Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: First Lap Spin into Pit-Lane leaves 2019 Champion McLaughlin last at Charlotte

Wednesday 20 May 2020

First Lap Spin into Pit-Lane leaves 2019 Champion McLaughlin last at Charlotte

Scott McLaughlin picked up his 1st last-place finish of his career when his #17 Shell V-Power Ford finished under power, 2 laps down in the race on the Charlotte oval. The finish came in McLaughlin's 21st start.

Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden started the race in the rear, and retained last early, until Lap 2 when Scott McLaughlin in the #17 Shell V-Power Ford spun into the pit-lane by Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden and fell to last, but got out of last by lap 9, and by lap 17 Chaz Mostert in the #25 Appliances Online/Mobil 1 Holden had fallen to last after being penalised for Speeding.

Scott Pye in the #20 DeWalt Holden returned to last by lap 28. But by the end of the race, Scott McLaughlin in the #17 Shell V-Power Ford had fallen to last.

Rounding out the bottom five was Matt Chada in the #32 Cavalier Homes Holden, Macauley Jones in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden, and both Jamie Whincup in the #88 Red Bull Holden and Chaz Mostert in the #25 Appliances Online/Mobil 1 Holden after their part in a lap 30 crash, along with Lee Holdsworth in the #5 Truck Asisst Ford.

Bottom Five

Scott McLaughlin	31 Laps	Running
Matt Chada	31 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	32 Laps	Running
Jamie Whincup	32 Laps	Running
Chaz Mostert	32 Laps	Running

eLASTCAR Championship: Drivers

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Jack Smith	4	4	11	14
Josh Fife	140	3	3	3
Jake Kostecki	33	2	5	6
Rick Kelly	15	2	3	4
Macauley Jones	3	2	4	5
Chris Pither	22	1	5	9
Mark Winterbottom	18	1	3	3
Bryce Fullwood	2	1	2	2
Fabian Coulthard	12	1	1	2
Scott McLaughlin	17	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
Jamie Whincup	88	0	2	5
Scott Pye	20	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
Matt Chada	32	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	55	0	0	2
Chaz Mostert	25	0	0	2
Nick Percat	8	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	17/5	27/5
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	7/5
Irwin Tools Racing	3	2/3	6/3	8/3
Tickford Racing	6	2/6	6/6	8/6
DJR Team Penske	6	2/6	3/6	5/6
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	11/7
MW Motorsports	1	0	0	1

eLASTCAR Championship: Manufacturer

Manufacturer	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	27	15/27	49/27	84/27
Ford	14	6/14	14/14	21/14

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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.