Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Lap 1 Demolition Derby leaves Macauley Jones last at Monza

Wednesday 8 April 2020

Lap 1 Demolition Derby leaves Macauley Jones last at Monza

Macualey Jones picked up his 1^st last-place finish of his eSeries career when his #3 Ccooldrive Distribution Holden was involved in a multi-car demolition derby that ended his race after 2 of the race’s 19 laps. The finish came in Jones’ 3^rd start.

Chris Pither in the #20 Coca-Cola Holden started the race in the rear, however, before even turn 1, Andre Heimgartner in the #7 NED Ford speared Mark Winterbottom in the #18 Irwin Tools Holden into the wall, also collecting Todd Hazelwood in the #14 Plus Fitness Holden.

The chicane is where things get really ugly, and there were too many cars involved for me to list, so I’ll just list the crucial ones.

Bryce Fullwood in the #2 Middy’s Electrical Holden was spun at turn 1, catching a few cars. Then Fabian Coulthard in the #12 Shell V-Power Ford got turned and collected a lot of cars, then turn 2 saw most of the field crash massively, taking out Macauley Jones in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden and Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Red Bull Holden. Many others were heavily damaged.

Others involved included Anton De Pasquale in the #99 Penrite Oils Holden, who was also served into the wall by Chris Pither in the #20 Coca-Cola Holden, the latter getting a drive-through penalty for that. Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden rounded out the bottom five.

The Bottom Five

Macualey Jones	2 Lap	Crash
Shane Van Gisbergen	5 Laps	Crash
Anton De Pasquale	16 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	16 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	16 Laps	Running

eLASTCAR Championship: Drivers

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Rick Kelly	15	1	1	2
Jake Kostecki	33	1	1	1
Macauley Jones	3	1	1	1
Jack Smith	4	0	2	3
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	2
Alex Davison	3	0	1	1
Shame Van Gisbergen	97	0	1	1
Anton De Pasquale	99	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	55	0	0	1
David Reynolds	9	0	0	1
Chris Pither	22	0	0	1

eLASTCAR Championship: Teams

Team	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Rick Kelly Racing	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
Matt Stone Racing	3	1/3	1/3	1/3
Brad Jones Racing	4	1/4	2/4	4/4
Tickford Racing	4	0	2/4	3/4
Team Sydney	2	0	1/2	2/2
Erebus Motorsports	2	0	1/2	2/2
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	2	0	1/2	1/2

eLASTCAR Championship: Manufacturer

Manufacturer	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Ford	8	1/8	3/8	5/8
Holden	17	2/17	6/17	10/17

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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.