Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Electrical Issues give Jacobson the lead at Symmons Plains

Sunday, 7 April 2019

Electrical Issues give Jacobson the lead at Symmons Plains

Original by Kelly Racing, edited by me.

Garry Jacobson picked up his 2nd last-place finish of his career when his #3 Rabble.club finished under power, but too many laps down to be classified due to Electrical issues in the 2nd race at Launceston. The finish came in Jacobson's 15th start.

Garry Jacobson replaced Michael Caruso in the 2019 season, running for ROTY with Macauley Jones. He was 23rd in Practice 1, then was slowest in Practice 2. He only improved slightly to 24th in Practice 3, and was slowest again in Practice 4.

In qualifying, Jacobson was caught up in a multi-car pileup involving the other ROTY contender, Maculey Jones, Andre Heimgartner, Anton De Pasquale, himself and Will Davison, which damaged several cars, and left Jacobson qualifying 22nd.

Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden started the race in the rear after a multi-car crash in qualifying, but immediately firstly Andre Heimgartner in the #7 Plus Fitness Nissan, then Lee Holdsworth in the #18 Bottle-O-Ford fell to the rear. Heimgartner fell back to last on lap 2. By lap 4 Macualey Jones fell to the rear.

Jones held last until lap 15 when Scott McLaughlin in the #17 Shell V-Power Ford pitted, dropping to the rear. The following lap James Courtney in the #22 MEGA Bulk Fuels Holden, dropping to the rear. Will Davison in the #230 Milwake Ford pitted on lap 20 and fell to last.

Sometime during the 1st pit-stop, Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden pitted, and spent an extended period in the pit-lane, dropping a lap and putting him to last. Smooth would eventually finish 24^th.

Garry Jacobson in the #3 Rabble.club Nissan pulled into the garage on lap 48 with Electrical issues, dropping him to the rear. Although he did eventually get back out, he didn't complete enough laps to be classified as a finisher.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Anton De Pasquale in the #99 Penrite Oils/ECP Energy Solutions Holden after a gear shifter broke on lap 70, Jack LeBrocq in the #19 Truck Assist Holden and Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD TV Nissan.

The Bottom Five

Garry Jacobson	62 Laps	Electrical/Not Classified
Jack Smith	81 Laps	Running
Anton De Pasquale	82 Laps	Running
Jack LeBrocq	83 Laps	Running
Simona De Silvestro	83 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	3	2	4	6
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 Smith	4	0	2	2
Jack LeBrocq	19	0	1	6
James Golding	34	0	1	1
Scott McLaughlin	17	0	1	1
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	1
Todd Hazelwood	35	0	1	1
Anton De Pasquale	99	0	1	1
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	0	3
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	3/4	3/2	7/2
Garry Rodgers Motorsports	2	1/2	1	3/2
Brad Jones Racing	4	1/2	5/4	6/4
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	½	½	½
Matt Stone Racing	1	0	1	1
Tekno Autosports	1	0	1	6
Tickford Racing	4	0	3/4	¾
DJR Team Penske	2	0	1/2	1
Erebus Racing	2	0	½	1/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	3/4	6/4	10/4
Holden	14	4/14	14/14	23/14
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.