Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Despite penalty, Golding narrowly beats Jacobson to the finish

Friday 15 March 2019

Despite penalty, Golding narrowly beats Jacobson to the finish

Original by Auto Action, resized by me.

Garry Jacobson picked up his 1st last-place finish of his career when his #3 Rabble.club Nissan finished under power, on the lead lap in the second race at Albert Park. The finish came in Jacobson's 11th start.

Garry Jacobson is in his rookie season for Nissan motorsports. He was 18th in Practice 1 but improved slightly to 17th in Practice 2. However, he qualified in 22nd.

Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden started the race in the rear, but by turn 1 Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden had fallen to the rear. By turn 5 Jones was back to last.

Starting on lap 2 Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan and Jones started exchanging last place. Jacobson got it off Jones on lap 2, then briefly Jones returned to last on lap 5, before Jacobson got it back. Jacobson would hold last for the remainder of the race.

Rounding out the bottom five was James Golding in the #34 Boost Mobile Holden, who copped a 5 second time penalty for almost fencing Andre Heimgartner in the #7 Plus Fitness/NED Australian Whisk Nissan on the front straight on lap 2, Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden, Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden and Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD TV Nissan.

The Bottom Five

Garry Jacobson	13 Laps	Running
James Golding	13 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	13 Laps	Running
Jack LeBrocq	13 Laps	Running
Simona De Silvestro	13 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	3	1	2	4
Rick Kelly	15	1	2	2
Scott Pye	2	1	1	1
Shane Van Gisbergen	97	1	1	1
Macauley Jones	21	0	2	2
Cameron Waters	6	0	1	1
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	1
Todd Hazelwood	35	0	1	1
James Golding	34	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	19	0	0	3
Fabian Coulthard	12	0	0	1
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	# Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan Motorsports	4	1/2	1	7/4
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	½	½	½
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	2	½	½	½
Matt Stone Racing	1	0	1	1
Brad Jones Racing	3	0	2/3	2/3
Tickford Racing	4	0	½	½
Garry Rodgers Motorsports	2	0	½	½
Tekno Autosports	1	0	0	3
DJR Team Penske	2	0	0	½

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	2/4	4/4	7/4
Holden	14	3/14	4/7	6/7
Ford	6	0	1/3	½

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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.