Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Horror Pit-Stop and Spinning Wheels Penalty leaves Will Brown last at Winton

Saturday 21 May 2022

Horror Pit-Stop and Spinning Wheels Penalty leaves Will Brown last at Winton

Original by Fox Sports, edited by me.

Will Brown picked up the 2^nd last-place finish of his career when his #9 Boost Mobile Holden finished under power, on the lead lap in the first race at Winton. The finish came in Brown’s 52^nd start.

Will Brown is in his 2nd full-time season and has made a name for himself, with a win and 3 Podiums. It's been a much more difficult 2nd season though, due mostly to horrific pit stops. He was fastest in Practice 1 but fell to 8th in Practice 2. He then qualified 4th.

Garry Jacobson in the #76 Subway Holden started the race in the rear and anchored last early on. Mark Winterbottom in the #18 Irwin Tools/Fuchs Holden had contact in Turn 4, dropping to last, losing 12 seconds due to an Electrical issue. Winterbottom slowly started reeling in Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden.

Pitstops began on Lap 5, and James Courtney in the #5 Truck Assist Ford pitted and fell to last. Followed by Garry Jacobson in the #76 Subway Holden on Lap 7, and Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden after their pitstops.

Jordan Boys in the #49 Dynamic Supplies/Joss Holden pitted on lap 17 and dropped to last.

Lap 13 saw Will Brown in the #9 Boost Mobile Holden had a 26-second pitstop after being dropped too early, and having to re-engage the Clutch to stop the wheels spinning. The Pit-Lane penalty on Lap 20 would put Brown to last.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden, Jordan Boys in the #49 Dynamic Supplies/Joss, Jake Kostecki in the #56 Tradie Ford and Todd Hazelwood in the #35 Truck Assist Holden.

The Bottom Five

Will Brown	36 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	36 Laps	Running
Jordan Boys	36 Laps	Running
Jake Kostecki	36 Laps	Running
Todd Hazelwood	36 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jack LeBrocq	3	4	5
2	Scott Pye	3	3	3
3	Garry Jacobson	2	2	2
4	Jake Kostecki	1	4	5
5	Will Brown	1	4	4
6	Jack Smith	1	3	5
7	Andre Heimgartner	1	3	3
8	Bryce Fullwood	1	1	4
9	Chris Pither	0	4	5
10T	David Reynolds	0	2	3
10T	Nick Percat	0	2	3
12T	Macauley Jones	0	1	3
12T	Chaz Mostert	0	1	3
12T	Thomas Randle	0	1	3
15T	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	1
15T	Will Davison	0	1	1
17	Lee Holdsworth	0	0	3
18	Brodie Kostecki	0	0	2
19T	Cameron Waters	0	0	1
19T	James Courtney	0	0	1
19T	Mark Winterbottom	0	0	1
19T	Jordan Boys	0	0	1
19T	Todd Hazelwood	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	No.	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Matt Stone Racing	2	3/2	4/2	5/2
2	Team 18	2	3/2	3/2	4/2
3	Premair Racing	2	2/2	5/2	6/2
4	Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	8/4	15/4
5	Tickford Racing	4	1/4	6/4	13/4
6	Erebus Racing	3	1/3	5/3	7/3
7T	Walkinshaw Andretti United	3	0	3/3	6/3
7T	Grove Racing	2	0	2/2	4/2
9	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	2/2	2/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	No	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	18	12/18	24/18	44/18
2	Ford	9	1/9	9/9	21/9

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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.