Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Apocalyptic Pirtek Enduro's Cup ends with last-place finish for Holdsworth and Baird.

Sunday 26 October 2014

Apocalyptic Pirtek Enduro's Cup ends with last-place finish for Holdsworth and Baird.

Lee Holdsworth picked up his 8^th last-place finish of his career, while Craig Baird picked up his 9^th last-place finish of his career when their #4 FUCHS Erebus Merecedes was involved in a single car accident that ended their race after 18 of the race's shortened 100 laps. The finish came in Lee's 129^th start and Baird's 107^th start, and ends an apocalyptic Pirtek Enduro's cup for the two drivers.

Initially Andrew Jones in the #8 BOC Holden was trailing the field, however early contact for Craig Baird in the #4 FUCHS Erebus Mercedes suffered damage from an early race incident, remember this for later, however on lap 8 Paul Morris was forced to pit with a delaminating tire after belting the kerbing. On lap 18, Robert Dahlgren in the #34 Valvoline Volvo dived down the inside of Craig Baird in the #4 FUCHS Erebus Mercedes, sending it into the wall and causing serious damage to the right-front of the Mercedes, ending their race.

Next to fall out was Dale Wood in the #21 ADVAM Holden, who stopped on the track between turns 13 and 14 due to an Oil Cooler failure, resulting in the first caution of the race, James Moffat in the #360 Norton Hornet who crashed out hard in turn 12 on lap 66, James Courtney in the #22 SPTools Holden in an apocalyptic weekend after contact with Mark Winterbottom in the #5 Pepsi Max Ford, damaging the suspension on Courtney's car, dropping them several laps behind, although Courtney came back out and overtook Moffat, but finished 5 laps behind and Will Davison and Alex Davison in the #9 Beko/MEX Maintenance Software Erebus Mercedes who suffered an Oil Cooler failure shortly after the lap 65 caution.

The bottom five

Lee Holdsworth and Craig Baird	18 Laps	Crash
David Wall and Chris Pither	37 Laps	Oil Cooler
James Moffat and Taz Douglas	65 Laps	Crash
James Courtney and Greg Murphy	83 Laps	Running
Will Davison and Alex Davison	88 Laps	Running

Manufacturer Standings:

Holden: 15

Ford, Nissan: 8

Volvo: 4

Mercedes: 2

Driver Standings:

Todd Kelly, Dale Wood: 4

Tim Slade, David Reynolds, Robert Dahlgren, Scott Pye, James Moffat: 3

David Wall, Jack Perkins: 2

Nick Percat, Garth Tander, Scott McLaughlin, Shane Van Gisbergen, Will Davison, Craig Lowndes, Michael Caruso, Chris Pither, James Courtney, Greg Murphy, Lee Holdsworth, Craig Baird: 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.