Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: A Late-Race Fuel Leak leaves Macauley Jones last at Ipswich.

Saturday 27 July 2019

A Late-Race Fuel Leak leaves Macauley Jones last at Ipswich.

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

Macauley Jones picked up his 3rd last-place finish of his career when his #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden retired with a Fuel Leak after 37 of the race's 39 laps. The finish came in Macauley's 41st start.

Macauley Jones is a rookie in the Supercars series. He was 20th in Practice 1 but slipped to 22nd in Practice 2. He was 2nd slowest in Practice 3, and qualified at the same spot, not getting out of Qualifying 1.

Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden started the race in the rear, but by Turn 1 Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan fell to the rear, followed a turn later by Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden.

Jacobson and Jones exchange last during the early laps but by Lap 5 Macauley was well anchoring last.

Pit-Stops began on lap 10 with Scott McLaughlin pitting and dropping to the rear.

Disaster strikes for Scott Pye in the #2 Fuel Corp Holden had a wheel nut failure on their lap 12 Pitstop, due to contact the left-rear tire nut was damaged, causing the pit-stop to be significantly delayed and dropping Pye to last. By Lap 25 LeBrocq had fallen to the rear.

LeBrocq held last until just two laps to go when Tim Slade in the #14 Freightliner Holden spun out of the race on lap 38 at turn 5 after an incident with James Courtney in the #22 MEGA Bulk Fuels Holden, Slade having run out of fuel moments before, then Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden pulled into the pit-lane on lap 38 and retired due to a Fuel Leak, the only two retirements of the race. Since Macauley was behind Slade at the time of the incident, Macauley was classified last.

Rounding out the bottom five was Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden, Scott Pye in the #2 Fuel Corp Holden and Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.Club Nissan.

The Bottom Five

Macauley Jones	37 Laps	Fuel Leak
Tim Slade	37 Laps	Out of Fuel
Jack LeBrocq	38 Laps	Running
Scott Pye	38 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	39 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	3	3	7	11
Macauley Jones	21	3	5	9
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	4	13
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
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
Michael Caruso	33	0	1	1
Fabian Coulthard	12	0	0	1
Tim Blanchard	77	0	0	1
David Reynolds	9	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	2	4/2	5/2	6/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	3/2	5/2	7/2
Nissan Motorsports	4	5/4	12/4	19/4
Garry Rodgers Motorsports	4	3/4	7/4	11/4
Brad Jones Racing	5	4/5	11/5	17/5
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	½	1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	5/4	12/4	20/4
Holden	17	14/17	35/17	59/17
Ford	6	1/6	4/6	8/6

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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.