Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Engine Failure leaves Van Gisbergen last at Albert Park

Friday 15 March 2019

Engine Failure leaves Van Gisbergen last at Albert Park

Original by Red Bull Holden, edited by me.

Shane Van Gisbergen picked up his 8th last-place finish of his career when his #97 Red Bull/Holden Holden retired with Engine failure after 21 of the race's 25 laps. The finish came in Van Gisbergen's 362nd start.

Shane Van Gisbergen is in his 13th season of Supercars. He was 22nd in Practice 1 and only improved to 20th in Practice 2. He qualified 5th.

Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden started the race in the rear, but by turn 1 Jack Le Brocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden had fallen to the rear. LeBrocq held last until lap 7 when Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan pitted, falling to the rear. LeBrocq returned to the rear in his pitstop on lap 11.

On lap 19, just when to seemed like LeBrocq would finish last, Todd Hazelwood in the #35 Gravelroad Consulting Holden pulled into the garage with Suspension damage from contact with Jacobson early in the race. He lost 2 laps in repairs.

Just as it looked like it would be Hazelwood finishing last, Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Holden/Red Bull Holden stopped on lap 21 with a Engine failure, ending his race. Hazelwood would pass Van Gisbergen on lap 23.

Rounding out the bottom 5 was Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan, Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Asisst Holden. Initially Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden was fifth-last, but Rick Kelly in the #15 Castrol Nissan was given a post-race drive-through penalty for an unsafe release, dropping him behind

The Bottom Five

Shane Van Gisbergen	21 Laps	Engine
Todd Hazelwood	23 Laps	Running
Rick Kelly	25 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	25 Laps	Running
Jack LeBrocq	25 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

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

Team’s Championship

Team	# Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	½	½	½
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	2	½	½	½
Nissan Motorsports	4	1/4	3/4	5/4
Matt Stone Racing	1	0	1	1
Tickford Racing	4	0	½	½
Brad Jones Racing	3	0	1/3	1/3
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	1/4	¾	5/4
Holden	14	3/14	2/7	3/7
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.