Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Mechanical Issues leaves Hazelwood last at Tailem Bend

Friday 18 September 2020

Mechanical Issues leaves Hazelwood last at Tailem Bend

Original by Speed-cafe, edited by me.

Todd Hazelwood picked up his 4th last-place finish of his career when his #14 TRG Transport Solutions Holden finished under power, on the lead lap in the first race at Tailem Bend. The finish came in Hazelwood's 87th start.

Todd Hazelwood is in his 3rd full-time season and has had a breakout year in 2020. He was 19th in Practice 1, then slid to 23rd in Practice 2. He rose to 16th in Qualifying.

Zane Goddard in the #34 UNIT Holden started the race in the rear, and held it initially, at the end of Lap 1 Garry Jacobson in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden fell to the rear.

Pitstops begin and Jamie Whincup in the #88 Red Bull Holden pitted and had to serve their 15 second time penalty, dropping him to last, which he held until lap 9 when he relegated Zane Goddard in the #34 UNIT Holden to last.

Then Macauley Jones in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden pitted on lap 9 and fell to last.

Lap 10 saw Todd Hazelwood in the #14 TRG Transport Solutions Holden had a long pitstop due to a mechanical issue and fell to the rear, so far behind that he held last for the rest of the race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden, Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Holden after a post-race penalty, Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden and Macauley Jones in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden

The Bottom Five

Todd Hazelwood	24 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	24 Laps	Running
Alex Davison	24 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	24 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	24 Laps	Running

Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	#35	3	5	8
Chris Pither	#22	2	9	16
Alex Davison	#19	2	6	11
Zane Goddard	#34	2	2	7
Jack Smith	#4	1	10	14
Jake Kostecki	#34	1	7	8
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	1
Cameron Waters	#6	1	1	1
Chaz Mostert	#25	1	1	1
Anton De Pasquale	#99	0	3	3
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	4/4	18/4	30/4
Team Sydney	2	1/2	14/2	22/2
DJR Team Penske	2	1/2	1/2	3/2
Tickford Racing	4	2/4	2/4	2/4
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	17/16	57/16	96/16
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.