Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Mid-Race crash leaves Emily Jones last at Long Beach

Wednesday 1 September 2021

Mid-Race crash leaves Emily Jones last at Long Beach

Emily Jones picked up the 1st last-place finish of her 2021 Pro eSeries championship when she retired with Crash damage after 11 of the race's 17 laps.

Wayne Bourke in the #89 Penrite Racing Mustang started the race in the rear but soon Richard Hamstead in the #44 Boost Mobile Mustang had fallen to the rear.

Pitstops started on lap 3 with Simon Fiejl in the #83 Shure Holden pitted and fell to the rear. Lap 6 saw Josh Anderson in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Mustang pit and fall to last.

Lap 8 saw Fawzan El-Nabi in the #62 Bathurst 1000 Boot Party Holden was taken out by Sam Blacklock in the #215 Sqyftz Holden. His drive-through penalty dropped him to last on Lap 9.

On lap 11 Blake Purdie in the #48 Shannons Mustang took out Emily Jones in the #51 Cash Converters Mustang, dropping Jones to last, retiring shortly afterwards.

Lap 16 saw a big crash between Jobe Stewart in the #9 WD-40 Holden, Brady Meyers in the #22 Shell V-Power Mustang, Blake Purdie in the #48 Shannon's Mustang and Corey Shepard in the #718 Pioneer DJ Mustang, seeing Meyers drop into the bottom five.

Splitting Jones and Meyers was Sam Blacklock in the #215 Sqyftz Holden and Brady Meyers in the #22 Shell V-Power Mustang. Rounding out the Bottom Five was Richard Hamstead in #44 Boost Mobile Mustang and Wayne Bourke in the #89 Shannons Mustang

Emily Jones	10 Laps	Crash
Sam Blacklock	15 Laps	Running
Brady Meyers	17 Laps	Running
Richard Hamstead	17 Laps	Running
Wayne Bourke	17 Laps	Running

The Championship

Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Blake Purdie	1	1	1
Emily Jones	1	1	1
Wayne Bourke	0	2	2
Sam Blacklock	0	1	1
Corey Sheperd	0	1	1
Brady Meyers	0	0	2
Jordan Caruso	0	0	1
Simon Feigl	0	0	1
Richard Hamstead	0	0	1

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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.