Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Lap 1 crash leads to last-place finish for David Reynolds

Monday 3 March 2014

Lap 1 crash leads to last-place finish for David Reynolds

David Reynolds picked up his 4^th Last Place finish of his career in the Clipsal 500 Adelaide's first race when his #55 Bottle-O Racing Ford retired with crash damage after 12 of the race's 39 laps. The finish came in Reynold's 60^th round start.

David Reynolds qualified 22^nd out of a field of 25 cars for the first race. Chazz Mostert had Power Steering fliud leaking from his car before the start, and although he started the race, he fell to the rear after he slid on the oil and crashed into the turn 5 barrier. In the resulting melee David Reynolds made contact with another car, damaging the steering on the #55 Bottle-O ford. The steering then snapped heading into turn 11 on the same lap, sending Reynolds into the wall. Both cars limped into the lane, but Mostert got into the pit-lane first, gifting last to David Reynolds. Both cars eventually returned to the racetrack, but neither completed enough laps to be classified as finishers.

Rounding out the bottom five were rookies Nick Percat and Dale Wood, both of whom were part of a 3-car melee at turn 9 on lap 23 also involving Michael Caruso in the #36 Norton Hornet, and Robert Dahlgren in his debut race in the V8 Supercars, who had to make multiple pit-stops for handling issues.

David Reynolds	12 Laps	Crash
Chazz Mostert	21 Laps	Power Steering
Dale Wood	32 Laps	Running
Nick Percat	35 Laps	Running
Robert Dahlgren	38 Laps	Running

Lastcar Standings: Manufacturer

Ford: 1

Holden, Nissan, Mercedes, Volvo: 0

Lastcar Standings: Driver

David Reynolds: 1

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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.