Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Todd Kelly takes stranglehold on 2014 Australian V8 LASTCAR series after trailing the field at Auckland

Monday 28 April 2014

Todd Kelly takes stranglehold on 2014 Australian V8 LASTCAR series after trailing the field at Auckland

Todd Kelly picked up his 16^th last-place finish of his career when his #7 Jack Daniel's Kelly Racing Nissan Altima finished under power, 1 lap down in the shortened final race at Auckland. The finish came in Todd's 187^th start, giving Todd Kelly a stranglehold on the 2014 Australian V8 LASTCAR championship.

The last position traded places multiple times during the early laps. On lap 2 Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Racing Holden and Will Davison in the Unsponsored #9 Erebus Mercedes traded last place after lap 1 pit-stops, initially held by Will Davison before Lowndes was overtaken and seemed headed for his first last-place finish in more than 2 years. However continued pit-stops meant that Todd Kelly in the #7 Jack Daniels Nissan Alitma, Tim Slade in the #47 Supercheap Auto Holden, Dale Wood in the #21 Advam/GB Holden and Robert Dahlgren un the #34 Valvoline Volvo S60 all exchanged last place. After a second pit-stop and continued lack of pace, Craig Lowndes spent much of the mid portion of the race trailing the field however a combination of issues and pit-stops meant firstly Robert Dahlgren, then Todd Kelly wound up trailing the field, where he would stay until the end of the race.

A combination of a lack of pace and various issues left several high-profile drivers in the bottom five. Robert Dahlgren was second-last in the #34 Valvoline Volvo, Tim Slade in the #47 Supercheap Auto Holden and former championship leader Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Racing Holden.

The Bottom Five

Todd Kelly	68 Laps	Running
Robert Dahlgren	68 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	68 Laps	Running
Tim Slade	69 Laps	Running
Craig Lowndes	69 Laps	Running

Lastcar Standings

Holden: 7

Ford, Nissan: 4

Volvo: 2

Mercedes: 0

Todd Kelly: 4

Scott Pye, Dale Wood, David Wall, Tim Slade: 2

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