Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: James Courtney takes the lead again after Engine failure at the Mountain.

Sunday 7 October 2018

James Courtney takes the lead again after Engine failure at the Mountain.

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

James Courtney picked up his 16th last-place finish of his career, while Jack Perkins picked up his 9th last-place finish of his career, when their #25 Mobil 1/Boost Mobile Holden retired with Engine failure after 33 of the race's 161 laps. The finish came in Courtney's 397th start, Perkins' 142nd start, and sees James Courtney take the lead of the 2018 Virgin Australia LASTCAR championship.

While both James Courtney and Jack Perkins have been around for a long time, James Courtney since 2005 and Jack Perkins since 2006, James Courtney has had success, with 15 wins and a championship in 2010. Jack Perkins, not so much. He's really struggled, and has had only two full seasons, in 2009 and 2014. James Courtney was 24th and last in the first practice, but Jack Perkins got up to 11th in the 2nd, Co-Driver only Practice. Jack would drop to 20th out of 22 for Practice 3, but shot up to 3rd in Practice 4. Car #22 sat out Practice 5, but qualified fifth. Courtney ran 8th in the Top 10 shootout, and they were third in the warm-up.

Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD TV Nissan started the race in the rear, however by turn to Todd Hazelwood in the #35 Bigmate/Optus Holden fell to the rear.

On lap 2 Ash Walsh in the #14 Freightliner Holden went off at the chase, dropping him to the rear. Hazelwood dropped back to last on lap 5. Walsh went off the road again on lap 9, dropping back to the rear.

Pitstops began on lap 14, and De Silvestro pitted, falling to the rear in the process. On lap 15 Jack LeBrocq pitted and handed over to Jonothan Webb, dropping to the rear in the process. After a driver swap and pitstop, Hazelwood’s co-driver Bryce Fulwood fell to the rear.

On lap 22 David Russel in the #6 Monster Energy Ford was bounced into the fence by Chaz Mostert in the #55 Supercheap Auto Ford, sending car #6 to the garage and down to last, losing 13 laps in repairs. Waters would eventually finish 23^rd.

Behind Waters and Russell was Jack Perkins in the #25 Mobil 1/Boost Mobile Holden retired with Engine failure on lap 33, triggering the first Safety Car of the race. Courtney and Perkins fell to last on lap 46. Following Perkins out was Dean Fiore and Michael Caurso in the #23 Industrial Athlete Nissan, initially crashing at Turn 1 on lap #23, dropping a lap in repairs. He continued but was forced to retire on Lap 71 with Engine failure.

Rounding out the positions behind Waters was Anton De Pasquale and Will Brown in the #99 Penrite Holden after a crash on lap 139, losing 18 laps in repairs. Rounding out the bottom five was Richie Stanaway in the #56 Rabble.club Ford after losing almost 10 laps due to electrical dramas.

The Bottom Five

James Courtney/Jack Perkins	33 Laps	Engine
Michael Caruso/Dean Fiore	69 Laps	Engine
Anton De Pasquale/Will Brown	143 Laps	Running
Cameron Waters/David Russell	148 Laps	Running
Richie Stanaway/Steve Owen	152 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

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

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team Name	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Nissan Motorsports	8	8/8	18/8	27/8
2	Matt Stone Racing	2	1	3	8
3	Walkinshaw Andretti United	4	5/4	5/2	7/4
4	Gary Rodgers Motorsport	4	3/4	10/4	12/4
5	Kostecki Brothers Racing	2	1/2	3/2	4/2
6	Brad Jones Racing	8	3/8	9/8	15/8
7	Tekno Autosports	2	1/2	2/2	6/2
8	Tickford 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	23Red Racing	2	0	2/2	4/2
12	Erebus Motorsports	4	0	3/4	5/4
13	Craig Lowndes Racing	2	0	1/2	1/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	32ish	14/14	44/14	70/14
Nissan	8	8/8	18/8	27/8
Ford	12ish	5/7	16/7	33/7

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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.