Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Pit gun issue leaves Heimgartner last at Townsville

Saturday 5 September 2020

Pit gun issue leaves Heimgartner last at Townsville

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

Andre Heimgartner picked up his 5th last-place finish of his career when his #7 NED Ford finished under power, on the lead lap in the first race of the second round at Townsville. The finish came in Heimgartner's 143rd start.

Andre Heimgartner is in his 5th full-time season. He was 6th in Practice 1 but slid down to 20th in Practice 2. He had an issue in qualifying and started last.

Andre Heimgartner in the #7 NED Ford started the race in the rear after issues in qualifying, but got past Anton De Pasquale in the #99 Penrite Oils Holden, then Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden fell to the rear. De Pasquale returned to last near the end of lap 3. Anton would head into the pit-lane on lap 7, dropping even further back.

When pit-stops start, Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden pits and returns to last. Lap 17 sees Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden pitted and dropped to last. The following lap saw Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden pitted and fell to last, but within a couple of laps, he had gotten back past Smith. Kostecki and Smith would continue to fight for the last place for several laps.

On lap 22 Garry Jacobson in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden pitted and fell to the rear, then passed Kostecki and dropped him to last on Lap 23. Finally, Andre Heimgartner in the #7 NED Ford fell to the rear by Lap 26 after his pitstop and stayed there the remainder of the race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden, Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden, Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden and Fabian Coulthard in the #12 Shell V-Power Ford.

The Bottom Five

Andre Heimgartnet	39 Laps	Running
Jake Kostecki	39 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	39 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	39 Laps	Running
Fabian Coulthard	39 Laps	Running

Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	#35	3	5	7
Alex Davison	#19	2	5	10
Zane Goddard	#34	2	2	7
Jack Smith	#4	1	9	12
Chris Pither	#22	1	8	14
Macauley Jones	#3	1	5	8
Jake Kostecki	#34	1	6	7
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	2	2
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	13/3	21/3
Team 18	2	3/2	3/2	8/2
Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	17/4	26/4
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
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1/2	1/2	4/2
Kelly Racing	2	1/2	2/2	4/2
Erebus Motorsports	2	1/2	2/2	3/2
Red Bull Holden	2	0	1/2	2/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer Name	No. Card	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	16	15/16	51/16	86/16
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.