Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Clean Sweep as Josh Fife goes Last AGAIN at Circuit of the Americas

Wednesday 13 May 2020

Clean Sweep as Josh Fife goes Last AGAIN at Circuit of the Americas

Josh Fife picked up his 3rd last-place finish of his eSeries career when his #140 Captain Gas Works Holden finished under power, 5 laps down in the final race at Circuit of the Americas, sweeping the round for last-place finishes. The finish came in Fife's third round.

After an apocalyptic round, Josh Fife in the #140 Captain Gas Works Holden started the race in the rear, and held last during the early stages, although Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden briefly took last. On lap 2 Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Holden pitted and fell to the rear, followed by Zane Goddard in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden.

Last-Place would be exchanged between a few more drivers, before settling with Josh Fife.

Jake Kostecki in the #344 NIT Holden spun and collected Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Holden, sending the latter to 2nd last. Kostecki's team-mate Zane Goddard in the #34 UNIT Holden was next. Rounding out the bottom five were Team Sydney teammates Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Jerky Biltong and Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden

The Bottom Five

Josh Fife	15 Laps	Running
Craig Lowndes	18 Laps	Running
Zane Goddard	19 Laps	Running
Alex Davison	19 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	19 Laps	Running

eLASTCAR Championship: Drivers

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Jack Smith	4	4	11	14
Jake Kostecki	33	2	5	6
Rick Kelly	15	2	3	4
Macauley Jones	3	2	3	4
Josh Fife	140	2	2	2
Chris Pither	22	1	5	9
Mark Winterbottom	18	1	3	3
Bryce Fullwood	2	1	2	2
Fabian Coulthard	12	1	1	2
Alexander Rossi	27	1	1	1
Brock Feeny	99	1	1	1
James Courtney	44	1	1	1
Will Davison	23	0	3	3
Alex Davison	3	0	2	5
Scott Pye	20	0	2	4
Jamie Whincup	88	0	2	4
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
Lando Norris	04	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	55	0	0	2
Chaz Mostert	25	0	0	1
Nick Percat	8	0	0	1
Scott McLaughlin	17	0	0	1
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	9/5	16/5	26/5
Matt Stone Racing	3	2/3	6/3	10/3
Rick Kelly Racing	3	2/3	4/3	7/3
Walkinshaw Andretti United	5	3/5	5/5	6/5
Irwin Tools Racing	2	1/2	5/2	7/2
Tickford Racing	6	2/6	6/6	8/6
DJR Team Penske	6	1/6	2/6	4/6
Team Sydney	2	0	6/2	14/2
Erebus Motorsports	3	0	2/3	5/3
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	7	0	5/7	10/7
MW Motorsports	1	0	0	1

eLASTCAR Championship: Manufacturer

Manufacturer	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	26	16/26	48/26	81/26
Ford	14	4/14	12/14	19/14

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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.