Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Power Steering Dramas leaves Scott Pye last at Sydney Motorsport Park

Saturday 5 March 2022

Power Steering Dramas leaves Scott Pye last at Sydney Motorsport Park

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Scott Pye picked up the 14th last-place finish of his career when his #20 Seiko/Nulon Holden retired with Power Steering dramas after 33 of the race's 77 laps. The finish came in Pye's 279th start.

Scott Pye is a veteran of the sport but had a rough start to his career when several big crashes. He was 5th in Practice 1 and rose to 4th in Practice 2. He plunged to 12th in Qualifying.

Jake Kostecki in the #56 Tradie Ford started the race in the rear, but immediately Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden fell to the rear after a slow start.
He battled with Macauley Jones in the #96 Tech.com Holden, passing him at the end of Lap 1. Jones kept on Pither's tail during the early laps. Pither would drop back to last on lap 7.

Scott Pye in the #20 Seiko Holden had a Power Steering failure and dropped to last as he pulled into the garage, losing 23 laps in Repairs. and would retire on lap 55.

David Reynolds in the #26 Penrite Holden pulled into the garage on Lap 40 with a Gearbox drama, losing 12 laps in repairs.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden, Macauley Jones in the #96 Tech.com Holden and Lee Holdsworth in the #10 Penrite Oils Ford.

The Bottom Five

Driver	Laps	Status
Scott Pye	33 Laps	Power Steering
David Reynolds	64 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	76 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	76 Laps	Running
Lee Holdsworth	76 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Scott Pye	1	1	1
2T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
2T	Chris Pither	0	1	1
4T	Macauley Jones	0	0	1
4T	Lee Holdsworth	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	No.	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Team 18	2	½	½	½
2T	Grove Racing	2	0	½	½
2T	Premair Racing	2	0	½	½
4T	Brad Jones Racing	4	0	0	¼
4T	Tickford Racing	4	0	0	¼

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	No	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	16	1/16	3/16	4/16
2	Ford	9	0	0	1/9

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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.