Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: eSeries last-place champion Jack Smith last at Hidden Valley

Saturday 15 August 2020

eSeries last-place champion Jack Smith last at Hidden Valley

Original by Fox Sports, Edited by me

Jack Smith picked up his 3rd last-place finish of his career when his #4 SCT Logistics Holden finished under power, 1 lap down in the 2nd race at Hidden Valley. The finish came in Smith's 23rd start.

Jack Smith is in his first full-time season, after a partial season last year. He was 5th out of 6 in the Rookie Practice Session, and 12th in Practice 1, but slid to 18th in Practice 2. He slid further to last in Qualifying.

Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden started the race in the rear, and held last until pitstops begin on lap 5, where Bryce Fullwood in the #2 Middy's Electrical Holden pitted and dropped to the rear, followed by Macauley Jones in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden after putting on lap 8. Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden returned to last by the time Pitstops were completed. Smith held last for the remainder of the race.

Rounding out the bottom five was Macauley Jones in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden, Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden, Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden and Todd Hazelwood in the #14 Brut Max Defence/R&J Batteries.

The Bottom Five

Jack Smith	37 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	37 Laps	Running
Jake Kostecki	37 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	37 Laps	Running
Todd Hazelwood	37 Laps	Running

Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Zane Goddard	#34	2	2	2
Garry Jacobson	#35	2	3	5
Jake Kostecki	#34	1	5	5
Jack Smith	#4	1	4	6
Alex Davison	#19	1	2	5
Nick Percat	#8	1	2	2
Scott Pye	#20	1	1	2
Fabian Coulthard	#12	1	1	1
Chris Pither	#22	0	4	7
Macauley Jones	#3	0	3	5
James Courtney	#19	0	1	1
Anton De Pasquale	#99	0	1	1
Bryce Fullwood	#2	0	0	3
Tood Hazelwood	#14	0	0	2
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	5/3	10/3	12/3
Team 18	2	2/2	2/2	5/2
Brad Jones Racing	4	2/4	9/4	14/4
DJR Team Penske	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
Team Sydney	2	0	6/2	10/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	0	3/2
Red Bull Holden	2	0	0	1/2
Penrite Racing	2	0	0	1/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer Name	No. Card	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	16	9/16	29/16	48/16
Ford	8	1/8	1/8	2/8

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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.