Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Multi-Car Smash leaves Hazelwood last at Tailem Bend

Saturday 24 August 2019

Multi-Car Smash leaves Hazelwood last at Tailem Bend

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

Todd Hazelwood picked up his 2nd last-place finish of his career when his #35 Nulon/BigMate Holden was involved in a 3-car crash that ended his race after 1 of the race's 24 laps. The finish came in Hazelwood's 56^th start.

Hazelwood's in his 2^nd year in the Supercars and was having a much stronger run than he was last year. He was 20^th in 1^st Practice, then rose to 19^th on 2^nd Practice. He rose further to 12^th in Practice 3 and fell to 20^th in qualifying.

Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden started the race in the rear but by Turn 1 Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden was spun to the back of the field. Thomas Randle in the #66 Scandia Ford was also spun to 2nd last.

At turn 6, disaster strikes as Will Davison in the #230 Milwaukee Ford was spun out by Rick Kelly in the #15 Sengled Nissan, the spinning Davison then collected Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan and Todd Hazelwood in the #35 Nulon Holden, sending all three to the garage, with Hazelwood last due to being the last one back to the lane.

After his pit-lane drive-through penalty, Rick Kelly in the #15 Sengled Nissan finished 23rd. Rounding out the bottom five was Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden.

The Bottom Five

Todd Hazelwood	1 Lap	Crash
Will Davison	1 Lap	Crash
Simona De Silvestro	1 Lap	Crash
Rick Kelly	24 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	24 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
Todd Hazelwood	35	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
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	3	6
Cameron Waters	6	0	3	4
Tim Slade	14	0	2	3
Will Davison	23	0	2	3
Mark Winterbottom	18	0	1	3
Lee Holdsworth	5	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	14/4	21/4
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	2	4/2	5/2	6/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	3/2	5/2	6/2
Matt Stone Racing	1	1	3	3
Garry Rodgers Motorsports	4	3/4	7/3	12/3
Brad Jones Racing	5	3/5	9/5	16/5
Tickford Racing	4	1/4	4/4	7/4
Tekno Autosports	1	0	4	13
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	14/4	22/4
Holden	17	14/17	35/17	61/17
Ford	6	1/6	5/6	9/6

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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.