Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Dahlgren caught out in the wet as Title fight heats up

Monday 25 August 2014

Dahlgren caught out in the wet as Title fight heats up

Robert Dahlgren picked up his 3^rd last-place finish of his carrer when his #34 Cure Brain Cancer/Valvoline Volvo retired with Crash Damage after 1 of the race's 24 laps. The finish came in Dahlgren's 10^th start, and tightening the race for the 2014 Australian V8 LASTCAR championship up further.

24 cars took the green flag in the second race after Tim Slade withdrew the #47 Supercheap Auto holden following a huge accident on the opening lap of the first race. Dale Wood started the race trailing the field in the #21 ADVAM Holden. On the opening lap Scott McLaughlin in the #33 Cure Brain Cancer/Valvoline Volvo lost the right-rear wheel, and while trying to get back to the lane, there was significant damage to the rear of McLaughlin's car, dropping him to the rear.

While Scott McLaughlin was having repairs made to his car his Volvo teammate Robert Dahlgren got to wide at turn 5, the car spun out, sliding onto the wet grass and slamming the inside wall. Dahlgren was unhurt, but the car was too damaged to continue, dropping him to second-last, and cementing a 1-2 last-place finish for Volvo.

Scott McLaughlin returned to the racetrack on lap 15 and while he circulated long enough to relegate Robert Dahlgren to the last position, Scott only completed about 1/3rd of the race, which is not enough laps to be classified as a finisher, even though Scott greeted the checkered flag.

Rounding out the bottom five is Garth Tander in the #2 SP Tools Holden, who made contact with Todd Kelly, causing the steering to fail, resulting in the #2 being bogged in the mud, Scott Pye in the #16 Walkinshaw Racing Holden after contact with Michael Caruso in the #36 Norton Hornet, who rounded out the bottom five when he was penalised for said incident.

The Bottom Five

Robert Dahlgren	1 Lap	Crash
Scott McLaughlin	9 Laps	Lost Wheel
Garth Tander	21 Laps	Crash
Scott Pye	22 Laps	Running
Michael Caruso	23 Laps	Running

Lastcar Standings

Manufacturer Standings:

Holden: 11

Ford: 8

Nissan: 7

Volvo: 4

Mercedes: 1

Driver Standings:

Todd Kelly: 4

Tim Slade, Dale Wood, David Reynolds, Robert Dahlgren: 3

Scott Pye, David Wall, James Moffat, Jack Perkins: 2

Nick Percat, Garth Tander, Scott McLaughlin, Shane Van Gisbergen, Will Davison, Craig Lowndes, Michael Caruso: 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.