Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Nissan prevents Ford's clean sweep of last place at Adelaide

Monday 3 March 2014

Nissan prevents Ford's clean sweep of last place at Adelaide

Todd Kelly picked up his 13th last place finish of his career in the Clipsal 500 third race when his #7 Jack Daniels Nissan Altima retired with Throttle issues after 2 of the race's 78 laps. The finish came in Todd's 184^th start.

Todd Kelly qualified in 14^th for the third race of the weekend. Initially Robert Dahlgren was in last after an oil leak in qualifying. The Oil Leak would eventually end Dahlgren's race. On lap 3 Todd Kelly, then slowed with an issue with the throttle, which caused his engine to idle.

Rounding out the bottom five was Will Davison, who moved to Erebus Motorsports #9 in the off season, who crashed into the turn 8 wall after contact with James Moffat's #360 Norton Hornet, Robert Dahlgren who retired due to issues with the Oil Tank and Chazz Mostert and Scott Pye who was part of a six-car crash on lap 13 which saw Jason Bright flip spectacularly in turn 1, also tangling six other cars, including Mostert and Pye.

The Bottom Five

Todd Kelly	2 Laps	Throttle
Will Davison	9 Laps	Crash
Robert Dahlgren	12 Laps	Oil Tank
Scott Pye	13 Laps	Crash
Chazz Mostert	13 Laps	Crash

Lastcar Standings: Manufacturer

Ford: 2

Nissan: 1

Holden, Mercedes, Volvo: 0

Lastcar Standings: Drivers

David Reynolds, David Wall, Todd Kelly: 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 Car #6 was withdrawn, and therefore I don't count Mostert and Waters as finishing last.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.