Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: June 2018

Sunday 17 June 2018

Early race collision leaves Jack leBrocq last at Darwin

Original by speedcafe.com, edited by me.

Jack LeBrocq picked up his 4th last-place finish of his career when his #19 AusPT Holden was involved in a 2-car crash that ended his race after 6 of the race's 70 laps. The finish came in LeBrocq's 32nd start.

Todd Hazelwood in the #35 BigMate/Optus Ford started the race in the rear, However, by turn 1 Richie Stanaway in the #56 Rabble Club Ford had dropped to the rear. At turn 5, trouble broke out between Macauley Jones in the #4 DrillPro Services Holden, James Golding in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden and James Golding in the #34 Wilson Security Holden, leaving Macauly Jones last. Lee Holdsworth pitted at the end of lap 1, dropping to the rear, where he held until Jack LeBrocq in the #19 AusPT Holden and Andre Heimgartner in the #7 PlusFitness.com Holden collided, damaging the left-front steering on Le Brocq's car, sending him to the garage and to last.

Next to fall out was Lee Holdsworth in the #18 Preston Hire/Fuchs Holden, after a broken splitter and a lost undertray on lap 55 ended their race, also triggering the only safety car of the race. Following Holdsworth out very soon afterwards was Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford, which stalled on the front straight on lap 55 with engine failure just after the safety car was called on lap 54.

Rounding out the bottom five was Macauley Jones in the #4 DrillPro Services Holden and Todd Hazelwood in the #35 BigMate/Optus Ford after a 15 second time penalty for speeding on the entry to the pit-lane on lap 14.

The Bottom Five

Jack LeBrocq	6 Laps	Steering
Lee Holdsworth	54 Laps	Mechanical
Cameron Waters	54 Laps	Engine
Macauley Jones	69 Laps	Running
Todd Hazelwood	69 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver’s Name	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Cameron Waters	2	3	4
2	James Golding	1	8	9
3	Richie Stanaway	1	6	8
4	Todd Hazelwood	1	4	10
5	Tim Blanchard	1	4	8
6T	James Courtney	1	2	3
6T	Jack LeBrocq	1	2	3
7	Simona De Silvestro	1	1	8
8T	Rick Kelly	1	1	2
8T	Garth Tander	1	1	2
9T	Macauley Jones	1	1	2
9T	Jamie Whincup	1	1	1
9T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
9T	Nick Percat	1	1	1
9T	Michael Caruso	1	1	1
10	Lee Holdsworth	0	3	7
11	Andre Heimgartner	0	2	2
12	Will Davison	0	1	2
13T	Craig Lowndes	0	1	1
13T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	1
13T	Michael Caruso	0	1	1
13T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
14
15	Anton De Pasquale	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team Name	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Gary Rodgers Motorsport	2	1	9/2	10/2
2	Matt Stone Racing	1	1	4	9
3	Nissan Motorsports	4	4/4	7/4	14/4
4	Tickford Racing	4	3/4	9/4	10/4
5T	Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	5/4	9/4
5T	Red Bull Holden Racing	2	1/2	2/2	2/2
7T	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1/2	2/2	3/2
7T	Preston Hire Racing	1	0	3	6
8	23Red Racing	1	0	1	2
9	Craig Lowndes Racing	1	0	1	1
10	Tekno Autosports	1	0	0	2
11	Erebus Motorsports	2	0	0	½

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	3/4	5/4	13/4
Ford	7	4/7	13/7	21/7
Holden	15	8/14	25/14	40/14

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.