Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: May 2020

Wednesday 27 May 2020

Mid-Race crash leaves Percat last at Interlagos.

Nick Percat picked up his 1st last-place finish of his career when his #8 Coregas Holden finished under power, 3 laps down in the final race at Interlagos. The finish came in Percat's 26th start.

Jake Kostecki failed to start the previous race, and didn’t start this one, so he is excluded from last-place contention.

After winning Race 2, Anton De Pasquale in the #99 Penrite Oils Holden started the race in the rear, but several drivers exchanged last place during the early stages of the race.

For a bit it seemed like Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden would finish last after he was speared into the wall on lap 4 by Jack LeBrocq in the #55 Supercheap Auto Ford. He would ultimately finish 24th.

Finally, Nick Percat in the #8 Coregas Holden suddenly dropped off the track on lap 13, and dropped to the rear, and would remain there for the rest of the race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was James Courtney in the #44 Boost Mobile Holden after trying to return to Australia on the final lap, Scott Pye in the #20 DeWalt Holden and Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden after lap 1 chaos.

The Bottom Five

Nick Percat	14 Laps	Running
James Courtney	15 Laps	Crash
Scott Pye	16 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	16 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	16 Laps	Running

eLASTCAR Championship: Drivers

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Jack Smith	4	4	12	19
Macauley Jones	3	3	5	6
Josh Fife	140	3	3	3
Jake Kostecki	33	2	5	6
Rick Kelly	15	2	4	6
Garry Jacobson	35	2	2	2
Chris Pither	22	1	6	14
James Courtney	44	1	4	4
Mark Winterbottom	18	1	3	3
Bryce Fullwood	2	1	3	3
Lando Norris	04	1	2	2
Fabian Coulthard	12	1	1	2
Scott McLaughlin	17	1	1	2
Nick Percat	8	1	1	2
Alexander Rossi	27	1	1	1
Brock Feeny	99	1	1	1
Jamie Whincup	88	0	3	6
Will Davison	23	0	3	3
Alex Davison	3	0	2	6
Scott Pye	20	0	3	5
Todd Hazelwood	35	0	1	4
Anton De Pasquale	99	0	1	3
Zane Goddard	33	0	1	3
David Reynolds	9	0	1	2
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	2
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	1	2
Shame Van Gisbergen	97	0	1	2
Craig Lowndes	888	0	1	2
Joey Logano	56	0	1	1
Matt Chada	32	0	1	1
Cameron Waters	6	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	55	0	0	2
Chaz Mostert	25	0	0	2
Angelo Mozouris	10	0	0	1
Jack Doohan	33	0	0	1
Andre Heimgartner	7	0	0	1

eLASTCAR Championship: Teams

Team	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Brad Jones Racing	5	11/5	19/5	33/5
Matt Stone Racing	3	3/3	7/3	11/3
Walkinshaw Andretti United	5	4/5	7/5	9/5
Rick Kelly Racing	3	2/3	5/3	9/3
Irwin Tools Racing	4	2/4	7/4	9/4
Tickford Racing	7	2/7	9/7	11/7
DJR Team Penske	6	2/6	3/6	5/6
Team Sydney	2	0	7/2	18/2
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	7	0	6/7	12/7
Erebus Motorsports	3	0	2/3	5/3
MW Motorsports	1	0	0	1

eLASTCAR Championship: Manufacturer

Manufacturer	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	29	19/29	5929	101/29
Ford	15	6/15	16/15	24/15

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.