Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Electrical issues cruel Kai Allen's Gold Coast run

Saturday, 24 October 2026

Electrical issues cruel Kai Allen's Gold Coast run

Credit: Supercars

Kai Allen (#26 Penrite Oils Ford) finished last for the 3rd time. The finish came after electrical issues left him 2 laps down in the 85 lap first race on the Gold Coast. The finish came in Allen’s 65th start.

Kai Allen is in his 2nd year full-time. While coming up through the ranks, Allen ran Super 3 and Super 2, finishing all 3 years 3rd or better. This included winning the championship as a rookie in 2023 for Eggleston Motorsports. Allen would race 2023 and 2024 as a co-driver for Dick Johnson Racing.

Allen would debut for Grove Racing in 2024 after Richie Stanaway withdrew because of concussion caused by a qualifying crash Saturday.

Allen would then race full time for Grove Racing starting in 2025, finishing 4th in The Chase.

Allen was 17th in Practice 1. Then skyrocketed to 4th in Practice 2 before Allen slipped to 9th in Qualifying. Allen was 9th in the top 10 shootout. A kerb strike for Ryan Wood and an impeding penalty for Will Brown, Allen would start 7th.

Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford) started last. Because of the rain, the race started under Safety Car.

The race officially started on Lap 4. Lap 6 saw Jackson Walls pit, falling 35 seconds behind 23rd Jayden Ojeda (#31 Nulon Chevrolet).

The first incident of the race came at Lap 10 at Turn 4, when Cameron Hill (#14 Dare Toyota) hit Jack LeBrocq (#4 Sherrin Rentals Chevrolet), sending the latter spinning. They’d fall to 21st and 22nd. Stewards would penalise #14 `15 seconds.

Pit stops start Lap 17 with Zach Bates (#10 Bendix Chevrolet) and Jayden Ojeda (#31 Premiair Hire/Nulon Chevrolet) pitting.

Ojeda would drop behind Walls shortly after.

Cameron Waters (#6 Monster Energy Ford) and Jack LeBrocq pitted on Lap 20. LeBrocq would drop to last. Jobe Stewart (#9 Hope Chevrolet) pitted on Lap 24, dropping to last.

Stewart would hold 24th and last for 24 laps. Only when the second round of pit stops started would Stewart rise above last. Ryan Wood (#2 Truck Assist Toyota) pitted on Lap 48, dropping to last. Jack LeBrocq pitted a lap later and fell behind Wood. Thomas Randle pitted on Lap 56, dropping him to last.

Randle would hold last until Lap 70, when Kai Allen had an unscheduled pit stop with Alternator issues, dropping Allen to last. Allen would lose 2 laps in repairs.

Jack LeBrocq (#4 Sherrin Rentals Chevrolet) would finish 22nd. After a wild moment across the chicanes and a pit-lane penalty for the team refuelling the fuel tower, Aaron Cameron would finish 21st. Jobe Stewart would complete the bottom five.

The Bottom Five

Kai Allen	83 Laps	Running
Thomas Randle	84 Laps	Running
Jack LeBrocq	84 Laps	Running
Aaron Cameron	84 Laps	Running
Jobe Stewart	84 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jackson Walls	4	9	14
2	Chaz Mostert	4	4	4
3	Cooper Murray	3	7	11
4	Aaron Cameron	3	6	12
5	Ryan Wood	3	5	6
6	Jobe Stewart	2	9	15
7T	Jack LeBrocq	2	3	3
7T	Brodie Kostecki	2	2	2
9	Macauley Jones	1	10	12
10	Cameron Hill	1	3	5
11	Kai Allen	1	3	4
12	Andre Heimgartner	1	3	3
13	David Reynolds	1	2	4
14	Matt Payne	1	2	3
15	James Golding	1	2	3
16	Baylan Hall	1	2	2
17T	Aaron Seton	1	1	3
17T	Zak Best	1	1	1
19	Fabian Coulthard	1	1	1
20	Declan Fraser	0	5	8
21	Rylan Gray	0	4	9
22	Zach Bates	0	3	8
23	Reuben Goodall	0	2	3
24T	Thomas Randle	0	1	3
24T	Ben Gomersal	0	1	2
24T	Broc Feeney	0	1	2
27T	Mark Winterbottom	0	1	1
27T	Richie Stanaway	0	1	1
27T	Nash Morris	0	1	1
27T	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	1
27T	Lee Holdsworth	0	1	1
27T	Jaxon Evans	0	1	1
33	Jayden Oeda	0	0	3
34	Will Brown	0	0	2
35T	Nick Percat	0	0	1
35T	James Courtney	0	0	1
35T	Jack Perkins	0	0	1
35T	Tony D'Alberto	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Overdrive/RBR Racing	2	4/2	11/2	15/2
2	Walkinshaw Andretti United	4	8/4	11/4	14/4
3	Blanchard Racing Team	4	5/4	9/4	17/4
4	Erebus Motorsports	4	4/4	14/4	23/4
5	Matt Stone Racing	6	3/6	10/6	15/6
6	Brad Jones Racing	6	2/6	10/6	17/6
7	Dick Johnson Racing	4	2/4	6/4	12/4
8	Grove Racing	4	2/4	5/4	5/4
9	Team 18 Racing	6	2/6	5/6	8/6
10	Premair Racing	4	0	7/4	11/4
11	Tickford Racing	7	0	6/7	8/7
12	Red Bull Racing	4	0	1/4	5/4

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Toyota	10	9/10	23/10	25/10
2	Chevrolet	20	11/20	36/20	60/20
3	Ford	25	12/25	36/25	48/25

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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.