Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Early race contact leaves Jack LeBrocq last, again, at Albert Park

Thursday 7 April 2022

Early race contact leaves Jack LeBrocq last, again, at Albert Park

Jack LeBrocq picked up the 9th last-place finish of his career when his #34 Truck Assist Holden finished under power, 4 laps down in the first race at Albert Park. The finish came in LeBrocq's 140th start.

Jack LeBrocq is in his 5th full-time season, with a couple of seasons beforehand driving as co-driver and Wildcard. He was 21st in Practice 1, then dropped to 23rd in Practice 2. He rose slightly to 22nd in Qualifying.

Jake Kostecki in the #56 Tradie Ford started the race in the rear after being sent to the back along with Scott Pye in the #20 Hino/Nulon Holden, but by Turn 6 Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden had fallen to the rear. Jake Kostecki would soon return to last. Smith and Kostecki would battle for last in the early laps. Lap 3 saw Todd Hazelwood in the #35 Truck Assist Holden pit and fall to last.

Later Lap 3 saw Andre Heimgartner in the #8 R&J Batteries/Club Cadet Holden run into Jack LeBrocq in the #34 Truck Assist Holden, breaking the steering on LeBrocq's car, sending him to the garage and losing 4 laps in repairs.

LeBrocq would remain last for the rest of the race, though Chris Pither in the #22 Coca Cola Holden almost claimed last late, after also losing 4 laps with issues late in the race.

Anton De Pasquale in the #11 Shell V-Power Ford blew a tire on Lap 17, losing a lap getting back to the pits. Lee Holdsworth in the #10 Penrite Oils Ford had the same problem on the same lap. Rounding out the bottom 5 is Thomas Randle in the #55 Castrol Ford.

The Bottom Five

Jack LeBrocq	16 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	16 Laps	Running
Anton De Pasquale	19 Laps	Running
Lee Holdsworth	20 Laps	Running
Thomas Randle	20 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jack LeBrocq	3	4	5
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	2	2
9T	Chaz Mostert	0	1	1
9T	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	1
11T	Macauley Jones	0	0	2
11T	Lee Holdsworth	0	0	2
13T	Jack Smith	0	0	1
13T	Brodie Kostecki	0	0	1
13T	Bryce Fullwood	0	0	1
13T	Thomas Randle	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	Premair Racing	2	½	3/2	3/2
3	Team 18	2	½	½	½
4	Tickford Racing	4	1/4	3/4	9/4
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
9	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	½	½

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	No	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	16	5/16	14/16	18/16
2	Ford	9	1/9	4/9	10/9

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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.