Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Engine failure leaves Jones last, and after rain-out, Champion at Sydney Motorsport Park

Saturday 20 November 2021

Engine failure leaves Jones last, and after rain-out, Champion at Sydney Motorsport Park

Original by Fox Sports, edited by me

Macauley Jones picked up the 9th last-place finish of his career when his #96 Coca-Cola Holden retired with Engine failure after 5 of the race's 64 laps. The finish came in Jones' 109th start and puts Jones two last-place finishes out in front with 2 races to go.

Macauley Jones has one had on the 2021 Last-Place championship, with 2 races left only Garry Jacobson and Andre Heimgartner can take the title from Macauley Jones.

Macauley Jones is in his 3rd full-time season. He was 16th in Practice 1 but slid to 23rd in Practice 2. He then rose to 21st in Qualifying.

Fabian Coulthard in the #19 Local Legends Holden started the race in the rear, but quickly Ander Heimgartner in the #7 NED Ford fell to the rear. but he passed Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden.

Lap 7 saw Macauley Jones in the #96 Coca-Cola Holden suffer Engine failure, triggering the first safety car of the race and dropping Macca to last.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Bryce Fullwood in the #2 Middy's Electrical Holden after destroying his Super Soft tires, Garry Jacobson in the #22 Premair Hire Holden, Fabian Coulthard in the #19 Local Legends Holden after a pit-lane penalty for incorrect use of tires and Hames Courtney in the #44 Boost Mobile Holden.

Update: With the last race at Sydney Motorsport Park rained out, Macauley Jones takes out the 2021 Virgin Australia LASTCAR championship.

The Bottom Five

Macauley Jones	5 Laps	Engine
Bryce Fullwood	64 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	64 Laps	Running
Fabian Coulthard	64 Laps	Running
James Courtney	64 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car No.	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Macauley Jones (CHAMPION)	96	5	7	10
Garry Jacobson	22	3	8	15
Andre Heimgartner	7	3	5	6
Anton De Pasquale	11	3	4	5
Jack Smith	4	2	7	14
Zane Goddard	35	2	4	9
James Courtney	44	2	4	6
Bryce Fullwood	2	2	3	5
Fabian Coulthard	19	1	9	17
Jake Kostecki	35	1	6	9
Todd Hazelwood	14	1	4	4
David Reynolds	26	1	3	5
Nick Percat	8	1	2	3
Chaz Mostert	25	1	2	2
Will Brown	9	1	2	2
Scott Pye	20	0	3	4
Brodie Kostecki	88	0	3	4
Luke Youlden	26	0	3	3
Cameron Waters	6	0	2	3
Mark Winterbottom	18	0	1	3
Tim Slade	3	0	1	4
Thomas Randle	55	0	1	2
Kurt Kostecki	27	0	1	2
Will Davison	17	0	1	1
Jamie Whincup	88	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	5	0	0	5
Shane Van Gisbergen	97	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Brad Jones Racing (CHAMPIONS)	4	9/4	20/4	30/4
Team Sydney	2	4/2	17/2	31/2
Matt Stone Racing	2	3/2	7/2	13/2
Dick Johnson Racing	2	3/2	5/2	6/2
Kelly Grove Racing	3	3/3	11/3	13/3
Walkinshaw Andretti United	3	3/3	7/3	9/3
Tickford Racing	4	2/4	8/4	15/4
Erebus Racing	2	1/2	4/2	5/2
Irwin Racing	2	0	3/2	7/2
Tim Blanchard Racing	1	0	1	4
Red Bull Racing	2	0	1/2	2/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden (CHAMPIONS)	17	19/17	62/17	105/17
Ford	9	10/9	26/9	40/9

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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.