Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: January 2021

Wednesday 20 January 2021

2021 Entry List confirmed

Here we go, the drivers are all confirmed for the 2021 Supercars championship.

Note: Sponsors are all provisional and at least a few are likely to be changed.

Car #	Driver	Team	Sponsor
17	Will Davison	Dick Johnson Racing	Shell V-Power
11	Anton De Pasquale	Dick Johnson Racing	Shell V-Power
88	Jamie Whincup	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Red Bull/Ampol
97	Shane Van Gisbergen	Triple Eight Race Engingeering	Red Bull/Ampol
5	Jack LeBrocq	Tickford Racing	Truck Assist
6	Cameron Waters	Tickford Racing	Monster Energy
44	James Courtney	Tickford Racing	Boost Mobile
3	Tim Slade	Blanchard Racing Team	Cooldrive Distribution
25	Chaz Mostert	Walkinshaw Andretti United	Appliances Online
2	Bryce Fullwood	Walkinshaw Andretti United	Middy's Electrical
9	Will Brown	Erebus Motorsport	Ozland Group Solutions
99	Brodie Kostecki	Erebus Motorsport	Boost Mobile
7	Andre Heimgartner	Kelly Grove Racing	NED
26	David Reynolds	Kelly Grove Racing	Penrite Oils
8	Nick Percat	Brad Jones Racing	RT Batteries
14	Todd Hazelwood	Brad Jones Racing	tools.com
4	Jack Smith	Brad Jones Racing	SCT Logistics
96	Macauley Jones	Brad Jones Racing	Coca-Cola
18	Mark Winterbottom	Team 18	Irwin Tools/Fuchs
20	Scott Pye	Team 18	DeWalt/Nulon
34	Zane Goddard	Matt Stone Racing	UNIT
35	Jake Kostecki	Matt Stone Racing	Yellow Cover
19	Fabian Coulthard	Team Sydney	Local Legends Heat Sauce
22	Garry Jacobson	Team Sydney	Premiair Hire

*I assume Blanchard will reuse this number, but I'm not sure yet.

So, good luck to everyone in 2021, who will be the champion for both ends of the field? Let’s find out.

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.