Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: First lap contact leaves Percat last at Symmonds Plains

Saturday 17 April 2021

First lap contact leaves Percat last at Symmonds Plains

Original by RJBATT.com, edited by me.

Nick Percat picked up the 12th last-place finish of his career when his #8 R&J’s Batteries Holden finished under power, 8 laps down in the first race at Launceston. The finish came in Percat's 227th start.

Percat is a veteran of the sport and is in his 8th full-time season. He was 14th in Practice 1, and stayed 14th in Practice 2. He then slipped to 19th in Qualifying.

Todd Hazelwood in the #14 Club Cadet Holden started the race in the rear after issues during qualifying, and fought with Macauley Jones in the #96 Coca-Cola Holen for last in the early laps.

Suddenly, Lap 2 at Turn 6 Nick Percat in the #8 R&J’s Batteries Holden was bumped into the wall, possibly by Zane Goddard in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden, sending car #8 into the wall, losing 8 laps in repairs, dropping to last, where he would remain for the rest of the race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Bryce Fullwood in the #2 Middy's Electrical after contact with Tim Slade in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden on lap 15, Andre Heimgartner in the #7 NED Ford after stalling in his pitstop and struggling to restart the car, Fabian Coulthard in the #19 Local Legends Heat Sauce Holden after a lug nut and clutch issue during his pitstop and Garry Jacobson in the #22 Prematair Hire Holden.

The Bottom Five

Nick Percat	36 Laps	Running
Bryce Fullwood	43 Laps	Running
Andre Heimgartnet	43 Laps	Running
Fabian Coulthard	44 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	44 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car No.	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Anton De Pasquale	11	1	2	2
Macauley Jones	96	1	2	2
James Courtney	44	1	1	1
Bryce Fullwood	2	1	1	1
Chaz Mostert	25	1	1	1
Nick Percat	8	1	1	1
Fabian Coulthard	19	0	2	5
Jack Smith	4	0	2	3
Garry Jacobson	22	0	1	5
Andre Heimgartner	7	0	1	1
Scott Pye	20	0	1	1
David Reynolds	26	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
Zane Goddard	35	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	2/2	3/2	3/2
Dick Johnson Racing	2	1/2	3/2	3/2
Brad Jones Racing	4	2/4	4/4	5/4
Matt Stone Racing	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
Tickford Racing	3	1/3	1/3	3/3
Team Sydney	2	0	2/2	9/2
Kelly Grove Racing	2	0	2/2	2/2
Irwin Racing	2	0	1/2	1/2
Tim Blanchard Racing	1	0	0	1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Ford	8	3/8	9/8	13/8
Holden	16	3/16	9/16	17/16

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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.