Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: First lap multi-car shunt leaves Randle and Best last at BATHURST

Sunday 9 October 2022

First lap multi-car shunt leaves Randle and Best last at BATHURST

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

Thomas Randle picked up the 1st last-place finish of his career, while Zak Best picked up the 3rd last-place finish of his career when their #55 Castrol Ford was involved in a multi-car crash that ended their race without completing a single lap of the Bathurst 1000. The finish came in Randle's 48th start and Best's 8th start.

Thomas Randle is in his 1st full-time season, having had a big comeback after testicular cancer. They were 27th in Practice 1, but Zak Best rocketed them up to 7th in Practice 2. They slipped to 9th in Practice 3, then fell to 18th in Practice 4. Zak Best was slowest in Practice 5, and they rose to 22nd in Practice 6. Between Practices 4 and 5, Thomas Randle qualified 15th.\

Tim Slade in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden started the race in last, but at Turn 1, due to the mess at the corner, going up Mountain Straight, they had The Big one involving Zak Best in the #55 Castrol Ford, Jack Perkins in the #9 Boost Mobile Holden, Jake Kostecki in the #56 Tradie Ford, Tony D'Alberto in the #100 Shell V-Power Ford, Jack Smith and Jaxon Evans in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden, Mark Winterbottom in the #18 Irwin Tools/Fuchs Holden. Coming off worst was the #55, who hit the inside wall hard, leaving them last. Perkins lost 1 lap.

Zane Goddard in the #5 Snowy River Caravans Ford went off the track at the Chase on Lap 5. When he came back onto the track, he collected Dale Wood in the #8 R&J Batteries/Club Cadet Holden and Matt Campbell in the #26 Penrite Holden, ending all three car races.

The last spot of the Bottom Five was a much more heated, and interesting battle. Lap 19 saw Todd Hazelwood in the #35 Truck Assist Holden fall to the Bottom five with Bonnet issues. He jumped ahead of Alex Davison in the #17 Shell V-Power Ford after he crashed in the chase on Lap 31, triggering the 4th Safety Car of the race. Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden on Lap 50, losing 2 laps while waiting to be retrieved.

Nick Percat in the #2 NTI/Mobil 1 Holden hit the fence heading into Forest Elbow on Lap 78, dropping him into the Bottom 5, losing 13 laps in repairs, and that is where he stayed for the majority of the remainder of the race. Then with less than 30 laps to go, Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden crashed out at Reed Park on Lap 138. On the lead lap at the time, he dropped to the final spot in the Bottom Five on Lap 151.

The Bottom Five

Thomas Randle/Zak Best	0 Laps	Crash
David Reynolds/Matt Campbell	4 Laps	Crash
James Courtney/Zane Goddard	4 Laps	Crash
Andre Heimgartner/Dale Wood	4 Laps	Crash
Jack Smith/Jaxon Evans	138 Laps	Crash

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jack LeBrocq	5	9	11
2	Scott Pye	5	6	6
3	James Courtney	3	4	5
4	Zak Best	3	3	3
5	Jake Kostecki	2	8	11
6	Will Brown	2	6	6
7	Andre Heimgartner	2	5	6
8	Garry Jacobson	2	3	4
9	Jack Smith	1	6	13
10	Chris Pither	1	5	10
11	Thomas Randle	1	4	7
12	Nick Percat	1	3	5
13	Chaz Mostert	1	2	4
14	Bryce Fullwood	1	1	7
15	Mark Winterbottom	1	1	3
16	Tim Slade	1	1	2
17	David Reynolds	0	4	6
18	Todd Hazelwood	0	3	9
19	Anton De Pasquale	0	3	3
20	Macauley Jones	0	2	6
21T	Lee Holdsworth	0	2	5
21T	Brodie Kostecki	0	2	5
22	Jordan Boys	0	2	4
23	Will Davison	0	2	2
24	James Golding	0	1	3
25	Jayden Ojeda	0	1	2
26T	Matt Campbell	0	1	1
26T	Zane Goddard	0	1	1
27T	Cameron Waters	0	0	1
27T	Dale Wood	0	0	1
27T	Jaxon Evans	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	No.	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Team 18	4	6/4	7/4	8/4
2	Matt Stone Racing	4	5/4	12/4	19/4
3	Tickford Racing	9	7/9	17/9	28/9
4	Premair Racing	5	3/5	8/5	16/5
5	Cooldrive Racing	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
6	Brad Jones Racing	8	3/8	13/8	30/8
7	Erebus Racing	6	2/6	11/6	14/6
8	Walkinshaw Andretti United	5	2/6	6/6	11/6
9	Grove Racing	4	0	5/4	8/4
10	Dick Johnson Racing	4	0	5/4	5/4

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	No	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	38	21/38	55/38	99/38
2	Ford	18	8/18	26/18	44/18

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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.