Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Goddard last in first race of Sydney Motorsport Park Quad Header

Saturday 30 October 2021

Goddard last in first race of Sydney Motorsport Park Quad Header

Original by The Race Torque, edited by me.

Zane Goddard picked up the 5th last-place finish of his career when his #35 Yellow Cover Holden finished under power, on the lead lap in the first race at the first round of the quadruple header at Sydney Motorsport Park. The finish came in Goddard's 35th start.

Zane Goddard is in his 1st full-time season, 2nd season overall. The first season he shared with Jake Kostecki. He was 15th in Practice 1 but slid to slowest in Practice 2. He stayed last during qualifying, so he lined up last.

Zane Goddard in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden started the race in the rear, but immediately Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden stalled and fell to the rear.

The first round of pitstops saw Garry Jacobson in the #22 - Holden fall to the rear. Then lap 18 saw Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden pit and fall to the rear. That was followed the following a lap later Zane Goddard in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden, where he stayed for the rest of the race.

Rounding out the bottom five was Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden, James Courtney in the #44 Boost Mobile Holden, Jack LeBrocq in the #55 Truck Assist Ford and Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden.

The Bottom Five

Zane Goddard	32 Laps	Running
Jake Kostecki	32 Laps	Running
James Courtney	32 Laps	Running
Jack LeBrocq	32 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	32 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car No.	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Macauley Jones	96	4	6	9
Jack Smith	4	2	5	11
Garry Jacobson	22	2	5	10
Zane Goddard	35	2	3	6
Anton De Pasquale	11	2	3	4
Jake Kostecki	35	1	5	6
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	6	13
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
Matt Stone Racing	2	3/2	6/2	8/2
Team Sydney	2	2/2	11/2	22/2
Dick Johnson Racing	2	2/2	4/2	5/2
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	39/17	68/17
Ford	9	6/9	18/9	27/9

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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.