Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Start Line Clutch failure leaves Smith last at Albert Park

Saturday 9 April 2022

Start Line Clutch failure leaves Smith last at Albert Park

Jack Smith picked up the 6th last-place finish of his career when his #4 SCT Logistics Holden retired with Clutch failure without completing a single lap in the final race at Albert Park. The finish came in Smith's 79th start.

Jack Smith is in his 3rd season in the main game with an additional part-time year. He was 17th in Practice 1 but slid to 24th in Practice 2. He stayed 24th in Qualifying.

Todd Hazelwood in the #35 Truck Assist Holden started the race in the rear, but Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden immediately fell to last after not getting off the line with a Clutch failure, leaving him last.

Next out of the race was David Reynolds in the #26 Penrite Oils Holden pulled into the garage on Lap 8 after hitting the wall, with Thomas Randle in the #56 Castrol Ford pitted on Lap 12 with damage, losing a lap in repairs, then retired Lap 14. Rounding out the Bottom five was Chris Pither in the #22 Coca Cola Holden who copped a Pit-Lane penalty for breaking Safety Car regulations on Lap 4 and James Courtney in the #500 Flex Ford pits with tire damage on Lap 17.

The Bottom Five

Jack Smith	0 Laps	Clutch
David Reynolds	6 Laps	Crash
Thomas Randle	11 Laps	Steering
James Courtney	20 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	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
4	Jack Smith	1	1	3
5	Garry Jacobson	1	1	1
6T	Chris Pither	0	2	3
6T	David Reynolds	0	2	3
8T	Nick Percat	0	2	2
8T	Will Brown	0	2	2
10	Macauley Jones	0	1	3
11T	Chaz Mostert	0	1	2
11T	Thomas Randle	0	1	2
13T	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	1
13T	Will Davison	0	1	1
15T	Bryce Fullwood	0	0	2
15T	Lee Holdsworth	0	0	2
18T	Brodie Kostecki	0	0	1
18T	Cameron Waters	0	0	1
18T	James Courtney	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	4/2
4	Brad Jones Racing	4	2/4	5/4	11/4
5	Tickford Racing	4	1/4	4/4	11/4
6	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	3/2	4/2
7T	Erebus Racing	2	0	2/2	3/2
7T	Grove Racing	2	0	2/2	3/2
9	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	2/2	2/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	No	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	16	8/16	20/16	28/16
2	Ford	9	1/9	7/9	17/9

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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.