Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: 2-Car Back Straight smash leaves Reynolds and Youlden last at Sandown

Saturday 9 November 2019

2-Car Back Straight smash leaves Reynolds and Youlden last at Sandown

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

David Reynolds picked up his 10th last-place finish of his career, while Luke Youlden picked up his only last-place finish of his career, when their #9 Penrite Oils Holden was involved in a 2-car crash that ended their race after 30 of the race's 161 laps. The finish came in Reynolds' 314th start, and Youlden's 56th 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. Luke Youlden, meanwhile, has been co-driving for twenty years, but never has run a full season. They were 8th in Practice 1, fastest in Practice 2, fell to 14th in Practice 3, but rose to 7th in practice 4. They qualified 8th, finished 7th in the first Qualifying race, but finish the 2nd race in 3rd.

Alex Premat, driving Scott McLaughlin's #17 Shell V-Power Ford started the race in the rear, however Will Brown, driving Anton De Pasquale's #99 Penrite Oils Holden stalled at the start, falling to the rear. During the first lap Alex Davison, driving Will Davison's #23 Milwakee Ford and Jonathon Webb, driving Jack LeBrocq's #19 Truck Asisst Holden battled for last, which eventually left Wbb last.

Then on lap 4 Richard Muscat, driving James Golding's #34 Boost Mobile Holden spun Tony D'Alberto, driving Fabian Coulthard's #12 Shell V-Power Ford at turn 11, sending D'Alberto to last.

A couple of laps later Ash Walsh, driving Tim Slade's #14 Freightliner Holden pitted with damage to the left-front, dropping to last, a lap down.

Suddenly, on lap 30, Luke Youlden, driving David Reynolds' #9 Penrite Oils Holden spins Dale Wood, driving Rick Kelly's #15 Sengled Nissan into the fence on the back straight. Bouncing off the wall, Wood collides again with Youlden, severely damaging both cars. With Youlden getting back first, Dale Wood fell to last. However, the team got car #15 back on track, 31 laps down, and so Reynolds and Youlden dropped to last on lap 62. Kelly and Wood would lose 2 more laps over the course of the race.

Next to fall out was Garry Jacobson and Dean Fiore in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan, brake issues initially, then engine issues ending car #3’s race. Following car #3 out was James Golding and Richard Muscat in the #34 Boost Mobile Holden with Driveline issues. Rounding out the bottom 5 was Rounding out the bottom five was Cameron Waters and Michael Caruso in the #6 Monster Energy Ford, after bouncing off Jake Kostecki in the #56 Boost Mobile Holden, sending car #6 into the wall at turn 4, losing 14 laps in repairs, and finished down 16 laps.

The Bottom Five

David Reynolds/Luke Youlden	30 Laps	Crash
Garry Jacobson/Dean Fiore	144 Laps	Engine
James Golding/Richard Muscat	155 Laps	Driveline
Rick Kelly/Dale Wood	128 Laps	Running
Cameron Waters/Michael Caruso	145 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	3	4	9	14
Macauley Jones	21	3	6	11
Jamie Whincup	88	3	3	3
Jack Smith	4/35	2	7	9
Richie Stanaway	33	2	5	8
James Golding	34	2	5	5
Rick Kelly	15	2	3	6
Shane Van Gisbergen	97	2	3	4
James Courtney	22	2	3	3
Todd Hazelwood	35	1	4	5
Tim Slade	14	1	3	4
Andre Heimgartner	7	1	3	4
Scott Pye	2	1	3	5
David Reynolds	9	1	2	4
Bryce Fullwood	7	1	2	3
Ashley Walsh	14	1	2	2
Luke Youlden	9	1	2	2
Richard Muscat	34	1	1	1
Chaz Mostert	55	1	1	1
James Moffat	55	1	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	19	0	7	16
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	4	8
Cameron Waters	6	0	3	5
Will Davison	23	0	2	3
Chris Pither	33	0	2	2
Mark Winterbottom	18	0	1	6
Jake Kostecki	56	0	1	3
Michael Caruso	33	0	1	3
Anton De Pasquale	99	0	1	2
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	2
Brodie Kostecki	56	0	1	2
Scott McLaughlin	17	0	1	1
Dean Fiore	3	0	1	1
Alex Rullo	78	0	1	1
Steve Richards	18	0	0	2
Will Brown	99	0	0	1
Fabian Coulthard	12	0	0	1
Tim Blanchard	77	0	0	1
Dean Canto	21	0	0	1
Dale Wood	15	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	4	5/4	6/4	7/4
Nissan Motorsports	8	8/8	22/8	34/8
Garry Rodgers Motorsports	6	5/6	13/6	18/6
Walkinshaw Andretti United	5	3/5	6/5	7/5
Matt Stone Racing	2	1/2	6/2	8/2
Brad Jones Racing	8	5/8	12/8	21/8
Tickford Racing	8	2/8	5/8	10/8
Tekno Autosports	2	0	7/2	16/2
Erebus Racing	4	0	4/4	7/4
IRWIN Racing	2	0	1/2	7/2
DJR Team Penske	4	0	1/4	2/4
Kostecki Brothers Racing	2	0	0	5/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	8	8/8	22/8	34/8
Holden	32	23/32	55/32	96/32
Ford	12	2/12	6/12	12/12

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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.