Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Big crash at the Cutting leaves Whincup and Lowndes last at Bathurst, as Chris Pither becomes Champion for 2020.

Saturday 17 October 2020

Big crash at the Cutting leaves Whincup and Lowndes last at Bathurst, as Chris Pither becomes Champion for 2020.

Original by Fox Sports, edited by me.

Jamie Whincup picked up his 12th last-place finish of his career, while Craig Lowndes picked up his 7th last-place finish of his career, when their #88 Red Bull Holden was involved in a single-car crash after 32 of the race's 161 laps. The finish came in Whincup's 522nd start, and Lowndes 671st start.

Both Whincup and Lowndes are legends in Supercars, with eleven championships between them, as well as eleven Bathurst's. Whincup was 2nd in Practice 1, but fell to 23rd after Lowndes' Practice was cut short by a fire, but they recovered to 16th in Practice 3. then Lowndes boosted it to 14th in Practice 4, then Whincup got it up to 5th in Practice 5. They fell to 15th in Practice 6, but they recovered to 8th in Practice 7. Whincup qualified 5th but went off in the Shootout at the Chase and would start 9th.

Zane Goddard in the #34 UNIT Holden started the race in the rear but after almost stalling off the start James Golding in the #18 Irwin Tools Holden fell to the rear. Macauley Jones in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden got a Mechanical Black Flag on lap 2 for a door not closed properly, dropping to the rear.

Rick Kelly in the #15 Castrol Nissan suffered Clutch problems in the early stages of the race, and it got worse very fast, bringing him into the Garage on lap 22, dropping to the rear on lap 23, dropping 17 laps in repairs. Due to attrition, however, Kelly and Wood would eventually rise out of the bottom five.

Apocalypse stuck for Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Holden, crashing out on lap 33, dropping him to the rear and triggering the first Safety CAr of the race.

Following car #888 out were Todd Hazelwood and Jordan Boys in the #14 Club Cadet Holden after Boys crashed on the front straight on lap 51, triggering the second Safety Car of the race. Garry Jacobson and Zane Goddard in the #35 UNIT Holden was next out with Engine failure.

Garry Jacobson and Zane Goddard in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden started smoking on lap 57, and pulled into the garage on Lap 62 with Engine issues, losing 5 laps in repairs then retired on lap 68.

Rounding out the bottom five was Bryce Fullwood and Kurt Kostecki in the #2 Middy’s Electrical Holden after crashing out at Skyline on lap 152, triggering the 4^th Safety Car of the race, and Jack Smith and Jack Perkins in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden after spinning out of the race on lap 152/

The Bottom Five

Jamie Whincup/Craig Lowndes	32 Laps	Crash
Todd Hazelwood/Jordan Boys	50 Laps	Crash
Garry Jacobson/David Russell	62 Laps	Engine
Bryce Fullwood/Kurt Kostecki	147 Laps	Crash
Jack Smith/Jack Perkins	149 Laps	Spun Off

Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Chris Pither (CHAMPION)	#22	3	10	18
Garry Jacobson	#35	3	9	12
Zane Goddard	#34	3	3	9
Jake Kostecki	#34	2	8	10
Alex Davison	#19	2	7	13
Jack Smith	#4	1	12	19
Macauley Jones	#3	1	5	9
Todd Hazelwood	#14	1	3	6
Scott Pye	#20	1	2	4
Nick Percat	#8	1	2	3
David Reynolds	#9	1	2	3
Andre Heimgartner	#7	1	2	2
Lee Holdsworth	#5	1	2	2
Fabian Coulthard	#12	1	1	3
Jack LeBrocq	#55	1	1	3
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
Bryce Fullwood	#2	0	1	4
Scott McLaughlin	#17	0	0	1
Jamie Whincup	#888	1	1	1
Craig Lowndes	#888	1	1	1
Jordan Boys	#14	0	1	1
David Russell	#35	0	1	1
Kurt Kostecki	#2	0	0	1
Jack Perkins	#4	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team Name	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Matt Stone Racing (CHAMPION)	4	8/4	20/4	27/4
Team 18	4	5/4	5/4	12/4
Brad Jones Racing	8	4/8	22/8	36/8
Team Sydney	4	2/4	16/4	25/4
Red Bull Holden	4	2/4	3/4	4/4
Tickford Racing	8	3/8	4/8	6/8
DJR Team Penske	4	1/4	1/4	4/4
Erebus Motorsports	4	1/4	4/4	5/4
Kelly Racing	4	1/4	2/4	5/4
Walkinshaw Andretti United	4	1/4	1/4	6/4

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer Name	No. Card	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden (CHAMPION)	32	22/32	75/32	124/32
Ford	16	5/16	9/16	15/16

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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.