Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Tire failure leaves Reynolds trailing field at Ipswich

Tuesday 5 August 2014

Tire failure leaves Reynolds trailing field at Ipswich

David Reynolds picked up his 5^th last-place finish of his career when his #55 Bottle-O Ford finished under power, 1 lap down in the final race at Ipswich. The finish came in Reynolds' 67^th race start.

Initially Dale Wood was in the rear in the #21 Advan Holden, however on lap 2 Lee Holdsworth in the #4 AMG Customer Products Mercedes entered the pit-lane for an early pit-stop, dropping him to the rear, and a subsequent drive-through penalty for spinning the wheels in the pit-lane dropped him a lap down, trapping him in last. Later in the race, David Reynolds in the #55 Bottle-O Ford blew a left-rear tire, and as he had already done a pit-stop, the second pit-stop dropped Reynolds to the rear of the field. Then near the half-way mark of the race, Scott McLaughlin blew a left-front tire, and in the process of getting back to the pit-lane, McLaughlin dropped to the rear of the field. After another round of pit-stops, firstly Lee Holdsworth then David Reynolds cycled to the rear of the field, where he stayed until the end of the race.

Rounding out the bottom five is Jack Perkins in the #18 Jeld-Wen Ford, Lee Holdsworth in the #4 AMG Customer Products Mercedes, Mark Winterbottom in the #5 Pepsi Max Ford, who lost the championship lead to Jamie Whincup in the #1 Red Bull Holden, and Todd Kelly in the #7 Jack Daniel's Nissan, all of whom except Todd Kelly had tire issues during this race.

Australian 2014 V8 Lastcar Championship Statistic

All three of the people who finished last in this round picked up their second last-place finish of 2014.

The Bottom Five

David Reynolds	64 Laps	Running
Jack Perkins	65 Laps	Running
Lee Holdsworth	65 Laps	Running
Mark Winterbottom	65 Laps	Running
Todd Kelly	65 Laps	Running

Lastcar Standings

Manufacturer Standings:

Holden: 11

Nissan, Ford: 7

Volvo: 3

Mercedes: 1

Driver Standings:

Todd Kelly: 4

Tim Slade, Dale Wood: 3

Scott Pye, David Wall, Robert Dahlgren, James Moffat, Jack Perkins, David Reynolds: 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.