Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Last-Place Championship tightens up after Mostert's 2nd last-place finish of the season.

Sunday 9 July 2023

Last-Place Championship tightens up after Mostert's 2nd last-place finish of the season.

Chaz Mostert picked up the 10th last-place finish of his career when his #25 Mobile 1/Optus Ford retired with Power Steering failure after 2 of the race's 88 laps. The finish came in Mostert’s 310^th start and his 2^nd of the year.

Chaz Mostert is a sports veteran, in his 9th full-time season. 2015 would've been a full-time season if he didn't have a massive crash at Bathurst 2015 that snapped his leg in half and ended his season. He raced 26 races in 2013 for Dick Johnson Racing, then moved to Ford Performance Racing/Rod Nash Racing/Tickford Racing for 6 years before moving to Walkinshaw Andretti United in 2020. It has been very up and down in 2023 for Mostert, a double podium at Newcastle and is reasonably consistent, though he has had his struggles. He enters the championship 5^th. He was 20th in Practice 1 but rose to 15th in Practice 2. He rocketed to 3rd in Qualifying but hit the wall in the Top 10 Shootout and started 10th.

Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Red Bull/Ampol Chevrolet started the race in the rear after stuffing up his only qualifying lap. Shane only got one chance due to Mechanical issues. Shane briefly got out of last but returned to last after getting turned by Declan Fraser in the #56 Tradie Ford.

Chaz Mostert in the #25 Mobil 1/Optus Ford retired with Power Steering failure the following lap.

Next out was Todd Hazelwood in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford after Brake failure ended his race. Rounding out the bottom five was Tim Slade in the #23 Nulon Holden pulled into the Garage on Lap 20 with an unrelated Power Steering failure, losing 5 laps in repairs, Cameron Hill in the #35 Truck Assist Holden pulled into the Garage on Lap 51 to replace the crash box, losing 5 laps in repairs and Will Davison in the #17 Shell V-Power Ford suffered a right-rear puncture on Lap 44.

The Bottom Five

Chaz Mostert	2 Laps	Power Steering
Todd Hazelwood	36 Laps	Brakes
Tim Slade	83 Laps	Running
Cameron Hill	83 Laps	Running
Will Davison	87 Laps	Running

Driver Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jack Smith	2	4	6
2	Cameron Hill	2	3	5
3	Chaz Mostert	2	2	2
4	Declan Fraser	1	6	9
5T	Nick Percat	1	4	5
5T	Todd Hazelwood	1	3	4
5T	Tim Slade	1	3	4
8	Thomas Randle	1	2	3
9	Shane Van Gisbergen	1	2	2
10	Mark Winterbottom	1	1	2
11T	Cameron Waters	1	1	2
11T	Broc Feeney	1	1	1
13	James Courtney	0	3	6
14	Macauley Jones	0	2	5
15	David Reynolds	0	2	3
16	Jack LeBrocq	0	2	2
17	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	3
18T	Will Davison	0	1	2
18T	Will Brown	0	1	1
18T	Brodie Kostecki	0	1	1
21	Matthew Payne	0	0	3
22T	James Golding	0	0	2
22T	Andre Heimgartner	0	0	2
24	Zane Goddard	0	0	1

Team Championship

Pos	Team	Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	3/2	6/2	7/2
2	Tim Blanchard Racing	1	1	3	4
3T	Matt Stone Racing	2	2/2	6/2	7/2
3T	Tickford Racing	4	3/4	10/4	19/4
5	Red Bull/Ampol Racing	3	2/3	4/3	5/3
6	Premair Hire Racing	2	1/2	4/2	5/2
7	Team 18 Racing	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
8	Brad Jones Racing	4	2/4	6/4	12/4
9	Erebus Racing	2	1/2	3/2	3/2
10	Penrite Racing	2	0	4/2	8/2
11	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	2/2	5/2

Manufacturer Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Ford	11	8/11	25/11	43/11
2	Chevrolet	15	9/15	26/15	42/15

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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.