Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Engine issues leaves Kostecki last at Tailem Bend

Saturday 26 September 2020

Engine issues leaves Kostecki last at Tailem Bend

Original by Auto Action, edited by me.

Jake Kostecki picked up his 2nd last-place finish of his career when his #34 UNIT Holden retired with Engine issues after 5 of the race's 31 laps. The finish came in Kostecki's 15th start.

Kostecki is in his rookie season, running half the races along with Zane Goddard. He was 2nd in the Rookie Only Practice and 13th in Practice 1. He slid to 21st in Practice 2 and went further to 23rd in Qualifying.

David Reynolds in the #9 Penrite Oils Holden started the race in the rear after being disqualified for breaching Parc Ferme but by turn 2 Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden had fallen to the rear. At the end of Lap 1 Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden, then Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Jerky Biltong Holden fell to the rear, and he exchanged last with Smith again by the end of Lap 2.

Lap 3 saw Todd Hazelwood in the #14 TRG Transport Solutions Holden spun Rick Kelly in the #15 Castrol Ford, dropping Kelly to the rear.

Lap 4 saw trouble strike for Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden retired with Engine issues, leaving him last.

Kelly would go on to have Engine issues during the race, including the Engine shitting off during their pitstop on lap 10, Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Jerky Biltong Holden, Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden and Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden.

The Bottom Five

Jake Kostecki	5 Laps	Engine
Rick Kelly	31 Laps	Running
Alex Davison	31 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	31 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	31 Laps	Running

Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	#35	3	6	9
Zane Goddard	#34	3	3	9
Chris Pither	#22	2	9	17
Jake Kostecki	#34	2	8	9
Alex Davison	#19	2	7	13
Jack Smith	#4	1	11	17
Macauley Jones	#3	1	5	9
Tood Hazelwood	#14	1	2	5
Nick Percat	#8	1	2	3
Scott Pye	#20	1	2	3
Andre Heimgartner	#7	1	2	2
David Reynolds	#9	1	1	2
Fabian Coulthard	#12	1	1	2
Jack LeBrocq	#55	1	1	2
Cameron Waters	#6	1	1	1
Chaz Mostert	#25	1	1	1
Mark Winterbottom	#18	1	1	1
Anton De Pasquale	#99	0	3	3
Rick Kelly	#15	0	2	3
James Courtney	#19	0	2	2
Shane Van Gisbergen	#97	0	1	2
Lee Holdsworth	#5	0	1	1
Bryce Fullwood	#2	0	0	3
Scott McLaughlin	#17	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team Name	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Matt Stone Racing	3	8/3	16/3	27/3
Team 18	2	5/2	5/2	11/2
Brad Jones Racing	4	4/4	19/4	33/4
Team Sydney	2	1/2	15/2	24/2
DJR Team Penske	2	1/2	1/2	3/2
Tickford Racing	4	2/4	3/4	5/4
Erebus Motorsports	2	1/2	3/2	4/2
Kelly Racing	2	1/2	2/2	5/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1/2	1/2	4/2
Red Bull Holden	2	0	1/2	2/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer Name	No. Card	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	16	19/16	64/16	107/16
Ford	8	4/8	8/8	13/8

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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.