Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Last Place arm wrestle ends after Dale Wood breaks in the final Winton race

Monday 7 April 2014

Last Place arm wrestle ends after Dale Wood breaks in the final Winton race

Dale Wood picked up his 2^nd last-place finish of his career when his #21 Wilson Security Racing holden finished under power, 5 laps down in the third race at Winton and the 13^th* race of 2014. The finish came in Dlae Wood's 24^th start.

It was an arm wrestle in the early stages of the race for last. David Wall was initially trailing the field in the #17 Wilson Security holden, then Shane Van Gisbergen fell to the rear in the #97 VIP Petfoods Commodore when he pitted for handling woes. On lap 13 Garth Tander fell to the rear after making a pitstop. Rick Kelly then fell to the rear after being penalised for speeding in the pit-lane. Suddenly on lap 25, Dale Wood was pushed into the garage, sending him to the rear of the field.

Several Pit-Lane penalties resulted in a somewhat strange bottom five, consiting of Robert Dahlgren in the #34 Volvo Racing Volvo, Garth Tander in the SP Tools #2,David Wall in the #21 Wilson Security Holden and Jack Perkins in the Jeld-Wen Racing Ford Falcon.

Statistic:

Ford and Holden are now tied for the first position on the manufacturer's V8 LASTCAR standings with 4 last-place finishes each, Nissan is second on 3 last-place finishes, Volvo with 2 last-place finishes. Mercedes is the only manufacturer without any last-place finishes at the 13* race mark of the 2014 V8 LASTCAR series

The bottom five

Dale Wood	62 Laps	Running
Robert Dahlgren	66 Laps	Running
Garth Tander	66 Laps	Running
David Wall	67 Laps	Running
Jack Perkins	67 Laps	Running

Lastcar Standings

Ford, Holden: 4

Nissan: 3

Volvo: 2

Mercedes: 0

Todd Kelly: 3

Scott Pye, Dale Wood: 2

David Reynolds, David Wall Nick Percat, Garth Tander, Robert Dahlgren, Scott McLaughlin: 1

*I count the non-championship round at Albert Park, which a lot of people don't seem to do.

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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.