Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Hard First Lap Crash leaves Slade and Walsh last at Bathurst!

Sunday 13 October 2019

Hard First Lap Crash leaves Slade and Walsh last at Bathurst!

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

Both Tim Slade and Ashley Walsh picked up their 9th last-place finishes of their careers, when their #14 Freightliner Holden was involved in a single-car crash that ended their race without completeing a single lap of the Bathurst 1000. The finish came in Slade's 327th start, and Walsh's 47th start.

Tim Slade has been racing full-time for 11 years, while Ashley Walsh has been racing for 6 years, mostly as a co-driver. They were 16th in Practice 1, but slipped to 18th in Practice 2. They rose to 11th in Practice 3, and climbed to 10th in Practice 4. They then plummeted to 22nd in Practice 5, but shot up to 5th in Qualifying. They finished 3rd in Practice 6, fell to 11th in Practice 7, then ran the Top 10 Shootout in 9th.

Jack LeBrocq and Jonathon Webb started the race in the rear in the #19 truck Assist Holden, however during the warm-up lap Brodie Kostecki in the #56 Boost Mobile Holden had a fan supplying air to the driver burn out, causing a mechical issue that forced him to pull off the track at the exit of Forest Elbow, dropping the Kostecki's to the rear.

Suddenly, at turn 5, Tim Slade in the #14 Freightliner Holden bumps with Scott Pye in the #2 Winning Appliances/Mobil 1 Holden, sending Slade hard into the outside wall, ending his race and dropping him to last.

Next to fall out was Todd Hazelwood and Jack Smith in the #35 SP Tools Holden, after a long pitstop on lap 91, then crashed out at Metal Grate on lap 100, triggering the second safety car of the race.

At about the same time, Anton De Pasquale in the #99 Penrite Oils Holden suffered Mechanical issues, causing him to stall repeatedly on the pit-lane. Following Hazelwood and Smith out were the Kostecki brothers in the #56 Boost Mobile Holden, after hit the wall at the apex of turn 5, then smacked the walls at turns 6 and 7 on lap 112, triggering the third saftey car of the race.

Anton De Pasquale and Will Brown in the #99 Penrite Oils Holden suffered a hung throttle on lap 125 straight into the wall at turn 6, triuggering the fifth Safety Car of the race.

Just when it seemed like Cameron Waters and Michael Caruso in the #6 Monster Energy Ford was finishing last, Andre Heimgartner in the #7 Plus Fitness Nissan crashed out at Forest Elbow on lap 158, dropping him and co-driver Bryce Fulwood to the final spot in the Bottom Five.

The Bottom Five

Tim Slade/Ashley Walsh	0 Laps	Crash
Todd Hazelwood/Jack Smith	98 Laps	Crash
Brodie Kostecki/Jake Kostecki	111 Laps	Crash
Anton De Pasquale/Will Brown	125 Laps	Crash
Andrew Heimgartner/Bryce Fulwood	157 Laps	Crash

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
Jack Smith	4	2	5	6
Richie Stanaway	33	2	4	7
Todd Hazelwood	35	1	4	4
Rick Kelly	15	2	3	5
Tim Slade	14	1	3	4
James Courtney	22	2	3	3
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
Ashley Walsh	14	1	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	19	0	6	15
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	3	7
Cameron Waters	6	0	3	4
Will Davison	23	0	2	3
Mark Winterbottom	18	0	1	4
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	2
Michael Caruso	33	0	1	2
Anton De Pasquale	99	0	1	2
Andre Heimgartner	7	0	1	2
Scott McLaughlin	17	0	1	1
Chris Pither	33	0	1	1
Jack Smith	35	0	1	1
Brodie Kostecki	56	0	1	1
Jake Kostecki	56	0	1	1
Will Brown	99	0	0	1
David Reynolds	9	0	0	2
Fabian Coulthard	12	0	0	1
Tim Blanchard	77	0	0	1
Bryce Fulwood	7	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan Motorsports	8	6/8	14/8	23/8
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	4	4/4	5/4	6/4
Walkinshaw Andretti United	5	3/5	5/5	6/5
Matt Stone Racing	2	2/2	8/2	8/2
Brad Jones Racing	8	5/8	11/8	18/8
Garry Rodgers Motorsports	6	3/6	7/6	12/6
Tickford Racing	8	1/8	4/8	7/8
Tekno Autosports	2	0	4/2	13/2
IRWIN Racing	2	0	1/2	3/2
Erebus Racing	4	0	2/4	5/4
DJR Team Penske	4	0	1/4	2/4
Kostecki Brothers Racing	2	0	0	2/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	8	6/8	14/8	25/8
Holden	32	17/32	43/32	72/32
Ford	12	1/12	5/12	9/12

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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.