Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Scary wet-weather crash leaves Reynolds trailing field at Eastern Creek

Monday 25 August 2014

Scary wet-weather crash leaves Reynolds trailing field at Eastern Creek

David Reynolds picked up his 6^th last-place finish of his career when his #55 Bottle-O Ford was involved in a scary two-car accident on the opening lap of the first race at Eastern Creek. The finish came in Reynolds' 68^th start, and moves him into a logjam in second place for the 2014 Australian V8 LASTCAR championship.

Race 26 was the first wet race for the Car of the Future. Heading into turn 3 James Moffat in the #360 Norton Hornet bumped David Reynolds in the #55 Bottle-O Ford, turning him around. Around the same time, Tim Slade in the #47 Supercheap Auto Holden was battling for position and although he saw Reynolds spin, the spray was so great that he lost sight of Reynolds and the next thing he knew he was up on two wheels, having collected Reynolds. As Slade got back to the pit-lane before Reynolds did, Slade was given the 24^th position.

Rounding out the bottom five was Scott McLaughlin in the #33 Cure Brain Cancer/Valvoline Volvo who lost the engine on his car after 11 laps, and both Fabian Coultard in the #14 Lockwood Holden, and Todd Kelly in the #7 Jack Daniel's Nissan, who both tangled on lap 16, resulting in race-ending damage for both drivers.

The Bottom Five

David Reynolds	1 Lap	Crash
Tim Slade	1 Lap	Crash
Scott McLaughlin	11 Laps	Engine
Todd Kelly	16 Laps	Crash
Fabian Coultard	16 Laps	Crash

Lastcar Standings

Manufacturer Standings:

Holden: 11

Ford: 8

Nissan: 7

Volvo: 3

Mercedes: 1

Driver Standings:

Todd Kelly: 4

Tim Slade, Dale Wood, David Reynolds: 3

Scott Pye, David Wall, Robert Dahlgren, 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.