Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: October 2021

Saturday 30 October 2021

Driveshaft Failure leaves Coulthard last at Sydney

Original by Speedcafe, edited by me.

Fabian Coulthard picked up the 15^th last-place finish of his career when his #19 Local Legends Holden retired with a broken Driveshaft after 17 of the race’s 32 laps. The finish came in Coulthard’s 459^th start.

Fabian Coulthard is a veteran of Supercars, having been around for 14 full-time years. He was 14th in Practice 1 and 2, but was the slowest in Race 22 Qualifying.

Fabian Coulthard in the #19 Local Legends Holden started the race in the rear, but quickly Macauley Jones in the #96 Coca-Cola Holden had fallen to the rear. At the end of Lap 1, Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden had fallen to the rear.

Midway through Lap 1 Todd Hazelwood in the #14 Dunlop Holden ran over the back of Tim Slade in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford, damaging the steering on car #14, sending him to the garage and down to last.

Lap 16 saw Fabian Coulthard in the #19 Local Legends Holden enter the race for last place, pulling into the garage with a Driveshaft failure on Lap 17, dropping to last on Lap 20.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Todd Hazelwood in the #14 Dunlop Holden, Zane Goddard in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden, Garry Jacobson in the #22 Muscle Car Warehouse Holden and Scott Pye in the #20 DeWalt/Nulon Holden.

The Bottom Five

Fabian Coulthard	17 Laps	Driveshaft
Todd Hazelwood	29 Laps	Running
Zane Goddard	32 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	32 Laps	Running
Scott Pye	32 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car No.	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Macauley Jones	96	4	6	9
Anton De Pasquale	11	3	4	5
Garry Jacobson	22	2	6	12
Jack Smith	4	2	5	11
Zane Goddard	35	2	4	8
Fabian Coulthard	19	1	8	15
Jake Kostecki	35	1	5	7
Andre Heimgartner	7	1	3	4
David Reynolds	26	1	3	5
James Courtney	44	1	3	3
Chaz Mostert	25	1	2	2
Will Brown	9	1	2	2
Nick Percat	8	1	1	2
Bryce Fullwood	2	1	1	2
Scott Pye	20	0	3	4
Todd Hazelwood	14	0	3	3
Brodie Kostecki	88	0	2	2
Mark Winterbottom	18	0	1	3
Cameron Waters	6	0	1	2
Tim Slade	3	0	1	2
Will Davison	17	0	1	1
Thomas Randle	55	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	5	0	0	4
Kurt Kostecki	27	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Brad Jones Racing	4	7/4	15/4	24/4
Team Sydney	2	3/2	14/2	26/2
Dick Johnson Racing	2	3/2	5/2	6/2
Matt Stone Racing	2	3/2	7/2	11/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	3	2/3	3/3	4/3
Kelly Grove Racing	2	1/2	6/2	8/2
Erebus Racing	2	1/2	3/2	3/2
Tickford Racing	4	1/4	6/4	10/4
Irwin Racing	2	0	3/2	7/2
Tim Blanchard Racing	1	0	1	2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	17	15/17	48/17	83/17
Ford	9	7/9	19/9	28/9

Disqualification leaves Anton De Pasquale last at Sydney

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

Anton De Pasquale picked up the 5th last-place finish of his career when his #11 Shell V-Power Ford was Disqualified for a tire violation after -32 of the race's 32 laps. The finish came in Anton's 109th start.

Anton has been a standout young gun of Supercars. In his 4th full-time season, he has shone as a driver. He swept both Practices, and Qualifying, being the fastest in all three.

Fabian Coulthard picked up the 14th last-place finish of his career when his #19 Local Legends Holden finished under power, 1 lap down in the second race of the quadruple header at Sydney Motorsport Park. The finish came in Coulthard's 458th start.

Garry Jacobson in the #34 UNIT Holden started the race in the rear, but during the first lap last-place was exchanged with Garry Jacobson in the #22 Muscle Car Warehouse Holden and Zane Goddard in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden, with Goddard falling to last by Lap 2.

Tim Slade in the #3 Cooldrive Holden was the first to pit on lap 7, dropping to the rear. He was followed by Scott Pye in the #20 DeWalt/Nulon Holden on lap 8. Lap 12 saw Zane Goddard in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden pitted and fell to the rear. Lap 16 saw Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden pitted and fell to the rear.

Garry Jacobson in the #22 Muscle Car Warehouse Holden pitted on lap 18, dropping to the rear. He held last until teammate Fabian Coulthard in the #19 Local Legends Holden fell behind him, where he remained for the rest of the race. However, during the pit-stop Dick Johnson Racing used Will Davison’s tires on Anton’s car, netting Anton a disqualification.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was original last-placer Fabian Coulthard in the #19 Local Legends Holden, Garry Jacobson in the #22 Muscle Car Warehouse Holden, Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden and Zane Goddard in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden

The Bottom Five

Anton De Pasquale	-32 Laps	Disqualified
Fabian Coulthard	31 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	32 Laps	Running
Jake Kostecki	32 Laps	Running
Zane Goddard	32 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

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

Team’s Championship

Team	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Brad Jones Racing	4	7/4	14/4	23/4
Dick Johnson Racing	2	3/2	5/2	6/2
Team Sydney	2	2/2	13/2	24/2
Matt Stone Racing	2	3/2	7/2	10/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	3	2/3	3/3	4/3
Kelly Grove Racing	2	1/2	6/2	8/2
Erebus Racing	2	1/2	3/2	3/2
Tickford Racing	4	1/4	6/4	10/4
Irwin Racing	2	0	3/2	6/2
Tim Blanchard Racing	1	0	1	2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	17	14/17	45/17	78/17
Ford	9	7/9	19/9	28/9

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.