Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: August 2020

Saturday 29 August 2020

Flat Tire leaves Chaz Mostert last at Townsville

Original by Fox Sports, edited by me.

Chris Pither picked up his 7^th last-place finish of his career when his #22 Coca-Cola Holden finished under power, on the Lead Lap in the first round of the double-header at Townsville. The finish came in Pither’s 90^th start.

Chris Pither has been in and out of the series for a few years now but is on his 2^nd full-time season. He was 5th out of the 6 who participated in the Rookie Practice and was 17th in Practice 1. He slipped to 18th in Practice 2, then dropped to 21st in Qualifying.

Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Holden started the race in the rear, but by lap 2 Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden had fallen to the rear.

Pitstops start on lap 7 and Scott McLaughlin in the #17 Shell V-Power Ford pitted and dropped to last. Followed on Lap 8 by his team-mate Fabian Coulthard in the #12 Shell V-Power Holden after a bad pitstop. He was followed by Mark Winterbottom in the #18 Irwin Tools/Fuchs Holden after his pitstop pn lap 11.

Lap 17 sees Macauley Jones in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden pit and drop to last, followed the next lap by Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden. Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden then pitted on lap 20 and fell to the rear, which he held for the remainder of the race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden, Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Holden, Zane Goddard in the #34 UNIT Holden and Rick Kelly in the #15 Castrol Ford.

The Bottom Five

Chris Pither	39 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	39 Laps	Running
Alex Davison	39 Laps	Running
Zane Goddard	39 Laps	Running
Rick Kelly	39 Laps	Running

Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	#35	3	5	7
Alex Davison	#19	2	5	9
Zane Goddard	#34	2	2	7
Chris Pither	#22	1	6	11
Jack Smith	#4	1	6	9
Macauley Jones	#3	1	5	7
Jake Kostecki	#34	1	5	5
Nick Percat	#8	1	2	3
Scott Pye	#20	1	2	3
Fabian Coulthard	#12	1	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	#55	1	1	1
Cameron Waters	#6	1	1	1
Anton De Pasquale	#99	0	2	2
Tood Hazelwood	#14	0	1	4
Rick Kelly	#15	0	1	2
James Courtney	#19	0	1	1
Andre Heimgartner	#7	0	1	1
Bryce Fullwood	#2	0	0	3
Shane Van Gisbergen	#97	0	0	1
David Reynolds	#9	0	0	1
Scott McLaughlin	#17	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team Name	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Matt Stone Racing	3	6/3	12/3	19/3
Team 18	2	3/2	3/2	7/2
Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	14/4	22/4
DJR Team Penske	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
Tickford Racing	4	2/4	2/4	2/4
Team Sydney	2	1/2	11/2	17/2
Kelly Racing	2	0	1/2	3/2
Penrite Racing	2	0	1/2	2/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	0	3/2
Red Bull Holden	2	0	0	1/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer Name	No. Card	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	16	13/16	43/16	73/16
Ford	8	3/8	5/8	7/8

Chris Pither FINALLY last at Townsville (I've been waiting for this to happen)

Original by Chris Pither Facebook, edited by me.

Chris Pither has been in and out of the series for a few years now, but is on his 2^nd full-time season. He was 5th out of the 6 who participated in the Rookie Practice and was 17th in Practice 1. He slipped to 18th in Practice 2, then dropped to 21st in Qualifying.

Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Holden started the race in the rear, but by lap 2 Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden had fallen to the rear.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden, Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Holden, Zane Goddard in the #34 UNIT Holden and Rick Kelly in the #15 Casttrol Ford.

The Bottom Five

Chris Pither	39 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	39 Laps	Running
Alex Davison	39 Laps	Running
Zane Goddard	39 Laps	Running
Rick Kelly	39 Laps	Running

Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	#35	3	5	7
Alex Davison	#19	2	5	9
Zane Goddard	#34	2	2	7
Chris Pither	#22	1	6	11
Jack Smith	#4	1	6	9
Macauley Jones	#3	1	5	7
Jake Kostecki	#34	1	5	5
Nick Percat	#8	1	2	3
Scott Pye	#20	1	2	3
Fabian Coulthard	#12	1	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	#55	1	1	1
Cameron Waters	#6	1	1	1
Anton De Pasquale	#99	0	2	2
Tood Hazelwood	#14	0	1	4
Rick Kelly	#15	0	1	2
James Courtney	#19	0	1	1
Andre Heimgartner	#7	0	1	1
Bryce Fullwood	#2	0	0	3
Shane Van Gisbergen	#97	0	0	1
David Reynolds	#9	0	0	1
Scott McLaughlin	#17	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team Name	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Matt Stone Racing	3	6/3	12/3	19/3
Team 18	2	3/2	3/2	7/2
Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	14/4	22/4
DJR Team Penske	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
Tickford Racing	4	2/4	2/4	2/4
Team Sydney	2	1/2	11/2	17/2
Kelly Racing	2	0	1/2	3/2
Penrite Racing	2	0	1/2	2/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	0	3/2
Red Bull Holden	2	0	0	1/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer Name	No. Card	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	16	13/16	43/16	73/16
Ford	8	3/8	5/8	7/8

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.