Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Moffat's Tire failure nets 2nd last-place finish

Tuesday 5 August 2014

Moffat's Tire failure nets 2nd last-place finish

James Moffat picked up his 8^th last-place finish of his career when his #360 Norton Hornet retired with a tire failure after 30 of the race's 33 laps. The finish came in Moffat's 51^st start.

Early on, Dale Wood in the #21 Advam Holden was trailing the field, and early on Todd Kelly in the #7 Jack Daniel's Racing Nissan locked up heavily in turn 6, which flat-spotted all bar 1 of the tires which plummeted Todd through the field until, on lap 7, Todd dropped behind Dale Wood for last, which Todd Kelly's fifth last-place finish of the year was set to be certain when a left-front tire let go on lap 27, however on lap 32 James Moffat blew a left-rear tire, and with Moffat failing to make it into the pit-lane and back put onto the track before the end of the race, Moffat was relegated to last on the final lap.

Rou nding out the bottom five was Todd Kelly in the #7 Jack Daniel's Nissan, Robert Dahlgren in the #34 Valvoline Volvo, Dale Wood in the #21 Advam Holden and Jack Perkins in the #18 Jeld-Wen Ford.

The Bottom Five

James Moffat	30 Laps	Tire
Todd Kelly	31 Laps	Running
Robert Dahlgren	33 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	33 Laps	Running
Jack Perkins	33 Laps	Running

Lastcar Standings

Manufacturer Standings:

Holden: 11

Nissan: 7

Ford: 5

Volvo: 3

Mercedes: 1

Driver Standings:

Todd Kelly: 4

Tim Slade, Dale Wood: 3

Scott Pye, David Wall, Robert Dahlgren, James Moffat: 2

David Reynolds, Nick Percat, Garth Tander, Scott McLaughlin, Shane Van Gisbergen, Jack Perkins, 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.