Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Opening Lap shunt leaves Courtney and Murphy last at Surfers Paradise

Sunday 26 October 2014

Opening Lap shunt leaves Courtney and Murphy last at Surfers Paradise

James Courtney picked up his 13^th last-place finish of his career, while Greg Murphy picked up his 16^th last-place finish of his career, when their #22 SPTools Holden was involved in a three car accident on the start line of the 31^st race of the 2014 Australian V8 Supercar Championship series. The finish came in Courtney's 125^th start and Murphy's 200^th start.

On the start line there was a 3-car accident involving Greg Murphy in the #22 SPTools Holden, David Russell in the #15 Jack Daniel's Nisssan and Oliver Gavin in the #222 Heavy Haulage Australia Holden where Russell stalled at ths start, then Murphy, trying to get around Russell, Russell started moving and clipped Murphy, sending him into the wall. Gavin then ran into the back of Ruseell, damaging the steering on the car, sending all 3 cars to the garage, with the former two retiring for good, while Oliver Gavin returned to the track, 6 laps down, and the attrition eventually lifted Oliver Gavin and Nick Percat out of the bottom five.

Rounding out the bottom five was brothers Alex Davison and Will Davison in the #9 BEKO/MEX Maintenance Services Mercedes and Jack Perkins and Cameron Waters in the #18 Jeld-Wen Ford, both suffered crash damage and a radiator failure within laps of each other, respectively, with the latter retiring and eventually falling to 24^th, while the former returned to the track, and would jump Cameron Waters, David Reynolds, who on lap 50 crashed out of the race at turn 12 and Todd Kelly and Alex Buncombe in the #7 Jack Daniel's Racing Nissan who suffered Power Steering Dramas during the race, eventually finishing so many laps behind that they were not classified as finishers.

Australian V8 LASTCAR Championship result #1.

Holden has taken out the 2014 Australian V8 LASTCAR Manufacturer's Championship with this last-place finish.

The Bottom Five

James Courtney/Greg Murphy	0 Laps	Crash
Jack Perkins/Cameron Waters	27 Laps	Radiator
David Reynolds/Dean Canto	49 Laps	Crash
Todd Kelly/Alex Boncombe	76 Laps	Power Steering
Will Davison/Alex Davison	83 Laps	Running

Manufacturer Standings:

Holden: 15

Ford, Nissan: 8

Volvo: 4

Mercedes: 1

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: 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.