Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Michael Schumacher Waking from his Coma

Tuesday 17 June 2014

Michael Schumacher Waking from his Coma

Forumla 1 Legend Michael Schumacher has woken from his coma. I am ecstatic about this news today and I am wishing all the best as Michael continues his recovery from massive Head Injuries sustained 6 months ago in a skiing accident.

Although Michael has never run an event in the Australian V8 Supercars, I remember growing up watching Michael race and although I can only easily remember Michael's failed return to F1, I still remember the feeling of watching a legend at work.

It was a shock when I heard about the skiing accident, and I was hoping for some resemblance of the old Michael would return and 6 months on, this is still unclear. I am really hoping that we get some of the old Michael back someday.

Normal Australian V8 LASTCAR Series will resume this weekend at Hidden Valley raceway in the Northern Territory, where,
James Moffat picked up his 3rd of currently 6 last-place finishes of his career when he retired with Crash Damage on the opening lap of race 3
Tim Blanchard picked up his only last-place finish of his career when he retired with Mechanical woes after 21 of the 2nd race's 42 laps in the first race.
And Scott Pye picked up his 2nd of currently 2 last-place finish of his career when he finished under power, a lap down in the second race.

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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 Car #6 was withdrawn, and therefore I don't count Mostert and Waters as finishing last.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.