Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Early race contact leaves Goddard last at Townsville

Saturday 10 July 2021

Early race contact leaves Goddard last at Townsville

Original by Supercars,
edited by me.

Zane Goddard picked up the 4^th last-place finish of his career when his #35 Yellow Cover Holden finished under power, 11 laps down in the first race at Townsville. The finish came in Goddard’s 30^th start.

After sharing with Jake Kostecki in 2020, Zane Goddard moved to a full-time race in 2021. He impressed with 10^th in Practice 1, then slid to 17^th in Practice 2. He slipped slightly further to 18^th in Qualifying.

Garry Jacobson in the #22 Premair Hire Holden started the race in the rear, but during the formation Lap Fabian Coulthard in the #19 Local Legends Heat Sauce Holden stalled and had to be towed off the track, falling to last with a battery issue, starting from the pit lane.

Towards the end of Lap 2 Coulthard was able to catch and pass Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden, dropping Smith to last.

By the end of Lap 7 Coulthard had fallen back to last.

Lap 11 saw Zane Goddard in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden hitting the fence at turn 10 after contact with Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden, sending Goddard into the wall, into the garage and down to last, losing 9 laps in repairs.

During the race, two drivers challenged for the last-place crown but fell a few laps short. Firstly, on lap 55, Scott Pye in the #20 DeWalt Holden challenged, losing 7 laps in the Garage after a Turn 8 Steering failure. Then, Todd Hazelwood in the #14 Pizza Hut Holden pulled into the Garage with a Power Steering drama on lap 58, losing 7 laps. Pye would lose 2 laps later, but finished a lap and a half ahead of Goddard.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Fabian Coulthard in the #19 Local Legends Heat Sauce Holden after the Battery issue, and teammate Garry Jacobson in the #22 Premair Hire Holden.

The Bottom Five

Zane Goddard	76 Laps	Running
Scott Pye	77 Laps	Running
Todd Hazelwood	79 Laps	Running
Fabian Coulthard	85 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	86 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car No.	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	22	2	5	10
Jack Smith	4	2	5	9
Macauley Jones	96	2	3	6
Anton De Pasquale	11	2	3	4
Andre Heimgartner	7	1	3	3
David Reynolds	26	1	2	3
James Courtney	44	1	2	2
Chaz Mostert	25	1	2	2
Zane Goddard	35	1	1	4
Bryce Fullwood	2	1	1	1
Nick Percat	8	1	1	1
Fabian Coulthard	19	0	4	9
Jake Kostecki	35	0	3	4
Scott Pye	20	0	2	2
Todd Hazelwood	14	0	2	2
Cameron Waters	6	0	1	2
Mark Winterbottom	18	0	1	2
Will Davison	17	0	1	1
Will Brown	9	0	1	1
Thomas Randle	55	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	5	0	0	3
Tim Slade	3	0	0	1
Kurt Kostecki	27	0	0	1
Brodie Kostecki	88	0	1	1

Team’s Championship

Team	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Brad Jones Racing	4	5/4	11/4	17/4
Dick Johnson Racing	2	2/2	4/2	5/2
Team Sydney	2	2/2	9/2	19/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	3	2/3	3/3	3/3
Kelly Grove Racing	2	1/2	4/2	5/2
Tickford Racing	4	1/4	5/4	8/4
Irwin Racing	2	0	3/2	4/2
Matt Stone Racing	2	1/2	2/2	4/2
Erebus 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	9	6/9	15/9	22/9
Holden	17	9/17	27/17	48/17

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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.