Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: First lap contact leaves Pye last at Albert Park

Friday 8 April 2022

First lap contact leaves Pye last at Albert Park

Credit: Speedcafe.com

Scott Pye picked up the 12th last-place finish of his career when his #20 Hino/Nulon Holden finished under power, a lap down in the third race at Albert Park. The finish came in Pye's 286th start.

Scott Pye is a veteran of the Supercar series, with this being his 10th full-time season. He was 15th in Practice 1 but rose to 7th in Practice 2. However, he slid all the way back to 19th in Qualifying.

Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden started the race in the rear, but Scott Pye in the #20 Hino/Nulon Holden pulled into the pits at the end of Lap 1 with damage, anchoring him to last, losing a lap in repairs. Scott Pye would anchor the field for the entire race.

Will Brown in the #9 Boost Mobile Holden pitted on Lap 17 with a flat tire, finishing 2nd last, followed by Macauley Jones in the #96 Automotive Superstore/tools.com Holden. Late pitstops for Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden and Andre Heimgartner in the #8 R&J Batteries Holden dropped into the Bottom 5, but Heimgartner managed to fight out, relegating Bryce Fullwood in the #14 Middy's Electrical Holden to 4th-last, while Smith fell narrowly short, rounding out the Bottom Five.

The Bottom Five

Scott Pye	19 Laps	Running
Will Brown	20 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	20 Laps	Running
Bryce Fullwood	20 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	20 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jack LeBrocq	3	4	5
2	Scott Pye	2	2	2
3T	Andre Heimgartner	1	3	3
3T	Jake Kostecki	1	3	3
5	Garry Jacobson	1	1	1
6T	Nick Percat	0	2	2
6T	Chris Pither	0	2	2
6T	Will Brown	0	2	2
9	Macauley Jones	0	1	3
10T	David Reynolds	0	1	2
10T	Chaz Mostert	0	1	2
12T	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	1
12T	Will Davison	0	1	1
14T	Bryce Fullwood	0	0	2
14T	Lee Holdsworth	0	0	2
14T	Jack Smith	0	0	2
17T	Brodie Kostecki	0	0	1
17T	Thomas Randle	0	0	1
17T	Cameron Waters	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	No.	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Matt Stone Racing	2	3/2	4/2	4/2
2	Team 18	2	2/2	2/2	2/2
3	Premair Racing	2	½	3/2	3/2
4	Brad Jones Racing	4	1/4	4/4	10/4
5	Tickford Racing	4	1/4	3/4	10/4
6	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	3/2	4/2
7	Erebus Racing	2	0	2/2	3/2
8T	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	2/2	2/2
8T	Grove Racing	2	0	½	2/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	No	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	16	7/16	19/16	26/16
2	Ford	9	1/9	5/9	14/9

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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.