Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Multiple crashes, and late-race flip, leaves Fullwood last at Spa-Francorchamps

Wednesday 6 May 2020

Multiple crashes, and late-race flip, leaves Fullwood last at Spa-Francorchamps

Bryce Fullwood picked up his 1^st last-place finish of his career when his #2 Middy’s Electrical Holden finished under power, 1 lap down in the second race at Spa Francorchamps. The finish came in Fullwood’s 16^th start.

After winning Race 1, Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Red Bull Holden started the race in the rear, but it was chaos as Jack Doohan in the #33 Red Bull Holden started the race in Neutral and fell to the rear. After several more incidents, eventually Bryce Fullwood in the #2 Middy's Electrical Holden collided with Lando Norris in the #04 Red Bull Holden, sending the former into a flip. This, combined with a pit-lane issue earlier in the race left Fullwood last.

Rounding out the bottom five was Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden after being turned and collected on lap 1, Mark Winterbottom in the #18 Irwin Tools Holden after being turned by Jake Kostecki in the #344 NTI Holden, the being collected by Zane Goddard in the #34 UNIT Holden and Jamie Whincup in the #88 Red Bull Holden, Todd Hazelwood in the #14 BRUT Maximum Defence Holden, and Jamie Whincup in the #88 Red Bull Holden after collecting Winterbottom.

The Bottom Five

Bryce Fullwood	7 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	7 Laps	Running
Jake Kostecki	7 Laps	Running
Todd Hazelwood	7 Laps	Running
Jamie Whincup	7 Laps	Running

eLASTCAR Championship: Drivers

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Jack Smith	4	4	10	13
Jake Kostecki	33	2	5	5
Macauley Jones	3	2	2	3
Rick Kelly	15	2	2	3
Chris Pither	22	1	4	8
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
Will Davison	23	0	3	3
Scott Pye	20	0	2	4
Alex Davison	3	0	2	4
Jamie Whincup	88	0	2	4
Anton De Pasquale	99	0	1	3
Todd Hazelwood	35	0	1	3
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	2
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	1	2
Shame Van Gisbergen	97	0	1	2
Zane Goddard	33	0	1	2
David Reynolds	9	0	1	2
Joey Logano	56	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

eLASTCAR Championship: Teams

Team	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Brad Jones Racing	4	6/4	11/4	19/4
Matt Stone Racing	3	2/3	5/3	7/3
Rick Kelly Racing	3	2/3	3/3	5/3
Irwin Tools Racing	2	1/2	5/2	7/2
Tickford Racing	6	2/6	6/6	8/6
DJR Team Penske	4	1/4	2/4	4/4
Walkinshaw Andretti United	5	2/5	3/5	4/5
Team Sydney	2	0	5/2	10/2
Erebus Motorsports	3	0	2/3	5/3
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	5	0	3/5	7/5
MW Motorsports	1	0	0	1

eLASTCAR Championship: Manufacturer

Manufacturer	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	23	12/21	37/21	63/21
Ford	12	4/12	11/12	17/12

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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.