Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: "Baptism of FIre" ends with Bayley Hall finishing last at Queensland Raceway.

Saturday, 22 August 2026

"Baptism of FIre" ends with Bayley Hall finishing last at Queensland Raceway.

Image supplied to Speecafe, cropped by me.

Bayley Hall (#15 Supercheap Auto Chevrolet) finished last for the first time in his career. The finish came under power, 1 lap down in the first race at Queensland Raceway. The finish came in Hall’s debut start.

Bayley Hall started his climb towards Supercars through the Keema Cars Excel Cup in 2017. Hall moved to Aussie Tin Tops in 2020, where he won 2 rounds and the championship. He then tested Porsche Carrera Cup machinery for McElra Racing at the end of the year. Hall would join the team the following year and finish 5th in the Pro category with a Philip Island podium.

Hall stepped up to the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia in 2022 and finished 19th in the points with a best result of 7th at Townsville.

Hall continued Porsche racing for several years, getting two wins at Surfer’s Paradise on course to a 6th place points finish.

Hall won four races in 2024 and finished 5th overall.

Hall switched teams in 2025 to EMA Motorsports. He won the junior title that year and finished fourth in the pro standings.

Hall then signed with Eggleston Motorsport in 2026 to race in Super2 and made his debut in the main game at Queensland Raceway.

Hall was 15th in Practice 1, but slid to 22nd in Practice 2. Hall slipped to 25th in Qualifying.

Aaron Seton (#30 Superior Cranes Chevrolet) started last. Off the start, fellow wildcard Bayley Hall (#15 Supercheap Auto Chevrolet) struggled to get off the line, dropping behind Seton for last place. Hall and Seton battled for last during the first few laps.

Lap 5 saw pit stops start. Jayden Ojeda (#31 Nulon Chevrolet) fell to last during his pit stop.

Lap 6 saw wildcard Ben Gomersall (#5 Unit Ford) fall behind Bayley Hall, though still 30 seconds ahead of Ojeda.

The reason for Gomersall’s position drop became clear later. Declan Fraser (#777 Nulon Chevrolet) copped a time penalty for contact with the former.

Eight laps pass before more pit stops start. Zach Bates (#10 Bendix Chevrolet) pitted on lap 14. He fell behind Ojeda, relegated to last. Macauley Jones (#96 JWL Toyota) pitted a lap later. Jones fell behind Bates.

A lap later, Jobe Stewart (#9 Argus Auctions/Mackay Goodwin Chevrolet) pitted and inherited last.

Stewart held last until Lap 23 when Bayley Hall pitted and fell behind. Hall would stay last for the rest of the race. Hall lost a lap to race winner Matt Payne with 3 laps to go.

The other two wildcards filled 26th (Aaron Seton) and 25th (Ben Gomersal). Macauley Jones and Declan Fraser completed the Bottom Five.

The Bottom Five

Baylan Hall	38 Laps	Running
Aaron Seton	39 Laps	Running
Ben Gomersal	39 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	39 Laps	Running
Declan Fraser	39 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jackson Walls	4	9	13
2	Cooper Murray	3	6	9
3	Ryan Wood	3	4	6
4	Aaron Cameron	2	4	10
5	Chaz Mostert	2	2	3
6T	Jack LeBrocq	2	2	2
6T	Brodie Kostecki	2	2	2
8	Macauley Jones	1	9	11
9	Jobe Stewart	1	8	13
10	Cameron Hill	1	3	5
11	Andre Heimgartner	1	3	3
12	David Reynolds	1	2	3
13	Aaron Seton	1	1	3
14T	Matt Payne	1	1	2
14T	James Golding	1	1	2
16	Baylan Hall	1	1	1
17	Declan Fraser	0	4	7
18	Zach Bates	0	3	7
19	Rylan Gray	0	3	7
20	Reuben Goodall	0	2	3
21	Kai Allen	0	2	2
22	Thomas Randle	0	1	2
23T	Broc Feeney	0	1	1
23T	Mark Winterbottom	0	1	1
23T	Ben Gomersal	0	1	1
26T	Will Brown	0	0	2
26T	Jayden Oeda	0	0	2

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Overdrive/RBR Racing	1	4	9	13
2	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	5/2	6/2	9/2
3	Erebus Motorsports	2	4/2	14/2	22/2
4	Blanchard Racing Team	2	3/2	5/2	12/2
5	Matt Stone Racing	3	3/3	8/3	13/3
6	Brad Jones Racing	3	2/3	10/3	16/3
7	Dick Johnson Racing	3	2/3	6/3	10/3
8	Grove Racing	2	1/2	3/2	3/2
9	Team 18 Racing	3	2/3	3/3	4/3
10	Premair Racing	2	0	5/2	9/2
11	Tickford Racing	5	0	5/5	6/5
12	Red Bull Racing	2	0	1/2	3/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	9	11/9	30/9	51/9
2	Toyota	5	6/5	18/5	19/5
3	Ford	14	9/14	29/14	35/14

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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.