Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: July 2019

Saturday 27 July 2019

Engine failure leaves Garry Jacobson last at Ipswich

Original by Auto Action, Resized by me.

Garry Jacobson picked up his 4th last-place finish of his career when his #3 Rabble.Club Nissan retired with Engine issues after 49 of the race's 65 laps. The finish came in Jasobson's 27th start.

Garry Jacobson is the other rookie in the 2019 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He was 16th in Practice 1, then improved to 13th in Practice 2. He plunged to 21st in Practice 3, and slipped to 23rd in Practice 4. Finally, he improved to 21st in Qualifying.

Tim Slade in the #14 Freighliner Holden started the race in the rear after being disqualified from Qualifying due to breaking Park Ferme rules, but Nick Percat in the #8 - Holden fell to the rear after a clutch drama at the start. Soon, however, Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden fell to last.

LeBrocq held last until lap 8 when Fabian Coulthard in the #12 Shell V-Power Ford and Anton De Pasquale in the #99 Penrite Oils Holden at turn 4, sending Coulthard to last.

Pitstops then started on lap 9. Over the next several laps, last was exchanged between Lee Holdsworth in the #5 Bottle-O Ford on lap 9, Scott Pye in the #2 - Call Holden on lap 12, Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan, then finally LeBrocq returned to last on lap 17.

LeBrocq held last until the second set of pitstops started, and on lap 34 Pye returned to last. The following lap Slade returned to last in his pit-stop. Macauley returned to last the following lap during his pit-stop, then LeBrocq returned to last on lap 42.

Om lap 51 Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan pulled into the garage with engine troubles, dropping him to last.

Rounding out the Bottom 5 was Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Trick Assist Holden, Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden, David Reynolds in the #9 Penrite Oils Holden after a pit-stop error forced him to pit for the 3rd time on Lap 61, and Michael Caurso in the #33 Boost Mobile Holden.

Garry Jacobson	49 Laps	Engine
Jack LeBrocq	63 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	64 Laps	Running
David Reynolds	64 Laps	Running
Michael Caruso	65 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	3	4	8	12
Macauley Jones	21	3	6	10
Jamie Whincup	88	3	3	3
Richie Stanaway	33	2	3	6
Rick Kelly	15	2	3	5
James Courtney	22	2	3	3
Jack Smith	4	1	4	5
James Golding	34	1	3	3
Scott Pye	2	1	2	4
Shane Van Gisbergen	97	1	2	3
Chaz Mostert	55	1	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	19	0	5	14
Cameron Waters	6	0	3	4
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	2	5
Tim Slade	14	0	2	3
Todd Hazelwood	35	0	2	2
Mark Winterbottom	18	0	1	3
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	2
Will Davison	23	0	1	2
Michael Caruso	33	0	1	2
Scott McLaughlin	17	0	1	1
Anton De Pasquale	99	0	1	1
Andre Heimgartner	7	0	1	1
Chris Pither	33	0	1	1
David Reynolds	9	0	0	2
Fabian Coulthard	12	0	0	1
Tim Blanchard	77	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan Motorsports	4	6/4	13/4	19/4
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	2	4/2	5/2	6/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	3/2	5/2	6/2
Garry Rodgers Motorsports	4	3/4	7/3	12/3
Brad Jones Racing	5	3/5	9/5	15/5
Tickford Racing	4	1/4	3/4	6/4
Tekno Autosports	1	0	4	13
Matt Stone Racing	1	0	2	2
IRWIN Racing	1	0	1	3
DJR Team Penske	2	0	1/2	2/2
Erebus Racing	2	0	1	3/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	6/4	13/4	20/4
Holden	17	13/17	34/17	59/17
Ford	6	1/6	4/6	8/6

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.