Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: July 2018

Sunday 22 July 2018

First-lap contact leaves Courtney last at Ipswich

Original by Mobil 1 Boost Mobile Twitter, Edited by me.

James Courtney picked up his 14th last-place finish of his career when his #25 Mobil 1/Boost Mobile Holden was involved in a 2-car crash that ended his race after 24 of the race's 65 laps. The finish came in Courtney's 392nd start.

Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden started the race in the rear, however at turn 4 Scott Pye in the #2 Mobil 1/Boost Mobile Holden ran into the back of James Courtney in the #25 Mobile 1/Boost Mobile Holden, sending Courtney into Mark Winterbottom in the #5 Bottle-O Ford, damaging the right-front suspension on Courtney's car, and damaging the rear suspension on Wintertbottom's car, sending both to the garage and initially Winterbottom to last, but when Winterbottom returned to the track on lap 5, Courtney fell to the rear. While Courtney did eventually return to the track, he was too many laps down to be classified, and eventually retired on lap 36.

A lap later Tim Slade in the #8 Freightliner/Alliance Truck Parts Holden pitted on lap 3 with a puncture after contact with Anton De Pasquale in the unsponsored #99 Erebus Holden.

Rounding out the bottom five was Todd Hazelwood in the #35 BigMate/Optus Ford and Kurt Kostecki in the #42 Acroplate Holden got a 15 second time penalty for contact with Tim Blanchard,

The Bottom Five

James Courtney	24 Laps	Crash
Mark Winterbottom	61 Laps	Running
Tim Slade	64 Laps	Running
Todd Hazelwood	65 Laps	Running
Kurt Kostecki	65 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

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

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team Name	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Matt Stone Racing	1	2	5	13
2	Nissan Motorsports	4	6/4	10/4	18/4
3	Gary Rodgers Motorsport	2	1	9/2	10/2
4	Tekno Autosports	1	1	2	4
5T	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1	2/2	3/2
5T	Tickford Racing	4	3/4	9/4	11/4
7T	Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	7/4	12/4
7T	Red Bull Holden Racing	2	1/2	2/2	2/2
8	Preston Hire Racing	1	0	3	8
9	23Red Racing	1	0	2	4
10	Craig Lowndes Racing	1	0	1	1
11	Erebus Motorsports	2	0	1/2	1
12	Kostecki Brothers Racing	1	0	1	1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	6/4	10/4	18/4
Ford	7	5/7	15/7	26/7
Holden	15	9/14	32/14	51/14

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.