Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Steering damage from contact leaves Heimgartner last at Sydney

Saturday 6 November 2021

Steering damage from contact leaves Heimgartner last at Sydney

Original by stuff.co.nz, edited by me.

Andre Heimgartner picked up the 7th last-place finish of his career when his #7 NED Ford retired with Steering damage after 20 of the race's 32 laps. The finish came in Andre's 174th start.

Andre has been in the series for six full-time seasons. Andre was 11th in Practice 1 but slipped to 14th in Practice 2. He then fell outside the top 20 in Qualifying,

Anton De Pasquale in the #11 Shell V-Power Ford after a transaxle issue in Qualifying, but Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden and Garry Jacobson in the #22 Muscle Car Warehouse Holden spun out at Turn 2, dropping Kostecki to last. He battled with Andre Heimgartner in the #7 NED Mustand, which Heimgartner eventually prevailed in Lap 2, falling to last. Kostecki returned to last by Lap 5.

Lap 6 saw Mark Winterbottom in the #18 Irwin Tools Holden pitted and fell to last, followed by Kurt Kostecki in the #27 SP Tools Holden pitted and fell to last.

Lap 12 saw Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden pitted and fell to the rear, followed by Kurt Kostecki in the #27 SP Tools Holden. Then the final of the Kosteckis, Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden, fell to the rear on lap 17.

Lap 19 saw Luke Youlden in the #26 Penrite Ford fell to last. Then lap 22 Andre Heimgartner in the #7 NED Ford fell to last with a steering issue after contact with Fabian Coulthard in the #19 Local Legends Holden and Macauley Jones in the #96 Coca-Cola Holden, retiring from the race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Kurt Kostecki in the #27 SP Tools Holden, Luke Youlden in the #26 Penrite Oils Holden, Brodie Kostecki in the #99 Penrite Oils Holden after a speeding pit-lane penalty, and Thomas Randle in the #55 Castrol Ford.

The Bottom Five

Andre Heimgartner	20 Laps	Steering
Kurt Kostecki	32 Laps	Running
Luke Youlden	32 Laps	Running
Brodie Kostecki	32 Laps	Running
Thomas Randle	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
Andre Heimgartner	7	2	4	5
Fabian Coulthard	19	1	8	15
Jake Kostecki	35	1	5	7
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	3
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
Jack LeBrocq	5	0	0	4

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
Kelly Grove Racing	3	2/3	8/3	10/3
Walkinshaw Andretti United	3	2/3	4/3	5/3
Erebus Racing	2	1/2	3/2	4/2
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	49/17	85/17
Ford	9	8/9	21/9	31/9

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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.