Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Early Race crash leaves Fullwood last at Sandown

Saturday 20 March 2021

Early Race crash leaves Fullwood last at Sandown

Original by Fox Sports/Supercars, Edited by me

Bryce Fullwood picked up the 2nd last-place finish of his career when his #2 Middy's Electrical Holden finished under power, 7 laps down in the first race at Sandown. The finish came in Fullwood's 38th start.

Bryce Fullwood is in his 2nd full-time season in the main game. He was 21st in Practice 1 but rose to 17th in Practice 2. He dropped to 23rd in Qualifying.

Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden started the race in the rear, but off the start Zane Goddard in the #35 UNIT Holden fell to the rear. At the end of Lap 1 Jake Kostecki in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden had fallen to the rear, pitting with Steering damage, falling to last, 6 laps down.

Garry Jacobson in the #22 Premair Hire Holden bumped Bryce Fullwood in the #2 Middy’s Electrical Holden, sending Fullwood’s car into the tires on Lap 2, triggering the first Safety Car of the race. Fullwood’s car was severely damaged, sending him to the garage on Lap 5, dropping to last on lap 9, but only 1 lap behind Kostecki.

Will Davison in the #17 Shell V-Power Ford went off on lap 31 and ingested a whole bunch of grass, causing overheating issues that caused Davison to plummet through the field in the last few laps on the race, dropping to 22^nd, 2 laps down, and briefly threatened to take the last place from Fullwood. Rounding out the Bottom Five was Fabian Coulthard in the #22 Local Legends Heat Sauce Holden and Garry Jacobson in the #19 Local Legends Heat Sauce Holden and Premair Hire Holden.

The Bottom Five

Bryce Fullwood	29 Laps	Running
Jake Kostecki	30 Laps	Running
Will Davison	34 Laps	Running
Fabian Coulthard	36 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	36 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car No.	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Anton De Pasquale	11	1	1	1
James Courtney	44	1	1	1
Bryce Fullwood	2	1	1	1
Garry Jacobson	22	0	1	3
Fabian Coulthard	19	0	1	2
Macauley Jones	96	0	1	1
Jack Smith	4	0	1	1
Jake Kostecki	35	0	1	1
Will Davison	17	0	1	1
Tim Slade	3	0	0	1
Cameron Waters	6	0	0	1
Jack LeBrocq	5	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Dick Johnson Racing	2	1/2	2/2	2/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1/2	1/2	1/2
Matt Stone Racing	2	1/2	1/2	1/2
Tickford Racing	3	1/3	1/3	3/3
Team Sydney	2	0	2/2	5/2
Brad Jones Racing	4	0	1/4	2/4
Tim Blanchard Racing	1	0	0	1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Ford	8	2/8	3/8	6/8
Holden	16	1/16	6/16	9/16

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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.