Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Team-Mate collision leaves Mostert last at Pukekohe

Friday 13 September 2019

Team-Mate collision leaves Mostert last at Pukekohe

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

Chaz Mosert picked up his 5th last-place finish of his career when his #55 Supercheap Auto Ford finished under power, 14 laps down in the first race at Pukekohe. The finish came in Mostert's 197th start.

Mostert has been racing full-time since 2014 and has been a solid racer. He was 20th in Practice 1 but jumped to 12th in Practice 2. He was fastest in Practice 3, then qualified 4th.

Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden started the race in the rear, and over the first lap he traded last with Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan.

On lap 2 Nick Percat in the #8 NZ Safety Blackwoods Holden was spun out at turn 8 by Jamie Whincup in the #88 Red Bull Holden, sending Percat to the rear.

Pitstops begin on lap 5, and Anton De Pasquale in the #99 Penrite Oils/Enviro Box Holden pitted and fell to the rear. Jamie Whincup enters the picture on lap 6, dropping to the rear in his pitstop.

Whincup held last until lap 9 when James Courtney in the #22 Mobil 1 Holden pitted and fell to the rear.

Next to enter the Last-Place battle was Mark Winterbottom in the #18 Irwin Tools/Fuchs Holden had a Fuel issue on lap 14, triggering the only safety car of the race. Frosty lost 5 laps.

Winterbottom held last until lap 28 when he passed James Golding in the #34 Boost Mobile Holden, who at the time was in the garage with Power Steering issues from back on lap 23. Golding would lose 10 laps in repairs.

Golding held last until lap 39 when teammates Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford and Chaz Mostert in the #55 Supercheap Auto Holden collided, damaging the Suspension on car #33, sending him to the garage. Mostert would fall to last on lap 49, and return to the track on lap 53, 13 laps down, then lost a t14th lap in a subsequent pit-lane penalty.

Rounding out the bottom five was Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden and Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden.

The Bottom Five

Chaz Mosert	56 Laps	Running
James Golding	60 Laps	Running
Mark Winterbottom	63 Laps	Running
Jack LeBrocq	69 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	70 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	3	4	8	12
Macauley Jones	21	3	6	11
Jamie Whincup	88	3	3	3
Jack Smith	4	2	5	6
Richie Stanaway	33	2	4	7
Rick Kelly	15	2	3	5
James Courtney	22	2	3	3
Chaz Mostert	55	2	2	2
James Golding	34	1	4	4
Todd Hazelwood	35	1	3	3
Scott Pye	2	1	2	4
Shane Van Gisbergen	97	1	2	3
Jack LeBrocq	19	0	6	16
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	3	7
Cameron Waters	6	0	3	4
Mark Winterbottom	18	0	2	5
Tim Slade	14	0	2	3
Will Davison	23	0	2	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	8/3	13/3
Brad Jones Racing	5	3/5	9/5	17/5
Tickford Racing	4	2/4	5/4	8/4
Tekno Autosports	1	0	6	16
IRWIN Racing	1	0	2	4
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	23/4
Holden	17	15/17	39/17	68/17
Ford	6	2/6	6/6	10/6

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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.