Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: First-lap crash leaves Courtney last at Sydney

Sunday 7 November 2021

First-lap crash leaves Courtney last at Sydney

Original by Fox Sports, edited by me.

James Courtney picked up the 17th last-place finish of his career when his #44 Boost Mobile Ford was involved in a 2-car crash that ended his race without completing a single lap of the rain-shortened third race at Sydney Motorsport Park. The finish came in Courtney's 485th start.

James Courtney is a veteran of the Supercar series. He has one championship, in 2010, and has been racing for 16 years full-time. He was 20th in Practice 1 but rose to 19th in Practice 2. He then rose further to 14th in Qualifying.

Chaz Mostert in the #25 Appliances Online Holden started the race in the rear after being disqualified from Qualifying due to the car being too wide, but off the start Brodie Kostecki in the #99 Boost Mobile Holden and James Courtney in the #44 Boost Mobile Ford went off at turn 3 after contact and their wheels interlocking, subsequently crashing hard, leaving James Courtney last.

Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden pulled into the garage on lap 4 with a Power Steering issue, dropping 2 laps in repairs. A late-race crash would end Jake Kostecki's race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Shane Van Gisbgergen in the #97 Red Bull Holden after a drive-through penalty for a pit-lane infringement, and Bryce Fullwood in the #2 Middy's Electrical Holden, who also got a pit-lane penalty, this one for a jump start.

The Bottom Five

James Courtney	0 Laps	Crash
Brodie Kostecki	0 Laps	Crash
Jake Kostecki	17 Laps	Crash
Shane Van Gisbergen	23 Laps	Running
Bryce Fullwood	23 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	13
Jack Smith	4	2	6	12
Zane Goddard	35	2	4	9
Andre Heimgartner	7	2	4	5
James Courtney	44	2	4	4
Fabian Coulthard	19	1	8	15
Jake Kostecki	35	1	6	8
Todd Hazelwood	14	1	4	4
David Reynolds	26	1	3	5
Chaz Mostert	25	1	2	2
Will Brown	9	1	2	2
Nick Percat	8	1	1	2
Bryce Fullwood	2	1	1	3
Scott Pye	20	0	3	4
Brodie Kostecki	88	0	3	4
Mark Winterbottom	18	0	1	3
Cameron Waters	6	0	1	2
Tim Slade	3	0	1	2
Thomas Randle	55	0	1	2
Kurt Kostecki	27	0	1	2
Luke Youdlen	26	0	1	1
Will Davison	17	0	1	1
Jamie Whincup	88	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	5	0	0	4
Shane Van Gisbergen	97	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Brad Jones Racing	4	8/4	17/4	26/4
Team Sydney	2	3/2	14/2	27/2
Matt Stone Racing	2	3/2	7/2	12/2
Dick Johnson Racing	2	3/2	5/2	6/2
Kelly Grove Racing	3	2/3	8/3	10/3
Walkinshaw Andretti United	3	2/3	5/3	7/3
Erebus Racing	2	1/2	4/2	5/2
Tickford Racing	4	2/4	7/4	11/4
Irwin Racing	2	0	3/2	7/2
Tim Blanchard Racing	1	0	1	2
Red Bull Racing	2	0	1/2	2/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Ford	9	9/9	22/9	32/9
Holden	17	16/17	54/17	94/17

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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.