Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: 4-wide doesn't work into Turn 1 as Tim Slade finishes last at Auckland

Friday 9 September 2022

4-wide doesn't work into Turn 1 as Tim Slade finishes last at Auckland

Original by Speedcafe, edited by me

Tim Slade picked up the 10^th last-place finish of his career when his #3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford was involved in a 2-car crash that ended his race without completing a single lap at Pukekohe. The finish came in Slade’s 390^th start.

Tim Slade, a veteran of the sport, is in his 13^th full-time season in the main game of Supercars. Having drifted between a few teams, he’s had a little success with a couple of race wins. He was 13th in Practice 1 and Practice 2 then rose slightly to 12th in Qualifying.

Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden started the race in the rear, but quickly Tim Slade in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford was hit by James Courtney in the #5 Snowy Rivers Caravans Ford, Nick Percat in the #2 NTI/Mobile 1 Holden, James Golding in the #31 Subway Holden, sending Slade to the garage with Suspension damage, ending his race.

The other driver out was Macauley Jones in the #96 Kubota Holden, after he collided with James Golding in the #31 Subway Holden, leading to Golding spinning at Turn 4 and Jones crashing, taking him out of the race too. In the meantime, the rest of the Bottom 5 was Jack LeBrocq in the #34 Truck Assist Holden pulled into the garage on Lap 6 with a Power Steering drama, losing 8 laps in repairs, Bryce Fullwood in the #14 Middy's Electrical Holden had power steering issues on lap 9, sending him into the garage, losing 7 laps in repairs and Jake Kostecki in the #56 Tradie Ford lost a left-rear tire after a pitstop, taking 3 laps to get the tire back on.

The Bottom Five

Tim Slade	0 Laps	Crash
Macauley Jones	28 Laps	Crash
Jack leBrocq	33 Laps	Running
Bryce Fullwood	34 Laps	Running
Jake Kostecki	38 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jack LeBrocq	5	8	9
2	Scott Pye	5	6	6
3	Jake Kostecki	2	8	11
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	7
14T	Mark Winterbottom	1	1	2
14T	Tim Slade	1	1	2
16T	Thomas Randle	0	3	5
16T	David Reynolds	0	3	5
18	Todd Hazelwood	0	2	8
19T	Macauley Jones	0	2	6
19T	Lee Holdsworth	0	2	5
21	Brodie Kostecki	0	2	5
22T	Jordan Boys	0	2	4
22T	Anton De Pasquale	0	2	2
24T	James Golding	0	1	3
24T	Jayden Ojeda	0	1	2
26T	Will Davison	0	1	1
26T	Cameron Waters	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	10/2	16/2
3	Tickford Racing	5	6/5	16/5	25/5
4	Premair Racing	3	3/3	8/3	16/3
5	Cooldrive Racing	1	1	1	2
6	Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	13/4	29/4
7	Walkinshaw Andretti United	3	2/3	6/3	11/3
8	Erebus Racing	3	1/3	10/3	13/3
9	Grove Racing	2	0	5/2	8/2
10	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	3/2	3/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	No	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	18	20/18	50/18	92/18
2	Ford	9	7/9	25/9	41/9

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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.