Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Late race Suspension failure leaves Jack LeBrocq last, and Superlastcar Leader, at Sandown

Sunday 21 August 2022

Late race Suspension failure leaves Jack LeBrocq last, and Superlastcar Leader, at Sandown

Jack LeBrocq picked up the 11th last-place finish of his career when his #34 Truck Assist Holden retired with Suspension issues reasons after 32 of the race's 36 laps. The finish came in LeBrocq's 160th start, and LeBrocq takes the lead in the 2022 Superlastcar Championship.

Taking the lead from Scott Pye, who has missed two races due to massive crashes, says a lot about how tough his 5th full-time season has been for Jack LeBrocq. He was 15th in Practice 1 but slipped to 19th in Practice 3. He returned to 15th in Qualifying.

Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden started the race last, again, but at turn 3 Jake Kostecki in the #56 Tradie Ford got turned around, collecting Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden, Macauley Jones in the #96 DrillPro/tools.com Holden and Todd Hazelwood in the #35 Trick Assist Holden, Hazelwood copped the worst, forced to the garage and to last, losing 7 laps in repairs.

Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden had to pit twice to work on the bonnet which was heavily damaged in the lap 1 crash.

Anton de Pasquale in the #11 Shell V-Power Ford ran over the back of teammate Will Davison in the #17 Shell V-Power Ford, damaging the steering on car #11, sending Anton to the garage, losing 6 laps in repairs.

Just as it seemed that Hazelwood would pick up last place, teammate Jack LeBrocq in the #34 Truck Assist Holden retired with 3 laps to go, dropping to last place post-race. Rounding out the Bottom Five was Nick Percat in the #2 NTI/Mobile 1 Holden after Power Steering issues and Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden after bonnet issues.

The Bottom Five

Jack LeBrocq	32 Laps	Suspension
Todd Hazelwood	29 Laps	Running
Anton De Pasquale	30 Laps	Running
Nick Percat	34 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	34 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jack LeBrocq	5	7	8
2	Scott Pye	5	6	6
3	Jake Kostecki	2	8	10
4	Andre Heimgartner	2	5	5
5	Garry Jacobson	2	3	4
6	James Courtney	2	2	3
7	Zak Best	2	2	2
8	Jack Smith	1	6	11
9	Chris Pither	1	5	10
10	Will Brown	1	5	5
11	Nick Percat	1	3	5
12	Chaz Mostert	1	2	4
13	Bryce Fullwood	1	1	6
14T	Thomas Randle	0	3	5
14T	David Reynolds	0	3	5
16	Todd Hazelwood	0	2	8
17T	Lee Holdsworth	0	2	5
17T	Brodie Kostecki	0	2	5
19	Jordan Boys	0	2	4
20	Anton De Pasquale	0	2	2
21	Macauley Jones	0	1	5
22T	James Golding	0	1	3
22T	Jayden Ojeda	0	1	2
24T	Mark Winterbottom	1	1	2
24T	Will Davison	0	1	1
26T	Cameron Waters	0	0	1
26T	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	5/2	9/2	15/2
3	Tickford Racing	5	6/5	16/5	24/5
4	Premair Racing	3	3/3	8/3	16/3
5	Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	12/4	27/4
6	Walkinshaw Andretti United	3	2/3	6/3	11/3
7	Erebus Racing	3	1/3	10/3	13/3
8	Grove Racing	2	0	5/2	8/2
9	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	3/2	3/2
10	Cooldrive Racing	1	0	0	1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	No	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	18	20/18	48/18	89/18
2	Ford	9	6/9	24/9	39/9

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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.