Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Pye pissed after Turn 7 crash left him last at Adelaide Superloop 500

Saturday 2 March 2019

Pye pissed after Turn 7 crash left him last at Adelaide Superloop 500

Original by Supercars/Fox Sports, Screenshot and Edited by me

Scott Pye picked up his 13th last-place finish of his career when his #2 - Holden was involved in a 2-car crash that ended his race after 25 of the race's 78 laps. The finish came in Pye's 191st start.

Scott Pye has settled in pretty good to Supercars after an extremely rough first couple of years in Supercars. Pye was 10th in Practice 1 but leapt to 4th in Practice 2. Pye fell to 10th in Practice 3, then fell to 15th in Qualifying. Pye then finished 6th in Practice 4.

Anton De Pasquale in the #99 Penrite Holden started the race in the rear after crashing early in qualifying, however, before the first race, Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden crashed heavily at turn 9 after Brake failure and was unable to compete in race 1, elevating Anton to Position 23.

Anton held last through the early stages, briefly trading last with Simona De Silvestro in the #78 - Nissan. In the first pitstop cycle on lap 10, Simona De Silvestro pitted, dropping to last, but passed Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden when Jack pitted on lap 15.

The last-place race heated up on lap 19 when Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford pulled into the garage with a cool suit failure, dropping him to last. Waters would lose 14 laps.

While Waters was in the garage, more specifically on lap 26 when Lee Holdsworth in the #5 Bottle-O Ford crashed into the tyre wall at turn 7, was collected Tim Slade in the #14 Freightliner Holden and Scott Pye in the #2 Mobil 1/Mega Bulk Fuels Holden, sending Holdsworth and Pye to the garage. Holdsworth lost 6 laps in repairs, but Pye's car was too damaged to continue. Pye dropped to last on lap 41. For Holdsworth, to add further insult to injury, he cut a left-rear tire on lap 60, dropping even further back.

Rounding out the bottom five was Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden, and Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan.

The Bottom Five

Scott Pye	25 Laps	Crash
Cameron Waters	64 Laps	Running
Lee Holdsworth	72 Laps	Running
Jack LeBrocq	77 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	77 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Scott Pye	2	1	1	1
Cameron Waters	6	0	1	1
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	19	0	0	1
Garry Jacobson	3	0	0	1

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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.