Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Pit-Lane penalty for Speeding leaves Jake Kostecki last at Tailem Bend

Saturday 30 July 2022

Pit-Lane penalty for Speeding leaves Jake Kostecki last at Tailem Bend

Jake Kostecki picked up the 5th last-place finish of his career when his #56 Tradie Ford finished under power, on the lead lap in the first race at Tailem Bend. The finish came in Kostecki's 70th start.

Jake Kostecki is in his 2nd full-time season, and 3rd racing overall, his 1st season saw him share a ride with Zane Goddard. He was 25th in Practice 1, then rose to 20th in Practice 2 and stayed there in Qualifying.

Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden started the race in the rear, and held last initially until pitstops began on Lap and Tim Slade in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford pitted and fell to last. The following Lap Jordan Boys in the #49 Dynamic Supplies/Joss Holden pitted and fell to last.

Jake Kostecki in the #56 Tradie Ford got a pit-lane penalty on lap 8 for speeding in the pits, dropping him to last on Lap 9, where he remained for the rest of the race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden, Jordan Boys in the #49 Dynamic Supplies/Joss Holden, Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden and Tim Slade in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford.

The Bottom Five

Jake Kostecki	24 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	24 Laps	Running
Jordan Boys	24 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	24 Laps	Running
Tim Slade	24 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Scott Pye	5	6	6
2	Jack LeBrocq	3	4	5
3	Jake Kostecki	2	7	8
4	Garry Jacobson	2	3	4
5	James Courtney	2	2	3
6	Jack Smith	1	6	10
7	Will Brown	1	5	5
8	Andre Heimgartner	1	3	3
9	Chaz Mostert	1	2	4
10	Bryce Fullwood	1	1	5
11	Zak Best	1	1	1
12	Chris Pither	0	4	8
13	David Reynolds	0	3	4
14	Thomas Randle	0	2	4
15	Jordan Boys	0	2	4
16	Nick Percat	0	2	3
17	Macauley Jones	0	1	5
18T	Lee Holdsworth	0	1	4
18T	Brodie Kostecki	0	1	3
20T	Jayden OJeda	0	1	2
20T	Mark Winterbottom	1	1	2
20T	James Golding	0	1	2
23T	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	1
23T	Will Davison	0	1	1
25	Todd Hazelwood	0	0	4
26	Cameron Waters	0	0	1
27	Tim Slade	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	No.	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Team 18	2	6/2	7/2	8/2
2	Matt Stone Racing	2	3/2	4/2	8/2
3	Premair Racing	2	2/2	7/2	13/2
4	Tickford Racing	5	5/5	13/5	20/5
5	Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	10/4	23/4
6	Erebus Racing	3	1/3	9/3	11/3
7	Walkinshaw Andretti United	3	1/3	5/3	9/3
8	Grove Racing	2	0	4/2	6/2
9	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	2/2	2/2
10	Cooldrive Racing	1	0	0	1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	No	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	18	16/18	39/18	74/18
2	Ford	9	5/9	18/9	29/9

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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.