Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Pole to last for Josh Fife after flipping at Circuit of the Americas

Wednesday 13 May 2020

Pole to last for Josh Fife after flipping at Circuit of the Americas

Josh Fife picked up his 2nd last-place finish of his career when his #140 Captain Gas Works Holden flipped out of the second race at Circuit of the Americas after 8 of the race's 11 laps. The finish came in Fife's 2nd start.

After winning Race 1, Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Red Bull Holden started the race in the rear, Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Jerky Biltong Holden started the race badly and collected Fabian Coulthard in the #12 Shell V-Power ford among others. At turn 1 Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden collected Scott McLaughlin in the #17 Shell V-Power Ford among others.

Josh Fife in the #140 Captain Gas Works Holden flipped on lap 7 exiting the pit-lane and left him last.

Rounding out the bottom five was Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden, Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden, Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Holden and Andre Heimgartner in the #7 NED Ford.

The Bottom Five

Josh Fife	8 Laps	Crash
Jack Smith	10 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	10 Laps	Running
Craig Lowndes	10 Laps	Running
Andre Heimgartner	10 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
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
Josh Fife	140	2	2	2
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
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
Zane Goddard	33	0	1	3
Joey Logano	56	0	1	1
Craig Lowndes	888	0	1	2
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	8/5	15/5	25/5
Matt Stone Racing	3	2/3	5/3	9/3
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	12/2
Erebus Motorsports	3	0	2/3	5/3
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	7	0	4/7	9/7
MW Motorsports	1	0	0	1

eLASTCAR Championship: Manufacturer

Manufacturer	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	26	16/26	45/26	76/26
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.