Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Early race contact leaves Whincup last at Symmons Plains

Saturday, 6 April 2019

Early race contact leaves Whincup last at Symmons Plains

Original by Supercars, screenshotted and edited by me.

Jamie Whincup picked up his 9th last-place finish of his career when his #88 Red Bull Holden finished under power, 3 laps down in the first race at Symmons Plains. The finish came in Whincup's 471st start.

Jamie Whincup is a legend of the Supercars series. Essentially Supercars' Jimmie Johnson, Whincup has seven championships and one-hundred and thirteen race wins over a 15-year full-time career. He was 4th in Practice 1, jumped to be fastest in Practice 2, but plummeted to 10th in Practice 3.

The day started badly for Jamie Whincup when he spun out of the second stage of Qualifying at turn 4, leaving him 15th.

Andre Heimgartner in the #7 Plus Fitness Nissan started the race in the rear after an engine misfire at the start of the first stage of qualifying, however at the end of lap 2 Jamie Whincup in the #88 - Holden collided with Chaz Mostert in the #55 Supercheap Auto/Castrol Ford, sending Whincup off the track at turn 6 and damaging the right-front of car Whincup's car, sending him to the garage, losing 2 laps in repairs. Whincup would hold last for the entire race.

Rounding out the bottom five was Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan after a flat tire on lap 33, Wildcard Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden, Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden in what is potentially his fourth-to-last race, and Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD TV Nissan.

The Bottom Five

Jamie Whincup	48 Laps	Running
Garry Jacobson	49 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	49 Laps	Running
Jack LeBrocq	49 Laps	Running
Simona De Silvestro	50 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	3	1	3	5
Macauley Jones	21	1	3	4
Rick Kelly	15	1	2	3
Shane Van Gisbergen	97	1	2	3
Richie Stanaway	33	1	1	2
Scott Pye	2	1	1	1
Jamie Whincup	88	1	1	1
Cameron Waters	6	0	2	2
Jack LeBrocq	19	0	1	5
James Golding	34	0	1	1
Scott McLaughlin	17	0	1	1
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	1
Todd Hazelwood	35	0	1	1
Jack Smith	4	0	1	1
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	0	2
Fabian Coulthard	12	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	# Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	2	1	3/2	2
Nissan Motorsports	4	1/2	5/4	5/2
Garry Rodgers Motorsports	2	1/2	1	7/4
Brad Jones Racing	4	1/2	1	5/4
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	½	½	½
Matt Stone Racing	1	0	1	1
Tekno Autosports	1	0	1	5
Tickford Racing	4	0	3/4	¾
DJR Team Penske	2	0	1/2	1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	2/4	5/4	9/4
Holden	14	4/14	12/14	20/14
Ford	6	1/8	2/6	3/6

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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.