Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: First Lap contact leaves LeBrocq last at Hidden Valley

Friday 21 August 2020

First Lap contact leaves LeBrocq last at Hidden Valley

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

Jack LeBrocq picked up his 7th last-place finish of his career when his #55 Supercheap Auto Ford was involved in a 2 car incident that ended his race without completing a single lap of the first race at Hidden Valley Round 2. The finish came in LeBrocq's 89th start.

Jack LeBrocq has had a lot of success in Super 2 and was Rookie of the Year in 2018. He was 7th in Practice 1 but slid to 13th in Practice 2. He just made the shootout in Qualifying and finished 15th in the Top 15 shootout.

Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden started the race in the rear, but Scott Pye in the #20 DeWalt Holden stalled at the start and fell to the rear.

Heading to turn 5 Jack LeBrocq in the #55 Supercheap Auto Holden had contact with Andre Heimgartner in the #7 NED Ford exiting turn 1, breaking the steering on his car and dropping him to the rear.

Next out was Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden, after a Driveline failure with a couple of laps to go. Rounding out the Bottom Five was Garry Jacobson in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden after a 15 second time penalty for Speeding in the pit-lane, Zane Goddard in the #34 UNIT Holden and Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden.

The Bottom Five

Jack LeBrocq	0 Laps	Crash
Chris Pither	35 Laps	Driveline
Garry Jacobson	38 Laps	Running
Zane Goddard	38 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	38 Laps	Running

Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	#35	2	4	6
Alex Davison	#19	2	3	6
Zane Goddard	#34	2	2	3
Jake Kostecki	#34	1	5	5
Jack Smith	#4	1	4	7
Nick Percat	#8	1	2	2
Scott Pye	#20	1	2	3
Fabian Coulthard	#12	1	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	#55	1	1	1
Chris Pither	#22	0	5	9
Macauley Jones	#3	0	3	5
Anton De Pasquale	#99	0	2	2
James Courtney	#19	0	1	1
Bryce Fullwood	#2	0	0	3
Tood Hazelwood	#14	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	5/3	11/3	14/3
Team 18	2	3/2	3/2	7/2
Brad Jones Racing	4	2/4	9/4	16/4
DJR Team Penske	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
Team Sydney	2	0	8/2	12/2
Penrite Racing	2	0	1/2	2/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	0	3/2
Red Bull Holden	2	0	0	1/2
Tickford Racing	4	1/4	1/4	1/4

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer Name	No. Card	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	16	11/16	37/16	62/16
Ford	8	2/8	2/8	3/8

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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.