Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Throttle Linkage Dramas leaves Reynolds last at Auckland

Saturday 14 September 2019

Throttle Linkage Dramas leaves Reynolds last at Auckland

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

David Reynolds picked up his 9th last-place finish of his career when his #9 Penrite Oils/Enviro Box Purple Holden finished under power, 16 laps down in the 2nd race at Pukekohe. The finish came in Reynolds' 309th start.

David Reynolds is in his 10th year in the supercars full-time and has shined at Erebus Motorsports in the last couple of years. He was 4th in Practice 1, stayed 4th in Practice 2, then dropped to 13th in Practice 3. After a crash in Qualifying, Reynolds lined up 22nd.

Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden started the race in the rear, but by the end of Lap 1 Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan had fallen to the rear. Jones and Jacobson exchange last a few times during the opening laps.

Pitstops started on alp 6, and last place was exchanged by Tim Slade in the #14 Machinery House/Dunlop Holden dropped to last during his opening pitstop on lap 6, Anton De Pasquale in the #99 Penrite/Enviro Box Green Holden after his lap 11 pitstop.

De Pasquale held last until teammate David Reynolds in the #9 Penrite Oils/Enviro Box Purple Holden stalled on the trap with a broken Throttle Cable, triggering the () safety car of the race. Reynolds lost 16 laps in repairs.

Rounding out the bottom five was Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden, Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden, Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan after all of them were screwed by a bad safety car decision, and Anton De Pasquale in the #99 Penrite Oils/Enviro Box Green Holden after early-race steering damage.

The Bottom Five

David Reynolds	54 Laps	Running
Jack LeBrocq	68 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	68 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	69 Laps	Running
Anton De Pasquale	69 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	3	4	8	13
Macauley Jones	21	3	7	12
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
David Reynolds	9	1	1	3
Jack LeBrocq	19	0	7	17
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
Anton De Pasquale	99	0	1	2
Scott McLaughlin	17	0	1	1
Andre Heimgartner	7	0	1	1
Chris Pither	33	0	1	1
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	22/4
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	10/5	18/5
Erebus Racing	2	1/2	3/2	5/2
Tickford Racing	4	2/4	5/4	8/4
Tekno Autosports	1	0	7	17
IRWIN Racing	1	0	2	4
DJR Team Penske	2	0	1/2	2/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	6/4	14/4	24/4
Holden	17	16/17	42/17	72/17
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.