Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Suspension failure leaves Alex Davison last at Sydney Motorsport Park

Friday, 26 June 2020

Suspension failure leaves Alex Davison last at Sydney Motorsport Park

Original by Fox Sports, edited by me.

Alex Davison picked up his 4th last-place finish of his career when his #19 Local Legends Jerky Biltong Holden retired with Suspension failure after 12 of the race’s 32 laps. The finish came in Alex Davison’s 173^rd start.

This is Alex Davison's 5th full-time season in the main game, but has spent a lot of time as a co-driver, usually for his brother Will Davison. He was 16th in Practice 1, but dropped to 21st in Practice 2, but didn't get out of Qualifying 1 with 19th.

Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden started the race in the rear, but Jack LeBrocq in the #55 - Ford stalled off the start and fell to the rear. and was sixteen seconds back by the end of Lap 1.

On Lap 8 LeBrocq caught and passed Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden, dropping him to last.

On lap 12 pit-stops start and James Courtney in the #44 Boost Mobile Holden pitted and dropped to last. Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Jerky Biltong Holden pulled into the garage on lap 13 with Suspension failure, ending his race and leaving him last.

Rounding out the bottom five was Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden for exceeding track limits too many times on lap 21, Jake Kostecki in the #34 UNIT Holden, David Reynolds in the #9 Penrite Oils Holden and Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden.

The Bottom Five

Alex Davison	12 Laps	Steering Clevis
Jack Smith	31 Laps	Running
Jake Kostecki	32 Laps	Running
David Reynolds	32 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	32 Laps	Running

Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	#35	1	1	2
Scott Pye	#20	1	1	1
Alex Davison	#19	1	1	1
Chris Pither	#22	0	1	2
Jack Smith	#4	0	1	2
James Courtney	#19	0	1	1
Nick Percat	#8	0	1	1
Anton De Pasquale	#99	0	1	1
Jake Kostecki	#34	0	1	1
Bryce Fullwood	#2	0	0	1
Shane Van Gisbergen	#97	0	0	1
David Reynolds	#9	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team Name	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Team 18	2	2/2	2/2	2/2
Matt Stone Racing	3	1/3	2/3	3/3
Brad Jones Racing	4	0	2/4	3/4
Team Sydney	2	0	2/2	3/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	0	1/2
Red Bull Holden	2	0	0	1/2
Penrite Racing	2	0	0	1/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer Name	No. Card	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	16	3/16	9/16	15/16
Ford	8	0	0	0

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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.