Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Rookie Garry Jacobson pulls clear in LASTCAR race after finishing last at Townsville

Saturday 6 July 2019

Rookie Garry Jacobson pulls clear in LASTCAR race after finishing last at Townsville

Original by Auto Action, edited by me.

Garry Jacobson picked up his 3^rd last-place finish of his career when his #3 Rabble.club Nissan finished under power, 1 lap down in the first race at Townsville. The finish came in Jacobson’s 24^th start.

Garry Jacobson is one of two rookies running this year, the other being fellow Virgin Australia LASTCAR contender Macauley Jones. Jacobson was 12th during the rain-affected first Practice, but collapsed to 20th in Practice 2. He slipped to 21st in Practice 3 but qualified 20th.

Michael Caruso in the #33 Boost Mobile Holden started the race in the rear, but by the end of lap 1 Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden had fallen to the rear, where he stayed until the followed lap when James Golding in the #34 Boost Mobile Holden fell to the rear. Golding held last until lap 11 when Jack LeBrocq returned to last.

Pitstops began and the race for last place got more interesting. On lap 16 Michael Caruso in the #33 Boost Mobile Holden pitted and fell to the rear. After lap 2 contact with Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford, Andre Heimgartner in the #7 Plus Fitness Nissan fell to the rear during his pitstop on lap 20. Two laps later Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden pitted and fell to the rear. By Lap 24 LeBrocq had pitted and fallen to the rear. The following lap Scott Pye in the #2 Mobil 1/MEGA Bulk Fuels Holden fell to the rear.

Rejoining the track after his 1st pitstop on lap 27, Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford speared Rick Kelly in the #15 Castrol 100 Years Nissan, sending Kelly to the rear. Waters was then hit by a 15-second penalty.

Kelly held last until lap 41 when Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan pitted for the second time and dropped to the rear, followed by LeBrocq after his second pitstop on lap 44, followed by Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford served his 15-second time penalty and dropped to the rear. Before the end of the race, Waters had first passed LeBrocq to drop car #19, then LeBrocq dropped Jacobson to last before the end of the race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden, Michael Caruso in the #33 Boost Mobile Holden, Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford and Scott Pye in the #2 Mobil 1/MEGA Bulk Fuels Holden.

The Bottom Five

Garry Jacobson	69 Laps	Running
Jack LeBrocq	69 Laps	Running
Michael Caruso	69 Laps	Running
Cameron Waters	69 Laps	Running
Scott Pye	69 Laps	Running

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

Team’s Championship

Team	# Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	3/2	5/2	6/2
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	2	3/2	4/2	5/2
Nissan Motorsports	4	5/4	11/4	17/4
Garry Rodgers Motorsports	4	3/4	7/3	11/3
Brad Jones Racing	5	3/5	8/5	14/5
Tickford Racing	4	1/4	3/4	5/4
Tekno Autosports	1	0	3	12
Matt Stone Racing	1	0	2	2
DJR Team Penske	2	0	1/2	2/2
Erebus Racing	2	0	½	½
IRWIN Racing	1	0	0	2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	5/4	11/4	17/4
Holden	17	12/17	30/17	53/17
Ford	6	1/6	4/6	7/6

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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.