/13	33/13

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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.