Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: First lap Mechanical issues leaves Jake Kostecki last at Symmons Plains

Saturday 26 March 2022

First lap Mechanical issues leaves Jake Kostecki last at Symmons Plains

Jake Kostecki picked up the nth last-place finish of his career when his #56 Tradie Ford finished under power, 3 laps down in the final race at Symmons Plains. The finish came in Kostecki's 53rd start.

This is Jake Kostecki's 2nd full-time season, and 3 seasons overall, having shared the #34 with Zane Goddard in 2020. He was the slowest in Practice 1 and 2. He then rallied to 12th in Qualifying.

Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden started the race in the rear, but Jake Kostecki in the #56 Tradie Ford started from the pitlane, so dropped to last.

Jake Kostecki in the #56 Tradie Holden pulled into the Garage on Lap 2 with Power Steering issues, dropping 3 laps in repairs. Jake stayed last for the duration of the race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Andre Heimgartner in the #8 R&J Batteries/Club Cadet Holden after a slow pitstop, Jack LeBrocq in the #34 Truck Assist Holden after sliding off on the 2nd lap, Brodie Kostecki in the #99 Boost Mobile Holden had to do a 15-second penalty for speeding on Lap 6, and Bryce Fullwood in the #14 Middy's Electrical Holden.

The Bottom Five

Jake Kostecki	41 Laps	Running
Andre Heimgartner	44 Laps	Running
Jack LeBrocq	44 Laps	Running
Brodie Kostecki	44 Laps	Running
Bryce Fullwood	44 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jack LeBrocq	2	3	4
2	Jake Kostecki	1	3	3
3T	Scott Pye	1	1	1
3T	Garry Jacobson	1	1	1
5T	Nick Percat	0	2	2
5T	Andre Heimgartner	0	2	2
7	David Reynolds	0	1	2
8T	Chris Pither	0	1	1
8T	Chaz Mostert	0	1	1
10	Macauley Jones	0	0	2
11T	Lee Holdsworth	0	0	1
11T	Jack Smith	0	0	1
11T	Brodie Kostecki	0	0	1
11T	Bryce Fullwood	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	No.	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Matt Stone Racing	2	2/2	3/2	3/2
2	Premair Racing	2	½	2/2	2/2
3	Team 18	2	½	½	½
4	Tickford Racing	4	1/4	3/4	7/4
5	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	2/2	2/2
6	Brad Jones Racing	4	0	2/4	5/4
7	Grove Racing	2	0	½	2/2
8	Erebus Racing	2	0	0	½

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	No	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	16	4/16	12/16	17/16
2	Ford	9	1/9	3/9	8/9

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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.