Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Post-Race Penalty leaves Defending Champ last at Hidden Valley.

Saturday 22 August 2020

Post-Race Penalty leaves Defending Champ last at Hidden Valley.

Original by ntl, edited by me.

Garry Jacobson picked up his 7th last-place finish of his career when his #34 Yellow Cover Holden finished under power, on the lead lap in the second round at Hidden Valley. The finish came in Jacobson's 51st start.

Garry Jacobson is in his 2nd full-time season. He was 10th in Practice 1, then slid to 16th in Practice 2. He fell further to 20th in Qualifying.

Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden started the race in the rear, but off the start Zane Goddard in the #34 UNIT Holden fell to the rear.

Lap 5 pit-stop put Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Jerky Biltong Holden down to last. After his pit-stop on lap 18 dropped Goddard back to last.

Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden seemed to enter the last-place picture, but he stayed ahead of Pither, and on lap 29, Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Jerky Biltong Holden fell to the rear.

Lap 36 saw Macauley Jones in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden being spun down to last by Garry Jacobson in the #34 Yellow Cover Holden. The 15-second penalty leaves Jacobson last.

Rounding out the bottom five was Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Jerky Biltong Holden, Zane Goddard in the #34 UNIT Holden and Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden.

The Bottom Five

Garry Jacobson	38 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	38 Laps	Running
Alex Davison	38 Laps	Running
Zane Goddard	38 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	38 Laps	Running

Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	#35	3	5	7
Alex Davison	#19	2	4	7
Zane Goddard	#34	2	2	4
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	10
Macauley Jones	#3	0	4	6
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	6/3	12/3	16/3
Team 18	2	3/2	3/2	7/2
Brad Jones Racing	4	2/4	10/4	17/4
DJR Team Penske	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
Team Sydney	2	0	9/2	14/2
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	12/16	40/16	67/16
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.