Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Tire Loss leaves Jack Smith last at Wanneroo

Saturday 29 April 2023

Tire Loss leaves Jack Smith last at Wanneroo

Jack Smith picked up the 8th last-place finish of his career when his 4 SCT Logistics Chevrolet finished under power, 3 laps down in the first race at Wanneroo. The finish came in Smith’s 110th start.

Jack Smith is in his 4th full-time Season, with an additional part-time season beforehand racing for both Brad Jones Racing and Matt Stone Racing. All races in his full-time career are for Brad Jones Racing. He was slowest in the 1 90-minute Practice session and stayed last for Qualifying.

Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden started the race in the rear, and battled with Cameron Hill in the #35 Truck Assist Holden for last.

Pitstops start on Lap 7 with Nick Percat in the #2 NTI Chevrolet, dropping him to last, James Courtney in the #5 Snowy Mountain Caravans Ford, Tim Slade in the #23 Nulon Chevrolet and Matt Payne in the #19 Penrite Ford and David Reynolds in the #26 Penrite Ford momentarily fell to last after their pitstops, but quickly regained their positions ahead of Percat.

Eventually, on Lap 18, Macauley Jones in the #96 Pizza Hut Gold Chevrolet pitted and fell to last.

Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Chevrolet pitted on Lap 24 and lost a wheel, losing 3 laps while the tire was re-attached. That left him last, where he remained for the rest of the race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Macauley Jones in the #96 Pizza Hut Chevrolet, Cameron Hill in the #35 Truck Assist Chevrolet, Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford and Andre Heimgartner in the #8 R&J Batteries Chevrolet.

The Bottom Five

Jack Smith	39 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	42 Laps	Running
Cameron Hill	42 Laps	Running
Cameron Waters	42 Laps	Running
Andre Heimgartner	42 Laps	Running

Driver Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Nick Percat	1	3	4
2T	Jack Smith	1	2	3
2T	Declan Fraser	1	2	3
2T	Cameron Hill	1	2	3
5T	Mark Winterbottom	1	1	2
5T	Todd Hazelwood	1	1	2
7	Broc Feeney	1	1	1
8T	James Courtney	0	2	3
8T	Macauley Jones	0	2	3
10	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	2
11T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	1
11T	Jack LeBrocq	0	1	1
11T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
11T	Will Brown	0	1	1
15	James Golding	0	0	2
16T	Tim Slade	0	0	1
16T	Matthew Payne	0	0	1
16T	Cameron Waters	0	0	1
16T	Andre Heimgartner	0	0	1

Team Championship

Pos	Team	Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Tim Blanchard Racing	1	1	1	1
2	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1/2	3/2	4/2
3T	Red Bull/Ampol Racing	2	1/2	2/2	2/2
3T	Matt Stone Racing	2	1/2	3/2	3/2
5	Team 18 Racing	2	1/2	1/2	1/2
6	Tickford Racing	4	1/4	3/4	7/4
7	Premair Hire Racing	2	0	1/2	2/2
8	Brad Jones Racing	4	1/4	3/4	6/4
9	Penrite Racing	2	0	2/2	3/2
10	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	1/2	2/2

Manufacturer Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	14	4/14	12/14	18/14
2	Ford	11	3/11	9/11	17/11

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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.