Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: First lap crash leaves Pither last at Townsville

Saturday 5 September 2020

First lap crash leaves Pither last at Townsville

Original by townsvillebulletin, edited by me.

Chris Pither picked up his 8th last-place finish of his career when his #22 Coca-Cola Holden crashed out at Turn 2 without completing a single lap of the final race at Townsville. The finish came in Pither's 94th start.

Chris Pither is in his 2nd full-time season in the Supercars, having been in and out of the main game a few times. He was fastest in the Rookie Practice session, and was 15th in Practice 1. He slid to 22nd in Practice 2, and improved slighty to 21st in Qualifying.

Garry Jacobson in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden started the race in the rear after impeding Scott McLaughlin in qualifying but off the start Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden fell to the rear but by Turn 3 Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden fell to the rear with Suspension damage, and retired from the race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Anton De Pasquale after a mechanical failure led to a crash that took him out of the race on Lap 23, Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden, Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden and Garry Jacobson in the #35 Yellow Clover Holden.

The Bottom Five

Chris Pither	0 Laps	Crash
Anton De Psaquale	23 Laps	Crash
Jake Kostecki	39 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	39 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	39 Laps	Running

Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	#35	3	5	8
Chris Pither	#22	2	9	15
Alex Davison	#19	2	5	10
Zane Goddard	#34	2	2	7
Jack Smith	#4	1	9	13
Jake Kostecki	#34	1	7	8
Macauley Jones	#3	1	5	8
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	1
Cameron Waters	#6	1	1	1
Chaz Mostert	#25	1	1	1
Anton De Pasquale	#99	0	3	3
Tood Hazelwood	#14	0	1	4
Rick Kelly	#15	0	1	2
Shane Van Gisbergen	#97	0	1	2
James Courtney	#19	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	6/3	14/3	23/3
Team 18	2	4/2	4/2	9/2
Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	17/4	27/4
DJR Team Penske	2	1/2	1/2	3/2
Tickford Racing	4	2/4	2/4	2/4
Team Sydney	2	1/2	12/2	20/2
Erebus Motorsports	2	1/2	3/2	4/2
Kelly Racing	2	1/2	2/2	4/2
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	16/16	54/16	91/16
Ford	8	4/8	6/8	9/8

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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.