Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: First-Lap clash leaves Van Gisbergen last at Sandown

Friday 8 November 2019

First-Lap clash leaves Van Gisbergen last at Sandown

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

Shane Van Gisbergen picked up his 9th last-place finish of his career when his #97 Red Bull Holden was involved in a two-car crash that ended his race without completing a single lap of the 2nd Qualifying race at Sandown. The finish came in Van Gisbergen's 388th start.

Shane Van Gisbergen is a big face of the sport, with a championship, along with finishing second on three additional occasions. Car #97 was fastest in Practice 1 but fell to 6th in Practice 2. Co-Driver Garth Tander recovered to 4th in Practice 3 but they plummeted to 18th in Practice 4. However, they leapt to 4th in Qualifying.

After a race 1 crash, Chaz Mostert in the #55 Supercheap Auto Ford started the race in the rear, but immediately Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden fell to the rear.

However, at turn 1 Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Red Bull Holden collided with Anton De Pasquale in the #99 Penrite Oils Holden, sending Van Gisbergen to the rear with Steering Damage, sending him to the garage and out of the race. He will start tomorrow's race from last.

The deficit between Wet and Dry tires meant that, despite being hit with the stupidest penalty in the history of Supercars, Anton got out of the bottom 5, which was filled by Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden, Scott Pye in the #2 Winning Appliances/Mobil 1 Holden, Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan and Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden.’

The Bottom Five

Shane Van Gisbergen	0 Laps	Crash
Jack LeBrocq	19 Laps	Running
Scott Pye	19 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	19 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	19 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	3	4	8	13
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
Rick Kelly	15	2	3	5
James Golding	34	2	4	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
Shane Van Gisbergen	97	2	3	4
Bryce Fullwood	7	1	2	3
Ashley Walsh	14	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	4
Will Davison	23	0	2	3
Chris Pither	33	0	2	2
Mark Winterbottom	18	0	1	6
David Reynolds	9	0	1	3
Jake Kostecki	56	0	1	3
Anton De Pasquale	99	0	1	2
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	2
Michael Caruso	33	0	1	2
Brodie Kostecki	56	0	1	2
Scott McLaughlin	17	0	1	1
Luke Youlden	9	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

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	20/8	30/8
Garry Rodgers Motorsports	6	5/6	11/6	16/6
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	8/8
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	20/8	30/8
Holden	32	21/32	51/32	92/32
Ford	12	2/12	6/12	10/12

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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.