Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Jaxon Evans leader after heavy crash at Symmonds Plains

Saturday 17 August 2024

Jaxon Evans leader after heavy crash at Symmonds Plains

The original by Auto Action, was edited by me.

Jaxon Evans picked up his 3rd last-place finish of his career when his #12 SCT Logistics Chevrolet was involved in a 2-car crash that ended his race after 19 of the race’s 55 laps. The finish came in Evans’ 21st start. This last-place finish leaves Evans the clear leader of the 2024 Repco Superlastcar Championship.

Jaxon Evans joined Brad Jones Racing in 2024 after being co-driver for Jack Smith in 2022 and 2023. Evans replaced Smith after outpacing him at Bathurst. Evans has been doing OK during the 2024 season, though he has a last-place finish from Albert Park. Evans’ best finish is 10th at Taupō and 11th at Hidden Valley. He was 21st in Practice 1, then improved to 19th in Practice 2 before improving slightly to 18th in Qualifying.

Nick Percat in the #10 Bendix Chevrolet started the race in the rear, but quickly Macauley Jones in the #96 Pizza Hut Chevrolet dropped to last. Cameron Hill in the #4 Supaglass Chevrolet locked up at Turn 6 on Lap 1, dropping him to the rear of the field.

David Reynolds in the #20 Teadie Chevrolet was turned onto the bank at Turn 4 by Brodie Kostecki in the #1 SS Signs Chevrolet on Lap 8, triggering the first Safety Car of the race.

The following lap, during the pitstop, Kostecki crashed into Mark Winterbottom in the #18 DeWalt Chevrolet, breaking the steering on car #1 and losing 2 laps in repairs. Brodie would lose an additional lap in pit-lane penalties.

Lap 20 saw Jaxon Evans in the #12 SCT Logistics Chevrolet tangle with Aaron Love in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford, sending Evans hard into the wall at Turn 1, ending his race and sending him to last. Kostecki and Reynolds would make no further progress up the leaderboard.

Completing the Bottom Five was Matt Payne in the #19 Penrite Oils Ford after having to pit for a Mechanical Black Flag due to diffuser damage on Lap 34 and Aaron Love in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Ford.

The Bottom Five

Jaxon Evans	19 Laps	Crash
Brodie Kostecki	52 Laps	Running
David Reynolds	53 Laps	Running
Matt Payne	53 Laps	Running
Aaron Love	55 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Jaxon Evans	3	4	8
2	Jack LeBrocq	2	4	5
3T	Ryan Wood	2	4	4
3T	Brodie Kostecki	2	4	4
5	Anton De Pasquale	2	2	3
6	Aaron Love	1	6	12
7	David Reynolds	1	3	3
8	Tim Slade	1	2	2
9T	Cooper Murray	1	1	2
9T	Richie Stanaway	1	1	2
9T	Matt Payne	1	1	2
12	Will Brown	1	1	1
13	James Courtney	0	4	7
14	Thomas Randle	0	4	4
15	Cameron Hill	0	2	4
16	Cameron Waters	0	2	2
17T	Bryce Fullwood	0	1	3
17T	Nick Percat	0	1	3
19T	Mark Winterbottom	0	1	2
19T	Lochie Dalton	0	1	2
19T	Andre Heimgartner	0	1	2
22T	James Golding	0	1	1
22T	Chaz Mostert	0	1	1
22T	Will Davison	0	1	1
25	Macauley Jones	0	0	7
26	Broc Feeney	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Erebus Motorsports	2	4/2	7/2	8/2
2	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1	5/2	5/2
3	Shell V-Power Racing	2	2/2	3/2	4/2
4	Penrite Racing	2	2/2	2/2	4/2
5	Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	6/4	20/4
6	Red Bull Racing	3	2/3	2/3	3/3
7	Blanchard Racing Team	2	1/2	11/2	18/2
8	Team 18 Racing	2	½	5/2	5/2
9	Premair Nulon Racing	2	1/2	3/2	4/2
10	Tickford Racing	3	0	7/3	8/3
11	Matt Stone Racing	2	0	3/2	9/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	15	11/15	26/15	46/15
2	Ford	11	7/11	28/11	37/11

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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.