Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: October 2018

Sunday 21 October 2018

Heavy Crash leaves Stanaway and Owen last at the Gold Coast, as heavy rain abandons second race

Original by Supercars, edited by me, Botton 2 shown here.

Richie Stanaway picked up his 3rd last-place finish of his career, while Steve Owen picked up his 9th last-place finish of his career, when their #56 Rabble.club Ford was involved in a 2-car crash that ended their race after 23 of the race's 102 laps. The finish came in Stanaway's 33rd race start, and Steve Owen's 189th start.

The second race at the Gold Coast was abandoned due to extreme weather.

In terms of experience, Richie Stanaway and Steve Owen are worlds apart. Steve Owen is a Veteran, while Richie Stanaway is a rookie. It has been a struggle of a rookie season for Richie Stanaway. He's shown flashes of his brilliance but has really struggled overall. Steve Owen. on the other hand, is a veteran, racing at least part-time since 1999. Over the last few seasons he has been a co-driver for the Enduros. Stanaway and Owen were slowest in first practice but rocketed up to 5th in Practice 2. They then plummeted to 25th in Practice 3, then qualified 24th.

Tim Blanchard and Dale Wood started the race in the rear in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden, but by lap 4 Bryce Fulwood in the #35 BigMate/Optus Ford fell to the rear.

Michael Caruso and Dean Fiore in the #23 Industrial Athlete/Auto Glym Nissan started having ECU issues on lap 8, dropping to last on lap 11. Car #23 would pull into the garage on lap 24, losing a lap in repairs. Caruso went back to the garage on lap 79, losing 5 more laps. Caruso and Fiore would eventually finish 23^rd, 7 laps down.

On lap 22 Will Brown and Anton De Pasquale in the #99 Penrite Oils Holden crashed at turn 2, then was collected by Steve Owen in the #56 Rabble.club Ford, destroying both cars and triggering the only safety car of the race. dropping Stanaway and Owen to last, and De Pasquale and Brown to 25^th.

Also falling behind Caurso and Fiore was James Golding and Richard Muscat in the #34 Wilson Security Holden. Suspension failure on lap 80 forced Golding to the garage, losing 10 laps in repairs. Rounding out the bottom five was Rick Kelly and Garry Jacobson in the #15 Sengled Nissan, also suffering Suspension failure on lap 96, sending them to the garage, losing 4 laps in repairs.

The Bottom Five

Richie Stanaway/Steve Owen	22 Laps	Crash
Anton De Pasquale/Will Brown	22 Laps	Crash
James Golding/Richard Muscat	91 Laps	Running
Michael Caruso/Dean Fiore	95 Laps	Running
Rick Kelly/Garry Jacobson	98 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver’s Name	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	James Courtney	4	5	6
2	Michael Caruso	3	6	8
3	Richie Stanaway	2	7	11
4	Todd Hazelwood	2	6	16
5	Simona De Silvestro	2	3	11
6	Cameron Waters	2	3	5
7	Garth Tander	2	2	3
8	James Golding	1	9	11
9	Tim Blanchard	1	6	11
9	Kurt Kostecki	1	3	4
10	Jack LeBrocq	1	2	5
11	Macauley Jones	1	2	4
12T	Nick Percat	1	2	2
12T	Steve Owen	1	2	2
13	Rick Kelly	1	1	3
14T	Jamie Whincup	1	1	1
14T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
14T	Alex Rullo	1	1	1
14T	Jack Perkins	1	1	1
15	Lee Holdsworth	0	4	10
16	Andre Heimgartner	0	4	4
17	Anton De Pasquale	0	3	5
18	Will Davison	0	2	3
19	Dean Fiore	0	2	3
20	Will Brown	0	2	2
21T	Craig Lowndes	0	1	1
21T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	1
21T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
21T	Mark Winterbottom	0	1	1
21T	Tim Slade	0	1	1
21T	Scott Pye	0	1	1
21T	Richard Muscat	0	1	1
22T	Jason Bright	0	0	1
22T	Jonathon Webb	0	0	1
22T	Will Brown	0	0	1
22T	Garry Jacobson	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team Name	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Walkinshaw Andretti United	4	5/4	5/2	7/4
2	Matt Stone Racing	2	1	3	8
3	Nissan Motorsports	8	8/8	18/8	31/8
4	Gary Rodgers Motorsport	4	3/4	12/4	14/4
5	Tickford Racing	8	5/8	11/8	17/8
6	Kostecki Brothers Racing	2	1/2	3/2	4/2
7	Tekno Autosports	2	1/2	2/2	6/2
8	Brad Jones Racing	8	3/8	9/8	15/8
9	Red Bull Holden Racing	4	1/4	2/4	2/4
10	Preston Hire Racing	2	0	4/2	11/2
11	Erebus Motorsports	4	0	5/4	7/4
12	23Red Racing	2	0	2/2	4/2
13	Craig Lowndes Racing	2	0	1/2	1/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	8	6/8	15/8	28/8
Ford	12ish	8/12	10/12	18/12
Holden	32ish	15/32	53/32	84/32

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.