Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Flat Tire nets Jack Perkins' first last place finish in nearly 5 years

Sunday 18 May 2014

Flat Tire nets Jack Perkins' first last place finish in nearly 5 years

Jack Perkins picked up his 7^th last place finish of his career, and first in nearly 5 years, when his #18 Jeld-Wen ford finished under power, 1 lap down in the second race at Barbagallo. The finish came in Jack's 31^st round start.

As in the first race, Jack Perkins initially fell to the rear of the field in the #18 Jeld-Wen Ford, then Robert Dahlgren in the #34 Valvoline Volvo fell to the rear. The pit-stops then mixed up the last-place finish fight, with Dale Wood in the #17 Wilson Security Holden falling to the rear, and Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 VIP Petfoods Holden fell to the rear, then Robert Dahlgren returned to the rear of the field, then when Jack Perkins pitted he fell to the rear of the field. Jack Perkins' last-place was cemented when he suffered a flat tire late in the race.

Rounding out the bottom five was Robert Dahlgren in the #34 Valvoline Volvo, Dale Wood in the #21 Walkinshaw Racing Holden, Rick Kelly in the #15 Jack Daniel's Racing Nissan Altima and Rick's Team-mate James Moffat in the #360 Norton Hornet.

The Bottom Five

Jack Perkins	41 Laps	Running
Robert Dahlgren	42 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	42 Laps	Running
Rick Kelly	42 Laps	Running
James Moffat	42 Laps	Running

Lastcar Standings

Holden: 8

Ford: 5

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, Shane Van Gisbergen, Jack Perkins: 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.