Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Forest Elbow crash leaves Fabian Coulthard last at Bathurst

Wednesday 22 April 2020

Forest Elbow crash leaves Fabian Coulthard last at Bathurst

Fabian Coulthard picked up his 1st last-place finish of his career when his #12 Shell V-Power Ford finished under power, on the lead lap in the first race at Bathurst. The finish came in Coulthard's 8th start.

Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden started the race in the rear, but at Turn 1 Nick Percat in the #8 Dunlop Holden, Bryce Fullwood in the #2 Middy’s Electrical Holden, Todd Hazelwood in the #14 Plus Fitness Holden, all had incidents, with Percat collecting Jake Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden. Then, Rick Kelly in the #15 Castrol Ford crashed at the exit. Simona De Silvestro also got tangled in the crash. This briefly left Kelly last. Then Jamie Whincup in the #88 Red Bull Holden had a big crash on Mountain Straight, dropping him to last.

Fabian Coulthard hit the wall hard at Forest Elbow on lap 2, and the repair times dropped Coulthard to last. Rounding out the bottom five was Jake Kostecki in the #344 UNIT Holden, Jack Smith in the #14 SCT Logistics Holden, Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Ford and Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden.

The Bottom 5

Fabian Coulthard	7 Laps	Running
Jake Kostecki	7 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	7 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	7 Laps	Running
Simona De Silvestro	7 Laps	Running

eLASTCAR Championship: Drivers

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Jack Smith	4	2	5	8
Macauley Jones	3	2	2	3
Jake Kostecki	33	1	3	3
Rick Kelly	15	1	1	2
Mark Winterbottom	18	1	1	1
Fabian Coulthard	12	1	1	1
Jamie Whincup	88	0	2	2
Scott Pye	20	0	1	3
Chris Pither	22	0	1	3
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	2
Alex Davison	3	0	1	2
Bryce Fullwood	2	0	1	1
Shame Van Gisbergen	97	0	1	1
Anton De Pasquale	99	0	1	1
Will Davison	23	0	1	1
Todd Hazelwood	35	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	55	0	0	1
David Reynolds	9	0	0	1
Zane Goddard	33	0	0	1
Chaz Mostert	25	0	0	1
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	0	1

eLASTCAR Championship: Teams

Team	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Brad Jones Racing	4	4/4	7/4	12/4
Irwin Tools Racing	2	1/2	2/2	4/2
Matt Stone Racing	3	1/3	2/3	4/3
Rick Kelly Racing	3	1/3	1/3	3/3
DJR Team Penske	3	1/3	1/3	1/3
Team Sydney	2	0	2/2	5/2
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	3	0	3/3	3/3
Tickford Racing	5	0	2/5	3/5
Erebus Motorsports	3	0	1/3	2/3
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	1/2	2/2

eLASTCAR Championship: Manufacturer

Manufacturer	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	19	6/19	19/19	32/19
Ford	8	2/8	5/8	8/8

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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.